Launch Vehicle

Heretic

A lightweight three-stage carbon-composite launch vehicle.

Heretic is being built to carry a Mars sample-return and five-site micro-greenhouse mission architecture. The vehicle and mission architectures are substantially defined.

Stages

Stage configuration
Stage	Engine	Count	Stage thrust	Propellant	Stage mass
Booster	Belka 50	5	250 kN	In work	In work
Sustainer	Belka 20	2	40 kN	In work	In work
Kick	Belka 10	1	10 kN	In work	In work

Mission architecture

Heretic 1 is the opening move. The mission exists to validate propulsion, structures, guidance, autonomous operations, and systems integration under real constraints.

The architecture it is being built to carry:

Carrying Earth life to Mars across five micro-greenhouse sites
Returning Martian regolith to Earth
Inserting the largest optical glass ever placed in orbit around Mars

Trajectory, launch window, and mass budget are in work and will be published as they are fixed.

Architecture substantially defined