Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System

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"Orbital Maneuvering System" redirects here, but can refer to any system used to modify a spacecraft's orbit.
Space Shuttle OMS/RCS Pod
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The underside of a left OMS/RCS pod.
Manufacturer Aerojet
Country of origin United States
Used on Space Shuttle
General characteristics
Length 21.8 feet (6.6 m)
Width 11.37 feet (3.47 m) (aft)
8.14 feet (2.48 m) (forward)
Launch history
Status Retired
Total launches 135
Successes
(stage only)		 134
Lower stage
failed		 1 (STS-51-L)
First flight STS-1 (12 April 1981)
Last flight STS-135 (8 July 2011)
OMS Engine
Engines 1 AJ10-190
Thrust 26.7 kilonewtons (6,000 lbf)
Specific impulse 316 seconds (vacuum)
Burn time 15 hours (maximum service life)
1250 seconds (deorbit burn)
150–250 seconds (typical burn)
Fuel MMH/N2O4
Aft Primary RCS
Engines Primary RCS engines
Thrust 3.87 kilonewtons (870 lbf)
Burn time 1–150 seconds (each burn)
800 seconds (total)
Fuel MMH/N2O4
Aft Vernier RCS
Engines Vernier RCS engines
Thrust Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value).
Burn time 1–125 seconds (each burn)
Fuel MMH/N2O4

The Space Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS), is a system of hypergolic liquid-propellant rocket engines used on the Space Shuttle. Designed and manufactured in the United States by Aerojet,[1] the system was used during launch to produce supplementary thrust and on-orbit to provide orbital injection, orbital correction and the spacecraft's deorbit burn.[2] The OMS consists of two pods mounted on the Orbiter's aft fuselage, on either side of the vertical stabilizer.[2] Each pod contains a single AJ10-190 engine,[3] based on the Apollo Service Module's Service Propulsion System engine,[citation needed] which produces 26.7 kilonewtons (6,000 lbf) of thrust with a specific impulse (Isp) of 316 seconds.[3] Each engine could be reused for 100 missions and was capable of a total of 1,000 starts and 15 hours of burn time.[citation needed]

These pods also contained the Orbiter's aft set of reaction control system (RCS) engines, and so were referred to as OMS/RCS pods. The OM engine and RCS systems both burned monomethylhydrazine (MMH) as fuel, which was oxidized with dinitrogen tetroxide (N2O4), with the propellants being stored in tanks within the OMS/RCS pod, alongside other fuel and engine management systems.[4] When full, the pods together carried around 8,174 kilograms (18,021 lb) of MMH and 13,486 kilograms (29,732 lb) of N2O4, allowing the OMS to produce a total of around 1,000 feet per second (300 m/s) of delta-v with a 65,000-pound (29,500 kg) payload.[4][5]

  • OMS/RCS pod schematic

  • An OMS pod detached from an Orbiter for maintenance

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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