Sentences with phrase «centaur rocket stage»
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.
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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.