Revenki's photos with the keyword: SRB

In the Trenches

11 Aug 2009 114
Looking up at one of the vent holes in the launch platform for an SRB (which occupies the dark area on the left side of the hole).

Skirts

11 Aug 2009 115
The bases of the SRBs and the aft dome of the External tank. Note the bolts holding the SRBs to the launch platform - that's pretty much all there is holding up the entire Shuttle stack.

Skirts

11 Aug 2009 166
The bases of the SRBs and the aft dome of the External tank. Note the bolts holding the SRBs to the launch platform - that's pretty much all there is holding up the entire Shuttle stack.

Stack

11 Aug 2009 109
The SRBs and external tank on Discovery, with the rotating service structure on the left and the fixed service structure (formerly a Saturn launch umbilical tower) on the right.

Skirt and Plume Hole

11 Aug 2009 113
An SRB skirt, mounting points, and exhaust plume hole through the launch platform.

Stack

11 Aug 2009 132
The SRBs and external tank on Discovery, with the rotating service structure on the left and the fixed service structure (formerly a Saturn launch umbilical tower) on the right. The grey piping is part of the water deluge system that protects the launch platform and provides acoustic dampening to protect the Shuttle as it lifts off.

SRB

11 Aug 2009 119
One of Discovery's SRBs. The four white cylinders are separation motors that fire when the SRBs are jettisoned so as to shove it away from the Orbiter. Note the hold-down bolts on the skirt (red boxes). They're much bigger than they look.

Nose

11 Aug 2009 117
Note the owl-faced balloon used to keep birds away. And the cameras which seem to be pointing the wrong direction - they're attached to the rotating service structure, which would be turned away during launch.

SRB Nose

11 Aug 2009 89
The forward end of an SRB, containing its separation motors and parachutes.

SRB Pieces

11 Aug 2009 70
Nose cones and skirt assemblies for SRBs, at the recovery facility at Cape Canaveral.

ARES-I

07 Sep 2009 90
Fail. (Inside joke.)