KSC-04-S-00217
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Summary
Just like cars and airplanes, Space Shuttles need regular maintenance to keep them shipshape and performing at their best. As part of its routine maintenance schedule, Discovery has just received its newly refurbished Forward Reaction Control System, or FRCS. Located between the nose cap and cockpit windows, the FRCS is made up of a series of thrusters and is the orbiter's most versatile propulsion system: 'The Forward Reaction Control System that we just recently installed on the vehicle is used basically in three phases of the flight: One, during ascent we use it to separate from the External Tank. The next phase is for orbiter insertion and then it's used during flight for all of the maneuvering. It has 14 primary thrusters and two vernier thrusters which are used during some of the more finite movement, during the payload, some of the docking, some of that type of work during the mission.' The system was removed from Discovery as part of the vehicle's OMM, or Orbiter Major M
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- Source collection: NASA
- License: Public Domain (US Government)
- Category: Space
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