They broke up before impact in the Indian Ocean (or Pacific Ocean in the case of direct-insertion launch trajectories), away from shipping lanes and were not recovered. [2 ]
Primarily used to launch payloads for the United States Department of Defense, NASA, and commercial customers, Atlas V is the longest-serving active rocket in the United States.
In the blog post “Reentry of orbital stages without thermal protection, Page 2”, http://exoscientist.blogspot.com/2025/04/reentry-of-orbital-stages-without.html , I discussed some possibilities of thermal protection for the SpaceX Starship.
Urgently chasing some offshore experienced Riggers for various upcoming Adhoc scopes:- DSV- Pipelay- Barge Essential Criteria:- Valid Bosiet with CA-EBS
By the time of the first piloted moon landing in July 1969, it came to be seen as an element in an expansive Integrated Program Plan that also included upgraded expendable Saturn V rockets, reusable manned Space Tugs and Nuclear Shuttles…