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    The Ares V is NASA's planned heavy-lift launch vehicle that will serve as the primary method to deliver resources to space under the Constellation Program. It consists of two stages - a reusable solid rocket first stage and a liquid-fueled upper stage. The first stage uses two five-segment solid rocket boosters and a liquid-fueled core stage. The second stage is called the Earth Departure Stage, which uses a J-2X engine. It can carry over 290,000 pounds to low Earth orbit and will be used to transport elements of a lunar outpost and supplies for future Mars missions. Development is led by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

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    The Ares V is NASA's planned heavy-lift launch vehicle that will serve as the primary method to deliver resources to space under the Constellation Program. It consists of two stages - a reusable solid rocket first stage and a liquid-fueled upper stage. The first stage uses two five-segment solid rocket boosters and a liquid-fueled core stage. The second stage is called the Earth Departure Stage, which uses a J-2X engine. It can carry over 290,000 pounds to low Earth orbit and will be used to transport elements of a lunar outpost and supplies for future Mars missions. Development is led by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

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    The Ares V is NASA's planned heavy-lift launch vehicle that will serve as the primary method to deliver resources to space under the Constellation Program. It consists of two stages - a reusable solid rocket first stage and a liquid-fueled upper stage. The first stage uses two five-segment solid rocket boosters and a liquid-fueled core stage. The second stage is called the Earth Departure Stage, which uses a J-2X engine. It can carry over 290,000 pounds to low Earth orbit and will be used to transport elements of a lunar outpost and supplies for future Mars missions. Development is led by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

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    Constellation Program:
    America's Fleet of Next-Generation Launch Vehicles
    The Ares V Cargo Launch Vehicle

    Planning and early design are under way for being developed by NASA’s Constellation
    hardware, propulsion systems and associated Program to carry human explorers back to
    technologies for NASA’s Ares V cargo launch the moon, and then onward to Mars and other
    vehicle — the “heavy lifter” of America’s next- destinations in the solar system.
    generation space fleet.
    The Ares V effort includes multiple project
    Ares V will serve as NASA’s primary vessel for element teams at NASA centers and contract
    safe, reliable delivery of resources to space organizations around the nation, and is led
    — from large-scale hardware and materials by the Exploration Launch Projects Office
    for establishing a permanent moon base, to at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in
    food, fresh water and other staples needed to Huntsville, Ala. These teams rely on nearly a
    extend a human presence beyond Earth orbit. half a century of NASA spaceflight experience
    and aerospace technology advances. Together,
    Under the goals of the Vision for Space they are developing new vehicle hardware
    Exploration, Ares V is a vital part of the cost- and flight systems and maturing technologies
    effective space transportation infrastructure evolved from powerful, reliable Apollo-era and
    space shuttle propulsion elements.

    Concept image of Ares V in Earth orbit. (NASA/MSFC) www.nasa.gov


    The versatile, heavy-lifting Ares V is a two-stage,
    vertically stacked launch system. The launch vehicle
    can carry about 290,000 pounds to low Earth orbit and
    144,000 pounds to the moon.

    For its initial insertion into Earth orbit, the first stage Concept image of Ares V elements.
    relies on two five-segment reusable solid rocket boost­ (NASA/MSFC)
    ers. These are derived from the space shuttle solid
    rocket boosters and are similar to the single booster that
    serves as the first stage for the cargo vehicle’s sister
    craft, the Ares I crew launch vehicle (see “Ares I” fact
    sheet). This hardware commonality makes operations
    more cost effective by using the same manufacturing
    facilities for both the crew and cargo vehicles.

    The twin reusable solid rocket boosters of the cargo


    lifter’s first stage flank a single, liquid-fueled central
    booster element, known as the core propulsion stage.
    Derived from the Saturn V-class core, this central booster
    tank delivers liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen fuel to five
    RS-68 rocket engines — an upgraded version of those
    currently used in the Delta IV, the largest of the Delta
    rocket family developed in the 1990s by the U.S. Air Force
    for its Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program and
    commercial launch applications. Together, these propul­
    sion elements comprise the Ares V’s first stage.

    An RS-68 engine undergoes hot-fire testing at NASA's Stennis Space


    Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., during the engine’s developmental
    phase. (Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne)
    Atop the central booster element is an interstage Anchored atop the departure stage is a composite
    cylinder, which includes booster separation motors shroud protecting the lunar surface access module,
    and a newly designed forward adapter that mates the which includes the descent stage that will carry explor­
    first stage with the second, or Earth Departure Stage. ers to the moon’s surface and the ascent stage that will
    This unique upper stage, being designed at Marshall, return them to lunar orbit to rendezvous with the Orion
    is propelled by a J-2X main engine fueled with liquid crew exploration vehicle for their return home.
    oxygen and liquid hydrogen. The J-2X is an evolved
    variation of two historic predecessors: the powerful J-2 During launch of an Ares V, the reusable solid rocket
    upper-stage engine that propelled the Apollo-era Saturn boosters and core propulsion stage power the vehicle
    1B and Saturn V rockets to the moon and the J-2S, a into low-Earth orbit. After separation from the spent core
    simplified version of the J-2 developed and tested in the stage, the Earth Departure Stage J-2X engine takes
    early 1970s but never flown. over, placing the vehicle in a circular orbit. The Orion,
    carrying the astronauts, is delivered to space separately
    by the Ares I launcher, then docks with the orbiting Earth
    Departure Stage and its lunar module payload. Once
    mated, the Earth Departure Stage fires its engine to
    achieve “escape velocity,” the speed necessary to break
    free of Earth’s gravity, and the lunar vessel begins its
    journey to the moon.

    The Earth Departure Stage is jettisoned after it puts the


    mated crew and lunar modules on course for their lunar
    destination. Once the four astronauts arrive in lunar orbit,
    they transfer to the lunar module and descend to the
    moon’s surface. The crew module remains in lunar orbit
    until the astronauts depart from the moon in the lunar
    vessel, rendezvous with the crew module in orbit and
    return to Earth.

    The cargo vehicle’s rockets can lift up heavy payloads,


    such as equipment and hardware, to Earth orbit or trans-
    lunar injection, a trajectory designed to intersect with the
    moon. Such lift capabilities will enable NASA to carry a
    variety of science and exploration payloads to space and,
    in time, undertake crewed missions to Mars and beyond.

    The first crewed lunar excursion is scheduled for launch


    in the 2020 timeframe.

    The Ares V effort and associated element project teams


    are led by the Exploration Launch Projects Office at
    Marshall, which reports to the Constellation Program
    Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
    Constellation is a key program of NASA’s Exploration
    Systems Mission Directorate in Washington.

    ATK Thiokol of Brigham City, Utah, is the prime contrac­


    tor of the reusable solid rocket boosters. Pratt & Whitney
    Rocketdyne is the prime contractor for both the J-2X
    upper stage engine and the RS-68 main engine.

    Concept image of the J-2X engine. (NASA/MSFC)


    NASAfacts

    Concept image of the Ares V earth departure stage in orbit, shown with
    the Orion docked with the Lunar Surface Access Module. (NASA/MSFC)

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration


    George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
    Huntsville, AL 35812

    FS-2006-07-84-MSFC Pub 8-40599

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