January 2012 – Page 2 – Aerospace Projects Review Blog

Nova Class II Designs in hi-rez

Jan 072012

NASA artwork from September of 1963 illustrating three configurations for Class II Nova designs. The Class II designs ere mid-technology designs… new engines and new engine types, but nothing crazy. Some stage reusability was expected, though not complete vehicle reusability.

You can download a 4.7 megabyte JPG file of the artwork; the link is HERE. To access it, you will need to enter a username and password. The username: the first word in the body of the text on page 26 of APR issue V2N1. The password: the first word in the body of the text on page 31 of the same issue. Note that both are case sensitive.

Nova Class I Designs in hi-rez

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Jan 042012

NASA artwork from September of 1963 illustrating two configurations for Class I Nova designs. The Class 1 designs were the lowest-technology of the three classes suggested, and involved the use of expendable vehicles and conventional propulsion systems.

Still, the Nova designs were sized to carry payloads of a million pounds or more, about four times that of the Saturn V.

You can download a 4.1 megabyte JPG file of the artwork; the link is HERE. To access it, you will need to enter a username and password. The username: the first word in the body of the text on page 7 of APR issue V2N3. The password: the first word in the body of the text on page 10 of the same issue. Note that both are case sensitive.

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