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Image:Piggy Back Station Ecn 6578.jpg 300px '''Space Shuttle in 747 Piggy Back Station''' Image:747 & shuttle ECN6876.jpg 300px '''747 & shuttle (ECN6876)''' Category:Aircraft

... use other parts for its new vehicles. One of the solid rocket boosters of the Shuttle system, for example, may become the main part of a new system. NASA may create ... created. The new rocket may be launched from the ground like the Space Shuttle or launched from a carrier aircraft like Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne. ---- Answer provided by David Gump & Gary Hudson Image ...

... various difficulties, and just months before the scheduled date, the space shuttle Challenger was lost during launch. The space shuttle program was stood down for more than two years, and the launch ... tools for each task the astronauts performed, along with the carriers for the new and the returning equipment from HST inside the shuttle payload bay. ref 8 SM-1 planning started off ...

... "Recommended as a good summary of the beginnings of the nation's long series of shuttle flights and early lessons learned." . . . CHOICE Feb '02 This Book includes all of the details of the Space Shuttle Columbia's first five flights. The Space Shuttle is one of the great triumphs of modern technology. 122 feet ... weighing in at 90 tons, Rockwell's Orbiter stands alone as the world's only aircraft capable of flying into space and returning at speeds exceeding 18,000 miles per hour ...

... '' Abstract Automatic Dependent Surveillance -Broadcast (ADS-B) is an air traffic surveillance technology in which aircraft transmit identification, position, velocity and status. The development of space based ADS-B will allow ... the ADS-B signal varies with the aircraft category, ranging between 75 for small aircraft and 500 W for large airliners 10 . For high performance aircraft the ADS-B information is transmitted on ... from nadir, as a result of the radiation pattern of the aircraft quarter-wave monopole. The maximum time that an aircraft could be out of contact as a result of the null ...

... (Winter) presented a two-part survey history paper titled “New Observations on Reaction-Propelled Manned Aircraft Concepts, ca. 1670-1900” at the 64th and 66th International Astronautical Congresses (IAC), held in ... ” –- another 19th century term (particularly as intended for sustained power or performance) –- for propelling manned aircraft to any reasonable distances. To these downsides of the rocket during that period, we should ...

... booster—in the case of the NASA Space Shuttle, the two solid rocket boosters plus the three main engines. The NASA Space Shuttle weighs about 4.5 million pounds at lift ... , June 1988. This document is available on the Internet at: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsreftoc.html sts-umbilical-doors ---- Answer provided by Jon H. Brown Image ...

That's a very difficult question. The original costs varied from Shuttle to Shuttle. The early ones, like Columbia, cost approximately $2 billion, in round numbers. The later ones ... , some unofficial estimates put the total cost of designing, building, upgrading, and maintaining the Space Shuttle program and all of its facilities at around $150 billion. Of course at this point ...

... British Interplanetary Society for Volume 57 57 '''Page ''' - 306-312 '''Year''' - 2004 '''Keywords''' - Mars, VTOL, aircraft, surface sample, low mass, Massiva. '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2004.57.306 '''Number of Pages''' - 7 Abstract This paper proposes a future planetary exploring aircraft for the Martian environment, and considers the mission that follows from the benefits of a ...

... forms of radiation, but that field also contains geomagnetically trapped radiation—so yes, the Shuttle is exposed to that low level radiation. This same protective field that contains low-level ... kept to a minimum. Radiation cannot be blocked, so radiation does penetrate the Space Shuttle, but the Shuttle's shielding and structure, and mission planning, do minimize radiation penetration. ---- Answer provided by ...

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