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The UR-700M would have a payload capacity of 750 t (1,650,000 lb). [60] 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. [61] The UR-900, proposed in 1969, would have had a payload capacity of 240 t (530,000 lb) to low earth orbit. It never ...
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 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 Samān-1 transfer module, along with a CubeSat and a research payload "were successfully placed in an elliptical orbit with a high point of 410 km (255 miles) and a low point of 300 km," said ...
Super Heavy is the reusable first stage of the SpaceX Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle, which it composes in combination with the Starship second stage.As a part of SpaceX's Mars colonization program, the booster evolved into its current design over a decade.
The Delta IV Heavy (Delta 9250H) was an expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle, the largest type of the Delta IV family. It had the highest capacity of any operational launch vehicle in the world after the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011 until the Falcon Heavy debuted in 2018, and it was the world's third highest-capacity launch vehicle in operation at the time of its retirement in 2024.
When stacked and fully fueled, Starship has a mass of approximately 5,000 t (11,000,000 lb), [c] a diameter of 9 m (30 ft) [15] and a height of 121.3 m (398 ft). [16] The rocket has been designed with the goal of being fully reusable to reduce launch costs; [17] it consists of the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage [18] which are powered by Raptor and Raptor Vacuum engines.
It carried a dual payload consisting of Spaceway F2 for DirecTV and Telkom-2 for PT Telekomunikasi of Indonesia. This was the launch vehicle's heaviest dual payload to date, at more than 8,000 kg (18,000 lb). On 27 May 2006, an Ariane 5ECA launch vehicle set a new commercial payload lifting record of 8,200 kg (18,100 lb).