Super-Jupiter

Super-Jupiter was the first stage booster only; to place payloads in orbit, additional upper stages would be needed.

Super-Jupiter had many moons.

Through those photographs and other research by the Subaru team, a few details about the "Super-Jupiter" object have been revealed.

Classification: "Super-Jupiter"

The design series included the "Super-Titan", "Super-Atlas" and "Super-Jupiter".

Originally known as Super-Jupiter, the design became the Juno V during development, and on February 3 an ARPA memorandum officially renamed the project Saturn.

In 2012 it was announced that a "Super-Jupiter" planet with a mass about 12.8M orbiting Kappa Andromedae was directly imaged using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii.

There has been considerable debate as to whether Kappa Andromedae b is an exoplanet or a brown dwarf; and, until the question can be clarified, scientists have dubbed it the "Super-Jupiter" object.

However, neither classification has been confirmed, and scientists have used the term "Super-Jupiter" object-which can represent either a brown dwarf or a massive exoplanet-to keep the classification ambiguous until clarity can be brought to the matter.

The Super-Jupiter design was based almost entirely on existing equipment, using a cluster of Redstone and Jupiter missiles to form a lower stage powered by a new engine, with an upper stage adapted from the Titan.

Von Braun returned the design to DoD in December, 1957 as A National Integrated Missile and Space Vehicle Development Program, outlining the new design, then known simply as "Super-Jupiter".

Over time the section grew from 4 to 70 people as their studies on what was then known as "Super-Jupiter" evolved into the "Juno V" and finally into the Saturn I. Koelle's last job for the Army involved a feasibility study for a lunar base under Project Horizon.