inertial upper stage

inertial upper stage
a U.S. two-stage, solid-propellant rocket used to boost a relatively heavy spacecraft from a low earth orbit into a planetary trajectory or an elliptical transfer orbit. Abbr.: IUS Cf. payload assist module.

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Inertial Upper Stage — The Inertial Upper Stage or IUS is a two stage solid fueled booster rocket developed by NASA and the U.S. Air Force for the launching of large payloads from either a Titan III (later Titan IV) rocket or from the payload bay of the Space… …   Wikipedia

  • Inertial Upper Stage — L IUS est installé pour le lancement du télescope Chandra …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Inertial Upper Stage — Die IUS die das Röntgenteleskop Chandra in seine hochelliptische Umlaufbahn brachte. Die IUS (Inertial Upper Stage, deutsch etwa: „Trägheitsnavigierte Oberstufe“, oder ursprünglich Interim Upper Stage, deutsch etwa: vorläufige Oberstufe) ist eine …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • inertial upper stage — a U.S. two stage, solid propellant rocket used to boost a relatively heavy spacecraft from a low earth orbit into a planetary trajectory or an elliptical transfer orbit. Abbr.: IUS Cf. payload assist module …   Useful english dictionary

  • Interim Upper Stage — Die IUS die das Röntgenteleskop Chandra in seine hochelliptische Umlaufbahn brachte. Die IUS (Inertial Upper Stage, oder ursprünglich Interim Upper Stage) ist eine von Boeing hergestellte, zweistufige Oberstufe, mit deren Hilfe Satelliten aus… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Transfer orbit stage — The Transfer Orbit Stage (TOS) was an upper stage rocket developed by Martin Marietta on a subcontract to Orbital Sciences Corporation during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Orbital Sciences was the prime contractor for NASA for TOS. TOS was… …   Wikipedia

  • IUS — Inertial Upper Stage (Governmental » NASA) * Intra Uterine System (Medical » Physiology) * Improved Unarmed Strike (Governmental » Military) * Interchange Unit Separator (Computing » General) * Integrated Utility Services (Computing » General) *… …   Abbreviations dictionary

  • IUS — • Inertial Upper Stage Weltraumfahrt • Indiana University Southeast (USA, http://www.ius.indiana.edu/) …   Acronyms

  • IUS —    Inertial Upper Stage. A rocket that is attached to a satellite and fires after the satellite leaves the Space Shuttle bay. It lets the satellite achieve Geosynchronous orbit. This rocket is larger than an PAM …   The writer's dictionary of science fiction, fantasy, horror and mythology

  • Magellan (spacecraft) — Magellan Artist s depiction of Magellan at Venus Operator NASA / JPL Major contractors Martin Marietta / Hughes Aircraft …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”