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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #20 on: 10/01/2012 12:51 pm »
Well Ares established a trend for naming based on the ultimate destination.

So how about "Utopia"?

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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #21 on: 10/01/2012 04:16 pm »
Lobo, NASA didn't call VSE 'Constellation' Program or the Ares until 2 years after it was announced.

Fair point.  CaLV and CLV weren't named Ares 1 and V right away, but I think they had names by the time they were as far along in development as SLS is, weren't they?   And we pretty much knew they wouldn't be known as CaLV, CLV, LSAM, and CEV  forever.  Those were fairly obviously placeholder titles.  Weren't there inklings that NASA would give them names prior to the official annuncement?  Are there those same inklings floating around NSF now?  I haven't heard anything.  You think there'd be some scuttlebutt about it by now.  We are two years after NAA2010, where SLS was announced, afterall.

I'd like to see it get a name, I just get the impression that SLS is and will be the name. 

Myself, if it -does- get a name, I like "Nova" or "Hercules".
Nova has old NASA heritage for a larger-than-Saturn class rocket, which is what SLS is mandated to evolve in to (even though it might never actually do that). 
It's simple, and has heritage.
Hercules is a good name for a simple heavy lifter, like a C-130.  And conjures images of it being large and pwoerful, which it will be.  It's common enough that the public will recognize it.

"Uranus" obviously has it's sound-similarity issues, and Neptune just sort of conjures up images of water (even among the general public.  Anyone who recognizes the name will think water).  Not quite the association you are looking for in a space rocket.  Seems like a good name for a class of submarine or something.

Jupiter works fine, but probably won't be picked for reasons discussed previously.  Mercury, Venus, MArs, and Pluto just don't conjure up imagines of a big, powerful, heavy lifter.  So if not Jupiter, probably better to abandon the Roman/Planet motif.   There are better names to choose from.

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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #22 on: 10/01/2012 04:53 pm »
Jupiter :)
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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #23 on: 10/01/2012 05:28 pm »
Delta V?  :D

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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #24 on: 10/01/2012 05:45 pm »
'Pancetta', 'Collops', 'Trotter', 'Gammon'.. so many great names to choose from.


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Trotter?  How about Strider?

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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #25 on: 10/01/2012 07:10 pm »
'Prometheus' is reserved for the first NEP/NTP spacecraft, IMHO at least.

Or the first torchship.

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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #26 on: 10/01/2012 07:12 pm »
Name it D.C. Pork since that's what it is.

Jupiter :)

If it had liquid or 4 segment boosters...... ::)
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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #27 on: 10/01/2012 08:31 pm »
If Norse gods can be used try 'Odin'. 

Odin ruled Asgard and was a traveller.  That sounds appropriate for the biggest LV in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin
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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #28 on: 10/02/2012 05:35 am »
If Norse gods can be used try 'Odin'. 

Odin ruled Asgard and was a traveller.  That sounds appropriate for the biggest LV in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin

But will SLS become the worlds biggest LV?

It will propably be the biggest operational LV(but not biggest ever built) for couple of years, but china's Long March 9 might then be both earlier and bigger than SLS block II, becoming the biggest ever-built.


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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #29 on: 10/02/2012 07:28 am »
I like Jupiter. It conveys the spirit and awesomeness of the Saturn launch vehicles.
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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #30 on: 10/02/2012 05:02 pm »
If Norse gods can be used try 'Odin'. 

Odin ruled Asgard and was a traveller.  That sounds appropriate for the biggest LV in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin

But will SLS become the worlds biggest LV?

It will propably be the biggest operational LV(but not biggest ever built) for couple of years, but china's Long March 9 might then be both earlier and bigger than SLS block II, becoming the biggest ever-built.


Block 1 will be by far the largest and most powerful LV in the world in 2017, but certainly not the biggest every built.  The Long March 5, which can only put a max of 25mt to LEO isn’t due to launch until 2014.  So they’d need to move things along pretty fast to get the Long March 9 just a few years after SLS Block 1.

Down the road a ways, yea, Long March 9, if every built and flow, could be larger than Block 1 or Block 1B. Not sure if it would be larger than Block 2 though, if Block 2 is ever built. 

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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #31 on: 10/02/2012 11:20 pm »
I like Jupiter. It conveys the spirit and awesomeness of the Saturn launch vehicles.

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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #32 on: 10/03/2012 01:36 pm »
I like Jupiter. It conveys the spirit and awesomeness of the Saturn launch vehicles.

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I like Jupiter also, though I'd have to mention we already DID the Jupiter:
Jupiter-C
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter-C

Jupiter MRBM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter

and of course the Jupiter-2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Space

Other than that I love the idea :)

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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #33 on: 10/03/2012 01:49 pm »
How about the Kayleigh... after my daughter  :)

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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #34 on: 10/03/2012 01:55 pm »
As it will launch Orion, how about Poseidon, supposed father of Orion from greek mythology?

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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #35 on: 10/03/2012 02:17 pm »
As it will launch Orion, how about Poseidon, supposed father of Orion from greek mythology?

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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #36 on: 10/03/2012 02:34 pm »

Block 1 will be by far the largest and most powerful LV in the world in 2017, but certainly not the biggest every built.  The Long March 5, which can only put a max of 25mt to LEO isn’t due to launch until 2014.  So they’d need to move things along pretty fast to get the Long March 9 just a few years after SLS Block 1.

Down the road a ways, yea, Long March 9, if every built and flow, could be larger than Block 1 or Block 1B. Not sure if it would be larger than Block 2 though, if Block 2 is ever built. 


AIUI, the Long March 9 is supposed to be able to launch 130 mT into LEO, same as the SLS Block II. Of course, both are only paper rockets right now. In fact, the LM-9 is even more of a paper rocket than SLS Block II (which at least builds up on SLS block I) because it would require an entirely new 9m core as well as new engines that haven't even been designed yet...

As for the name: I would propose we keep calling it SLS until the beast actually flies, then quietly rename it "Ares". By that time, any association with CxP will be forgotten (both the public and politicians have a short attention span).
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Re: Will 'SLS' ever be known by a different name?
« Reply #37 on: 10/03/2012 02:37 pm »
As it will launch Orion, how about Poseidon, supposed father of Orion from greek mythology?

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Military missile? Does this disqualify this name? I don't know much about NASA naming policy, maybe someone could explain it?
If not Poseidon, then maybe Neptune? Roman equivalent to greek Poseidon and somehow in line with previous names like Jupiter and Saturn.

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