Artemis Moon Rocket Launches Tomorrow

[bradbn4]

----------------Saturn----------Art
Propulsion--- 3 stages------ 2 stages
Height ----- 363 feet------- 212 feet
Diameter --- 33 feet------ 27.6 feet
Weight ---- 6.5 million lbs.------ 5.75 million lbs.
Thrust ----- 7.5 million lbs. ------ 8.8 million lbs.

So smaller over all - but the crew module is bigger with longer duration.

[O2HeN2]

----------------Saturn----------Art
Propulsion--- 3 stages------ 2 stages
Height ----- 363 feet------- 212 feet
Diameter --- 33 feet------ 27.6 feet
Weight ---- 6.5 million lbs.------ 5.75 million lbs.
Thrust ----- 7.5 million lbs. ------ 8.8 million lbs.

Smaller, lighter but with more than a million pounds more thrust.

No matter which way you spin it, that's a win.

O2

[.455_Hunter]

Smaller, lighter but with more than a million pounds more thrust.

No matter which way you spin it, that's a win.

O2

I would hope there would be some significant performance improvements over half a century of development.

The Saturn used what was essentially just scale-up of early proven engine designs to get something functional before Kennedy's deadline and not decades later.

We will see soon if all that NASA and contractor computing and design modeling power devoted to Artemis was up to snuff.