Sentences with phrase «skylon space vehicle»

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk told an audience at South by Southwest that his timeline for sending a space vehicle to Mars could mark its first milestone early next year.

In addition, Musk teased the use of the space vehicles as part of a high - speed transportation system around Earth.

Moog's high - performance systems control military and commercial aircraft, satellites and space vehicles, launch vehicles, missiles, automated industrial machinery, wind energy, marine and medical equipment.

When I operate robotic systems, I need to ensure I don't endanger my crewmates or damage the space vehicle.

Re-entry is the toughest recurring challenge for any space vehicle, and...» I stopped.

His machine now hangs in the Smithsonian — a stone's throw away from SpaceShipOne, the first private manned space vehicle.

In it, space nerds of all stripes will find a ton of engineering to marvel at, including a 35 - story space vehicle (and even the prospect the intercontinental rockets that could get you from London to New York in under a half an hour), as well as plenty of discussion of the many technical challenges to realize this dream.

XCOR Aerospace's rendering of its Lynx Mark III, a reusable space vehicle that will take off from a conventional runway

XCOR is pursuing the latter paradigm with its winged rocket - powered Lynx, a reusable space vehicle that will take off from a conventional runway and blast into suborbital space (roughly 330,000 feet, or 63 miles) powered by an onboard rocket motor before flying back to Earth and landing on a conventional runway.

'' (2) The improvement of the usefulness, performance, speed, safety, and efficiency of aeronautical and space vehicles;

Private spaceflight company Blue Origin is eyeing crewed test flights of its reusable suborbital space vehicle starting next year.

Based in Kent, Washington, this company manufactures spaceflight systems and offers guided missiles and space vehicles.

The company work with both private and government organizations globally and in 2015 signed an agreement with Blue Origin to offer integration services on their New Shepard space vehicle.

From our 20th century scientific perspective in which we have seen space vehicles that rise into the atmosphere, we might suppose that the ascension placed our Lord into orbit rather than into heaven.

But this is different from the kind of thinking that is necessary for two space vehicles to link up behind the moon, for this latter involves the kind of imageless thinking that is essential to modern physics.

A life - support system is analogous to the engineering system that maintains the environment inside the space vehicle to support the life of the cosmonauts.

The list can grow long very rapidly — atomic energy generating plants, supersonic transport planes (SST), jet aircraft, oral contraceptives, tranquilizers, television, communication satellites, space vehicles that take men to the moon and cameras to Mars and beyond, hundreds of synthetic fabrics, the aerosol can, direct long - distance dialing, heart transplants, advanced computers, and so on and on.

There is no room for chance in designing a space vehicle.

Lithium hydroxide is used to absorb carbon dioxide in space vehicles and it is alloyed with aluminium, copper, manganese, and cadmium to make high - performance alloys for aircraft.

Space Race «The success of Project Mercury's first manned orbital flight on February 20 may have set the stage for international co-operation in the exploration of space, as well as demonstrating through the performance of the astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., that men have a useful function in space vehicles.

The new space vehicles will carry astronauts back to the moon starting near the end of the next decade.

«Anyone under 50 here has never had a chance to work on a new space vehicle from the start,» says Greg Brauckmann, a NASA Langley aerodynamics and thermodynamics researcher who joined the agency in 1980, when the shuttle was already completed.

Developing new types of space vehicles that are reliable, economical, and practical.

This year, he said, «I was trained as a software developer for KSC's new firing room, where they will launch future manned and unmanned space vehicles, and spent most of my time developing code to test the various software displays for the liquid oxygen tank that is out at the launch pad.»

On May 25, just 10 months after NASA's final space shuttle flight, a cargo capsule called Dragon docked with the International Space Station, a first for a commercial space vehicle.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California: the birthplace of Sojourner, Cassini, Galileo, and most other unmanned NASA space vehicles, JPL specializes in the robotic exploration of space.

Sirangelo, whose pilot training qualifies him for the trip, figures there's no better way to assure NASA — and the public — that the private space vehicles can really fly.

Then I entered the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility, a brightly lit, hangarlike building filled with full - scale models of space station modules and the cockpit of the Soyuz.

No commercial space vehicles are certified to carry humans yet, but the race is on.

The daily routine within the Johnson Space Center may seem normal, but it is headed for certain change now that NASA's only space vehicle, which transported 852 people over 30 years, is out of service.

Overall it has participated in more than 300 space missions, providing everything from Internet - controlled microsatellites to hybrid propulsion systems and space vehicles.

The Expedition 40 crewmembers hope to document Cygnus» reentry Sunday as part of an engineering exercise to study the mechanics of the breakup of a space vehicle.

It is the only space vehicle from which astronauts have captured a satellite in orbit to be repaired in place, or brought back to Earth for repair and re-launch.

These efforts range from basic research about how polymers and other materials will react during the heating and deposition process to more industrial applications, such as developing a lower - cost, high - temperature process for working with thermoplastics used to make air and space vehicle components.

What will space vehicles look like in the coming decades?

In the same year that Dunbar entered university, NASA decided to build a reusable space vehicle.

The following year, he and Colozza wrote a paper for the now - defunct NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) about the use of electrohydrodynamics, or ionized particles, as an alternative to liquid fuel for powering space vehicles.

A larger, outdoor Martian landscape will be used to test the manoeuvrability of automatic space vehicles.

Payload makes up only about 5 per cent of the takeoff weight of a space vehicle; the huge amount of fuel the launcher needs to lift it into space makes up most of the rest.

Mars, or a small part of it, is to be recreated near Toulouse in order to test space vehicles.

To prepare for it, mission controllers outfit the deep - space vehicle with a high - thrust chemical rocket stage, carried up from Earth by an electrically propelled resupply tug.

The most basic deep - space vehicle would consist of two modules that could both be lofted into low Earth orbit with a single launch of the smallest of NASA's new SLS rockets.

After the crew returns to Earth, the deep - space vehicle remains in high Earth orbit, awaiting refueling and refurbishment for its first asteroid mission.

At the end of their stay, they board a launch vehicle filled with locally manufactured fuel, blast off to Mars orbit, rendezvous with a deep - space vehicle derived from the asteroid campaign and return to Earth.

The deep - space vehicle can be assembled by combining a few specialized elements.

Our fantastic team in Kent [Washington], Van Horn [Texas] and Cape Canaveral [Florida] is working hard not just to build space vehicles, but to bring closer the day when millions of people can live and work in space.»

NASA now has the best opportunity in a generation to refocus itself on new types of space vehicles that reach into interplanetary space.

Powered by the company's own BE-3 engine, the rocket kicked off the launchpad yesterday (Nov. 23) at 11:21 a.m. Central Time, carrying the New Shepard space vehicle.

Mission: 2008 EV5 In our plan, NASAs renaissance begins by constructing the means for people to travel between the planets — the deep - space vehicle.

Shannon said the space vehicles designed by NASA's Constellation Program to replace the space shuttle and ferry astronauts to the moon were «well thought out», but that the agency does not have enough money to make them a reality.