The Sea Dragon was a 1962 conceptualized design study for a two-stage sea-launched orbital super heavy-lift launch vehicle. The project was led by Robert Truax while working at Aerojet, one of a number of designs he created that were to be launched by floating the rocket in the ocean.

Jan 6, 2020 · Elon Musk’s Starship/Super Heavy rocket ship will be 387 feet high, be 30 feet in diameter, and able to launch 100 metric tons into low Earth orbit. The Sea Dragon would have been constructed...

A 1962 design proposal, Sea Dragon, called for an enormous 150 m (490 ft) tall, sea-launched rocket capable of lifting 550 t (1,210,000 lb) to low Earth orbit.

May 14, 2020 · Sea Dragon was a 1962 design study for a two-stage sea-launched orbital super heavy-lift vehicle. It is the largest launch vehicle ever conceived and the second largest in terms of low Earth orbit payload capacity.

Sep 2, 2024 · In terms of height, the Sea Dragon would have been about 25% taller than the Starship and NASA’s current Space Launch System, with a diameter more than twice that of either ship. And for...

Orbital launch systems are rockets and other systems capable of placing payloads into or beyond Earth orbit. All launch vehicle propulsion systems employed to date have been chemical rockets falling into one of three main categories:

Mar 14, 2023 · Sea Dragon Rocket could become the largest space launch vehicle ever designed. Why was it abandoned, and was the idea of a sea launch eventually realized? Let’s find out!

Serious interplanetary and interstellar vehicle concepts have been studied that easily dwarf the size of Sea Dragon. This is the Project Daedalus starship: http://www.daviddarling.info/images2/Daedalus_Saturn_V_comparison.jpg

Sea Dragon is an extremely fun concept, but in reality it'd be very impractical compared to Starship. Maybe it would've had a better chance of working if it was built in the 1970s/80s to replace the Saturn V.

May 12, 2023 · Sea Dragon was the idea of a 'big dumb booster'. Single huge combustion chamber, 4 vernier rockets for steering. Just get the upper stages up to speed and out of the atmosphere somewhere near where it should be, and let smaller stages correct for error.