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Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) in Laboratory
Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) in Laboratory 
Ulysses Probe in Orbit with Inertial Upper Stage (IUS)
Ulysses Probe in Orbit with Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) 
Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) in Orbit
Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) in Orbit 
Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) in Orbit
Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) in Orbit 
Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) in Orbit
Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) in Orbit 
Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) Launched from Space Shuttle Cargo Bay
Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) Launched from Space Shuttle Cargo Bay 
Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) Launched from Space Shuttle Cargo Bay
Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) Launched from Space Shuttle Cargo Bay 
First Titan IV Launch with Boeing Inertial Upper Stage (IUS-8)
First Titan IV Launch with Boeing Inertial Upper Stage (IUS-8) 
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Galileo in Orbit 
Delta Rocket Third Stage
Delta Rocket Third Stage 
Saturn S-IVB Stage and Facility at Night DSV 4B
Saturn S-IVB Stage and Facility at Night DSV 4B 
Saturn V Assembly Area at North American Rockwell's Tulsa Division
Saturn V Assembly Area at North American Rockwell's Tulsa Division 
S-IVB Saturn-IB Second Stage Twins
S-IVB Saturn-IB Second Stage Twins 
Saturn V Second Stage in Assembly
Saturn V Second Stage in Assembly 
Intertank Assembly for the Delta Clipper
Intertank Assembly for the Delta Clipper 
Composite Intertank Assembly for the Delta Clipper
Composite Intertank Assembly for the Delta Clipper 
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Thruster Assembly and LH2 Tank for the Delta Clipper DC-XA 
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Delta Clipper Prepared for Test Flight 
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Satellite Payload for Thor Space Launch 
Saturn V first Stage Assembly at NASA Michoud
Saturn V first Stage Assembly at NASA Michoud 
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Unique Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) Configuration for Ulysses

The Boeing-developed Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), an unpiloted, upper-stage booster rocket, could be launched from the Titan 34D or Titan IV expendable launch vehicles or from the Space Shuttle. In 1989, the IUS sent the Magellan and Galileo spacecraft to Venus and Jupiter, respectively. In 1990 it sent the Ulysses spacecraft to the sun. A typical Boeing IUS mission launched from a Titan IVB involves IUS separation from the rocket's second-stage booster approximately nine minutes into flight. The IUS takes over responsibility for the remainder of the powered portion of the flight. For the next six hours and 54 minutes, the IUS autonomously performs all functions to place the spacecraft into its proper orbit, some 22,000 miles above the Earth. The first IUS rocket burn occurs a little over one hour into the IUS booster flight. The IUS second solid rocket motor ignites about six-and-a-half hours into the flight, followed by a coast phase, and then, separation of the spacecraft. Between 1983 and 2001, the Boeing Inertial Upper Stage successfully deployed more than 20 critical U.S. defense and interplanetary satellite missions into high Earth orbits. 
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