NASA announced this week the names of the launchers (launch rockets) that will return humans to the moon, and later, will also enable flights to Mars and other destinations. The crew launch vehicle will be called Ares 1 [Ares I], and the cargo launcher will be called Ares 5 [Ares V]
NASA announced this week the names of the launchers (launch rockets) that will return humans to the moon, and later, will also enable flights to Mars and other destinations. The crew launch vehicle will be called Ares 1 [Ares I], and the payload launcher will be called Ares 5 [Ares V].
"It is appropriate to call these spaceships the name Ares. One of the synonyms of March." said Scott Horowitz, NASA's assistant administrator for research mission development at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "We honor the past with the names of our aircraft, and salute the future with a name associated with NASA's discovery missions."
The numbers 1 and 5 indicate a tribute to the rockets of the Apollo program - Saturn 1 and Saturn 5, the first large rockets used by the American space program and specially developed for manned flights.
The crew vehicle, until now simply called CEV (Crew Exploration Vehicle), which will replace the shuttles in regards to manned flights, will receive a new nickname at a later stage. This vehicle will be carried into space on Ares 1, which will use five solid fuel boosters, a derivative of the similar boosters used by the shuttles, for the first stage. The second stage will be powered by liquid fuel - a combination of oxygen and hydrogen from the J-2X model that will be derived from the J-2 engine that was used as the second stage of the Apollo spacecraft. Ares 1 will be able to lift about 25 tons to the low coffee route.
Ares 5 will use RS-68 liquid hydrogen and oxygen engines and a larger version of the external fuel tank as well as two solid fuel boosters each consisting of five parts as the first stage. For the purpose of the second stage, they will use a spacecraft??missile?? Even in J2-X boosters such as Ares 1. Ares 5 will be able to raise about 130 tons to low orbit. Its height will be over 100 meters. This multi-purpose system will be used to carry cargo and components into orbit for transfer to the Moon or Mars.
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Drafting and editing: H.Y. Glikzam - technical writing, translation, editing
