Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Soviet shuttle
Message-ID: <1988Oct25.170656.7381@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Oct1.224801.11041@utzoo.uucp> <1109@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu> <1988Oct20.180651.25023@utzoo.uucp> <7353@ihlpl.ATT.COM>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 88 17:06:56 GMT

In article <7353@ihlpl.ATT.COM> knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen) writes:
>OK, but what about Energia, the Shuttle booster?  What's in the central
>tank, and the strap-on side tanks?
>Might the central tank contain both LOX and LH2 like ours to feed
>all the strap-ons, and the strap-on "tanks" are parachutes?

Doesn't seem so.  According to the Soviets, the core is LOX/LH2 and the
strap-ons are LOX/kerosene.  There have been reports that the strap-ons
are slight variants of one of the new smaller Soviet launchers.  They
definitely seem to be fairly independent rocket stages, not parts of
the main stage the way Proton's pods are.
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