Juno V
{{Short description|Proposed 1950s rocket}}
The Juno V series of rockets were a design that was proposed in the late 1950s but cancelled. The rockets were multi-stage and, although they failed to reach production, their sections were used in other designs.{{Cite web |last=Koelle |first=H. H. (Heinz Hermann) |date=1958-11-15 |title=Juno V Space Vehicle Development Program |url=http://libarchstor2.uah.edu/digitalcollections/items/show/10931 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=Saturn V Collection |language=en}} The Juno V was an eight-engine cluster concept,{{Cite web |title=Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, H-1 {{!}} National Air and Space Museum |url=https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/rocket-engine-liquid-fuel-h-1/nasm_A19700259000 |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=airandspace.si.edu}} requiring second and third stages to make a complete booster.{{Cite book |last=Bilstein |first=Roger E. |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19970009949/downloads/19970009949.pdf |title=Stages to Saturn |publisher=NASA |year=1980 |isbn=0-16-048909-1 |pages=36}} Depending on the stages added, the rocket would either be a Juno V-A or a Juno V-B.{{Cite web |title=Juno V-A |url=http://www.astronautix.com/j/junov-a.html |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.astronautix.com}}{{Cite web |title=Juno V-B |url=http://www.astronautix.com/j/junov-b.html |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=www.astronautix.com}}
Juno V-A
File:Juno V-A.webp first stage and Titan I as second and third stages]]
Juno V-A was studied in 1958, as a new name for the Super-Jupiter rocket. Super-Jupiter planned on using four Rocketdyne E-1 engines in its second stage, but this project was cancelled so V-A would use the S-I first stage to propel it into space and a whole Titan I ICBM to continue the journey. Juno V-A was never developed, but all its stages were used on different launch vehicles, now retired as of today.
Juno V-B
Juno V-B, studied in the same year as Juno V-A, was proposed for lunar and interplanetary missions into space. It was just like the Juno V-A, except the third stage, originally the second stage of a Titan I booster, would be replaced with a Centaur C high-energy third stage. A year after Juno V-B's study, the booster received a new name: the Saturn A-1, which, like the Juno series of rockets was never built in its original planned form, but all its stages were used on different launch vehicles.
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19970009949 Bilstein, Roger E, Stages to Saturn, US Government Printing Office, 1980.]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20001001120530/http://www.webcreations.com/ptm/psat.htm Lowther, Scott, Saturn: Development, Details, Derivatives and Descendants]