Super heavy-lift launch vehicle: Difference between revisions

Several super heavy-lift launch vehicle concepts were produced in the 1960s,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-03 |title=The Enormous Sea-Launched Rocket That Never Flew |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a25915/sea-dragon-history-curious-droid/ |access-date=2024-05-05 |website=Popular Mechanics |language=en-US}}</ref> including the [[Sea Dragon (rocket)|Sea Dragon]]. During the [[Space Race]], the [[Saturn V]] and [[N1 (rocket)|N1]] were built by the United States and Soviet Union, respectively. After the Saturn V's successful Apollo program and the N1's failures, the Soviets' Energia launched twice in the 1980s, once bearing the [[Buran (spacecraft)|Buran spaceplane]]. The next two decades saw multiple concepts drawn out once again, most notably [[Shuttle-derived vehicle|Space Shuttle-derived vehicles]] and [[Rus-M]], but none were built. In the 2010s, super heavy-lift launch vehicles received interest once again, leading to the launch of the [[Falcon Heavy]], the [[Space Launch System]], and [[SpaceX Starship|Starship]], and the beginning of development of the [[Long March (rocket family)|Long March]] and [[Yenisei (rocket)|Yenisei rockets]].