Sentences with phrase «of rocket engines»

Yes, lots of Rocket Engines and traps here, including a tricky block snake room with lava moving rapidly upwards!

But with a forward boost from a set of rocket engines, the wings bump into more air, pushing more of that air down, which pushes the jet pack (and, hopefully, the person wearing it) up.

Russia has agreed to halt sales to India of rocket engines that the US feared could be used to launch nuclear - tipped missiles.

«There's a big debate going on in the technical community that works on these things, and it's exactly about how heavy the warhead would be that North Korea could build, and what capabilities they can get out of their rocket engines,» he said.

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.

Not exact matches

So there's seven engines in the center cluster, those would be the ones that that move, for steering the rocket, and the other ones would be fixed in position, which gives us the best concentration of — we can max out the number of engines because we don't have to leave any room for gimbaling or moving the engine.

Of course, successfully testing an engine is one thing — building and launching an entire rocket is another.

The alliance — a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin — is in the final stages of negotiating which engine will power its next - generation rocket.

In theory, the company's SABRE engine will be capable of operating as a jet at take - off and transitioning to a rocket at higher altitudes.

Bezos» Blue Origin is rapidly passing milestones with its BE-4 engine, SpaceX astounded millions with its Falcon Heavy launch, Virgin Galactic completed the first powered flight of its Unity rocket and Bigelow took the next step toward the world's first habitable private space station with Bigelow Space Operations.

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

The countdown clock actually reached T - 00:00:00, and the rocket looked as if it were about to lift off at 7:21 p.m. ET, when the computer in control of the rocket suddenly shut the engines down.

«Rocket engines in general are very sooty compared to jet engines, and we think these hybrids are the sootiest of all the hydrocarbon - based rocket engines,» RossRocket engines in general are very sooty compared to jet engines, and we think these hybrids are the sootiest of all the hydrocarbon - based rocket engines,» Rossrocket engines,» Ross says.

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 Falcon Heavy requires the simultaneous ignition of 27 engines, three times as many as the Falcon 9 rocket.

Workers also successfully test - fired all 27 of the rocket's Merlin engines in January, which are attached to the boosters in clusters of nine.

But it's also home to NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center, a federal «city» of government offices that revolve around the nation's largest rocket - engine test facility.

«We started to look at a little more detail in three areas» of the Aeon 1 engine, which powers the rocket, Ellis said.

At the time, the Stennis Space Center, located on 13,800 acres and home to billions of dollars of rocket - engine testing equipment, was generating a tremendous amount of research and knowledge, but no business growth.

The blast occurred in one of two bays the company uses to test Merlin rocket engines — nine of which line the bottom of every reusable Falcon 9 booster.

SpaceX engineers will then have to attach four room - size Raptor rocket engines and two other engines, plus all of the other internal propellant tanks, plumbing, and electronics that a rocket requires.

SpaceX was testing an experimental new version of its Merlin rocket engine at the time of the blast, a company source who is familiar with the matter told Business Insider.

Another eye - catching agreement was the sale of Russia's advanced space rocket engine, RD - 180, to China.

SpaceX released video of their most powerful rocket engine being tested in McGregor, TX.

They gamed Google at every turn, adjusted keyword density to a precise percentage, generated staggering amounts of copy on thousands of interlinked web pages — rocketing their clients» landing pages to the top of SERP 1 (the first search - engine - results page).

SpaceX tested the main core engine of its Falcon Heavy rocket at its facility in McGregor, Texas.

He says that NASA has paid only for the development of the Dragon spacecraft, and that SpaceX developed both the Merlin engine and the Falcon rocket completely on its own, with its original $ 100 million in capital.

Atyam has worked at Space - X, GLXP Team Moon Express, Purdue's Zucrow Laboratory, NASA JPL (x2), LaRC (x2), and MSFC starting from the age of 17 and has led multiple successful NASA funded projects including the production and testing of the first and second fully 3D printed liquid rocket engine from a university.

Ursa Major is developing high performing, 3D - printed rocket engines at a fraction of the cost of traditional engines.

I will tell this story backwards, because the first act of this story, condensed into a single image, is a rocket ship full of manhole covers at 25,000 feet and falling, its engines burning and whipping it into a tailspin and toward the ocean of a cursed, deserted Earth.

The engine recently produced an output of more than 200 kilowatts, an order of magnitude above previous technology, making it «by far the world's most powerful plasma rocket,» Chang Díaz says.

«They will tell us what we need to know to build rocket engines that can handle megawatts of power,» says applied physicist Tim Glover, a board member and co-founder of Ad Astra.

The rocket engines can be used for thousands of flights, potentially making scientific ventures more affordable.

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.

To my surprise, the official is well aware of Richard Branson's space enterprise and recalls the rocket engine tests over the summer.

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.

An automatic engine shutdown triggered the crash of the rocket and its payload, an experimental communications satellite called FalconSat - 2.

The traditional definition of a rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving fluid from within a rocket engine.

And then there is the best kind of rocket physicists can imagine: engines that smash together matter and antimatter to produce pure energy.

The BE-4 is slated to be ULA's engine of choice for its own new rocket, the Vulcan, which will have a reusable component.

Our BE-4 engine will also help make history as it powers the first flight of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan 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.

To find out what happened, astrophysicists at NASA's Ames facility devised an artificial environment full of crushed walnut shells to test the engines and found that the pulsing of the rockets on the Martian surface injected more gas into the soil than expected.

Having just one kind of first - stage engine in all of its rockets «is like Southwest Airlines deciding to use only 737s,» says Musk.

Huge rocket engines allowed the designers to ignore any gravitational effects more subtle than the tug of the planet they were leaving and that of the planet they were headed to.

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.

Wurst's idea is to mate the engine with a new airplane design, take the craft up to an altitude of about 30 miles, at which point the ramjets can no longer be used, coast to an altitude of 60 miles, then release the satellite payload with a small conventional rocket attached.

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.

> A propulsion module consisting of four stages, each with four Vulcain 2 rocket engines (now being readied for an upgrade of ESA's Ariane 5 rocket), to propel the spacecraft from low Earth orbit to Mars.