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The European Ariane 5 first flew in 1996 and launched many commercial payloads to GTO. It benefited in this role by launching from Guiana Space Center, a spaceport near the equator in French territory. Ariane 5 often carried multiple payloads per launch and set records for mass to GTO delivered for commercial payloads.
The UR-700M would have a payload capacity of 750 t (1,650,000 lb). [64] The only Universal Rocket to make it past the design phase was the UR-500 while the N1 was selected to be the Soviets' HLV for lunar and Martian missions. [65] The UR-900, proposed in 1969, would have had a payload capacity of 240 t (530,000 lb) to low earth orbit. It never ...
Fully fueled, the Saturn V weighed 6.5 million pounds (2,900,000 kg) [3] and had a low Earth orbit (LEO) payload capacity originally estimated at 261,000 pounds (118,000 kg), but was designed to send at least 90,000 pounds (41,000 kg) to the Moon. [47]
SpaceX aims to achieve this by reusing both rocket stages, increasing payload mass to orbit, increasing launch frequency, creating a mass-manufacturing pipeline and adapting it to a wide range of space missions. [3] [4] Starship is the latest project in SpaceX's reusable launch system development program and plan to colonize Mars.
Chinese space station, with Tianzhou 5 & 6 attached. LEO: In service: 2021– Skylab: 77,111 kg (170,001 lb) U.S. space station; largest station orbited in one launch: LEO: Deorbited 1979: 1973–1979 Apollo 16 CSM+LM: 52,759 kg (116,314 lb) Heaviest spacecraft sent to lunar orbit. First mission to land in Lunar Highlands. Command module is on ...
By early 2023, researcher Payload Space says, it was already clear that SpaceX's new satellite internet business, Starlink, had become its biggest revenue driver. Its $4.2 billion in sales ...
The third flight occurred on 25 June 2019, launching the STP-2 (DoD Space Test Program) payload. [52] The payload was composed of 25 small spacecraft. [ 53 ] Operational Geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) missions for Intelsat and Inmarsat , which were planned for late 2017, were moved to the Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket version as it had become ...
The heaviest payload launched on Falcon is a batch of 24 Starlink V2-Mini satellites weighing about 18,500 kg (40,800 lb) total, first flown in February 2024, [7] landing on JRTI. The heaviest payload launched to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) was the 9,200 kg (20,300 lb) Jupiter-3 on 29 July 2023.