Magnum (rocket)
The Magnum was a large super-heavy-lift rocket designed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center during the mid-1990s. The Magnum, which never made it past the preliminary design phase, would have been a booster some 96 meters (315 feet) tall, on the scale of the Saturn V and was originally designed to carry a human expedition to Mars. It was to have used two strap-on side boosters, similar to the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), but using liquid fuel instead. Some designs had the strap-on boosters using wings and jet engines, which would enable them to fly back to the launch area after they were jettisoned in flight.[1] The Magnum was designed to carry around 80 tons of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO).[2]
NASA illustration of Magnum booster.
See also
- Shuttle-C
- Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle
- Shuttle-Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle presented 2009
- National Launch System, studies 1991-1993
- Constellation program, from 2005 to 2009 - cancelled
- Space Launch System, develop & build from 2010 onwards
- Studied Space Shuttle Variations and Derivatives
References
- Information about 6 variants of Magnum
- "NASA Draws Up Big Booster for Mars". Space.com. 2000-03-10. Archived from the original on May 23, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
External links
- Information about variants of Magnum
- Low Cost Large Core Vehicle Structures Assessment - final report March 1998 re Magnum Launch Vehicle and Liquid Fly Back Booster.
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