Side load launchers.
- From: fairwater@xxxxxxxxx (Derek Lyons)
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:41:18 GMT
Herb Schaltegger <herb.schaltegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 03:01:41 -0500, John Horner wrote
>(in article <Fh0Ge.6767$6M3.1500@trnddc03>):
>
>> The basic design architecture is quite suspect. Only the shuttle has
>> ever been built with the load on the side of the rocket motors.
>> Everything else puts the load in front of the motors.
>
>Whether the design is suspect is irrelevant - it's been known to have
>been a compromise since Day 1 for anyone who paid attention to the
>design and development process.
>
>Be that as it may, the Soviets copied for the Energia/Buran, so it's
>not the only side-load launcher ever built.
Indeed - it's not the only side-load launcher the US has built either,
the modified Thor's used for the atmospheric nuclear tests carried
deployable instrumentation pods on their sides. Then there is Navaho -
which was semi-side-load.
For that matter Atlas shed ice - right onto the housings for the
boosters, as did the Saturn V's onto the outboard engine shrouds.
>From some points of view the R-7 and it's derivatives could also be
seen as side-load launchers. (As could the various boosters which
hang SRB's or LRB's off their sides.)
D.
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