what does the space shuttal use to put satallites into orbit?

Answer 1

They either float them out or use a robotic arm to place them outside their storage. ~

Answer 2

Well actually they don't use the shuttle for that anymore.

NASA designed the shuttle to do many things, one of them was launch satilites. The way the system worked was the satilite was carried up into orbit by the shuttle. Then once in orbit the cargo bay doors would open and the satilite would be deployed... I believe they used a spring system (I could be wrong) to give the sat a push out of the cargo bay. (You don't want to turn on a rocket engine inside the cargo bay...shuttle go BOOM! if that happens.)

Then when the sat had drifted far enough away from the shuttle that it would be safe to do so, a rocket attached to the satilite would fire and boost the sat to its' proper orbit.

NASA didn't get a lot of buisness for this (the shuttle isn't as dependable as an unmaned booster, and a lot more expensive) so they pushed the service onto other NASA programs. The Magellan Probe to Venus and the Gallello probe to Jupiter were both launched this way and the wait involved in having to take the shuttle is thought to be responsible for a number of problems Gallello later had.

After Challenger blew up, people at NASA began to question the wisdom of having a fully armed rocket engine in the cargo bay of a manned space ship. The thought of what could go wrong if it fired at the wrong time... well that struck several folks as somewhat less than safe, so NASA cancelled any further deployments of satilites with the Shuttle.

So that is how they used to do it.

Answer 3

The shuttel carries the satellites in its cargo hold then opens the cargo hold doors and the satellite floats out, it is going at the same orbital speed as the shuttle itself, then the shuttle slowly and carefully pulls away and the satellite is left in its orbit.

Answer 4

It just rockets and gravity.