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What are SRB's and how many are there?

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What are the two parts parts that can be reused on a space shuttle?

The two white SRBS and the orbiter itself.


What are space shuttles designed for?

The space shuttle is a space vehicle designed to carry five to seven crew members into space. It is made of four components namely, external tank, two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) and one orbiter.The orbiter is reuseable as well as the SRBs. The external tank is lost in space.


How big are rocket boosters?

NASA SRBs(solid rocket booster), have an inert wieght of 190,000 pounds. When filled,they wiegh about 100,100,000 pounds.


At what altitude do solid rocket boosters fall off?

The SRBs are jettisoned from the shuttle system at 2 minutes and an altitude of about 146,000 feet (44.5 km).


What happens to the rocket when it breaks away from the shuttle?

About 200 seconds after the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) break away from the NASA space shuttle parachutes are deployed at 15,000 feet and they land in the ocean. The SRBs usually land 140 miles off the coast of Florida where they float and are recovered by NASA. Once they are recovered they are refurbished and used on several other shuttle launches.


What part of the shuttle is reused?

The orbiter, the airplane looking part, and the solid rocket boosters are reused. However, the SRBs (solid rocket boosters) have to be completely dismantled and almost totally rebuilt.


What part of the space shuttle is reused?

The orbiter, the airplane looking part, and the solid rocket boosters are reused. However, the SRBs (solid rocket boosters) have to be completely dismantled and almost totally rebuilt.


What part of the spaceship falls off first?

around two minutes into the launch, the SRBs, 2 white solid rocket boosters, detach from the space shuttle and parachute into the ocean, where they are retrieved to reuse. The SRBs are the extra power that really pushes the shuttle into space.After about 8 minutes, the EXT, the external fuel tank (big red thing), falls and explodes in the atmosphere. It has no rocket engine- it just supplies the shuttle's engines with fuel during takeoff.


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.


How does the rocket get the abiliti stopstart engine?

For liquid fuel rockets, it is sometimes as easy as turning off a switch. For solid fuel rockets (like the SRBs on the Space Shuttle) there is no way at all to stop the engines; they quit when the fuel is all burned. That was the problem with the Challenger.


Which rocket is used to launch the space shuttle?

Space shuttle generally launches itself with just a boost from two solid rocket boosters(SRBs) that are dropped soon after start. The element that gives the appearance of big rocket is actually an external fuel tank.


What makes a space shuttle go up?

At launch the Shuttle (orbiter) is attached to two rockets -- the long white tubes on the sides are called solid rocket boosters (SRBs). Also, the big orange tank the Shuttle sits on at launch is a full of liquid fuel. At launch the SRBs ignite/start and the shuttle's main engine begins burning the liquid fuel. These three engines push the shuttle up into orbit. If you are asking how a rocket engine works. If you put an object beside a bomb, when the bomb goes off it knocks/pushes the object away. If you put a firecracker under an empty tin can, the firecracker will knock the can up into the air (see link below). You can think of a rocket engine as creating many continuous explosions that push it.