Fig. 4. Conceptual Type-G Systems Study.
All details are postulated on standard design practices as shown in various declassified US Saturn-VIII/Nova design studies. This interpretation is not the only possible tankage configuration if the upper stage diameters were increased to the mximum possible indicated size. A long and larger upper first stage diameter would allow for a maximum launch thrust of 6,000 tinnes, provided the upper stage diameters were also increased. The Proton D-1 with its heavy Soyuz payload would be the booster which would ferry cosmonauts into orbit to await the launching of a G-1-e booster with its complex Luna payload. Type G's third stage would perform both Earth orbit insertion and trans-lunar injection manoeuvers. The payload for the G-1-e, on the top of a mission module, sonsists of a Luna module and a Luna braking module. It is to this complex (still attached to the final G-1-e third stage) configuration, that the manned heavy Soyuz would be docked.
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