Sentences with phrase «on a rocket powered»

«You're coming in at 5,000 miles per hour or more, and you have to rely on rocket power alone — fired precisely at the right time — to get down softly.

Twin Falls is the eighth largest city in Idaho and marks the site of Evel Knievel's fateful 1974 jump over the Snake River on a rocket powered motorcycle.

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Virgin Galactic is «back on track» after completing its first rocket - powered test flight since a fatal crash in late 2014.

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Richard Branson's space company on Thursday completed its first rocket - powered test flight since 2014.

Artillery, rockets, missiles, and other munitions are scattered throughout the North — many in secret locations — and Kim's government maintains an ironclad hold on power.

XCOR is pursuing the latter paradigm with its winged rocket - powered Lynx, a reusable space vehicle that will take off from a conventional runway and blast into suborbital space (roughly 330,000 feet, or 63 miles) powered by an onboard rocket motor before flying back to Earth and landing on a conventional runway.

Face down on a triple - thruster, hydrogen peroxide - powered rocket - pimped Exotic Thermo Engineering Swiss Rocketman bicycle, the veteran speed demon roared past so fast that he left a Ferrari F430 Scuderia in his dust.

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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,» SpaceX tweeted on Tuesday night.

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.

Those three, and throw in Day, are the elite power hitters in golf and they will launch rocket after rocket through the first two rounds — even on a course that tends to mitigate that distance advantage.

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.

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.

Galileo had been due to begin this journey sitting on the tip of a Centaur rocket stage, which would power it to Jupiter after it was hefted into space inside a space shuttle's cargo bay.

The proposed main rocket is powered by liquid oxygen and methane, which could theoretically be extracted from soil on the moon or Mars.

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space station.

At the fringes of space, the dual - mode power plant would switch to a conventional rocket engine, drawing on the liquid hydrogen and a small supply of liquid oxygen to propel the winged craft into orbit at a final speed of Mach 25.

SLS like the Space Shuttle will be powered initially by two solid rocket boosters on the sides of the launch vehicle.

NASA recently performed a trial run on a rocket sled test fixture, powered by rockets, to replicate the forces a supersonic spacecraft would experience prior to landing.

Instead, a rocket - powered hovering stage will lower it to the surface on a tether.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — United Launch Alliance's ULA Mariner, a ship owned by Foss Marine, delivered the Atlas V 401 rocket which will be used to power NASA's Mars Atmosphere Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission on its way to Mars.

So far, the heftiest payload NASA has landed on Mars is the one - ton Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory rover, which touched down in August 2012 via parachutes and an innovative, rocket - powered sky crane.

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).

Jason RhianApril 5th The SpaceShip Company, using its VSS Unity spacecraft, successfully completed the vehicle's first supersonic, rocket - powered test flight on Thursday, April 5.

Featuring an all - star cast, this WW II adventure drama tells the story of a group of Allied operatives who are sent on a highly dangerous mission to destroy a Nazi installation, where long - range rockets are being developed that could tip the balance of power in favour of the German forces.

It may have its flaws, but there's no denying the amount of fun you'll have boosting past your opponents on your rocket - powered hydro jet.

Bottle Rocket — Wes Anderson's witty, Texas - tinged meditation on grand larceny and the bonds of childhood friendship — was by far the best of this lot, but Swingers, a cheaply made comedy about LA chick chasers that came out in early November to almost universal acclaim, seems to have demonstrated the most staying power.

on Nintendo Switch is the complete rocket - powered car soccer experience.

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Whether it's riding on the back of Rambi the Rhino and carefully guiding him through destructible blocks and rows of enemies, or zipping through the air on the back of a rocket - powered barrel, these sections are fast - paced and nicely challenging too.

Basically, you race around on a rocket - powered hydro jet while performing tricks to fill your boost gauge.

Of the three cars, it's arguably the most visceral when rocketing in a straight - line, despite having less power on tap than either the Volkswagen or the Hyundai.

Performance aficionados will love the immense power, stiffer suspension and upgraded brakes found on the AMG CLA45, a car capable of rocketing to 60 mph in just over four seconds.

Most importantly, when we mashed on the gas pedal, we were thrilled with the increased power, which actually managed to push us back in the seat as we rocketed down the road in a smooth, hybrid - powered burst of speed.

Beautiful; features include 324ci rocket V8 with automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes, power windows, power seats, power top and radial wide whitewall tires on three - bar spinner hubcaps.

While we were playing with Audi's smaller V8 - powered diesel Q7 (thanks to the folks at Honeywell), it looks like the multi-ringed brand was working on taking the rocket - powered powerhouse of an SUV to a whole new oil - burning level with the new Audi Q7 V12 TDI.

On my favorite back roads, I can largely leave the car in third gear and know there's always plenty of power to rocket me out of a turn.

Features include a 324ci rocket V8 engine with automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes, power windows, power seats, power top and three - bar spinner hubcaps on radial wide whitewall tires.

That power and that gearbox help rocket the 1,315 - kg car from zero to 100 km / h in 4.5 seconds, by the way, and on to a top speed of 290 km / h (180 mph).

At full power, the e-tron quattro concept rockets to 60 mph in 4.6 - seconds and on to its electronically - limited top speed of 130 mph.

Rocket - powered rollerblade gang wars on the back of fighter jets — who wouldn't want to check this out!?

Megan and Marcus can't wait for the summer holidays to begin at Bexhill - on - Sea, where their own incredible beach hut, Parry, doubles as a high - powered rocket ship.

An early contender was the 22 - ounce Rocket eBook (its inventors went on to create the electric - powered Tesla roadster).

Designed in collaboration with Rocket Sign, it combines the company's chip on board (CoB), CCT and ZACH technologies in a display promising low power consumption, 1200 nits brightness and HDR performance.

I'm hurtling down a straight at insane speeds in my Lotus; the tight hairpin is approaching fast, but Sebestian Vettel's rocket powered Red Bull hasn't taken massive chunks out of my lead on that single straight and I need to leave my braking for this corner as late as possible to try to claw back a little bit of time and hold the lead for the final lap.

While playing, the power - ups found on the track are a shield, homing rockets, boosters, an oil spill, shock paddles and an Uzi that can knock players off their scooter.