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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]
The UR-900, proposed in 1969, would have had a payload capacity of 240 t (530,000 lb) to low earth orbit. It never left the drawing board. [68] The General Dynamics Nexus was proposed in the 1960s as a fully reusable successor to the Saturn V rocket, having the capacity of transporting up to 450–910 t (990,000–2,000,000 lb) to orbit. [69] [70]
Falcon 9 Block 5, the most prolific active orbital launch system in the world.. This comparison of orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all current and future individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit.
Capacity Payload to LEO; Mass: ... The Saturn V-ELV ... Had it been built it would have been able to put a 200,000 kg payload into low Earth orbit or a 67,000 kg ...
The first heavy-lift launch vehicles in the 1960s included the US Saturn IB and the Soviet Proton. Saturn IB was designed to carry the Apollo spacecraft into orbit and had increased engine thrust and a redesigned second stage from its predecessor. Proton was originally designed to be a large intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). [4]
In 2010, SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk claimed that his company could build a launch vehicle in the 310,000–330,000 lb (140–150 t) payload range for $2.5 billion, or $300 million (in 2010 dollars) per launch, not including a potential upper-stage upgrade.
Super-heavy lift vehicle: > 50,000 kilograms (110,000 lb) - e.g. Saturn V [10] Sounding rockets are similar to small-lift launch vehicles, however they are usually even smaller and do not place payloads into orbit. A modified SS-520 sounding rocket was used to place a 4-kilogram payload into orbit in 2018. [11]
1.5: Capacity Payload to LEO; Mass: 22,600 kg (49,800 lb) ... the Saturn V-B was considered an interesting vehicle concept because it nearly represents a single ...