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The number of rocket boosters on the common core booster.
What is 4?
The components that are considered Centaur's "brain".
What are fuel and oxidizer?
The purpose of the payload fairing.
Why is to protect the spacecraft?
Another name for the Atlas V Rocket.
What is common core booster?
The day the spacecraft launched.
When is July 30, 2020?
The length in feet of each booster.
What is 64 feet?
The number of times Centaur will fire.
What is two times?
The part that the payload fairing is located on top of.
What is the Centaur stage?
The length of the Atlas V rocket.
What is 106.5 feet?
The spacecraft's launch site.
Where is Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida?
The amount of thrust each booster gives off.
What is 306,000 pounds of thrust?
The reason for Centaur's first fire.
Why is to insert the spacecraft into low Earth orbit?
The location of the payload fairing.
Where is the very top of the rocket?
The diameter of the Atlas V rocket.
What is 12.5 feet?
The spacecraft's mass with fule.
What is 1.17 million pounds?
The name of the main, larger booster.
What is the common core booster?
The reason Centaur fires a second time.
Why is to accelerate the spacecraft out of Earth orbit and send it to Mars?
The length of the vehicle with the payload fairing.
What is 191 feet?
The type of engine in Atlas V.
What is a RD-180 engine?
The reason the rocket is so large.
Why is so that there is enough velocity to get the spacecraft to escape Earth's gravity?
The diameter of each of the smaller boosters.
What is 61 inches?
The type of engine Centaur has.
What is a restartable RL-10 engine?
The day that the payload fairing arrived at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
When is July 7, 2020?
The amount of thrust the common core booster can provide.
What is 850,000 pounds (3.8 million newtons)?
The planets that NASA has launches missions to using rockets like Atlas V.
Where is Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto?