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Unique Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) Configuration for Ulysses
Unique Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) Configuration for Ulysses 
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 
Ulysses Probe in Orbit with Inertial Upper Stage (IUS)
Ulysses Probe in Orbit with Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) 
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 
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J-2 Thrust Chamber Production Line 
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Satellite Payload for Thor Space Launch 
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J-2 Thrust Chamber Production Line 
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Delta Clipper Nearing Completion 
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Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) in Laboratory

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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