Ares V

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This article is about the Ares V launch vehicle. For other uses, see Ares (disambiguation).

Ares V
Artist's impression of an Ares V during solid rocket booster separation
FunctionCargo Launch Vehicle
Country of originUnited States
Size
Height116 m (381 ft) or 109 m (358 ft)
Diameter10 m (33 ft) or 8.4 m (28 ft)
Mass3,700,000 kilograms (8,200,000 lb) RS-68 variant [1]
Stages2
Capacity
Payload to
TLI
Mass71,100 kg (156,700 lb) or 60,600 kg (133,600 lb)
Launch history
StatusCanceled as of October 2010
Launch sites(would have)
LOX
Second stage – Earth Departure Stage
Powered by1 or 2 J-2X
PropellantLH2 / LOX
[edit on Wikidata]

The Ares V (formerly known as the Cargo Launch Vehicle or CaLV) was the planned cargo launch component of the cancelled NASA Constellation program, which was to have replaced the Space Shuttle after its retirement in 2011. Ares V was also planned to carry supplies for a human presence on Mars.[4] Ares V and the smaller Ares I were named after Ares, the Greek god of war.

The Ares V was to launch the

EELV program.[6] However, the Constellation program, including Ares V and Ares I, was canceled in October 2010 by the NASA Authorization Act of 2010. In September 2011, NASA detailed the Space Launch System as its new vehicle for human exploration beyond Earth's orbit,[7]
while commercial space companies would provide low Earth orbit access for both cargo and astronauts.

Development

Early concepts

In the 1996 book

RL-10 engine. One notable difference in the Zubrin et al. design is that the SSMEs were on a small side-mounted flyback craft. This design was meant to allow the Ares to fly using existing Space Shuttle infrastructure.[8]

Constellation

Ares V was to be the cargo launch component of the

Earth Orbit Rendezvous mode proposed by Dr. Wernher von Braun
(alongside the "Direct Ascent" proposal) during the early planning stages of Apollo.

Artist's impression of the Ares V at liftoff

Development of the rocket and its Earth departure stage was led by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. NASA's Ames Research Center was responsible for the Ares V integrated health management system supports in developing its payload shroud. Glenn Research Center led the development of the lunar lander ascent stage as well as Ares V power system, thrust vector control system and payload shroud. Langley Research Center had a lead role in researching Ares V aerodynamics.[9]

In 2007, NASA announced that Alliant Techsystems would be the contractor for the SRBs of both Ares I and Ares V.[10]

Further roles

Although the Ares V was a medium- to long-term project, NASA planned to deploy its lift capability in a range of projects,[11] along the lines of the former Apollo Applications Program.

One proposal was to build an 8- to 16-meter

L2 point. It would be a significant increase in dimension and performance over the Hubble Space Telescope and the Ares V vehicle was expected to carry this to its destination in a single launch.[citation needed] Future Ares V missions could also have served as a cost-effective, mass transport of construction materials for future spacecraft and missions, delivering raw materials, for example, to a Moon dock.[citation needed
]

In May 2010, NASA planned flight demonstrations of Ares V hardware along with Ares I hardware after the scheduled upcoming Ares I-X Prime test of the Ares I five-segment SRB first stage. Several flights were listed as "Heavy Lift" test flights for testing the first stage of the Ares V simultaneously with the Ares I upper stage attached on top of the Ares V first stage. This would save both time and money in avoiding the gap between testing Ares I and Ares V hardware with limited funding.[13]

Cancellation

The Augustine Commission concluded that "under the FY 2010 funding profile, the Committee estimates that Ares V will not be available until the late 2020s".[14] Even if NASA had been given a $3 billion increase in funding and the ISS had been retired in 2015, the committee still believed that the Ares V would not be ready until the mid-2020s.[15]

On February 1, 2010, President

major space policy speech at Kennedy Space Center on April 15, 2010. In October 2010, the NASA Authorization Act of 2010 was signed into law, which canceled Constellation.[17] However, previous legislation kept Constellation contracts in force until a new funding bill was passed for 2011.[18][19] Due to previous legislative obligations, $500 million was to be paid to contractors after the program's cancellation until March 2011.[20]

