Sentences with phrase «for getting into orbit»

Comet Hitchhiker requires a tether made from a material that can withstand the enormous tension and heat generated by a rapid decrease in speed for getting into orbit and landing.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, SpaceDev, the rocket motor supplier for SpaceShipOne, is also working on a manned orbital vehicle, funding itself not only through rocket motor sales but through contracts with NASA — which might eventually be willing to pay big bucks to a private company to get government astronauts into orbit.

I want to hang out with other humanitarians or philosophers or existentialists or nihilists and enjoy life and get advice on how I could make enough money to go into space and orbit around the Earth for a little while.

Whatever the reason, NASA's later grants to O'Neill, which continued till around 1980, according to Patrick McCray, a historian whose recent book includes chapters on O'Neill, tended to focus on his work on a mass propulsion system — potentially suitable for getting things up into orbit, but not explicitly space - colony - related.

Over the years, Easley produced code that went on to be used in renewable energy research, including batteries for early hybrid vehicles, as well as for the high - thrust liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen Centaur rocket used to get space capsules into orbit.

The two researchers claim that their design could get satellites into low Earth orbit for around $ 1,400 per pound.

Of course, you don't have to go into orbit to get your hands on a space pen — earthbound folks can own one for the low, low price of $ 50.

The reason for the push to get a satellite, any satellite, into orbit was because of information coming from overseas about the Americans, says Ivanovskiy.

The report, Pathways to Exploration — Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration, responds to a charge from Congress in the 2010 NASA Authorization Act to examine the rationales that underpin human exploration, articulate its «value proposition» — what the public believes it gets out of human spaceflight versus what they put into it monetarily, and evaluate options — «pathways» — for moving beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).

Every once in a while, for reasons that we still don't quite understand, one of these objects gets bumped out of its orbit and drops into the inner solar system.

Manufacturing also has begun for the fuel and oxygen tanks of the Centaur upper stage that will provide the final push to get the CST - 100 and its crews into Earth orbit.

He was the backbone of the RSC for years before he got into orbit with Star Trek.

There's a very, very long line of «the next» in this book's future but there's a nasty surprise in store for those who aren't aware of how this book actually gets into orbit.

Clare County Library launches Space Hop — this year's Summer Reading Challenge All fifteen branches of Clare County Library are getting ready to launch children into orbit for an intergalactic adventure that will keep them reading throughout the school summer holidays — with the 2010 Summer Reading Challenge.

Also nominated for Best Game Audio were Stack & Crack, a 3D puzzle game by Jambav from India; Orbit — Playing With Gravity, a game that has players launching planets and attempting to get them into stable orbits around black holes, by HIGHKEY Games from the United States; and Rumble League, a real - time, action packed strategy game by Lorraine Studio of the United States.

This news sent the Infinity world into orbit and Disney did a great job in building up hype for the new game, with constant new trailers and announcements afterwards, but Disney's decision to live stream the announcement was a great boost as fans around the globe got to take part in the event.

Say, for argument's sake, that I am giving a presentation about satellites, and I want to talk about the rocket launchers used to get satellites into Earth orbit and the amount of fuel they consume, and I want to talk about why this is a big number.