Re: SpaceX Stopped pushing back - Halloween Launch!

"Paul F. Dietz" <dietz@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:fdWdnSJl39GFgNXeRVn-
iA@xxxxxxx:

> http://www.airliners.net/info/stats.main?id=19

The C-5 Galaxy and An-124 are used to carry the Atlas V,
which is 12.5 feet (3.8 meters) in diameter. It should
accomodate the Falcon 9. (Obviously, surface transport
to Omelek Island will be necessary, given the lack of
runways.)

Outsized aircraft were used to transport the S-IVB upper
stage, and Beluga or Boeing's super-modified 747 special
transport may become necessary in the future.

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/7e7/747in_flt.html

Russia demonstrated it was possible to air transport
Energia tank components, carried externally. And of course
the Shuttle is carried externally on a 747, with some
difficulty.

But yeah, the Falcon 9's diameter may well have been
constrained by the Interstate highway's "loading gauge",
as much as anything else.


--Damon
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