Galileo IUS ignition |
Galileo IUS ignition |
Apr 9 2007, 01:33 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 89 Joined: 27-August 05 From: Eccentric Mars orbit Member No.: 477 |
There are lots of pictures of Galileo being ejected from the cargo bay of the space shuttle, but so far I haven't been able to find any pictures of Galileo when the IUS first stage lit up and Galileo departed for Venus. Is this because there aren't any such pictures?
Basically I want to see what a solid fuel motor looks like when it is fired in space. I suspect it is quite different from the billowing gray smoke we are used to seeing when one is lit in the atmosphere. |
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Apr 9 2007, 05:32 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 321 Joined: 6-April 06 From: Cape Canaveral Member No.: 734 |
Forgot to add that DSCS-III flew on Shuttle with two spacecraft on an IUS. After Challenger, it was determined that it would be cheaper to launch the complete constellation of 10 satellites on an uprated Atlas Centaur (the yet to be designed Atlas IIA) with an yet to be designed apogee propulsion system (IABS). A person proposed this through the USAF Suggestion program. The suggestion was declined and then the gov't figured out eventually that is was a good idea and implemented it. The original suggester "protested" the response he got and was awarded 25K (the max amount).
There were backup plans to launch Galileo and Ulysses on T-IV IUS, in case the shuttle was delayed longer |
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