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Galileo IUS ignition

kwan3217 View Member Profile	Apr 9 2007, 01:33 AM Post #1
Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: 27-August 05 From: Geosynchronous earth 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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Jim from NSF.com View Member Profile	Apr 9 2007, 05:32 PM Post #2
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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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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