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From: serre@boulder.Colorado.EDU (SERRE GLENN)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: launch rates
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Date: 26 Sep 90 15:04:39 GMT
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In article <10208.26ff55cf@pbs.org> pstinson@pbs.org writes:
>So.  Add one more launch in 1969.  The average launch rate changes as a result
>only from 1.71 to 1.85 and the basic conclusion of the comnparison remains the
>same.  Shuttle is beating the pants off the old Saturn V launch rate.  That's a
>fact.

Note, however, that the Saturn V could put ~265,000 pounds into LEO in one
launch, while the shuttle puts up ~60,000 pounds (?).  Also, the question
should really be "What was the availability of the Saturn V vs. that for the 
Shuttle?"  By availability I mean something like the average length of launch
slips that booster-caused (I'm sure some commercial aviation type out there
could tell us how the airlines define it).  

--Glenn Serre
serre@tramp.colorado.edu


planned to launch versus the