Centaur (rocket stage) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-06

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00:01:28 1 History
00:02:46 1.1 Atlas-Centaur
00:05:47 1.2 Titan III-Centaur
00:10:24 1.3 Shuttle-Centaur
00:15:19 1.4 Titan IV-Centaur
00:16:24 1.5 Atlas III
00:16:51 1.6 Atlas V
00:18:27 1.7 Vulcan-Centaur
00:19:22 2 Design
00:21:29 3 Versions
00:21:38 3.1 Centaur-D
00:21:53 3.2 Centaur II
00:22:13 3.3 Centaur V
00:23:42 4 Current status
00:25:25 5 Mishaps
00:28:26 6 Future uses
00:30:12 6.1 Test bed for cryogenic fluid management experiments
00:32:14 7 Specifications



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The Centaur is a family of rocket stages. They are designed to be the upper stage of space launch vehicles and is used on the Atlas V. Centaur was the world's first high-energy upper stage, burning liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX). Centaur has enabled the launch of some of NASA's most important scientific missions during its 50-year history.
Centaur was the brainchild of Convair employees Karel Bossart (the man behind the SM-65 Atlas, an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)), and Krafft Arnold Ehricke. Their design was essentially a smaller version of the Atlas, adopting its use of lightweight "stainless steel balloon" tanks whose structural rigidity was provided solely by the pressure of the propellants within. To keep the tanks from collapsing before the propellant was loaded, they were either kept in "stretch" or pressurized with nitrogen gas.
Existing Centaur stages are powered by one (Single Engine Centaur variant) or two (Double Engine Centaur variant) RL10 rocket engines. The upcoming Centaur V will have an increased diameter powered by two RL10 engines.