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Launch vehicle, Atlas V
Redstone
post Jun 3 2006, 01:19 PM
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NASA has decided to use the Atlas V, with 4 strap-on solid rocket boosters to launch MSL. This is the same rocket that launched MRO (no solids) and New Horizons (5 solids).

Cost: $194.7 million, less than half the price of the Titan IV which would have been needed a few years ago.

Rocky Mountain News article

NASA press release
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- Redstone   Launch vehicle   Jun 3 2006, 01:19 PM
- - dvandorn   This just points out another truth behind the fund...   Jun 3 2006, 03:44 PM
- - Jim from NSF.com   QUOTE (Redstone @ Jun 3 2006, 09:19 AM) N...   Jun 3 2006, 06:23 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   The Discovery missions are all supposed to use Del...   Jun 4 2006, 01:42 AM
- - RNeuhaus   I would like to learn about the what are limit of ...   Jun 4 2006, 02:13 AM
- - Jim from NSF.com   The "other items" of the launch service ...   Jun 4 2006, 02:55 AM
- - PhilCo126   A reminder to point out that the Atlas V is not th...   Jun 4 2006, 09:34 AM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Jun 4 2006, 10:34 AM) ...   Jun 4 2006, 11:28 AM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Jun 4 2006, 10:34 AM) ...   Jun 4 2006, 05:37 PM
|- - RNeuhaus   QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Jun 4 2006, 04:34 AM) ...   Jun 4 2006, 08:48 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (RNeuhaus @ Jun 4 2006, 09:48 PM) p...   Jun 4 2006, 09:15 PM
|- - DonPMitchell   QUOTE (ugordan @ Jun 4 2006, 02:15 PM) Th...   Jun 4 2006, 11:46 PM
- - DonPMitchell   Let's look at some numbers. Here are some fig...   Jun 4 2006, 06:20 PM
|- - ugordan   You're forgetting the engine RD-180 was derive...   Jun 4 2006, 06:46 PM
|- - DonPMitchell   QUOTE (ugordan @ Jun 4 2006, 11:46 AM) Yo...   Jun 4 2006, 07:04 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jun 4 2006, 08:04 P...   Jun 4 2006, 07:12 PM
|- - DonPMitchell   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jun 4 2006, 12:12 PM) D...   Jun 4 2006, 07:23 PM
|- - Jim from NSF.com   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jun 4 2006, 03:12 PM) D...   Jun 5 2006, 07:20 AM
- - djellison   In a brief 'still on holiday' pop-head-aro...   Jun 5 2006, 07:41 AM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (djellison @ Jun 5 2006, 08:41 AM) ...   Jun 5 2006, 08:28 AM
- - DonPMitchell   Thrusts I gave are vacuum thrusts, just for compar...   Jun 5 2006, 08:48 AM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jun 5 2006, 09:48 A...   Jun 5 2006, 09:00 AM
|- - DonPMitchell   QUOTE (ugordan @ Jun 5 2006, 02:00 AM) A ...   Jun 5 2006, 10:27 AM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jun 5 2006, 11:27 A...   Jun 5 2006, 10:47 AM
||- - DonPMitchell   QUOTE (ugordan @ Jun 5 2006, 03:47 AM) Th...   Jun 5 2006, 11:36 AM
||- - Bob Shaw   Don: I think Mark Wade is normally excellent, but...   Jun 5 2006, 01:03 PM
||- - ugordan   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jun 5 2006, 02:03 PM) I...   Jun 5 2006, 01:32 PM
||- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (ugordan @ Jun 5 2006, 02:32 PM) Th...   Jun 5 2006, 08:45 PM
||- - ugordan   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jun 5 2006, 09:45 PM) S...   Jun 5 2006, 08:53 PM
|||- - Bob Shaw   Gordan: Yup, I see what you mean - I still though...   Jun 5 2006, 09:07 PM
|||- - ugordan   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jun 5 2006, 10:07 PM) t...   Jun 5 2006, 09:19 PM
|||- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (ugordan @ Jun 5 2006, 10:19 PM) Wh...   Jun 5 2006, 09:34 PM
|||- - Bob Shaw   Looks like I disremembered the landing sequence to...   Jun 5 2006, 10:16 PM
|||- - ugordan   Bob: In the leftmost image you sent, the drawing ...   Jun 6 2006, 01:28 PM
|||- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (ugordan @ Jun 6 2006, 02:28 PM) Bo...   Jun 6 2006, 02:37 PM
|||- - ugordan   Yep, look at the other cartoon you sent showing th...   Jun 6 2006, 02:44 PM
|||- - Bob Shaw   Gordan: So, the question remains: did it actually...   Jun 6 2006, 02:53 PM
||- - DonPMitchell   QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Jun 5 2006, 01:45 PM) G...   Jun 5 2006, 10:57 PM
|- - Toma B   QUOTE (DonPMitchell @ Jun 5 2006, 12:27 P...   Jun 5 2006, 11:03 AM
- - PhilCo126   Don was right on the unit ( 10 & 9.8 kilogram-...   Jun 5 2006, 04:08 PM
- - Spirit   Hi everybody, I am new to the forum. Here is my f...   Jun 6 2006, 06:15 PM
|- - Jim from NSF.com   QUOTE (Spirit @ Jun 6 2006, 02:15 PM) Hi ...   Jun 6 2006, 06:31 PM
- - DonPMitchell   Here is a rather fanciful site dedicated to the En...   Jun 6 2006, 07:24 PM

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