solid rocket booster
Shuttle's side engines
A solid rocket booster is a rocket that uses solid propellant rather than liquid fuel, typically attached in pairs to a larger launch vehicle to provide additional thrust during liftoff.
Unlike liquid-fueled engines, solid boosters cannot be throttled or shut down once ignited—they burn until the fuel is exhausted, then separate and fall away.
The Space Shuttle's solid rocket boosters were recovered from the ocean and reused.
- space shuttleReusable crewed orbital vehicle
- thrustForceful forward motion
- propellantSubstance creating thrust
- launchSet into motion
- launch padRocket departure platform
NASA · mission control · shuttle · Cape Canaveral · ignition · exhaust · flame · white smoke · liftoff · fuel · separation · Challenger · staging · plume · burn · Kennedy · explosive · strap-on
- Rocket Launchesliftoff, countdown, launch pad, ignition, blast off
- rocketrythrust, third stage, nozzle, launch, propellants
- Space ShuttlesAtlantis, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery, Endeavour
- spacecraft partsengine, thrusters, antenna array, thruster, fuel tank
- rocket partsfuel tanks, nozzles, thruster, combustion chambers, first stage
- rocketsballistic missile, Saturn V, Falcon 9, V-2, Atlas
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