A solid rocket booster (SRB) is a large solid propellant motor used to provide thrust in spacecraft launches from initial launch through the first ascent...
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The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) was the first solid-propellant rocket to be used for primary propulsion on a vehicle used for human spaceflight...
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payload that can be carried. It is attached to the side of a rocket. Unlike solid rocket boosters, LRBs can be throttled down if the engines are designed to...
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reliability, solid rockets are still used today in military armaments worldwide, model rockets, solid rocket boosters and on larger applications. Since solid-fuel...
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engines. The booster may be recovered, refurbished and reused, as was the case of the steel casings used for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters. The SM-65...
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Space Launch System (redirect from SLS rocket)
the SLS reuses hardware from the Shuttle program, including the solid rocket boosters and RS-25 first stage engines. A Congressionally mandated late 2016...
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orbital launch vehicles use solid-fueled rockets in their boost stages (solid rocket boosters) for this reason. Solid fuel rockets have lower specific impulse...
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British single nozzle wrap around solid rocket booster developed by Bristol Aircraft Co. in the 1950s to act as a booster motor for the 'Red Duster' Bristol...
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Space Shuttle (section Solid Rocket Boosters)
clustered Rocketdyne RS-25 main engines, a pair of recoverable solid rocket boosters (SRBs), and the expendable external tank (ET) containing liquid...
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Delta II (redirect from Delta II Rocket)
exploded 13 seconds after launch. The explosion occurred when a damaged solid rocket booster casing ruptured and triggered the vehicle's flight termination system...
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launch system. H3 launch vehicles are liquid-propellant rockets with strap-on solid rocket boosters and are launched from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan...
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tests world's 3rd largest solid booster". dna. Retrieved October 4, 2014. "India to test world's third largest solid rocket booster". Science and Technology...
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III core rocket with two large strap-on solid-fuel boosters to increase its launch thrust and maximum payload mass. The solid-fuel boosters that were...
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The Nike stage or Nike booster, a solid fuel rocket motor, was created by Hercules Aerospace for the Nike Ajax (M5) Nike Hercules (M5E1) (and M88 late...
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secondary redundant O-ring seals in a joint in the shuttle's right solid rocket booster (SRB). The record-low temperatures on the morning of the launch had...
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Orbital ATK (category Rocket engine manufacturers of the United States)
GEM-40, solid rocket booster used on the Delta II rocket GEM-60, solid rocket booster used on the Delta IV rocket GEM-63, solid rocket booster used on...
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Russell Day 8, February 26, 1986 Larry Mulloy, Manager, Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Program, Marshall Space Flight Center George C. Hardy, Deputy Director...
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itself is split into two or more parts. Frangible nuts secured the solid rocket boosters (SRB) of the Space Shuttle, which were bolted to the mobile launcher...
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LVM3 (redirect from Bahubali Rocket)
small solid-fueled jettison motors located in the nose and aft segments of the boosters. The first static fire test of the S200 solid rocket booster, ST-01...
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Ares I (redirect from Ares I rocket)
much like the Ares I design, with liquid rocket second stages stacked above segmented solid rocket booster (SRB) first stages. The variants that were...
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Thiokol (category Rocket engine manufacturers of the United States)
producing CASTOR strap-on booster rocket, used on the Atlas rocket. In 1964, the Woodbine, Georgia plant was constructed to build solid propellant motors for...
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Project Nike (redirect from Nike (rocket))
first-stage solid rocket booster became the basis for many types of rocket including the Nike Hercules missile and NASA's Nike Smoke rocket, used for upper-atmosphere...
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Rocketdyne F-1 (redirect from Advanced Booster Competition)
liquid rocket booster, in NASA's Advanced Booster Program, which aims to find a more powerful successor to the five-segment Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters...
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The S139 (S for Solid, 139 for weight of 139 tonnes) is a Solid Rocket Booster manufactured by the Indian Space Research Organisation at the Satish Dhawan...
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dedicated uncrewed cargo launcher. The external tank and Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) would be combined with a cargo module that took the place...
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Castor is a family of solid-fuel rocket stages and boosters built by Thiokol (now Northrop Grumman) and used on a variety of launch vehicles. They were...
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inertial and TERCOM systems. After being launched into the air by a solid rocket booster which is jettisoned upon burning out, the missile is propelled to...
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Graphite-Epoxy Motor (category Solid-fuel rockets)
The Graphite-Epoxy Motor (GEM) is a family of solid rocket boosters developed in the late 1980s and used since 1990. GEM motors are manufactured with...
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Shuttle-derived vehicle (redirect from Ares (rocket family))
Space shuttles. SLS also uses a pair of solid rocket boosters derived from the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster. The first SLS was delivered to Kennedy...
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OmegA (redirect from OmegA (rocket))
projects, both of which consisted of a five segment Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) and a cryogenic second stage. It was intended to be launched...
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