Delta IV Heavy Seven up

Boeing has an extensive site devoted to Delta IV-Heavy. See
especially the
"Growth Options" pdf - imagine strapping together SEVEN of the Delta
IV
first stages, plus another 6 smaller solid boosters. With an upgraded
2nd
stage, you get the throw weight of the Saturn V.

http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/...avy/flash.html


So, when Nasa will in some day return to the Moon, the launch vehicle
is not the biggest problem?

Bestest, IL of FI

(Ilpo Lagerstedt) wrote in
om:

Boeing has an extensive site devoted to Delta IV-Heavy. See
especially the
"Growth Options" pdf - imagine strapping together SEVEN of the Delta
IV
first stages, plus another 6 smaller solid boosters. With an upgraded
2nd
stage, you get the throw weight of the Saturn V.

http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/...avy/flash.html


So, when Nasa will in some day return to the Moon, the launch vehicle
is not the biggest problem?

Never was. Heavy lift can be developed for any mission at
any time; it's the mission itself that'll have to be built from
scratch.

Lockheed-Martin has similar proposals for the Atlas V. Shuttle
propulsion components could be assembled into a heavy-lift
launcher, a la Shuttle-C.

We can do better than Apollo and Saturn.

--Damon

On 2005-01-10, Ilpo Lagerstedt wrote:

Boeing has an extensive site devoted to Delta IV-Heavy. See
especially the
"Growth Options" pdf - imagine strapping together SEVEN of the Delta
IV
first stages, plus another 6 smaller solid boosters. With an upgraded
2nd
stage, you get the throw weight of the Saturn V.

Well I think that Boeing will want to fix the issues with the 3 CBC
version, before strapping 7 of them together Or at least I hope
they do...

Actually there's been a large number of discussions on this very
subject (mainly) over the last few years, over on sci.space.policy,
take a hunt thru google for Delta IV Super (or Mega) Heavy, amongst
other subjects.


The 7 CBC models would require a new pad according to Boeing, so they
are definatley some years away, and probably won't happen unless a
Delta IV Heavy derevitive gets picked for the Exploration Programme.


Iain

So, when Nasa will in some day return to the Moon, the launch vehicle
is not the biggest problem?

Nope, because they can always ask russians for help

http://k26.com/buran/Info/Hercules/vulkan.html

--
Antti Toiviainen