The MV Freedom Star and MV Liberty Star, ships used by NASA to tow space shuttle solid rocket boosters back to Kennedy Space Center, are propelled only by water jets to protect the endangered manatee population that inhabits regions of the Banana River where the ships are based.

By June 1979, it was again mated with an external tank and solid rocket boosters ( known as a boilerplate configuration ) and tested in a launch configuration at Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A for a series of fit checks of the facilities there.

For example, the Titan IIIC solid boosters injected nitrogen tetroxide for LITV ; the tanks can be seen on the sides of the rocket between the main center stage and the boosters.

Ultimately the current design was chosen, using a reusable winged orbiter, reusable solid rocket boosters, and an expendable external tank.

Some of the Shuttle systems integrated in the simulation are the main propulsion system, main engines, solid rocket boosters, ground liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, external tank, flight controls, navigation, and avionics.

An Ariane 44LP has two solid, two liquid boosters, and a 44L has four liquid-fuel boosters.

Work began at this time on large segmented solid rocket motors, alternative liquid rocket engine boosters, high-speed turbo machinery, upper stage propulsion and satellite propulsion, all driven by the need to lessen the cost and complexity of the systems in use.

Tests of O-rings at the lab independently verified the lack of resilience at very cold temperatures, helping to answer questions regarding the solid rocket boosters used on the Shuttle.

It is near the headquarters of ATK Thiokol, the company that created the solid rocket boosters for the Space Shuttle.

With no human pilot on board, and thus no need to limit takeoff acceleration, the rocket could use solid fuel boosters for added thrust, reducing the amount of fuel needed for the rest of the climb.

Although solid deflagrants such as nitrocellulose, the most commonly used propellant in firearms, and ammonium perchlorate / aluminum / synthetic rubber, widely used in military and spacecraft boosters, could be thought of as monopropellants, the term is usually reserved for liquids in engineering literature.

The HY-3 is a large-size missile with a slim forward body and sharp nose, and a fatter rear half with four solid rocket boosters and two ramjet engines located aft of the missile body.

There are a pair of front-canards on the front fuselage, four control surfaces on the rear fuselage, and four smaller stabilising fins attached on the solid rocket boosters.

Lower stages, like the solid rocket boosters of the Space Shuttle, or the Saturn IB stage of the Apollo program era, do not reach orbital velocities and do not add to the mass load in orbit.

It was then used for housing Space Shuttle external fuel tanks and flight hardware, and was where Space Shuttle orbiters were mated with their solid rocket boosters and external fuel tanks.

* Power Plant: RI variant was 2-stage solid fuel ; RIII was liquid fuel with solid-fuel boosters

The orbiter, which includes the main engines, and the two solid rocket boosters, are reused after several months of refitting work for each launch.

That eventually ended up as a reusable orbiter with an expendable drop tank and reusable solid rocket boosters to reduce design expenses.

Various missiles also use solid rocket boosters.

In parallel staging schemes solid or liquid rocket boosters are used to assist with lift-off.

The O-rings were rubber rings designed to form a seal in the shuttle's solid rocket boosters, preventing the rockets ' hot gas from escaping and damaging other parts of the vehicle.

Feynman's investigations also revealed that there had been many serious doubts raised about the O-ring seals by engineers at Morton Thiokol, which made the solid fuel boosters, but communication failures had led to their concerns being ignored by NASA management.

The LES consisted of a solid fuel, 52, 000 lbf ( 231 kN ) thrust rocket with three engine bells mounted on a tower above the spacecraft.

The menorah willow consisted of a base and a shaft with six branches, beaten out of solid gold.

While weighting systems originally consisted of solid lead blocks attached to a belt around the diver's waist, some modern diving weighting systems are now incorporated into the BCD.

Prior to this, training in Kenjutsu had consisted mainly of basic technique practice and paired kata, using solid wooden practice swords ( bokutō ), or live blades.

The group's solid early line-up consisted of Tripp on bass and vocals, Scott on lead guitar, Civitarese on drums and vocals and Paul Russo on second guitar and vocals as well as drums and bass during live shows when the band switched instruments for certain songs.

The onager consisted of a large frame placed on the ground to whose front end a vertical frame of solid timber was rigidly fixed.

From the late 1800s and throughout most of the 20th century, most Standard Dresses consisted of a solid sheet of rubber between layers of tanned twill.

The cryogenics system consisted of an inner tank of solid neon at (− 430 ° F ) and an outer tank of solid carbon dioxide at (− 238 ° F ).

The Titan IIIC consisted of a hypergolic liquid-fueled core and two large solid rocket boosters.

The valvetrain consisted of a cast nodular iron camshaft, solid or hydraulic lifters, solid pushrods and shaft-mounted, stamped steel rocker arms.

Tretyakov consisted the honorary member of the Society of fans of applied arts and the Musical society from the date of their basis, granted the solid sums, supporting all educational undertakings.

For example, the fibers first demonstrated by Russell consisted of a hexagonal lattice of air holes in a silica fiber, with a solid ( 1996 ) or hollow ( 1998 ) core at the center where light is guided.

RPO car interiors, which at first consisted of solid wood furniture and fixtures, would also soon be redesigned.

While the majority of this service consisted of one or more cars at the head end of passenger trains, many railways operated solid mail trains between major cities ; these solid mail trains would often carry 300 tons of mail daily.

The previous method of solving these problems consisted of problem representation by an " x " sided solid with " y " vertices, where the solution was approached by traversing from vertex to vertex.

Early European iron armour consisted of 10 to 13 cm of wrought iron backed by up to one meter of solid wood.

The onager consisted of a frame placed on the ground to whose front end a vertical frame of solid timber was rigidly fixed ; through the vertical frame ran an axle, which had a single stout spoke.

German defense consisted of four lines, covered with solid antitank ditches and landmines.

The production version consisted of a hood decal, rather than an entirely black hood, and the " hockey stick " stripe on the side was changed from solid black to a dashed black stripe positioned at the bottom of the exterior.

The suspension consisted of a fully independent torsion bar front suspension, and a multilink coil sprung rear suspension integrated with a solid rear axle.

The jade suits of Liu Sheng and Dou Wan consisted of 2, 498 plates of solid jade connected with two and a half pounds of gold wires.