Solid rocket boosters provide additional thrust during liftoff to help launch the space shuttle into orbit. They are also more cost-effective and reliable than liquid-fueled rockets. Additionally, the boosters can be jettisoned after use, contributing to the shuttle's overall efficiency.
After being jettisoned, the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters parachute back to Earth and land in the ocean. They are then retrieved by teams who tow them back to be refurbished and reused for future missions.
Approximately 130 nmi (240km) off the east coast of Florida.
The solid rocket boosters are jettisoned as their fuel runs out. Their fall is slowed by parachutes and they are later recovered and returned to the Kennedy Space Center for refurbishing and reuse on later missions.
Space shuttles use fuel when taking off and for control while in orbit, deorbiting, and landing. The main takeoff engines use liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, and there are two solid-fuel rocket boosters. In orbit, the shuttle uses thrusters that burn hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide.
Stations are built in space; Shuttles use rocket boosters.
Solid rocket boosters provide additional thrust during liftoff to help launch the space shuttle into orbit. They are also more cost-effective and reliable than liquid-fueled rockets. Additionally, the boosters can be jettisoned after use, contributing to the shuttle's overall efficiency.
they launch by giving them power and fire ANSWER Two Solid Rocket Boosters. It takes about two minutes for these rockets to get the Shuttle to about 47Km from earth. The Rockets are jettisoned and picked up to be reused.
After being jettisoned, the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters parachute back to Earth and land in the ocean. They are then retrieved by teams who tow them back to be refurbished and reused for future missions.
Approximately 130 nmi (240km) off the east coast of Florida.
The solid rocket boosters are jettisoned as their fuel runs out. Their fall is slowed by parachutes and they are later recovered and returned to the Kennedy Space Center for refurbishing and reuse on later missions.
The space shuttle orbiter orbits the earth. The solid rocket boosters are jettisoned within the earth's atmosphere, around two minutes after launch and the External Fuel Tank is jettisoned once in space.
Same: solid rocket boosters and liquid hydrogen/oxygen main engines.
Space shuttles use fuel when taking off and for control while in orbit, deorbiting, and landing. The main takeoff engines use liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, and there are two solid-fuel rocket boosters. In orbit, the shuttle uses thrusters that burn hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide.
The SRBs are jettisoned from the shuttle system at 2 minutes and an altitude of about 146,000 feet (44.5 km).
http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/events/regimes/space.html The Orbiter and Rocket boosters are re-useable The External Fuel Tank is not.
About three minutes into a Space Shuttle launch, the Solid Rocket Boosters are jettisoned and fall back to the Earth. Parachutes are used to slow the solid rocket boosters down so that they hit the water at a safe speed that won't cause any damage. Recovery ships from the Kennedy Space Center then sail to their location, pick up the boosters, and take them back to be refurbished and used again. About nine minutes into the flight, the external fuel tank is jettisoned. Because of the high altitude, there is no way to bring the external tank back to Earth intact. Instead, the external tank is allowed to re-enter the atmosphere, where it is burned up and destroyed over the Indian Ocean.