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A Space Shuttle External Tank (ET) was the component of the Space Shuttle launch vehicle that contained the liquid hydrogen fuel and liquid oxygen oxidizer. During lift-off and ascent it supplied the fuel and oxidizer under pressure to the three Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) in the orbiter. The ET was jettisoned just over 10 seconds after MECO (Main Engine Cut Off), where the SSMEs were shut down, and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. Unlike the Solid Rocket Boosters, external tanks were not re-used. They broke up before impact in the Indian Ocean (or Pacific Ocean in the case of direct-insertion launch trajectories), away from known shipping lanes. The tanks were not recovered.
| Space Shuttle Propulsion and External Tank Photo G... Space Shuttle Propulsion and External Tank Photo Gallery www.nasa.gov/.../shuttle.html - Web |
| STS-115 Launch as seen from ET Camera STS-115 Launch as seen from ET Camera www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4PILOsEzBo - Web |
| Columbia Accident Investigation Board Columbia Accident Investigation Board anon.nasa-global.speedera.net/.../CAIB_lowres_chapter3.pdf - Web |
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| STS-125 View of the External Tank Jettisoned and i... STS-125 View of the External Tank Jettisoned and in decaying orbit as viewed from the Shuttle Atlantis www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZN7eHxexZg - Web |
| Spherical panorama of the bottom of ET-122 in its ... Spherical panorama of the bottom of ET-122 in its scaffolding at Michoud Assembly Facility nasatech.net/MAFET122_100602/ - Web |
| Spherical panorama of the top of ET-122 in its sca... Spherical panorama of the top of ET-122 in its scaffolding at Michoud Assembly Facility nasatech.net/MAFET122b_100602/ - Web |
| Spherical panorama of the top of ET-138 in its sca... Spherical panorama of the top of ET-138 in its scaffolding at Michoud Assembly Facility. This is the last tank scheduled to fly. nasatech.net/MAFET138_100602/ - Web |
| Spherical panorama along the centerline of the bot... Spherical panorama along the centerline of the bottom of ET-138 near the feedlines in its scaffolding at Michoud Assembly Facility. This is the last tank scheduled to fly. nasatech.net/MAFET138b_100602/ - Web |
| "Space Shuttle External Tank Used as a Space Stati... "Space Shuttle External Tank Used as a Space Station - Study Project Perun" Award winning student paper from 1979 about building a space station from the External Tank. en.wikisource.org/wiki/Perun_1979 - Web |
