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To: hole_n_one
Hard to judge scale, but that looks way too small to be one of the main engines - it has to be one of the smaller engines that they use for braking on re-entry...
789 posted on 02/01/2003 11:37:20 AM PST by general_re
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To: general_re
Hard to judge scale, but that looks way too small to be one of the main engines - it has to be one of the smaller engines that they use for braking on re-entry...

I concur.
794 posted on 02/01/2003 11:38:18 AM PST by Arkinsaw
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To: general_re
Hard to judge scale, but that looks way too small to be one of the main engines

oms pod.

dep

800 posted on 02/01/2003 11:40:11 AM PST by dep
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To: general_re
Hard to judge scale, but that looks way too small to be one of the main engines - it has to be one of the smaller engines that they use for braking on re-entry...

Actually, they use the main engines for orbital braking, I believe.

To me it looks like the nozzles on the OMS (Orbital Maneuvering System), which they use for attitude adjustment while in orbit, which are quite small.

The main nozzle is quite large, not a lot smaller than the main engines, but note the many dinky little nozzles near it (just dots on the large photo, shaded pink in the drawing), they look about the size of the one in the debris photo (which is obviously small, given the size comparison of the pine needles near it).

814 posted on 02/01/2003 11:48:30 AM PST by Ichneumon
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