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Anyone knows Vulcan's Centaur stage dry mass? I think it escaped attention of too many people. The new Centaur is much bigger and holds almost 3 times the fuel
by anovikov 3y ago
Anyone knows Vulcan's Centaur stage dry mass?
I think it escaped attention of too many people. The new Centaur is much bigger and holds almost 3 times the fuel of original one as used on say, Atlas V. That an upper stage of a totally different scale. I also believe that it's mass ratio should be absurdly high, can't wait to find out, for some reason it's not published.
Essentially, it stands right in the middle between 5-meter DCCS/ICPS (biggest hydrolox upper stage operational now), and EUS which seems to be an awfully long-delayed, extremely expensive blue elephant which might as well be cancelled before it's first flight.