Sentences with phrase «v rocket stage»

Based on the object's appearance and calculations of the path it must have followed through space for the past 3 decades, astronomers are fairly certain it is the Saturn V rocket stage.

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It would also require tens of millions of pounds of thrust (Saturn V created 7.5 million) and around 30 to 40 rockets in its first stage (Saturn V had five).

Once the booster has used up its fuel dozens of miles above Earth, it detaches, and the second - stage rocket motor ignites.

Musk has seen success of the two - stage rocket Falcon 9, which completed nine launches and landings, and earlier this year a rocket finish a second successful mission.

Elon Musk has some interesting plans for the landing of the upper stage of the two - stage Falcon 9 rocket and it involves a «giant party balloon.»

Since its first attempt in January 2015, SpaceX has been trying to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rockets on a floating ocean platform.

That's because Falcon Heavy essentially takes the Falcon 9 system, which SpaceX has now launched and landed quite a few times, and adds two identical first - stage boosters (which provide most of the rocket's thrust) to the sides of the central booster, cranking up the power.

In December 2015, SpaceX did something no commercial aerospace company had done before: It launched a satellite into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, then safely landed the rocket's lower half, called a first - stage booster, on a launchpad.

After the BFR (also called a first stage) runs out of fuel, the spaceship would separate from the rocket and fire its own engines.

SES, a Luxembourg - based satellite operator, announced Tuesday it has signed an agreement with SpaceX to launch a communications satellite on a recovered Falcon 9 rocket stage.

A military satellite launched by Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies appears to have crashed into the sea following a malfunction in the latter stages of its ascent, representing a potential setback for the billionaire's rocket program.

Boeing built the first stage for the Saturn V, the most powerful U.S. rocket ever built, which took men to the moon.

In response to a question about the planned Falcon 9 first - stage rocket landing, Musk said the stage would use «mostly gravity» to stay on the robotic ship, with «steel shoes over the landing feet as a precautionary measure.»

But he has warned that the Heavy is a complex rocket with 27 first - stage engines, and that it, too, could explode.

My kids proudly show off their creations — rocket ships, boats, airplanes, mazes for their Hexbugs, houses, towers, stages for their talent shows, ice cream cones, etc. — and have just as much fun knocking them down before building again.

Japan has also developed the M - V three - stage solid - fuel rocket, somewhat similar in design to the U.S. LGM - 118A Peacekeeper ICBM, giving it a missile technology base.

During a 12 - 13 October ESA council meeting in Paris, the agency decided to begin negotiations with Russia for a rocket that would launch the first stage of ExoMars, in 2016, in exchange for Russian participation in the mission.

Its upper - stage rockets had failed to fire after its initial ascent, and the craft never left Earth's orbit.

SpaceX has also been testing a reusable booster for its current Falcon 9 rocket, and has made several unsuccessful attempts to land the booster stage on a drone ship this year.

Kepler was set to launch on a Delta II rocket, and those rockets were having trouble at the third stage.

Having just one kind of first - stage engine in all of its rockets «is like Southwest Airlines deciding to use only 737s,» says Musk.

Sandia National Laboratories has successfully demonstrated a new, more environmentally friendly method to test a rocket part to ensure its avionics can withstand the shock from stage separation during flight.

Nope — it's just the 33 - year - old third stage of the Saturn V rocket that hurled Apollo 12 to the moon back in November 1969.

That would be high enough to release a satellite with an expendable upper - stage rocket.

Galileo had been due to begin this journey sitting on the tip of a Centaur rocket stage, which would power it to Jupiter after it was hefted into space inside a space shuttle's cargo bay.

That would mean reusing the rocket's upper stage, as well as its protective payload fairing (the nose cone).

It also includes spent upper - stage rockets, used to loft the satellites into orbit, and items that have escaped the grasp of butterfingered astronauts, such as the glove Ed White dropped in 1965 as he became the first American to walk in space, and the tool kit that slipped from Heide Stefanyshyn - Piper's hand during a 2008 space walk.

While most rockets have three or four stages, this one has just two, and it runs on refined kerosene that costs less per gallon than regular unleaded at a California gas station.

In his 20 minutes on stage, he quietly, confidently, even humbly announced that his small, unknown company was about to launch a revolutionary new rocket that would commercialize space for the first time in history.

Starliner will fly atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V N22 (meaning it has no payload fairing, two strap - on solid rocket boosters and a dual - engine Centaur upper stage) from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 41, while Crew Dragon will fly atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A.

SpaceX came close to a milestone today when its Falcon 9 rocket deployed a NASA satellite into space, and then had the first stage robotically guide itself to a landing on a drone ship floating off the coast of California.

The adapter connecting the top of the rocket's upper stage to the spacecraft, for example, is a new piece that has been meticulously designed and must be built with equal care.

The spacecraft would then be maneuvered 180 degrees and separated from the rocket's third stage.

The satellite is scheduled to launch March 30, 2017, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket whose first stage has already flown to space once before.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Rocket League has DLC in the form of new stages, cars, and accessories.

On top of the platforming, there's a variety of stages that you'll find yourself within such as ones where you ride a perpetually moving mine cart, segments that have you try to navigate through tricky situations while holding onto a rocket barrel, underwater parts that are actually fun, and even levels where you can only see shadows.

Robert Downey Jr's wise - cracking Tony Stark routine has worn a bit thin at this stage, but Cumberbatch is fun as the condescending Doctor Strange, and Bradley Cooper steals some of the film's best lines while providing the voice of the sarcastic racoon bounty hunter Rocket.

On a warm night in October, Elon Musk walked out onto a stage just a few hundred yards from his Space X rocket factory to face a cheering crowd of enthusiasts who had been invited to see the unveiling of his latest, greatest thing.

In other words, what he wants to find is a business which most people don't realize has the equivalent of the second stage of a rocket that will send it even faster into space.

While it does not take rocket science to determine that the dog in the image to the left has big oral health problems, at what stage of dental disease should we start treating your dog or cat?

After the announcement of Rocket League getting 4K and HDR support at the Xbox E3 stage for Xbox One X, Psyonix has also announced it's offering their game for free if current Xbox Live Silver members upgrade to three months of Xbox Live Gold.

Boss levels are a ton of fun, as well as the Invaded versions of stages you have already completed (these require you to race against the clock before 3 Teensies are set off on rockets into the sky, and are quite challenging).

Throw in bizarre changes of pace like skateboard scenes and clinging on to a rocket midway through a regular stage, and you've got a marvelous, unique, and very fun game that anyone can enjoy.

Doom «s nine multiplayer maps will feature plenty of hazards outside of the players trying to take you down with rocket launchers, it looks like each stage has a few ways to kill you as well.

In a particular stage, you'll learn that heat is required for rocket boost recharging, so you'll have to use it sparingly, but don't worry as you'll have plenty of opportunities to recharge.

If rocket stages can be refurbished and relaunched, the cost of traveling to space could be greatly reduced, Mr. Musk has said.

As guests filter into the attraction, they see various props and costumes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, presented as parts of his collection, before learning that Rocket Raccoon has found a way to stage a massive jailbreak, with the help of those riding the attraction.

Elon Musk, the company founder, has said he wants to make the entire rocket, including the Falcon 9 upper stage, completely reusable by the end of this year.

After a year of successful launches and recoveries of the Falcon 9 rocket's first stages, Musk has his sights set on heavier payloads, more launches, and bigger missions — all of which will theoretically be possible with the introduction of SpaceX's newest rocket: the Falcon Heavy.