Sentences with phrase «burn rocket fuel»

Wright said ICBMs burn rocket fuel for about three to five minutes before deploying a warhead on top.

Not exact matches

Space rockets work in a similar way to the bottle, but instead of squirting water they burn fuel to make a powerful jet of hot gas.

Whereas rockets usually burn fuel to achieve propulsion, his approach wouldn't involve burning anything.

Three stages of the Vega rocket burned their fuel and detached as planned in the first 7 minutes of flight.

SpaceShipTwo's rockets will burn nitrous oxide — but only briefly — as the spaceship would require no fuel for takeoff, reentry and landing.

A multistage (or multi-stage) rocket is, like any rocket, propelled by the recoil pressure of the burning gases it emits as it burns fuel.

Liquid - fuelled rockets force separate fuel and oxidiser components into the combustion chamber, where they mix and burn.

Making water Matt Damon's character took hydrazine from the rocket fuel and dissociated it into nitrogen and hydrogen, which you can do, and he burned the hydrogen with oxygen to make water.

It's partly because, ironically, the burning of fossil fuels, coal, oil, gas, to give us the energy in a very short period of time, dense forms of energy that enable us to send rockets into space, that enable us to power submersibles into the sea, and instrumentation that gives us communication.

For instance there is chemical bond energy in rocket fuel and some of that fuel is burned outside the earth's atmosphere.

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