14 May
2010
14 May
'10
6:30 p.m.
Yeah, I've seen that before too. It's interesting that the ISS building program
was slated to end the same time as the last shuttle launches. Maybe nothing else can carry
as bulky a load? Dunno.
On May 14, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
This is dangerously off topic again, but what the hell...
On Fri, 14 May 2010, geoffrey oltmans wrote:
I don't think any of the rockets have the
heavy lift capability of the shuttle, do they? At least to LEO.
According to wikipedia, for currently operational vehicles:
Vehicle/tonnes to LEO
Shuttle/24.4
Delta IV Heavy/22.9
Proton/21.6
Ariane 5ES/21
so there are 3 that are capable of the same ballpak lift. But of course the heaviest
launcher ever to fly was the Saturn V, with 119 tonnes to LEO, far surpassing the
shuttle.
Alexey