Questions tagged [launch-escape-system]
A Launch Escape System (LES) is a system connected to the crew module of a manned spacecraft. It is used to quickly separate the crew module from the rest of the launch vehicle in case of emergency (such as an explosion of the rocket).
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Escape system of SLS vs Ares I
One of the criticism directed at the Ares I rocket was the danger during a launch termination of the solid-propellant 1st stage. As far as I understood it, a terminated Titan IV solid-propellant ...
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Why did early MOL/Gemini aborts involving the separation of the crew capsule from the launcher still call for the crew to eject afterwards?
The Gemini spacecraft, often given as an example of a manned space capsule with no launch escape system, or LES (it used individual ejection seats instead), did, in fact, have an LES, although not one ...
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Why was the LES on Apollo white?
In below images they’re red for Mercury (both on the Redstone and Atlas boosters). But the Apollo ones are white. Why were the Launch Escape Systems of Apollo white?
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Dragon launch escape: roll control?
Dragon’s four superdraco pods are positioned well for pitch and yaw control, but not for roll control.
So I’m wondering how they’ll control for roll during launch escape—or if they’ll even control for ...
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Could Apollo have used the launch escape system as a booster?
Getting to space requires ruthlessly eliminating weight from launch vehicles. Older spacecraft like Apollo carried big Launch Escape towers. For an Apollo mission flying on a Saturn V, the LES meant ...
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How was the Stabilo crewed re-entry vehicle supposed to work? A tractor engine with four nozzles?
ARCA Space's webpage for the Stabilo program has a description and an image. Hydrogen peroxide monopropellant? Reaction closer to the crew than the nozzle?
With thrust at the top, it seems that ...
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