Saturn B-1 | |
Country-Origin: | United States |
Manufacturer: | Von Braun |
Height: | 74 m |
Alt-Height: | 242.00 ft |
Diameter: | 6.52 m |
Alt-Diameter: | 21.39 ft |
Mass: | 680,420 kg |
Stages: | 4 (all used on various vehicles, now retired) |
Status: | Never flown |
Sites: | N/A |
Stage1name: | S-IB |
Stage1engines: | 8 × Rocketdyne H-1b |
Stage1thrust: | 1852822lbf |
Stage1time: | 155 seconds |
Stage1fuel: | RP-1/LOX |
Stage2name: | Titan Cluster |
Stage2engines: | 4 LR-89-5 |
Stage2thrust: | 2940.000 kN |
Stage2time: | 137 seconds |
Stage2fuel: | RP-1/LOX |
Stage3name: | S-IV |
Stage3engines: | 6 RL-10 |
Stage3thrust: | 400.346 kN |
Stage3time: | 482 seconds |
Stage3fuel: | LH2/LOX |
Stage4name: | Centaur C |
Stage4fuel: | LH2/LOX |
Stage4time: | 430 sec |
Stage4thrust: | 133.448 kN |
Stage4engines: | 2 RL-10A-1 |
Studied in 1959, the Saturn B-1,[1] was a four-stage concept rocket similar to the Jupiter-C, and consisted of a Saturn IB first stage, a cluster of four Titan I first stages used for a second stage, a S-IV third stage and a Centaur high-energy liquid-fueled fourth stage.[2] [3] Like its proposed predecessors, the Saturn B-1 never flew and neither did the Titan cluster stage. The S-IV however flew on the Saturn I.