即在SRB(Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster)脱离后,使用SSME(Space Shuttle Main Engine,便是我们所熟知的RS-25系列发动机)反推航天飞机,使其返回发射场附近的机场跑道。 与其他火箭的首飞任务相似,STS-1也暴露出了众多问题。例如,工程师们低估了SRB点火后带来的冲击波和震动。自那之后,工程师们在发射台上安装了...
A seal in the shuttle’s right solid-fuel rocket booster designed to prevent leaks from the fuel tank during liftoff weakened in the frigid temperatures and failed, and hot gas began pouring through the leak. The fuel tank ...
The problem began with exceptionally cold weather, which prevented a rubber O-ring on one of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters from maintaining its seal, allowing hot gas to leak and damage the shuttle's external fuel tank and the hardware attaching the booster to the vehicle. The right ...
Space Shuttle Pathfinder on display at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, with a different test external fuel tank attached underneath. Carol M. Highsmith Photo GalleryShare this: Tweet More Like this: Loading......
Buran, Soviet orbiter similar in design and function to the U.S. space shuttle. Designed by the Energia aerospace bureau, it made a single unmanned, fully automated flight in 1988, only to be grounded shortly thereafter due to cost overruns and the colla
s Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon human spaceflight system for crew missions to and from the International Space Station – the first commercial system in history to achieve such designation. Not since the certification of the space shuttle nearly 40 years ago has NASA certified a spacecraft, rocket, ...
A colossal space shuttle fuel tank completed its 19-hour trek through the streets ofLos Angeles on Saturday to join the retired orbiter Endeavour on display at the California Science Center.
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The Space Shuttle 航天飞机 I-02 / 002 Space shuttles go back and forth between Earth and space. The first one flew on April 12, 1981. A space shuttle has four main parts. They are the orbiter, the fuel tank, and two rocket boosters. The orbiter looks like an airplane. It carries th...
First flown in 1981, the Space Shuttle has been the backbone of American manned spaceflight for nearly three decades. Space Shuttle Vehicles VehicleNameFirst Orbital MissionNotes OV-99Challenger4APR1983Lost shortly after launch on 28JAN1986.