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  2. Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster - Wikipedia

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    The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) was the first solid-propellant rocket to be used for primary propulsion on a vehicle used for human spaceflight. [1] A pair of them provided 85% of the Space Shuttle's thrust at liftoff and for the first two minutes of ascent.

  3. Solid rocket booster - Wikipedia

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    A solid rocket booster (SRB) is a solid propellant motor used to provide thrust in spacecraft launches from initial launch through the first ascent. Many launch vehicles, including the Atlas V , [ 1 ] SLS and Space Shuttle , have used SRBs to give launch vehicles much of the thrust required to place the vehicle into orbit.

  4. List of Falcon 9 first-stage boosters - Wikipedia

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    The last flight of a Block 4 booster was in June 2018. Since then all boosters in the active fleet are Block 5. Booster names are a B followed by a four-digit number. The first Falcon 9 version, v1.0, had boosters B0001 to B0007. All following boosters were numbered sequentially starting at B1001, the number 1 standing for first-stage booster.

  5. Solid-propellant rocket - Wikipedia

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    The Space Shuttle was launched with the help of two solid-fuel boosters known as SRBs. A solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered by gunpowder. The inception of gunpowder rockets in warfare can be credited to the ...

  6. P120C - Wikipedia

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    The P120C is a solid-fuel rocket motor designed for use as the first stage of the Vega-C and as the boosters of the Ariane 6 launch vehicles. The solid rocket motors were developed by Europropulsion, a joint venture of Avio and ArianeGroup, for the European Space Agency. The "C" in the name signifies its "Common" use across these vehicles.

  7. New Vulcan rocket takes off on second test flight - AOL

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    The Vulcan's two Blue Origin-built BE-4 engines and twin solid rocket boosters, or SRBs, thundered to life at 7:25 a.m. EDT, shattering the morning calm with the crackling roar of 2 million pounds ...

  8. Boeing and Lockheed Martin's New Space Rocket May Have ... - AOL

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    Those are firing GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters (SRBs), built and supplied to ULA by Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). They give the Vulcan first stage a bit of extra oomph to help lift it into orbit ...

  9. Booster (rocketry) - Wikipedia

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    Rocket boosters used on aircraft are known as jet-assisted take-off (JATO) rockets. Various missiles also use solid rocket boosters. Examples are: 2K11 (SA-4) which uses SRBs as a first stage, and then a ramjet. S-200 (SA-5) which uses SRBs as the first stage, followed by a liquid fuel rocket.