Orbiter Vehicle Designation
Orbiter Vehicle Designation Each NASA space shuttle designation is composed of a prefix and suffix ... prefix for operational shuttles is OV, for Orbiter Vehicle. The suffix is composed of ...
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Space Shuttle program
... United States government's only manned launch vehicle currently in service. The winged shuttle orbiter is launched vertically, carrying usually five to ... Station (ISS), and performs servicing missions. The orbiter can recover satellites and other payloads from ... the yet-to-be-developed Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). However, following the STS-114 return ... design was chosen, using a reusable winged orbiter, solid rocket boosters, and expendable external ...
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Space Shuttle (Engineering wiki)
... inceasing the useful payload capacity of the orbiter. This article is about the NASA Space ... United States government's sole manned launch vehicle currently in service. The Space Shuttle orbiter was manufactured by North American Rockwell , now ... ISS), and performs servicing missions. While the vehicle was designed with the capacity to recover ... the yet-to-be-developed Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). However, following the STS-114 ...
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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
... aerodynamic forces of launch and struck the orbiter's left wing leading edge. A thermal ... structure, ultimately causing it to fail. The vehicle became uncontrollable and was destroyed by the ... the course of two years (despite its designation as the 107th mission, it was actually ... no point in trying to inspect the vehicle for damage while on orbit. However the ... GO for de-orbit burn. As the Orbiter flew upside down and tail-first ...
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Mars survey machine   (translated from Japanese)
... failure and the like There is no designation - 1960 year 10 month 10 day Designation it is not - 1960 10 month 14 day There is no designation - 1962 year 10 month 24 day launch and the earth orbit it explodes. Designation it is not - 1962 11 month 4 day There is no designation - 1969 year 3 month 27 day ...
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Cassini-Huygens
... consists of two main elements: the Cassini orbiter, named after the Italian-French astronomer Giovanni ... 25 2004 the probe separated from the orbiter at approximately 02:00 UTC, with deployment ... S. Air Force Titan IVB/Centaur launch vehicle. The launch vehicle was made up of a two-stage ... flight system was composed of the launch vehicle and the spacecraft. The spacecraft is ...
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Space the shuttle   (translated from Russian)
... the ordinal number it adapts for the designation of the missions MTKK of "space shuttle ... AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION "Columbia" has the designation - Ov-102 (Orbiter Vehicle - 102). Shuttle "Columbia" it was lost y ... AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION "Challenger" has the designation - Ov-099. "Challenger" perished with its ...
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Space Shuttle Columbia
... dismantled) Baikal (hoax) Space Shuttle Columbia (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first space shuttle ... Module of Apollo 11. After construction, the orbiter arrived at John F. Kennedy Space Center ... STS-1, the first shuttle mission. Prototype orbiter Unlike her sisterships. Columbia was raised ...
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Saturn V
... V may also refer to the numerical designation of Rhea, a moon of Saturn. Saturn ... It remains the largest, most powerful launch vehicle ever brought to operational status.Baker ... was supposed to be the prime launch vehicle for the cancelled Voyager program Mars probes ... the rocket. By measuring the acceleration and vehicle attitude, it could calculate the position and ... kg to LEO. No other operational launch vehicle has ever surpassed the Saturn V ...
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Space Shuttle Endeavour
... dismantled) 2.03 (dismantled) Baikal (hoax) Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105), is the fifth and final ... students in elementary and secondary schools. The orbiter is named after the HM Bark ...
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