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How many solid rocket boosters does the space shuttle use?
Each shuttle used 2 solid-fuel rocket boosters, which were designed to be recovered and re-used.
Why is there a body section on a rocket?
The main use of a body section of a rocket is most likely to store fuel. As you can see in rocket launches it detaches after the boosters are used up and only the main capsule remains. This is seen in starlit launches where the main satellite detaches and the body falls back to earth along with the detached boosters.
How do spaceships take off?
They use solid or liquid rocket boosters, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen mostly, and a few others mostly.
What happens to space shuttle rocket boosters?
Two ships leave their dock at the Kennedy Space Center several days ahead of a launch and are positioned in the Atlantic Ocean, in the general area approximately 130 nautical miles from the Florida coast where the solid rocket boosters return to Earth. When the boosters are jettisoned, they descend by means of parachutes and land in the ocean. Divers close off the bottom each booster and pump them with compressed air to remove the seawater. The now floating boosters are towed by each ship back to the Kennedy Space Center where they are disassembled and returned via rail to Thiokol in Utah for refurbishment and repacked with solid propellent. Segments of the boosters are returned via rail to the Kennedy Space Center for use on a future shuttle mission.
How is the space shuttle different from the Saturn 5 rocket?
The space shuttle is a reusable vehicle. With the Saturn V and other rockets, the stages are just fuel containers, and only a small part of the entire rocket (the crew module) ever came back to Earth, and even that couldn't be used again. The shuttle has the orbiter's engines with a single-use fuel tank and two recoverable solid-fuel boosters. The orbiter returns and lands on Earth, and the solid-fuel boosters are recovered from the ocean and refilled.
How many solid rocket boosters does the space shuttle use?
Each shuttle used 2 solid-fuel rocket boosters, which were designed to be recovered and re-used.
What did we use to replace the solid rocket boosters?
Cause it suck dicks
How do shuttles and stations get into space?
Stations are built in space; Shuttles use rocket boosters.
How does space shuttle get into space?
By the use of it's three Main Engines and two Solid Rocket Boosters.
How does the space shuttle get to space?
There are 2 solid rocket boosters (white things) and one fuel tank (red thing) the solid rocket boosters do all the work and use up the fuel in the fuel tank and then both the solid rocket boosters and the fuel tank fall off and are collect on earth and reused (there is a secondary fuel tank built in to the actual to take were it need to go once its in space)
Why is there a body section on a rocket?
The main use of a body section of a rocket is most likely to store fuel. As you can see in rocket launches it detaches after the boosters are used up and only the main capsule remains. This is seen in starlit launches where the main satellite detaches and the body falls back to earth along with the detached boosters.
What did they use to propel the early space shuttles into space?
Same: solid rocket boosters and liquid hydrogen/oxygen main engines.
How do spaceships take off?
They use solid or liquid rocket boosters, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen mostly, and a few others mostly.
The space shuttle's rocket boosters use hydrogen and oxygen which combine to form water as fuel The balanced chemical equation of this exothermic reaction is?
2H2 + O2 --> 2H2O
Does the space shuttle use the liquid or solid?
The SRBs (Solid Rocket Boosters) use solid fuel. The 3 main engines and the OMS (Orbital Maneuvering System) use liquid fuel stored in the External Tank.
Can potassium nitrate be used for rocket fuel instead of liquid oxygen?
It could be, but liquid oxygen works better. It could be made to work in solid rocket boosters, but those usually use ammonium perchlorate instead, because it can provide more energy.
What happens to space shuttle rocket boosters?
Two ships leave their dock at the Kennedy Space Center several days ahead of a launch and are positioned in the Atlantic Ocean, in the general area approximately 130 nautical miles from the Florida coast where the solid rocket boosters return to Earth. When the boosters are jettisoned, they descend by means of parachutes and land in the ocean. Divers close off the bottom each booster and pump them with compressed air to remove the seawater. The now floating boosters are towed by each ship back to the Kennedy Space Center where they are disassembled and returned via rail to Thiokol in Utah for refurbishment and repacked with solid propellent. Segments of the boosters are returned via rail to the Kennedy Space Center for use on a future shuttle mission.
