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lists the planned launches until the start of June; vehicle, mass, launch site, orbit.
These include the launch of the heaviest commercial satellite ever, Spaceway 1 at 6.0 tonnes.
Also, a Russian microgravity experiment at 6.4 tonnes; a 7.3-tonne manned Soyuz to the ISS, a 14.5-tonne satellite of unspecified type to be launched into an unspecified orbit for the NRO, and the Shuttle.
Which is 130 tonnes by itself. Ariane 5 ECA launches 10 tonnes to geosynchronous transfer, I'm not sure how much it could send to the ISS's orbit, but doubt it would be as much as 20 tonnes.
I hadn't realised the disparity between the sizes of things launched because they'll return a profit (and Spaceway 1 is somewhat speculative as these things go; it's got an impressive phased-array transmitter for Broadband Internet Anywhere), things launched containing people, and the Shuttle.
lists the planned launches until the start of June; vehicle, mass, launch site, orbit.
These include the launch of the heaviest commercial satellite ever, Spaceway 1 at 6.0 tonnes.
Also, a Russian microgravity experiment at 6.4 tonnes; a 7.3-tonne manned Soyuz to the ISS, a 14.5-tonne satellite of unspecified type to be launched into an unspecified orbit for the NRO, and the Shuttle.
Which is 130 tonnes by itself. Ariane 5 ECA launches 10 tonnes to geosynchronous transfer, I'm not sure how much it could send to the ISS's orbit, but doubt it would be as much as 20 tonnes.
I hadn't realised the disparity between the sizes of things launched because they'll return a profit (and Spaceway 1 is somewhat speculative as these things go; it's got an impressive phased-array transmitter for Broadband Internet Anywhere), things launched containing people, and the Shuttle.
