Inertial Upper Stage
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inertial-upper-stage-182-17281634
title:
Inertial Upper Stage
text:
The Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), originally designated the Interim Upper Stage, was a two-stage, solid-fueled space launch system developed by Boeing for the United States Air Force beginning in 1976 for raising payloads from low Earth orbit to higher orbits or interplanetary trajectories following launch aboard a Titan 34D or Titan IV rocket as its upper stage, or from the payload bay of the Space Shuttle as a space tug.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Space launch system
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_Upper_Stage
date created:
2006-08-16T18:30:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T14:10:10Z
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13
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