Sentences with phrase «upper stage»

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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.

JPL's role was to prepare the three upper stages for the launch vehicle, which included the satellite itself.

«When upper stage & fairing also reusable, costs will drop by a factor > 100.»

In order to achieve this capability, NASA has laid out a development plan to evolve from a 70 metric ton capability to 130 metric tons, and the Committee has supported this plan on the condition that NASA would not allow its near - term efforts to crowd out investments in upper stage development and the advanced booster system needed to complete the full evolution.

Thereafter, von Braun and his team began developing the Jupiter series of rockets — a modified Redstone ballistic missile with two solid - propellant upper stages.

«With sub-cooled propellant, I think we can get the Falcon 9 upper stage mass ratio (excluding payload) to somewhere between 25 and 30.

Instead NanoRacks is studying how to reuse spent upper stages of launch vehicles and convert them into habitats.

They are using for the second - stage rocket engine essentially the same engine that was on the Saturn [upper stages], which is a very low - tech steel - cased engine.

The mission consisted of two parts: the empty 2,300 - kilogram upper stage of an Atlas V Centaur rocket and a «shepherding spacecraft», loaded with cameras and sensors, that followed four minutes behind the Centaur stage on its crash course.

In October NASA intentionally crashed the 2.8 - ton upper stage of a Centaur rocket into a crater near the lunar south pole.

Following crew delivery, the commercial crew vehicle would be discarded and the Inspiration Mars spaceship would then start its long voyage toward the Red Planet, being propelled out of the Earth's orbit with the aid of an SLS upper stage.

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.

While the Falcon 9's lower stage is expected to land, SpaceX will likely not be attempting to recover the rocket's upper stage on this mission, as that part of the rocket is not expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

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.

«When upper stage & fairing also reusable, costs will drop by a factor > 100.»

«We didn't originally intend for Falcon 9 to have a reusable upper stage, but it might be fun to try like a Hail Mary.

It's actually not — we had to redesign almost everything except the upper stage in order to take the increased loads.

You can think of this as essentially combining the upper stage of the rocket with Dragon — it's like the Falcon 9 upper stage and Dragon were combined.

So we understand how to make rocket engines in volume, so even though the most vehicle uses 42 on the base and nine on the upper stage — so we have 51 engines to make — that's well within our production capabilities for Merlin, and this is a similarly sized engine to Merlin, except for the expansion ratio, so we feel really comfortable about being able to make this engine in volume at a price that doesn't break our budget.

While those modifications remain unspecified, payload adapters traditionally use small, controlled explosives to release satellites from a rocket's upper stage.

The payload adapter is a key part of deploying a satellite in orbit, connecting the satellite to the upper stage of a rocket.

Unbeknownst to officials at the time, the planned return of the rocket's upper stage — a method of disposal to avoid adding space debris around the Earth — brought the satellite back down with it.

Musk shared a photo of the «main body tool» — essentially a large manufacturing mold to weave the carbon fiber that will comprise the upper stage of the rocket.

Making the upper stage recoverable as well will lead to a further drop in costs but will also most likely impact performance.

Musk wants to slow the upper stage down during reentry and target a landing aboard a «catcher ship» like the boat, known as Mr. Steven, that SpaceX is using to attempt fairing recoveries in the Pacific.

Musk floated an idea for upper stage recovery in a series of tweets recently, saying his company would bring Falcon 9's upper stage «back from orbital velocity using a giant party balloon.»

On Tuesday, SpaceX successfully landed two of the three «cores» of the Falcon Heavy after detaching from its upper stage.

If the upper stage makes it through that radiation, SpaceX should get a live feed from the Roadster and its spacesuit - clad dummy, called «Starman.»

SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk later said that the pressure got too high in the liquid - oxygen tank of the rocket's upper stage.

Elon Musk says that SpaceX will be using a «giant party balloon'to bring back the upper stage of the rocket back.

Another way of saying that is the upper stage would be close to 97 percent propellant by mass,» Musk wrote.

(The June 2015 failure was later attributed to a faulty strut in the Falcon 9's upper stage.)

«It will deploy from the rocket after the Orion spacecraft is separated from the upper stage.»

The upper stages of these rockets contain small compartments that could easily hold Seager's telescopes and drop them in the same orbit as the rest of the rocket's payload.

That would mean reusing the rocket's upper stage, as well as its protective payload fairing (the nose cone).

The upper stage is designed to boost a satellite into orbit 317 miles above Earth's surface.

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.

NASA can use existing capabilities and lower development costs by using liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (lox) for both the core and upper stages.

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.

It uses a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propulsion system, which includes the RS - 25D / E rocket engines from the Space Shuttle Program for the core stage and the J - 2X engine for the upper stage.

Due to a problem with the upper stage's main engine, the spacecraft arced over the Atlantic Ocean and crashed in the water about 350 miles north of Puerto Rico.