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3 main liquid fuel engines, 2 solid-stage rocket boosters, and 25 compressed gas thrusters for maneuvering.
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What is a shuttles main engine powered by?
The Space Shuttle main engines are powered by a combination of Liquid Oxygen (LOX) as an oxidizer and Liquid Hydrogen (LH2) as a fuel. Both propellants are stored in the space shuttle's External Tank during launch. They are fed into the space shuttle's main engines by umbilical lines on the external tank, and then the orbiter's main propulsion system feed lines. The Space Shuttle's main engines can achieve a thrust level of about 512,300 pounds, which is greater than 12,000,000 horsepower.
Which kind of rocket engines are used on the space shuttle?
liquid because ir never runs out <3
How does liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen enter the main engines of the space shuttle?
It is supplied by tanks, which are filled with liquid hydrogen and oxygen before the shuttle is launched.
What kind of engine does the space shuttle have?
The Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) also known as the RS-24 engines are liquid fueled reusable engines made by Rocketdyne and burn liquid hydrogen as their fuel and liquid oxygen as the oxidiser. The shuttle has three engines. The fuel is stored in the large orange External Tank strapped to the shuttle's belly. On the way to orbit, the shuttle also uses two reusable solid rocket boosters (SRBs) which provide about 83% of the takeoff thrust. These use a solid fuel containing aluminum (the fuel), ammonium perchlorate (the oxidiser), iron oxide (a catalyst), and the mixture is held together with an epoxy and a binder (which also acts as fuel). While in space, the shuttle uses the reaction control system (RCS) thrusters which are seen on various places on the shuttle orbiter, and two orbital manoeuvering system (OMS) engines. The RCS and OMS use monomethyl hydrazine as the fuel and nitrogen tetroxide as the oxidiser.
What is a engine used on a spaceship?
There are actually two types of boosters that were both used by the space shuttle before their decommission. To propel the vehicle out into space from the surface of the earth out past the atmosphere, the shuttle used SRB's, or Solid Rocket Boosters. The engines on the actual shuttle are LRB's, or Liquid Rocket Boosters. These are used to propel the space vehicle further into space and into orbit around the earth.
How does the shuttle fire burn its engines in space?
The shuttle does not fire it's engines in space, it only fires orbit adjusters.
What are rocket boosters?
The engines for the space shuttle.
How powerful are a space shuttle's engines?
as powerful as your but
When the space shuttle prepares to land its engines are turn off how does the shuttle land without its engines?
It is the shuttle land like a normal glider?
Who invented the space shuttle roll?
The main engines.
How can fire lighten in space without oxygen if there is no oxygen then how can a space shuttle come back?
The space shuttle is able to fire its engines in space because it takes the needed oxygen with it.
Which kinds of engines are used on the space shuttle and why?
RS-25's.
Horse power is in a space shuttle?
There is over 37 million horsepower in a Space Shuttle. This amount of horsepower is forced through all of the three Space Shuttle main engines in under 25 seconds.
Why is there a white triangle under the space shuttle engines when they are lit?
Why is there a white triangle under the space shuttle engines when they are lit? Within the flame produced by a lit space shuttle engine, there are temperature and pressure differences causing the flame to appear in different colors. The white triagle is made the by the shape of the space shuttle engine in combination with these temperature and pressure differences.
How does space shuttle get into space?
By the use of it's three Main Engines and two Solid Rocket Boosters.
How many liters of fuel can an ET on space shuttle discovery hold?
The Space Shuttle External Tank carries about 1,449,813 liters of liquid hydrogen fuel and about 541,314 liters of liquid oxygen as its oxidizer. In total, it carries about 1,991,127 liters of liquid propellant for the Space Shuttle Main Engines.
How does a space shuttle turn in absolute space?
It uses thruster engines. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction
