We're going to make the decision based on what data do we need to ensure that when we get to our launch this year, we know we can execute it Wayne Hale, former space shuttle program manager and ...

All the equipment for the care and feeding of uprated Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME ... We include main propulsion systems and thrust vector control, your thrust vector control is the system ...

Two months after glitches cut short an initial attempt on January 16, the 21-story SLS core stage's four shuttle-heritage ... testing the rocket's thrust vector control, or steering, system ...

For NASA's Constellation programme, using 25-year-old Space Shuttle flight-proven systems ... charge separation system and first-stage thrust vector control (TVC) changes. These outstanding ...

upper stage Thrust Vector Control subsystem. Two of the draft RFPs will be posted individually in early to mid-September while the other two will be in the December 2006 timeframe. Target release ...

That will serve to test the vehicle's thrust vector control, the payload fairing, and a new version of the flight computer software among other things, Cantrell said. After that, he believes ...

An initial investigation by Arianespace, reported less than a day after the launch, concluded two cables used in a thrust vector control system in the rocket’s Avum upper stage were inverted ...