Questions tagged [srb]
Questions regarding the solid rocket boosters used to propel spacecraft, often during launch.
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How are SLS SRBs considered man-rated?
Using solid rocket boosters on a manned launch comes with some additional risks because they can't be turned off or throttled down once lit. For the Shuttle this created some additional failures modes ...
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What was the first time a "re-used booster" was used to put a payload into orbit?
In the excitement about SpaceX's Falcon recovery and relaunch development program, it's often forgotten in articles like this one that reusable spacecraft were in regular use far back in the 20th ...
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How does a single SRB control attitude?
The Ares I-X was a test flight from the Constellation program for crewed Ares I-launched Orion capsules.
If liquid fueled rocket motors can gimbal, how do solid rocket motor-propelled spacecraft ...
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Failure modes of segmented solid rocket boosters
The Rogers Commission Report (PDF, page 73) describes the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters as
[...] a faulty design unacceptably sensitive to a number of factors.
These factors were the ...
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Was there ever an incident of collision between SRBs after SRB jettison, during launch of the Space Shuttle? [duplicate]
Did the Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters (SRBs) ever collide with each other after separation from the Shuttle stack?
To clarify, I'm not asking if an SRB ever collided with the Shuttle itself or ...
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Has an SRB been considered for use in orbit to launch to escape velocity?
Has an SRB been considered for use in orbit to launch to escape velocity to deep space? Consider SRB disposable and deep space vehicle continues on liquid propulsion. SRB conserves liquid propellants ...
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Why do the shapes of these two exhaust plumes from an Atlas V 411 look different?
The Atlas V 411 configuration is interesting because there is a single SRB on one side of the first stage, requiring the main engines to vector substantially to keep the thrust mostly axial.
The ...
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Did the Challenger SRBs fail due to design for reuse?
All that I know about the Challenger tragedy was that some o-rings failed in the reusable solid rocket boosters (SRBs) due to the low temperatures that day. I'm curious if such an accident would have ...
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Could the Shuttle boosters crash into each other?
I watched a few videos "from the boosters" of their suborbital flight with the Shuttle, and what I noticed is that after the boosters were jettisoned there was a phase of flight that was quite chaotic ...
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What does “supersonic large amplitude ID maneuver PTI” mean, and what does a tumble motor do?
In this question I linked to a YouTube video of the Ares X-1 launch. You can start listening at 02:00 for the point where these are mentioned:
"Supersonic large ...
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Is it unusual to vector the thrust from an SRB?
Let me explain. The term SRB (Solid (fuel) Rocket Booster) usually refers to a solid (fuel) rocket which is attached to something else in order to "boost" it.
But I just read this answer by @...
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Why were Solid Rockets chosen for the SLS
The SLS and the STS seem to be the only rockets utilizing SRBs... Why did they choose to go with them over LH/LOX or Kerosene/LOX? Wouldn't it also be easier to upgrade those rockets in the future?
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Could the shuttle's SRB alone reach orbit?
If one equipped the SRB like the ones used with the Shuttles with minimal attitude control systems and launched it as a standalone rocket with no payload - what speed would it reach? Would it be ...
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Is it possible for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB) to hit the Space Shuttle after jettison?
We all know that the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB) were the pair of large solid rockets used by the United States' NASA Space Shuttle during the first two minutes of its powered flight. ...
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Why wasn't the space shuttle fully Liquid fueled?
Why was the decision made to have 2 boosters burning solid fuel alongside the liquid fueled SSME? Other designs of the time were pushing for all liquid fueled rockets (Russian Soyuz, Chinese Long ...
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