Sentences with phrase «had rocket boosters»

It's really hard to say; after all, the PS2 pretty much had rocket boosters attached to it — it was just

The Dream Chaser team touts the craft's advantages: its reusability, its horizontal landings (as opposed to the Soyuz - style parachute landings for a space capsule), and the reliability of the Atlas V rocket booster that will put it into orbit.

The biggest addition here: Mega Man could combine with Rush to have rocket boosters, allowing for flight.

Not exact matches

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

The Falcon Heavy has three boosters attached to each Falcon 9 rocket, and SpaceX has become quite good at recovering them for refurbishment and reuse.

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.

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.

It all started with a tweet to Musk, who had initially posted a video montage of SpaceX's previous failed efforts entitled «How Not to Land a Orbital Rocket Booster.»

The company, founded in 2002, has already had six missions in 2018, notably its February demonstration test flight of the Falcon Heavy, a powerful new rocket with three reusable side boosters designed to carry heavier payloads.

The system may even support two additional boosters to become a super-heavy-lift rocket that'd closely match the historic Saturn V rocket.

What's more, SpaceX is proving its ability to reuse rocket boosters, which if adopted widely would lower space programs» costs considerably.

Musk has said the rocket's outer cores for this upcoming launch are previously flown Falcon 9 boosters.

Tory MPs have put rocket boosters on their leadership contest, with nominations for David Cameron's...

Tory MPs have put rocket boosters on their leadership contest, with nominations for David Cameron's successor set to close this week.

Others want to use Brexit to put rocket boosters under our current economic system's insecurities and inequalities, turning Britain into a deregulated corporate tax haven with low wages, limited rights, and cut - price public services in what would be a destructive race to the bottom.

So just as we have done with the police, we'll put rocket boosters under direct entry and fast - track schemes to attract the very best into managing the prison system so that it can benefit from greater diversity, fresh ideas and new leadership.

The Heavy — essentially three SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosters strapped together — is the most powerful rocket launched since the Saturn V, which shot astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program.

Since the space age began, the orbital realm has become increasingly littered with the detritus of skyward human striving — spent rocket boosters, dead satellites, stray pieces of hardware.

SpaceX has landed Falcon 9 rockets 21 times on land or its robotic drone ships, and has reflown boosters six times, as part of the company's reusable - rocket program.

So my advice would be, let's just hope that there will be a bunch of companies like mine developing new rocket launchers, spaceships, and boosters, like we did in the»60s.

That spacecraft, like the new orbital launch vehicle, will feature a reusable rocket booster capable of vertical landings — a technology that space industry leaders have said can dramatically reduce the cost of commercial spaceflight.

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.

One was that the location had to be on the coast, over the ocean, so falling debris or spent rocket boosters would not drop on inhabited places during ascent.

SpaceX recently upgraded its Falcon 9 rocket, and today's flight was also the first time a Dragon cargo craft has been atop one of the updated booster.

An investigation later determined that the cold temperatures had compromised the solid rocket booster's delicate rubber O - ring and the faulty seal allowed flames to ignite the external tank's hydrogen fuel.

Although the spacecraft was lifted into Earth orbit faultlessly, it then failed to respond to commands from the ground and did not ignite its booster rockets which would set it on course for Phobos.

The rocket has two solid - fuel boosters and a main tank that carries 173 tons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen.

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.

With 16 successful rocket landings under its belt, along with two reused rockets and one reused Dragon spacecraft, Musk's rocket company has made giant leaps in reusable booster technology for sure.

On 23 June, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket using a booster that had already been to space, only the second time SpaceX has flown used boosters

Unlike the state - of - the - art boosters Arianespace has at its disposal, commercial rockets in the US are simply modernised versions of decades - old intercontinental missiles which are launched from decrepit launch sites.

The technique had been used to stabilize early booster rockets but to employ it on a satellite still required a leap of faith.

Booster rockets in those days were still relatively weak, so Rosen's satellite had to be lightweight.

The French Ariane 5 booster, which is to have its maiden flight next year, and Japan's H2 rocket, first launched in February, use modern technology that reduces the cost of the launches.

But its share has dropped to only 30 per cent, largely because American rockets are old - fashioned and more expensive to operate than their competitors» boosters.

To help aspiring lunar explorers, startup launch services firm Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of El Segundo, California, is offering to fly contestants» rovers on its Falcon rockets at cost, which would be about $ 7 million for its smallest booster.

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.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Powered aloft by its lone RD - 180 rocket engine and four Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ60A solid rocket boosters, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 launched the GOES - S weather satellite into orbit on behalf of NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

SOYUZ ROCKET: RUSSIA»S RELIABLE BOOSTER - The Soyuz rocket — not to be confused with the Soyuz spacecraft — is a line of Russian boosters that have seen variants fly since the mid-ROCKET: RUSSIA»S RELIABLE BOOSTER - The Soyuz rocket — not to be confused with the Soyuz spacecraft — is a line of Russian boosters that have seen variants fly since the mid-rocket — not to be confused with the Soyuz spacecraft — is a line of Russian boosters that have seen variants fly since the mid-1960s.

Sure he has some slick weaponry and some rocket boosters, but that's not going to mean anything against the full might of Thanos.

There were many things that could've gone wrong with the launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket in current operation and the first to use three reusable boosters.

It has everything you'd ever want in a car besides rocket boosters.

Here we have a cel - shaded Sci - Fi platformer that straps you into a sleek mech suit, points you at sprawling versatile levels and then lights the blue touch paper under massive rocket boosters.

It even increases the efficiency of your boost, because the booster at the apex of your jump has to start «pushing» against gravity, and with the bounce already moving you upwards that initial need for a «push» is nullified, meaning you get an immediate — and drastic — increase in your speed, allowing you to really rocket off.

Some of the items have a pointless mini game attached to them, and acquiring Pegasus in a level adds one of the worst mini games I have ever played; ride a stick - horse toy with a rocket booster collecting vinyl.

By your logic, because solid rocket boosters were used getting Apollo 11 off the ground, gravity can not have played any part in the rest of the journey to the moon.

No surprise, Twitter and other largely anonymous online fora allow this community of conspiracy to flourish — necessitating responses showing that no, NASA does not have a «cloud machine» but is instead testing its rocket boosters.

«In one chapter, he describes an impromptu experiment in which he showed how the O - rings in the shuttle's rocket boosters could have failed due to cold temperatures on the morning of the launch.

Steve Goddard (08:09:13): «In one chapter, he describes an impromptu experiment in which he showed how the O - rings in the shuttle's rocket boosters could have failed due to cold temperatures on the morning of the launch.