MOK
AEROSPACE
COMMERCIAL LUNAR FLIGHT
OceanusProcellarum Apollo 12Pete ConradSurveyor 3November 1969
The adventure continues
Performance
455 sec Isp
4,459.91 m/s Ve (exhaust velocity)
5,333.33 m/s Vf (stage velocity (ideal))
Mass Budget
300 kg payload (2 astronauts)
200 kg stage 3 structure
980 kg oxygen
160 kg hydrogen1,640 kg total stage 3
Performance
455 sec Isp
4,459.91 m/s Ve (exhaust velocity)
5,333.33 m/s Vf (stage velocity (ideal))
Mass Budget
1,080 kg structure (stage 2)
5,390 kg oxygen
900 kg hydrogen
Cost Factors
Development
$4,687.50 per kg structure
Development Budget
$7.50 million Payload
$4.93 million Stages
Production Budget
$3.00 million Payload
$0.99 million Stages
Development Budget
$27.04 million
Production Budget
$5.41 millionSTAGE THREESTAGE TWO
STAGE THREE
MOK
AEROSPACE
COMMERCIAL LUNAR FLIGHT
STAGE ONE
Performance
455 sec Isp
4,459.91 m/s Ve (exhaust velocity)
5,333.33 m/s Vf (stage velocity (ideal))
Mass Budget
5,930 kg structure29,530 kg oxygen4,920 kg hydrogen
Three Test Articles
Five Launch Vehicles
Preliminary figures based onKaren Willcox MIT Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory16.885 Aircraft Systems Engineering Notes
Development Budget
$148.19 million
Production Budget
$ 29.64 million
TOTALS
Development Budget
$187.66 million
Production Budget
$39.03 million
PROJECT TOTAL
$343.78 million
Five tickets
Eighty-Five Million Dollars Each
$425.00 million total reserve
MOK
AEROSPACE
COMMERCIAL LUNAR FLIGHT
10.62 km/sec - direct ascent from Earth2.37 km/sec - direct descent to lunar surface2.37 km/sec - direct ascent from lunar surface0.64 km/sec - air & gravity drag losses16.00 km/sec - total delta vee requirement
Delta Vee Requirement
STAGE 1STAGE 2STAGE 3
Three StagesDelta Vee Requirement
5.334 km/sec
Exhaust Velocity
4,459.91 m/sec
Propellant Fraction
0.697595
Structural Fraction
0.121842
Payload Fraction
0.180563
Growth Factor
5.538223 - 1 stage
30.672027 - 2 stage169.868838 - 3 stage
Staging Requirement
u = 1 - 1/exp(Vf/Ve)
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On the 40th anniversary of the first trip to the moon, William Mook completed a preliminary study of a minimum human moon trip using twenty-first century technologies. Mook focused on two aspects, achieving the abosolute lowest…
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