Sentences with phrase «by space rocket»

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A space - faring rocket built by traditional manufacturing methods consists of about 100,000 parts.

Gilliland notes private company Solara bested the government - funded Human Genome Project by hitting important milestones first, and Elon Musk's SpaceX found a way to send rockets into space for a fifth the cost of a NASA launch.

Musk notched a milestone in space on Tuesday by successfully launching the most powerful commercial rocket in the world with a Tesla Roadster sports car on board to demonstrate the kind of payload it can handle.

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, is poised to make good on its promise to slash the cost of launching things into space.

Martin Ross, another of the paper's authors, who works at the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., explains that hybrid motors favoured by space tourism companies are safer, cheaper to run, and quicker to refuel than the liquid or solid rocket boosters that have dominated rocketry thus far.

From 1960 to 1962, the Marshall Space Flight Center began designing the rockets that would eventually be used by the Apollo Program.

The Air Force said that Thursday's launch was the X-37B program's fifth space flight and the first to be sent aloft on a rocket by Elon Musk's private space cargo company SpaceX.

Musk is CEO, majority owner, and head rocket designer at SpaceX, an aerospace start - up in El Segundo, California, that by 2011 plans to be hauling astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

Yet, SpaceX — the spaceflight company created by Telsa founder and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk — had imagined a way to drastically cut the cost of launching anything into space: simply make the rocket re-usable.

With all the innovations in space travel, Bigelow believes at least one rocket - powered transportation company will be operational by 2018.

By the end of the next decade, neither spacecraft that take off and land from a runway like a conventional jet airliner nor reusable rockets will be outside the realm of possibility, and either could change the calculus of human space travel.

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.

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.

The only rocket that was ever able to carry more stuff into space than Falcon Heavy was the Saturn V rocket, which was developed and used by NASA for its Apollo moon missions in the 1960s and 70s.

Now the rocket company, led by Elon Musk, is on the verge of passing another important landmark: launching a used one back into space.

These contracts are not only lucrative but historic, as Boeing and SpaceX will play a pivotal role in the future of manned space travel, by establishing what will essentially be a taxi service to and from low - Earth orbit and eliminating America's reliance on Russian Soyuz rockets.

With a rocket - powered test flight, the billionaire's space transportation company moves closer to its goal of shuttling tourists into space by 2014.

SpaceX says it has lowered the cost of space travel by 30 percent by introducing reusable rockets.

SpaceX continues to work toward one of its key goals — developing fully and rapidly reusable rockets, a feat that will transform space exploration by delivering highly reliable vehicles at radically reduced costs.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.

In 2002, before the sale of PayPal even went through, Musk started voraciously reading about rocket technology, and later that year, with $ 100 million, he started one of the most unthinkable and ill - advised ventures of all time: a rocket company called SpaceX, whose stated purpose was to revolutionize the cost of space travel in order to make humans a multi-planetary species by colonizing Mars with at least a million people over the next century.

Reusable rockets such as those being developed by Blue Origin is believed to significantly reduce the costs of flying to space.

His next project: SpaceX, a closely held rocket company that was tapped by NASA to take over space shuttle's role of resupplying the International Space Staspace shuttle's role of resupplying the International Space StaSpace Station.

He's also CEO of SpaceX, a rocket manufacturer tapped by NASA to resupply the space station.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump are in the latest big Twitter feud, with Bezos throwing shade by suggesting that Trump take a trip to space in the Blue Origin rocket - and stay there.

The successful solo flight of the world's most powerful rocket ushered in a new space exploration era driven by the private sector.

This undated artist rendering provided by Space Exploration Technologies (Space X), shows Space Exploration Technology's new rocket Falcon Heavy.

The Houston area is now a hub for commercial space ventures including SpaceX, Sierra Nevada Corp, and Ad Astra Rocket Company (AARC)-- who are working to develop advanced plasma rocket propulsion using a concept which has been in development by the company's CEO sinceRocket Company (AARC)-- who are working to develop advanced plasma rocket propulsion using a concept which has been in development by the company's CEO sincerocket propulsion using a concept which has been in development by the company's CEO since 1979.

While spending down his formidable fortune — currently estimated to be $ 78.4 billion by Bloomberg — to fund reusable rocket research and space tourism might seem an odd choice, Bezos said last year that it's all part of a long - held dream.

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If you have the outdoor space this works really well if followed by a film canister rocket.

You may not want your son to be a «Star Boy» or «Space Boy» but there is no stopping this trend of baby names inspired by actual places from sky rocketing into popular use.

What a great chance to learn about space by exploring the planets, stars, sun, moon and even ride some cool rocket ships!

(The students did capture particles in space, but they turned out to be aluminum oxide spheres, produced by rocket exhaust.)

In fact, an entire industry of nimble space - vehicle ventures has sprung up in recent years, including SpaceX, headed by PayPal founder Elon Musk; Armadillo Aerospace, started by computer - game developer John Carmack; Blue Origin, a pet project of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos; and SpaceDev, which came up with the novel rocket engine that powered SpaceShipOne.

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

Because the earth's atmosphere is essentially opaque to X rays from space, instruments are placed above most of the atmosphere by means of Aerobee rockets fired from the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico.»

Instead of rocketing astronauts off into deep space, the Asteroid Redirect Mission would send a robotic spacecraft to a small asteroid, secure it (potentially by grabbing it and stuffing it into a giant high - tech bag) and tow it back to orbit the moon using a hyper - efficient kind of rocket engine technology called solar electric propulsion.

The SpaceLiner, a hydrogen - powered rocket plane conceived by the German Space Agency, could someday carry up to 50 passengers through the upper atmosphere.

The founders estimate that printing parts in space could reduce the structural mass of objects by at least 30 percent, because the objects would not need to survive Earth's gravity or the extreme G - forces of launching into orbit aboard a rocket.

Boosted by a rocket engine, a ballistic missile sails into space before releasing a warhead that plummets to its target under the force of gravity.

A rocket built by a group of Danish space enthusiasts reached an altitude of 2 kilometres on its maiden flight last week from its base in the Baltic Sea.

On September 29, the flames of a Long March - 2FT1 rocket lit the night sky over the Gobi Desert as China launched its Tiangong - 1 space lab, a first step toward the construction and deployment of an orbiting manned space station by 2020.

The patent goes on to give detailed plans for a space module that is launched into near - Earth orbit by rocket, and then blasted into space by onboard solid - propellant engines.

Like its rival SpaceX, Blue Origins is aiming to reduce the cost of space flight by reusing rocket components.

To test this theory - about - a-theory, project FOKUS funded by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) today launched a high - altitude research rocket to send various types of clocks into space and back again.

When the Ariane space rocket lifts off, it is fuelled not just by hydrocarbons and liquid oxygen but by the brainpower that goes into numerous calculations, computer simulations, and test flights.

Blue Origin, an aerospace company based in Kent, Washington, and led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is working on a rocket - propelled vehicle called New Shepard to carry people and microgravity experiments on suborbital trips into space.

Topping the list of issues is the agency's ability to fly the space shuttle safely while developing its replacement, the Ares I rocket and Orion crew capsule, slated to be ready to fly by 2015.