Baseline Performance – the Apollo and Space Shuttle Programs.

 The Saturn-V is a great sample rocket. 

Its performance and Stats are readily available and its a great baseline since we want our performance to be compared against this Iconic rocket. 

Things that is not in Wikipedia are the following:

  1. The Total Volume is 414 Dtons or as big as a Fat Trader except that 90% is Propulsion instead of the 10-20% of a Fat Trader is Fuel. 
    1. S-IC first stage S-II second stage S-IVB third stage TOTAL
      HEIGHT 42.0 m 24.9 m 17.9 m
      Diameter 10.0 m 10.0 m 6.6 m
      Volume 3,298.7 m^3 1,953.3 m^3 611.0 m^3 5,252.0 kg
      Dtons 233.1 DTON 138.0 DTON 43.2 DTON 371.2 DTON
      Dry Weight 131,000.0 kg 36,000.0 kg 10,000.0 kg 167,000.0 kg
      Total Wt 2,300,000.0 kg 480,000.0 kg 119,000.0 kg 2,780,000.0 kg
      FULL LOAD 2,780,000.0 kg 599,000.0 kg 119,000.0 kg
      Engines Rocketdyne F-1 Rocketdyne J-2 Rocketdyne J-2
      Number 5 5 1
    2. As a Baseline I start modifying the % of propulsion at a given TL. 
  2.  the Acceleration which we can get is 1.3Gs

    1. Thrust (N) 35,100,000 N 4,900,000 N 1,033,100.0 N
      Accel (m/s^2) 12.63 8.18 8.68
      Accel (G) 1.29 0.83 0.89
      Propulsion 2,169,000.0 kg 444,000.0 kg 109,000.0 kg
      Kg/s 12,910.7 kg 1,156.3 kg 741.5 kg
      Dtons/S 0.912 0.082 0.052
      Burn/Accel(Dton/G) 0.71 0.10 0.06

    2. I like how the rocket hovering Illustrated a 1G thrust vs 1G effect = Hovering. 

  3. The Context of how its not the Performance of the Rockets that Improved over time but the Reliability. Their Thrust to Mass Ratio was roughly to 70-80. Comparing the 196B  Shuttle Program 1.4B per launched (135 launches, 2 failures and partial failures) vs  49B Apollo Program with 4.7B per Launch. 

S-IC first stage S-II second stage S-IVB third stage TOTAL
HEIGHT 42.0 m 24.9 m 17.9 m
Diameter 10.0 m 10.0 m 6.6 m
Volume 3,298.7 m^3 1,953.3 m^3 611.0 m^3 5,252.0 kg
Dtons 233.1 DTON 138.0 DTON 43.2 DTON 371.2 DTON
Dry Weight 131,000.0 kg 36,000.0 kg 10,000.0 kg 167,000.0 kg
Total Wt 2,300,000.0 kg 480,000.0 kg 119,000.0 kg 2,780,000.0 kg
FULL LOAD 2,780,000.0 kg 599,000.0 kg 119,000.0 kg
Engines Rocketdyne F-1 Rocketdyne J-2 Rocketdyne J-2
Number 5 5 1
Target Height 67,000.0 m 175,000.0 m
Delta-V 2121.151079 5262.386471 6538.568824
Burn Time 168 384 147
Thrust (N) 35,100,000 N 4,900,000 N 1,033,100.0 N
Accel (m/s^2) 12.63 8.18 8.68
Accel (G) 1.29 0.83 0.89
Propulsion 2,169,000.0 kg 444,000.0 kg 109,000.0 kg
Kg/s 12,910.7 kg 1,156.3 kg 741.5 kg
Dtons/S 0.912 0.082 0.052
Burn/Accel(Dton/G) 0.71 0.10 0.06
Dtons/S

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