NASA Shuttle-derived Sidemount Heavy Launch Vehicle Concept

This video depicting NASA's Shuttle-derived Sidemount Heavy Launch Vehicle concept was shown at the 17 June 2009 meeting of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee in Washington DC by NASA Space Shuttle Program Manager John Shannon.

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[UndeadPizzaGuy]

First launch expected in 2016 - an elegantly simple solution to our heavy-lift needs.

[faostube]

The only problem with this, is the loss of those expensive engines.

[Nieumarlamalpa]

What about Energia II rocet its a soviet design but its reusable.

try 'Energia II Uragan' on wiki.

[Ferrariman601]

@TritonDenis I wish Energia would be revivied somehow. It looked like quite the formidable vehicle with some incredible lift capacities into LEO, as well as the ability to send things trans-lunar.

Seeing as NASA is utterly dependent on Russia now for manned launches on Soyuz, I'd say there's nothing wrong with asking them to get an Energia program running again.

[geomodelrailroader]

this one won't work 1. it violates CAIB placing the spacecraft on the side. 2. it uses faulty hardware if ice gets one it will damage the spacecraft. 3. and it does not look good this concept failed CCDEV 1 and NASA did not adopt it.

[TritonDenis]

USSR has planned in 1988 launch same project: "Energia" + "Polus", but it was frozen. Now Russia it will be realize with (projecting) "Angara" or "Rus-M" rockets.

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