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A payload range diagram (also known as the "elbow chart") illustrates the trade-off. The top horizontal line represents the maximum payload. It is limited structurally by maximum zero-fuel weight (MZFW) of the aircraft. Maximum payload is the difference between maximum zero-fuel weight and operational empty weight (OEW).
The UR-700M would have a payload capacity of 750 t (1,650,000 lb). [59] 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. [60] The UR-900, proposed in 1969, would have had a payload capacity of 240 t (530,000 lb) to low earth orbit. It never ...
Capacity 20,000 to 50,000 kg (44,000 to 110,000 lb) A heavy-lift launch vehicle (HLV) is an orbital launch vehicle capable of lifting payloads between 20,000 to 50,000 kg (44,000 to 110,000 lb) (by NASA classification) or between 20,000 to 100,000 kilograms (44,000 to 220,000 lb) (by Russian classification) [ 1 ] into low Earth orbit (LEO). [ 2 ]
The nominal payload capacity to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) is 8 t (18,000 lb) with recovery of all three first-stage cores (the price per launch is US$97 million), versus 26.7 t (59,000 lb) in fully expendable mode. The Falcon Heavy can also inject a 16 t (35,000 lb) payload into GTO if only the two side boosters are recovered. [73]
Maximum payload mass (kg) Reusable / Expendable Orbital launches including failures [a] Suborbital test flights Launch site(s) Dates of flight LEO GTO Other First Latest Starship Block 1 [138] United States: SpaceX: 121 m 40,000 – 50,000 [139] N/A N/A Reusable: 0 6 Starbase: 2023 2024 Angara A5 / Orion Russia: Khrunichev: 54.9 m N/A 6,500 ...
FT's capacity allowed SpaceX to choose between increasing payload, decreasing launch price, or both. [104] Its first successful landing came in December 2015 [105] and the first reflight in March 2017. [106] In February 2017, CRS-10 launch was the first operational launch utilizing AFSS. All SpaceX launches after 16 March used AFSS.
The maximum acceleration during ascent phase of flight was limited to 4 Gs for crew comfort and a 5-metre (16 ft) diameter payload fairing was used to be able to accommodate large modules like space station segments. [59]
The all-cargo aircraft features the same forward port-side cargo door (140 by 102 inches (3.6 m × 2.6 m)) as the MD-11CF, a main-deck volume of 15,530 cubic feet (440 m 3), a maximum payload of 200,151 pounds (90,787 kg) and can transport 26 pallets of the same dimensions (88 by 125 inches (2.2 m × 3.2 m) or 96 by 125 inches (2.4 m × 3.2 m ...