Successor

The successor to the Ares rocket family is the

free flying in lunar orbit. The SLS Block 1B version is capable of Earth orbital rendezvous lunar mission profiles such as that of the Ares V, lunar orbital rendezvous such as what NASA is currently pursuing, and integrated lunar missions such as the Apollo missions using the Saturn V, which has been proposed under a new House of Representatives bill.[21][22][23][24][25]

Design

The Ares V was intended as a heavy launch vehicle to send large hardware and materials to the Moon, or to send supplies beyond Earth orbit to sustain human presence there.[3] The Ares V was designed to be a three-stage rocket: the first and second stages, which burn together, were to use both solid and liquid propulsion with the upper stage providing the necessary propulsion to send the hardware and staples beyond low Earth orbit and onto a trajectory to the Moon.

Ares V underwent a preliminary design review after the results of the 2009 Augustine Commission.

LH2).[29]

Comparison of Saturn V, Space Shuttle, Ares I, Ares IV and Ares V

The upper stage, derived from the

J-2X rocket engine, which was also to be used on the liquid-fueled upper stage of the Ares I booster. The EDS was to be used to steer the Altair lunar lander into its initial low Earth "parking" orbit for later retrieval by the Orion spacecraft, and then would propel both the Altair and Orion to the Moon.[3]
The EDS could also have been used to take large payloads into low Earth orbit, along with placing large uncrewed spacecraft onto trajectories beyond the Earth-Moon system.

The Ares V was designed to have a payload capacity of over 414,000 lb (188

Near-Earth asteroid, and could boost an 8 to 16-meter successor of the Hubble Space Telescope to the Sun-Earth L2
point.

Derivatives

Ares IV

The Ares IV concept combines an Ares I upper stage on top of an Ares V.[31] Specifically, the vehicle would consist of the liquid-fueled core stage from the Ares V design, two five-segment solid rocket boosters, and the liquid-fueled upper stage from the Ares I, as described by NASA in January 2007. The Ares IV would be a combined 367 ft (112 m) tall and could be used to reach the Moon. Total payload capacity would be 90,420 lb (41,000 kg) to 240 miles (390 km) for direct trans-lunar injection.[32]

NASA had considered using Ares IV to evaluate high-speed "skip" reentry profiles of the Orion capsule in 2007.[33] NASA had planned flight demonstrations of Ares I and Ares V hardware in "Heavy Lift" configurations beginning in 2013. The "Heavy Lift" test flights were to test the first stage of the Ares V simultaneously with the Ares I upper stage attached on top to save both time and money. The later Heavy Lift test vehicle configurations are similar to the Ares IV vehicle.[34]

Ares V Lite

Ares V Lite was an alternative launch vehicle for NASA's Constellation program suggested by the Augustine Commission. Ares V Lite was a scaled down Ares V.[35][36] It would have used five RS-68 engines and two five-segment SRBs and have had a low Earth orbit payload of approximately 140 metric tons (309,000 lb).[37] If chosen, Ares V Lite would have replaced the Ares V and Ares I launchers. One Ares V Lite version would have been a cargo lifter like Ares V and the second version would have carried astronauts in the Orion spacecraft.[37]

In fiction

In the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness, a desktop model of the Ares V rocket was set decoration in the office of Admiral Alexander Marcus as part of his spaceflight collection.[38]

See also

References

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
.

