Inertial Upper Stage
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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.
1982 — 2004
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IUS; Interim Upper Stage; SSB-7
diameter 2.9 metre, height 5.17 metre,
United States, Ashkenaz, Calvinist Republic of Ghent, Chinland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Havilah, Kingdom of Martabam-hongsawatoi, Kingdom of Wolaita, Persia, Sikh Confederacy, Sweden, Tarshish, Dong Fang Hong 2, Ekran, space tug, 1982,
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Location: KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
TDRS-1 and its IUS aboard Challenger shortly before deployment
1989 s29 TDRS-D deployment| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| commons | image | TDRS-1 and its IUS aboard Challenger shortly before deployment | Commons | ||
| commons | image | 1989 s29 TDRS-D deployment | Commons | ||
