Sentences with phrase «centaur rocket»

Viking 1, atop a Titan / Centaur rocket, launched from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 20, 1975.

Managers then sent the Mariner 9 spacecraft aloft on an Atlas - Centaur rocket on May 30, 1971.

Far from a «mission to bomb the moon,» LCROSS involved two complementary pieces of hardware — a spent Centaur rocket as an impactor that produced a towering debris plume, and a sophisticated shepherding spacecraft that trailed it to sniff out water in the plume before crashing into the moon as well four minutes later.

Galileo had been due to begin this journey sitting on the tip of a Centaur rocket stage, which would power it to Jupiter after it was hefted into space inside a space shuttle's cargo bay.

Over the years, Easley produced code that went on to be used in renewable energy research, including batteries for early hybrid vehicles, as well as for the high - thrust liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen Centaur rocket used to get space capsules into orbit.

On October 9 NASA crashed a Centaur rocket into the south pole's Cabeus crater while the LCROSS spacecraft followed in its wake, briefly examining the material that was kicked up before doing its own swan dive four minutes later.

Discovering molecular hydrogen on the moon was a surprise result from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which crash - landed the LCROSS satellite's spent Centaur rocket at 5,600 miles per hour into the Cabeus crater in the permanently shadowed region of the moon.

Not exact matches

No other set - up was powerful enough to lift the Galileo spacecraft into orbit attached to this rocket stage, so the Centaur was ditched, leaving the mission team to find another way to get to Jupiter.

Starliner will fly atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V N22 (meaning it has no payload fairing, two strap - on solid rocket boosters and a dual - engine Centaur upper stage) from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 41, while Crew Dragon will fly atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A.

New Horizons will be launched aboard an Atlas 5 «551» vehicle, with a bulbous five - meter payload shroud built by the Swiss contractor Contraves, five Aerojet - built solid rocket boosters, another single - engine Centaur, and a Star 48B third stage.

While Friday's Mars launch used the «401» configuration of the Atlas 5, with a four - meter payload fairing atop the nose, no solid rocket boosters, and a Centaur upper stage with a single RL10 powerplant, the next flight will give an extra kick to its cargo.

Empowered by paraplegic girlfriend Betty (Marisa Coughlin), who herself harbours ambitions to captain the world's first rocket - powered wheelchair, Gord gains the self - belief to make his centaur - based cartoon show a reality.