Most of the stuff I've been seeing says it is the most powerful since the Saturn V. Looks like the Falcon Heavy has about 4 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, whereas the Saturn V had about 7.6 million. Not sure what the weight / thrust ratio is on each of these though.
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > I keep seeing articles about the proposed new "mega rocket" from SpaceX, > how it would have a higher payload capacity than any current launch vehicle > and could be used for manned missions to Mars. > > I thought wow, let me look up how much bigger it will be than the Saturn > V. Turns out, it will have less than half the payload capacity of a Saturn > V. Granted it will be far more economical and may be reusable, so it's not > really a fair comparison. > > But still, some of that Cold War era technology was pretty impressive. We > can't afford it anymore though. > >
