This is an Apollo Reaction Control System (RCS) rocket motor, or thruster. The RCS maintained the attitude of the Apollo Service Module and helped it to maneuver in space, undertake minor midcourse ...

The Reaction Control System (RCS) plays an important role in the reentry phase of hypersonic vehicles (HVs). Aiming at the problem that the existing control allocation methods have insufficient fault ...

This is a Reaction Control System (RCS) rocket engine for the yaw control of the Apollo space craft. It was flown on Apollo 4, launched in November 1967. This was the first flight of the Saturn V in ...

The vent system definitely needs a choke, and probably a rudimentary diffuser. The choke would limit the rate of discharge. This would reduce damage from any FOD, thrust during venting, and limit ...

"This test involved five liquid apogee motor (LAM) engines with a thrust of 440 N (Newton) and 16 reaction control system (RCS) Thrusters with a thrust of 100 N. The service module (SM) is a ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 8, 2013 – Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced today that the final Crew Module Reaction Control System (CM RCS) pod assembly for NASA’s Orion spacecraft ...

STS-9 was the ninth NASA Space Shuttle mission, ... Four hours before scheduled re-entry, one of the flight control computers crashed when the Reaction Control System (RCS) maneuvering thrusters were ...

Starliner will conduct the test-fire of its 28-thruster reaction control system (RCS) on either Saturday (July 27) or Sunday (July 28) at the International Space Station (ISS), NASA and Boeing ...