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The Sea Dragon was a 1962 conceptualized design study for a two-stage sea-launched orbital super heavy-lift launch vehicle.The project was led by Robert Truax while working at Aerojet, one of a number of designs he created that were to be launched by floating the rocket in the ocean.
A 1962 design proposal, Sea Dragon, called for an enormous 150 m (490 ft) tall, sea-launched rocket capable of lifting 550 t (1,210,000 lb) to low Earth orbit. Although preliminary engineering of the design was done by TRW , the project never moved forward due to the closing of NASA's Future Projects Branch .
In 1966 Robert Truax founded Truax Engineering, which studied sea launch concepts similar to the earlier Sea Dragon—the Excalibur, the SEALAR, and the Excalibur S. [10] Truax also designed the Skycycle X-2 , which he unsuccessfully tested on April 15, 1972 and June 24, 1973, and which Evel Knievel unsuccessfully used at the Snake River Canyon ...
Sea Dragon (rocket), a 1960s proposed American super heavy lift two stage sea launched rocket; Sea Dragon (roller coaster) Sea Dragon-class ROV, a remotely operated underwater vehicle developed by China; Sea Dragon, is a horizontally scrolling shooter for the TRS-80 computer, written by Wayne Westmoreland and Terry Gilman, and released in 1982 ...
The Sea Dragon was an extremely large BDB/MCD 2-stage launch vehicle defined by Robert Truax and others at Aerojet. Space Technology Laboratories, Inc. (TRW) contributed to the design effort. It was to be able to carry a payload of over 500 metric tons into low Earth orbit. [4]
The Huolongchushui was used on both land and sea, [1] operating on the principle of a two-stage rocket. [2] The two-stage rocket had a booster rocket attached to it that would then burn out automatically, issuing a batch of smaller rockets hidden inside the dragon's belly. [2]
Sea Dragon-2's most obvious improvement is its speed of descent. Sea Dragon-2 is almost twice as fast as Sea Dragon-1 in reaching the maximum operating depth of 3,500 meters (30 minutes, as compared to 50 minutes for Sea Dragon-1). Reliability, maintainability, and availability are also improved for Sea Dragon-2.
Jielong 3 (Chinese: 捷龙三号运载火箭, meaning "agile dragon", also known as Smart Dragon 3, SD-3), is a solid fueled orbital launch vehicle developed by China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology's subsidiary China Rocket to launch up to 1500 kg to a 500 km altitude Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). The rocket is 31 meters tall, 2.65 meters ...