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Galileo IUS ignition
kwan3217
post Apr 9 2007, 01:33 AM
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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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tasp
post Apr 9 2007, 01:55 PM
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Regarding orientation of the shuttle to the IUS during ignition:

Since the Columbia accident, is policy to orient the shuttle to the IUS to minimize cross sectional area??

Seems like pointing the tail directly at the ignition might be preferable, damage to the TPS on a trailing surface would be better than a divot facing into the re-entry heating.

If I am overlooking something, let me know . . .
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post Apr 9 2007, 02:11 PM
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QUOTE (tasp @ Apr 9 2007, 02:55 PM) *
Since the Columbia accident, is policy to orient the shuttle to the IUS to minimize cross sectional area??


There's been nothing on the Shuttle launch manifest that includes an IUS since before Columbia as far as I know - certainly nothing in the ISS-Complete+Hubble list.

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- kwan3217   Galileo IUS ignition   Apr 9 2007, 01:33 AM
- - Decepticon   I found this one. But thats it. http://members.aol...   Apr 9 2007, 02:06 AM
- - antipode   The RocketCam site has some video of some of the l...   Apr 9 2007, 02:22 AM
- - BPCooper   There are videos taken following deployments from ...   Apr 9 2007, 03:43 AM
- - GregM   .   Apr 9 2007, 05:31 AM
- - tasp   Regarding orientation of the shuttle to the IUS du...   Apr 9 2007, 01:55 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (tasp @ Apr 9 2007, 02:55 PM) Since...   Apr 9 2007, 02:11 PM
- - tasp   Not deploying anything with an upper stage does el...   Apr 9 2007, 02:15 PM
- - BPCooper   IUS is history. The last IUS took DSP-22 into orbi...   Apr 9 2007, 02:40 PM
- - nprev   Interesting. I didn't know that the IUS had be...   Apr 9 2007, 02:49 PM
- - ugordan   Seeing how the Titan IV was a kind of emergency ca...   Apr 9 2007, 02:52 PM
- - nprev   I see. Still, it's always impressive to me to ...   Apr 9 2007, 02:55 PM
- - Jim from NSF.com   DSP-14 thru 22, except number 17 flew on T-IV IUS....   Apr 9 2007, 03:45 PM
- - BPCooper   There is a brief rundown here too: http://www.spa...   Apr 9 2007, 04:03 PM
- - Littlebit   QUOTE (kwan3217 @ Apr 8 2007, 07:33 PM) B...   Apr 9 2007, 05:16 PM
- - nprev   Wow. I and certainly others are edified & grat...   Apr 9 2007, 05:17 PM
- - Jim from NSF.com   Forgot to add that DSCS-III flew on Shuttle with t...   Apr 9 2007, 05:32 PM
- - nprev   Now that's a fascinating tidbit, Jim...thanks ...   Apr 9 2007, 05:43 PM
- - edstrick   The IUS was originally named the "Interim Upp...   Apr 10 2007, 06:29 AM
- - dvandorn   When you consider that one of the next few flights...   Apr 10 2007, 03:36 PM
|- - Jim from NSF.com   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Apr 10 2007, 11:36 AM) ...   Apr 10 2007, 08:24 PM
|- - Jim from NSF.com   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Apr 10 2007, 11:36 AM) ...   Apr 10 2007, 08:26 PM
|- - BPCooper   QUOTE (Jim from NSF.com @ Apr 10 2007, 04...   Apr 10 2007, 11:45 PM
|- - Jim from NSF.com   There was a smal difference, it was "bare...   Apr 11 2007, 01:05 PM
- - Analyst   I wonder if Jim has been the "original sugges...   Apr 10 2007, 05:48 PM
|- - Jim from NSF.com   QUOTE (Analyst @ Apr 10 2007, 01:48 PM) I...   Apr 10 2007, 08:21 PM
- - mchan   There were also the 3-stage IUS configuration that...   Apr 21 2007, 07:43 AM

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