Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters facts for kids

Twin Solid Rocket Boosters are going to VAB

The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) are the first-stagerockets made for Space Shuttle. The Space Launch System will also use them. They are the most powerful rocket motors ever flown. Each rocket generates 13,800 kilonewtons of thrust during the first two minutes of flight. Before the rocket reached orbit, the SRBs were released and fell into the Atlantic Ocean where they were towed back to shore for reuse.

Images for kids

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  Static test firing, 1978

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  Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) separation

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  SRB Diagram

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  Sections of the SRB filled with propellant being connected

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  Splashdown of the right hand SRB from the launch of STS-124.

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  The solid rocket boosters, jettisoned from the Space Shuttle Discovery following the launch of STS-116, floating in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral. On this occasion, the boosters landed several miles apart, but overnight winds and currents drifted them to the same location

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  Solid rocket booster of the STS-131 mission being recovered and transported to Cape Canaveral by the MV Freedom Star.

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  Camera captures grey smoke being emitted from the right-hand SRB on Space Shuttle Challenger before the start of STS-51-L.

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  The right SRB shows an anomalous plume at T+58.788 seconds. This plume would trigger the breakup of the vehicle 14 seconds later.

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  The Ares I-X prototype launches from LC-39B, 15:30 UTC, October 28, 2009 – this was as of 2016 the sole flight of a launch vehicle derived from the SRB.

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In Spanish: Cohetes Aceleradores Sólidos (transbordador espacial) para niños