Sentences with phrase «centaur upper 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.

Additionally, the boosters for the CST - 100 flights will use a Centaur upper stage fitted with two RL10 engines, instead of the usual single engine, to provide added performance.

Manufacturing also has begun for the fuel and oxygen tanks of the Centaur upper stage that will provide the final push to get the CST - 100 and its crews into Earth orbit.

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.

Nestled inside the Atlas V launcher on the aft bulkhead carrier of the Centaur upper stage will be two CubeSats that will make up the Mars Cube One mission, or MarCO.

The Centaur upper stage that will help launch NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - S, or GOES - S, arrives at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.