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Shuttle-Centaur was a proposed version of the Centaur upper stage rocket that could be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle and used to launch satellites into high Earth orbits or probes into deep space. Two variants were produced: Centaur G-Prime, to launch robotic probes to Jupiter; and Centaur G, for use with US Department of Defense Milstar satellites and the Magellan Venus probe. The use of the powerful Centaur upper stage allowed for heavier deep space probes, prolonging the operational life of the spacecraft. The United States Air Force agreed to pay half the cost of Centaur G. The Space Shuttle Challenger and Space Shuttle Atlantis were modified to carry the Centaur. After the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, and just months before the Shuttle-Centaur had been scheduled to fly, NASA concluded it was too risky to fly the Centaur on the Shuttle. The Galileo and Ulysess probes were ultimately launched using the less powerful Inertial Upper Stage. A variant of the Centaur G Prime upper stage was mated with the Titan rocket to produce the Titan IV, which placed 18 military satellites in orbit. (Full article...)
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Hi Hawkeye7 and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:16, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
- That looks great. Should we have a "(pictured)" somewhere? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:40, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
- Not if the image is directly of the article subject matter. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:43, 12 June 2021 (UTC)