[AR] Re: clustering big rockets

  • From: Chris Jones <clj@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:27:49 -0500

On 12/27/15 11:00 AM, John Dom wrote:

The huge Russian Energiya rocket (not a weapon)
http://tinyurl.com/zaofmeu which sent their Buran space shuttle
protoype to orbit carried no SRBs. The Energiya boosters (or parallel
stages) were, like its ME liquid propelled: UDMH/NTO.

The Energiya boosters (4 of them) were essentially Zenit first stages
with LOX/kerosene propellants. Its main stage used LOX/LH2.

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