Questions tagged [saturn-i]
Questions related to the Saturn I and Saturn IB launch vehicles, the USA's first medium lift launch vehicle and predecessor to the Saturn V. The Saturn I and IB are 2-stage vehicles. Both have the same first stage with 8 H-1 engines and a distinct appearance due to the clustered fuel tanks. The Saturn I had a S-IV second stage with 6 RL-10 engines, the Saturn IB had the same S-IVB stage used on the Saturn V with a single J-2 engine.
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How was AS-212 (Saturn 1B) supposed to carry both a CSM and LM?
I recently came across this overview image of Saturn 1B missions:
(source: NASA)
AS-212 is asterisked with the note (bottom-left of the image) that it is "scheduled to carry both a CSM and LM.&...
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What does the ATOLL programming language look like?
During the Apollo program, checkout tests of launch vehicle and spacecraft systems were gradually being automated, moving away from the manual processes during the early years of the space program to (...
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Where did AS-206 go between 1967 and 1973?
The Apollo program was a bit stressful. In 1967 a lot of things went wrong, especially with the delivery of the lunar module:
General Phillips's office originally planned to launch the first lunar ...
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Evolution of Saturn V for JFK's Man on Moon mission
While reading about history of Saturn family of rockets, I read that all the Saturn rockets were initially designed to meet defense requirements for heavy lift vehicles. I was reading a NASA ...
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Saturn 1 booster performance/structures
I was recently comparing some basic performance stats and noted that the Saturn 1/ 1B has very similar load to orbit figures to the Falcon 9.
This seemed interesting to me, which brings up several ...
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US DoD's need for a heavy lift vehicle, leading to Saturn I
I read that von Braun & his team at ABMA had started to work upon a big rocket in April / May 1957, which was to have a thrust of 1500000 lbf (1.5 Mi. lbf). It is said that Saturn I was started to ...
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Development of Saturn I
I have read that Saturn I was started to meet the special requirements of DoD. The question is: Are there any records available which clarify / spell out WHY " Department of Defense (DoD) needed ...
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Use of high energy propellants on an engine designed for low energy propellants
This question is about use of high energy propellants on a rocket engine designed for low energy propellants. In any engine, which is currently working on RP1+LOX, if we change the fuel from RP1 to ...
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Need of the DoD for a heavy lift vehicle for "other" satellites
As mentioned in Saturn I history, the DoD wanted a launch vehicle to put A): 20,000 to 40,000 pounds (~9,100 to ~18,200 kg) into orbit, or B): accelerating 13,200 to 26,200 pounds (6,000 to 11,900 kg) ...
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Thrust requirements from Saturn 1 rocket's first stage
What was the need / trigger to develop Saturn I rocket, and who defined / what dictated the thrust requirements from Saturn I, so that eight number of H1 engines had to be clustered to achieve that ...
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Saturn 1 thrust mismatch
While reading about Saturn launch vehicle family, I read that Saturn 1 third stage used 2# RL 10 engines, producing a total thrust of 30K Pounds.
But each RL 10, individually produced approx 25K ...
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What is an "exhausterator" and what does it do?
I laughed when I first saw the word "exhausterator" mentioned, I scratched my head when I saw it the second time, and I came here after the third.
Besides making me feel like maybe technobabble isn't ...
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Did the Saturn IB have eight equally spaced fins around its circumference?
This answer to Saturn V Small Rectangles On S-II Stage includes images and links related to the Saturn IB rocket. It shows what I think is an unwrapped representation of part of a circumference which ...
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Saturn I's four outer engines' gas generator exhaust, why not vent to the side like the four inner engines?
At about 04:58 in Scott Manley's new video NASA Might Be Giving Away A Saturn I Rocket - Here's Why I Love This Vintage Booster he says:
So the four engines in the ...
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Did von Braun have "a thing" for fins? Why did Saturn I block 2 get fins because it's a "von Braun" rocket?
At about 05:55 in Scott Manley's new video NASA Might Be Giving Away A Saturn I Rocket - Here's Why I Love This Vintage Booster he says:
So the Saturn; the first ...
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