Sentences with phrase «of rocketing power»

The cost for German households and businesses, in terms of rocketing power prices, has been colossal and the effect on its grid is both costly and chaotic (a point picked up in the second piece in today's post).

It takes huge blasts of rocket power to free spacecraft of Earth's gravity, but only a tiny nudge to correct a satellite's orbit, dodge space debris, or counter the slight but pernicious force of sunlight.

Instead, we're looking at things from the perspective of these Rocket Powered Battle Cars being a reality.

Fast forward 20 + years and players can now re-enter this shiny, colourful, and ridiculously fast - paced world of rocket powered hovercraft racing with the WipEout Omega collection, which is a three - pack entry containing WipEout HD, WipEout Fury, and WipEout 2048, all rendered in glorious HD (or 4k for you Pro owners) at a blisteringly smooth 60 fps.

This is the most fun you'll ever have behind the wheel of a rocket powered football playing car.

Not exact matches

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.

Then SABRE will flip to rocket power, taking the spacecraft to low Earth orbit and reaching speeds of Mach 25 — more than 19,000 miles per hour.

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.

Virgin Galactic successfully completes the first rocket - powered flight of its spacecraft Unity.

This fuel has the benefit of being more dense than other rocket propellants, so you can pack more of it into rocket - fuel tanks — which adds to the power — but the trade - off is that you have to chill it at minus 340 degrees Fahrenheit.

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.

Meanwhile, the aircraft's rocket motor incinerated itself in its first test, and then kept falling just short of the needed power.

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Virgin Galactic had paused its rocket - powered test flights since the October 2014 crash that killed one of its pilots.

[CEO Pavel] Durov's idea is to launch an entirely new blockchain, using the Telegram's 180 million users as rocket fuel to power forward into mainstream adoption off cryptocurrency and making Telegram, effectively, a kingmaker of other cryptocurrencies, because of its existing scale.

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

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

Furnish gained a lot of power after becoming legendary musician Elton John's partner, and he used his influence and position at Rocket Entertainment Group to champion LGBT rights in a number of ways.

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Musk, whose interests span electric cars, solar power and space rockets, isn't interested in commercially developing the idea, so a number of companies, including HTT, have pounced on it.

In this one lunch alone, we covered electric cars, climate change, artificial intelligence, the Fermi Paradox, consciousness, reusable rockets, colonizing Mars, creating an atmosphere on Mars, voting on Mars, genetic programming, his kids, population decline, physics vs. engineering, Edison vs. Tesla, solar power, a carbon tax, the definition of a company, warping spacetime and how this isn't actually something you can do, nanobots in your bloodstream and how this isn't actually something you can do, Galileo, Shakespeare, the American forefathers, Henry Ford, Isaac Newton, satellites, and ice ages.

With more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff — equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft at full power — Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two.

«With more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff — equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft at full power — Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two,» SpaceX tweeted on Tuesday night.

Falcon Heavy is SpaceX's most powerful rocket to date, with the thrust power of three Falcon 9 strapped together.

He is co-founder and CEO of electric car maker Tesla, founder and CEO of rocket company SpaceX, and the chairman of solar power provider SolarCity.

The first decade of the 21st century, however, would bear witness to a spectacular turning point in the private launch timeline: the arrival on the scene of disruptive billionaire tech entrepreneurs with some truly ostentatious rocket - powered ambitions.

Yesterday, Apollo Power (TASE: APLP) became the latest stock market company in Israel to announce that it was looking to become active in cryptocurrencies - an announcement that sent the company's share price rocketing by as much as 150 % in the course of yesterday's session.

The first X Prize, for the first private piloted vehicle to reach space, led to the development of SpaceShipOne, a rocket - powered plane that made two flights in two weeks in 2004 to win the $ 10 million prize.

Second: Because of the Internet's power to instantly broadcast information, good or bad, the time it takes for this kind of price run to get underway and rocket off into space has been greatly compressed.

Durov's idea is to launch an entirely new blockchain, using the Telegram's 180 million users as rocket fuel to power forward into mainstream adoption off cryptocurrency and making Telegram, effectively, a kingmaker of other cryptocurrencies, because of its existing scale.

, and rocketed toward the undeniable, undebatable summit of his artistry, charisma, power, and popularity.

In September 2006 he released his second solo record, FutureSex / LoveSounds, and rocketed toward the undeniable, undebatable summit of his artistry, charisma, power, and popularity.

It's power or productivity that can be measured, and the people who come up with the measurements aren't poets or even rocket scientists (most often they're professors of education).

He believed that the tools of CGM were not enough and lacked the power of the Holy Spirit and said pithily, «The rocket itself, with all of its state of the art technology, will go nowhere without the fuel.»

The Oakland A's and the San Francisco Giants, surprising triumphs of teamwork, snatched their division leads and raced off like rocket - powered thieves.

Robert Truax, the president of the American Rocket Society who designed the steam - powered Sky - Cycle, gave Knievel an 80 - 20 chance of survival, and Evel figured his odds of making it across the canyon were something less than 50 - 50.

Israel withdrew its army and 8,000 settlers from Gaza Strip; the power vacuum was soon filled by Hamas, and this densely populated coastal strip became a launching pad for thousands of rockets against Israeli civilian areas, provoking two mini-wars.

Starting intercontinental rockets is an act of strength and power.

What does a European rocket launch from Guiana have to do with the rise of global people power?

Having purged the moderate Palestinians from their territory, Hamas have rocketed the power station in the Israeli city of Ashqelon which provides electricity to Gaza itself.

«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.

Han's team has designed two versions of a spaceplane that takes off vertically under its own rocket power.

«We will deploy VASIMR as a solar - powered rocket that can engage in a number of important near - Earth activities,» he says.

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.

Some estimates have put the cost of each shuttle mission at as much as $ 1.5 billion — NASA itself reckons $ 450 million — and NASA has been drawing up wish lists of technologies it would like to use the spare cash to create, such as nuclear - powered rockets for trips to Mars and vehicles able to reach Earth orbit using power from ground - based lasers.

So far, NASA's efforts have centered mainly on sorting out the aerodynamics of the CEV and its rocket, along with a launch - abort system and a «service module» that stays attached to the CEV until shortly before reentry, providing it with power and propulsion.

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

In the hobby today, there are two distinct areas of rocket activity: amateur (or experimental) rocketry, and model rocketry (including high powered rocketry).

Curiosity's chauffeur carried the rover though space for eight months and — with the help of a heat shield, a parachute, and a rocket - powered platform — deposited the rover gently on the surface of Mars on August 6.

But McKinney added the notion of powering the blades with a tiny rocket engine mounted on the tip of each blade.