Sentences with phrase «fuel rocket engine»

The US has no really big liquid - fuel rocket engine in production today, and historically has been averse to large engine clusters.

Plait updates his blog daily, often including new images from major observatories or cool gizmos that NASA is testing (methane - fueled rocket engines, anyone?).

Not exact matches

During that time, it analyzes the fuel, the engines, and other aspects of the rocket to make sure everything is functioning properly.

When it's finished, an engineer will be able to walk right over to the manufacturing floor and see a rocket engine milled from a piece of stainless steel or a fuel tank formed from giant sheets of aluminum.

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

The biggest stumbling block VASIMR faces, as Chang Díaz readily acknowledges, is that even once it is scaled up to operate in the tens - of - megawatts range, which would be required to overtake traditional rockets in long - distance travel, it's still just an engine that doesn't run on fuel.

Powerful rocket engines could transport us at blistering speeds on spaceplanes that minimise their fuel weight in an innovative way

An example of what rocketeers call a pintle engine, even to a lay observer it is brilliantly straightforward, with one high - pressure coaxial fuel injector to mix rocket - grade kerosene and liquid oxygen instead of the hundreds of smaller injector holes used in other rocket engines.

Ion exhaust is much faster than the exhaust from a chemical rocket, so an ion engine can produce 10 times as much thrust from each pound of fuel.

Rocket engines, gas turbines and diesel engines experience conditions in their combustion chamber that exceed the critical conditions of their fuel, and supercritical finely atomized sprays are used to coat tablets in the production of medicines.

Both variants of the SLS reuse space shuttle main engines — and both could feature shuttle - style solid rocket boosters, although one also has the option of liquid - fuel boosters.

Black Armadillo's latest breakdown occurred when the rocket ran out of fuel about 180 metres into the air during the engine's first full - throttle test.

Engines that can electrically produce and manipulate ionized gas are so efficient that they require only one tenth the fuel that a chemically propelled rocket would need to reach the asteroid belt.

Hydrogen, being an extremely light element, makes up only about 5 % of the weight of a rocket fuel mixture, and can thus be imported from Earth; heavy insulation and some gelling of the mixture with methane (as the hydrogen will not be fed directly into an engine) will reduce in - space boil - off to negligible levels.

The most realistic of these space transportation options calls for the elimination of both rocket fuel and rocket engines — replacing them with sails.

We can't feed rocket fuel to a town car engine.

Anyway, that engine, highly resilient at birth (like ours) and relentlessly upgraded throughout the early years (unlike ours), has no problem accepting rocket fuel.

In some engines, especially for turbine engine blade cooling and liquid rocket engine cooling, fuel is used as a coolant, as it is simultaneously preheated before injecting it into a combustion chamber.

Add to that the details we were being provided by the engineer about the high - tech, fragile - sounding stuff inside the engine — the «i - VTEC,» a system of «intelligent» valve timing that allows all 16 valves to open and close at precisely the correct time, for precisely the correct duration; a compression ratio of 11:1, more like a race - car engine than a passenger car; and a fuel injection system so sophisticated that rocket scientists would be scratching their heads.

The sportier Cooper S model receives a new engine for 2014 as well, and this is the one to go for if you prefer your go - kart handling with an extra shot of rocket fuel.

A rocket sled with a 2.3 - liter, four - cylinder engine pumping out 160 horsepower, thanks to electronic fuel injection, a responsive fluid - cooled turbocharger and an intercooler, which lowers the temperature of the air being rammed into the engine for improved combustion and extra thrust.

The relatively small, fuel - injected engine does a commendable job of keeping the van up with traffic, but do not expect it to turn the 3,500 - pound van into a land rocket.