• Thumbnail for Solid rocket booster
    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...
    8 KB (727 words) - 20:50, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster
    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...
    62 KB (7,939 words) - 07:31, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solid-propellant rocket
    reliability, solid rockets are still used today in military armaments worldwide, model rockets, solid rocket boosters and on larger applications. Since solid-fuel...
    44 KB (5,406 words) - 03:33, 17 July 2024
  • 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...
    10 KB (1,029 words) - 19:01, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Booster (rocketry)
    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...
    7 KB (803 words) - 18:21, 25 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Space Launch System
    the SLS reuses hardware from the Shuttle program, including the solid rocket boosters and RS-25 first stage engines. A Congressionally mandated late 2016...
    186 KB (15,523 words) - 18:20, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket propellant
    orbital launch vehicles use solid-fueled rockets in their boost stages (solid rocket boosters) for this reason. Solid fuel rockets have lower specific impulse...
    29 KB (3,883 words) - 23:36, 27 June 2024
  • 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...
    6 KB (790 words) - 17:17, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for P120 (rocket stage)
    a solid-fuel rocket motor designed for use as the first stage of the Vega-C and as the boosters of the Ariane 6 launch vehicles. The solid rocket motors...
    6 KB (514 words) - 03:54, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Space Shuttle
    clustered Rocketdyne RS-25 main engines, a pair of recoverable solid rocket boosters (SRBs), and the expendable external tank (ET) containing liquid...
    110 KB (12,119 words) - 19:01, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for H3 (rocket)
    launch system. H3 launch vehicles are liquid-propellant rockets with strap-on solid rocket boosters and are launched from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan...
    34 KB (2,587 words) - 14:43, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
    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...
    117 KB (11,617 words) - 20:00, 12 July 2024
  • 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...
    78 KB (1,971 words) - 18:34, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Delta II
    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...
    42 KB (4,098 words) - 21:29, 18 July 2024
  • 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...
    4 KB (594 words) - 15:42, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Castor (rocket stage)
    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...
    11 KB (1,248 words) - 10:36, 7 April 2024
  • 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...
    14 KB (1,070 words) - 22:10, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ares I
    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...
    39 KB (4,219 words) - 16:38, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Graphite-Epoxy Motor
    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...
    18 KB (1,420 words) - 19:30, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rogers Commission Report
    Russell Day 8, February 26, 1986 Larry Mulloy, Manager, Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Program, Marshall Space Flight Center George C. Hardy, Deputy Director...
    35 KB (4,380 words) - 15:47, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Titan (rocket family)
    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...
    30 KB (3,323 words) - 00:50, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solid Rocket Motor Upgrade
    The Solid Rocket Motor Upgrade (SRMU) was a solid rocket motor that was used as a booster on the Titan IVB launch vehicle. Developed by Hercules (later...
    14 KB (1,499 words) - 19:31, 18 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for RIM-174 Standard ERAM
    export in January 2017. The Standard ERAM is a two-stage missile with a booster stage and a second stage. It is similar in appearance to the RIM-156A Standard...
    41 KB (3,489 words) - 18:41, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nike (rocket stage)
    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...
    7 KB (705 words) - 18:27, 31 May 2024
  • 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...
    18 KB (1,867 words) - 02:44, 19 July 2024
  • The booster separation motors or BSMs on the Space Shuttle were relatively small rocket motors that separated the reusable solid rocket boosters (SRB)...
    4 KB (335 words) - 06:16, 9 November 2023
  • 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...
    3 KB (209 words) - 10:26, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for OmegA
    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...
    25 KB (2,312 words) - 15:32, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shuttle-derived vehicle
    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...
    24 KB (2,495 words) - 13:18, 26 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Plastisol
    creating electric solid propellant. This substance can be ignited and extinguished by electric impulse, providing pulsed rocket propulsion. With achievable...
    6 KB (897 words) - 03:47, 26 December 2023