Apr 202010
ICARUS, Ithacus, ROMBUS, ROMBUS F, ROMBUS III, Pegasus, Icarus Jr. When rocket designers didn’t dream small.
Coming up in APR V2N6.
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ICARUS, Ithacus, ROMBUS, ROMBUS F, ROMBUS III, Pegasus, Icarus Jr. When rocket designers didn’t dream small.
Coming up in APR V2N6.
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Ah if only we had such payload capacity today.
I’m I wrong, or with the passage of time Rombus became more like Nexus ?
Seems that’s the case Marco. The more detailed drawings that’s Scott’s previously shown seem to depict the blunt nose and the toroidal LOX tank that’s characteristic of the Nexus family. ROMBUS used base-first entry and Nexus used nose-first entry, so a nose-first ROMBUS would be very similar to a “Nexus classic”.
Bono and Ehricke knew each other and their paths certainly crossed in the California aerospace culture of the period. Much like the punk/new wave era or the first years of the Internet, intellectual property tended to flow pretty freely between the creative types of the day.
That being said, it makes me wonder if any of these projects had an influence on McDonnell’s Toss-Back Booster design from the 80’s
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Scott? Kill this message and that last one from me, above? I need a beer.
Thanks.
Ok, does anyone else happen to think that #4 from the left in the top row seems to look rather “Blue-Orgin”-ish? Well not in “scale” I suppose…
Uhm, Scott? Which of those (or are any of them would probably be a better way to put it) is the Pegasus model with the 24 SSMEs for the plug-propulsion?
Randy