  1. ^ "Ares V and RS-68B" (PDF). NASA. December 2008. Retrieved November 5, 2022.
  2. ^ "HSF Final Report: Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation", October 2009, Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee, pp. 65-66.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Overview: Ares V Cargo Launch Vehicle. NASA. Retrieved September 30, 2008.
  4. ^ Reh, Kim; Spilker, Tom; Elliott, John; Balint, Tibor; Donahue, Ben; McCormick, Dave; Smith, David B.; Tandon, Sunil; Woodcock, Gordon. "Ares V: Application to Solar System Scientific Exploratio". JPL Publication 08-3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2011.
  5. ^ Handlin, Daniel (October 11, 2006). "NASA sets Orion 13 for Moon Return". NASA SpaceFlight.com. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
  6. ^ "NASA – Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle". NASA. April 29, 2009. Archived from the original on May 4, 2009. Retrieved May 13, 2009.
  7. ^ NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System. Nasa.gov (September 29, 2011). Retrieved June 7, 2012.
  8. ISBN 978-0684835501
    .
  9. ^ NASA Assigns Field Center Roles for Ares 5, Lunar Lander. SPACE.com
  10. ^ NASA Awards First Stage Contract for Ares Rockets. Nasa.gov. Retrieved June 7, 2012.
  11. ^ "Thinking Big About Space Telescopes". NASA.
  12. ^ "Where Will Astronomy Be In 35 Years?". Astronomy Magazine, August 2008.
  13. ^ Bergin, Chris. "Ambitious Ares test flight plan proposed for HLV demonstrations". nasaspaceflight.com, May 10, 2010.
  14. ^ Augustine Committee 2009, p. 60.
  15. ^ Augustine Committee 2009, p. 86.
  16. ^ NASA.gov
  17. ^ "President Obama Signs New Vision for U.S. Space Exploration Into Law". Space.com, October 11, 2010.
  18. ^ "Constellation Is Dead, But Pieces Live On" Archived November 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Aviation Week, October 26, 2010.
  19. ^ "NASA Stuck in Limbo as New Congress Takes Over". Space.com, January 7, 2011.
  20. ^ "NASA's Ares rocket dead, but Congress lets you pay $500 million more for it". Orlando Sentinel, December 26, 2010.
  21. ^ Mohon, Lee (January 21, 2015). "Space Launch System". NASA. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  22. ^ Allott, Daniel (February 3, 2020). "House panel proposes NASA bill that would scrap the lunar base — or maybe not". TheHill. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  23. ^ "cNASA selects exploration upper stage - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  24. ^ Smith, Rich (January 5, 2020). "Boeing's New Plan for Moon Landing Sounds a Lot Like SpaceX's". The Motley Fool. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  25. ^ "SLS Solid Rocket Booster Fact Sheet" (PDF).
  26. ^ "Bolden Directs MSFC Special Team to evaluate HLV alternatives". Nasaspaceflight.com (October 21, 2009). Retrieved June 7, 2012.
  27. ^ "Study reveals a six RS-68 and 5.5 segment booster for Ares V". NASAspaceflight.com. June 15, 2008.
  28. ^ "NASA Needs A Bigger Ares V" Archived May 21, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Aviation Week & Space Technology, February 27, 2008.
  29. ^ "Return to SSME – Ares V undergoes evaluation into potential switch". NASAspaceflight.com. June 15, 2008.
  30. ^ Creech, Steve and Phil Sumrall. "Ares V: Refining a New Heavy Lift Capability". NASA.
  31. ^ Berger, Brian (January 26, 2007). "NASA Studies Early Moon Shot for New Space Capsule". Space.com. Retrieved February 11, 2008.
  32. ^ Rob Coppinger (January 2, 2007). "NASA quietly sets up budget for Ares IV lunar crew launch vehicle with 2017 test flight target". Flight International.
  33. ^ Berger, Brian (January 26, 2007). "NASA Studies Early Moon Shot for New Space Capsule". Space.com. Retrieved January 26, 2007.
  34. ^ Bergin, Chris. "Ambitious Ares test flight plan proposed for HLV demonstrations". Nasaspaceflight.com, May 10, 2010.
  35. ^ Coppinger, Rob. "Will Constellation live on?". Flight International, August 11, 2009.
  36. ^ Madrigal, Alexis. "Human Spaceflight Ball in Obama's Court". Wired, October 22, 2009.
  37. ^ a b Augustine Committee 2009, pp. 38, 64–67, 80.
  38. ^ "STID: History of Starflight Models". Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved 2013-12-28.

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ares_V&oldid=1175752014"
This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article: Ares V. Articles is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license; additional terms may apply.Privacy Policy