MOSCOW, 17 Feb-RIA Novosti. The State Rocket Center named after him. Makeeva, the developer of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile and the Sineva submarine - launched ballistic missile, has registered with Rospatent the appearance of a line of super-heavy carriers for launches to the Moon and Mars.
The description of the invention for the patent is published on the website of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent).
Earlier it became known that the creation of the Russian superheavy rocket "Yenisei", the first flight of which was planned for 2028, was postponed. As stated by the head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, the project will be revised and the new superheavy rocket will be based on reusable technologies.
The line of rockets proposed by the Makeev Center (part of Roscosmos) is not reusable, but in the maximum version it should be more load-carrying than the heaviest superheavy rocket created so far - the Saturn V, with which manned missions to the Moon were carried out.
In total, it is proposed to create three rockets with a payload capacity for low-Earth orbit of 53 tons, 106 tons and 160 tons. Missiles with a payload capacity of about and above 100 tons are called superheavy according to the international classification.
"These data indicate the possibility of using the proposed space rockets to explore the planets of the Solar System, in particular the Moon and Mars," the patent explanation says.
Rocket launches are proposed to be carried out from the Vostochny cosmodrome, and rocket blocks, from which the superheavy rocket should be assembled, are delivered to the cosmodrome by air, in particular, by An-124 "Ruslan"aircraft.
The rockets are proposed to use oxygen-kerosene engines RD-171MV and oxygen-hydrogen RD-0120 (both types were used in the Soviet superheavy rocket "Energy").
Superheavy rockets are designed to launch large objects weighing tens of tons into near-Earth orbit or launch spacecraft and ships to the Moon and other bodies of the Solar System.
In the last century, the world launched superheavy missiles H-1 and Energia (USSR), as well as Saturn V (USA). Currently, only one super - heavy rocket is in operation in the world-the American Falcon Heavy. In addition, SLS and Starship are being developed in the United States, and Chang Zheng-9 in China.
