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To: Red_Devil 232
It's an Atlas V 531, one of 10 normal configurations (20 if there were ever a double Centaur flight):

It breaks down to:
5 = 5 meter diameter payload fairing.
3 = 3 SRBs
1 = Single-engine Centaur upper stage

10 posted on 05/04/2012 11:27:08 AM PDT by jboot
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To: jboot

Interesting that there’s 3 SRB’s and yet they’re not symmetrically arranged. That’s a new one on me.


12 posted on 05/04/2012 11:35:15 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: jboot

Still a bummer we have to purchase the main engines from Russia.. (RD-180) Bad azz engines for sure.


13 posted on 05/04/2012 11:35:59 AM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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