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The Space Shuttle was a crewed, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft operated by NASA from 1981 to 2011.
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Which STS mission raised the normal engine throttle above 100%, and what change to the SSME ...
As indirectly stated in an answer to How long does Max-Q last?, during later Space Shuttle launches the main engines were operating at above 100% of their nominal maximum thrust. Specifically from tha …
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How far would the STS get without the SRBs
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Without SRBs, by maintaining the real stack's thrust to weight ratio at ignition, you run out of fuel at about 167 seconds with (if we maintain the flight profile of the real stack) a velocity …
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How could a 90 m/s delta-v be enough to commit the space shuttle to landing?
Wikipedia claims (although with no citation) that in order to make the space shuttle land, an initial powered delta-v of 322 km/h was applied in orbit, retrograde to the shuttle's orbit. 322 km/h is e …
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