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The U.S. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System ( TDRSS, pronounced "T-driss") is a network of American communications satellites (each called a tracking and data relay satellite, TDRS) and ground stations used by NASA for space communications. The system was designed to replace an existing network of ground stations that had supported all of ...
LH2 / LOX. [ edit on Wikidata] The Martin Marietta Spacemaster was a proposed configuration for what became the Space Shuttle, which featured an X-24 -derived orbiter, and an unusual " catamaran style" booster stage. During launch and ascent, the orbiter would be located in a recess in the booster. The booster's 14 engines would be located in ...
Taken from Space Shuttle, 15 April 1994. The Spaceborne Imaging Radar ( SIR) – full name 'Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR)', [1] is a synthetic aperture radar which flew on two separate shuttle missions. Once from the Space Shuttle Endeavour in April 1994 on ( STS-59) and again in October 1994 on ( STS ...
STS-36 (34) →. STS-32 was the 33rd mission of NASA 's Space Shuttle program, and the ninth launch of Space Shuttle Columbia. Launched on January 9, 1990, it marked the first use of the Launch Complex 39A of Kennedy Space Center since 1986; it also marked the first use of Mobile Launcher Platform-3 (MLP-3) in the Space Shuttle program.
AST SpaceMobile. AST SpaceMobile is a publicly traded satellite designer and manufacturer based in Midland, Texas, United States. [2] [3] The company is building the SpaceMobile satellite constellation, a space-based cellular broadband network that will allow existing, unmodified smartphones to connect to satellites in areas with coverage gaps. [4]
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of ...
The Space Shuttle external tank (ET) was the largest [clarification needed] part of the rocket [citation needed] and carried the propellant for the Space Shuttle Main Engines, and connected the orbiter vehicle with the solid rocket boosters. The ET was 47 m (153.8 ft) tall and 8.4 m (27.6 ft) in diameter, and contained separate tanks for liquid ...
CLOUD — Downtown St. Cloud could be the home of the Inspiration Mock Orbiter, a NASA-built model of the space shuttle. Currently owned by local inventor and founder of LVX System, Felicity-John ...