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RLA-150
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RLA-150
RLA-150
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Russian heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle. Super-booster concept with a payload to low earth orbit of 250 metric tons using six modules as the first stage and the RLA-120 core. Glushko proposed that the booster could launch a Soviet manned Mars landing by 1983. The government rejected the RLA concept, but it did lead to the Energia booster of the 1980's.

Status: Design 1974. Payload: 250,000 kg (550,000 lb). Thrust: 65,000.00 kN (14,612,000 lbf). Gross mass: 6,000,000 kg (13,200,000 lb). Height: 45.00 m (147.00 ft). Diameter: 6.00 m (19.60 ft). Apogee: 185 km (114 mi).

LEO Payload: 250,000 kg (550,000 lb) to a 185 km orbit at 52.00 degrees. Development Cost $: 12,500.000 million in 1974 dollars.

Stage Data - RLA-150



Family: heavy-lift, orbital launch vehicle. Country: Russia. Engines: RLA-1200. Stages: RLA-2, RLA-1. Agency: Korolev bureau.

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