TechComm Labs : Delta Heavy: up up and away

{ 2011 01 21 }

Delta Heavy: up up and away – the Sayanagi experience

Kunio Sayanagi visited Vandenberg yesterday to watch the first Delta IV Heavy launch there. That rocket had a 23 ton payload pushed by 9 MN thrust. For contrast, the Shuttle goes up with more than 30 MN of push. (Saturn had 35 MN or 7.8 million pounds force see also conversion center)

For a personal impression of the Delta Heavy launch and a bit of history behind the Vandenberg launch facility, see Kunio’s essay at ars technica.

Posted by bryan on Friday, January 21, 2011, at 4:20 pm. Filed under Education and Support, we live in interesting times. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.