Sentences with phrase «on a rocket with»

Once activated; an aura around the craft absorbs all enemy rounds — with the exception of bigger shots or lasers — and hurls them back at enemies as lock - on rockets with a tap of the right trigger.

The new special abilities are incredibly satisfying, whether you're pounding the ground with Splashdown or launching a barrage of lock - on rockets with Tenta Missiles.

Not exact matches

Depending on whether you're landing on a planet or a moon that has no atmosphere, a thin atmosphere, or a dense atmosphere, and depending on whether you're reentering with no payload in the front, a small payload, or a heavy payload, you have to balance the rocket out as it's coming in.

The plan entails getting the first humans on the planet in 2023, then ferrying 100 people at a time in reusable rockets and running the flights with regular frequency.

Vance's biography of Musk touches on this phase of his career in an interview with Rocket Science Games co-founder Peter Barrett, who explained that Musk went above and beyond his job description.

We now have drones that can deliver packages, rockets that can get things to space on the cheap (though they still struggle with coming back down), and even jetpacks for goodness sake.

The tent is believed to be on an 18 - acre plot at the Port of Los Angeles, which was recently connected with SpaceX as a «start - of - the - art» factory to produce the behemoth rocket.

Sure, parking a rocket truck on the flight deck of a vessel on the open ocean seems simple enough, but Marine officials are overjoyed with the success of the Oct. 22 exercise.

Future competitors, however, like Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin, do plan on using reusable rockets, matching SpaceX with that crucial capability.

Musk notched a milestone in space on Tuesday by successfully launching the most powerful commercial rocket in the world with a Tesla Roadster sports car on board to demonstrate the kind of payload it can handle.

With fans gathered along the Florida space coast and millions watching on webcast, the new rocket rumbled to life shortly after 3:45 p.m. local time.

If that wasn't crazy enough, he followed that tweet up with another zinger, suggesting that the rocket and party balloon will «land on a bouncy house.»

Meanwhile, SpaceDev, the rocket motor supplier for SpaceShipOne, is also working on a manned orbital vehicle, funding itself not only through rocket motor sales but through contracts with NASA — which might eventually be willing to pay big bucks to a private company to get government astronauts into orbit.

The SpaceX team didn't attempt to land on a barge in the ocean from the get - go, they instead practiced with lighter rockets, on land first.

«We have seen this happen in space with micro satellites and low - cost rockets, on the street with internet - connected vehicles and soon self - driving cars, and in the sky with drones.

Trump's positive outlook on relations with Kim Jong Un is a marked departure from social media taunts in November of last year, in which he called Kim «Little Rocket Man» and noted that his people and military «put up with living in such horrible conditions.»

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.

SES, a Luxembourg - based satellite operator, announced Tuesday it has signed an agreement with SpaceX to launch a communications satellite on a recovered Falcon 9 rocket stage.

But there still remains one significant problem that will be much harder to overcome: The technology required to travel very quickly between two places on earth with a rocket already exists — it is called an intercontinental ballistic missile, or an ICBM.

A U.S. official and two congressional aides, all familiar with the launch, said on condition of anonymity that the second - stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster rocket failed.

Rocket Lab streamed its launch live, and it can still be viewed on YouTube, complete with informative commentary.

Musk tweeted on Friday that Tesla's official Facebook page should «definitely» be deleted, and it promptly was, along with the page of his rocket company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp..

We watched a (SpaceX rocket) Falcon 9 launch today with SpaceX employees and we were around 1 km from the actual control room of the launch,» Adam Anyszewski, president of the team, told CNBC on Thursday.

Flush with national - missile - defense dollars, Spectrum rocketed all the way to # 19 on the 1994 Inc 500.

«I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man...,» Trump said, referring to a nickname for Kim, on Twitter in October.

Update: Elon Musk does plan to launch his Tesla Roadster to Mars with SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket launch, company officials reportedly confirmed on Saturday.

SpaceX successfully landed all three boosters that propelled the rocket, but the rocket's second stage, with the Roadster on top, was launched into an orbit around the sun.

«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.

Elon Musk's bright red Tesla Roadster, which was launched into space aboard the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6, could be looping around the Solar System and will survive close encounters with Earth for millions of year.

With the inaugural launch of the super-powerful Falcon Heavy rocket now in the books, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is ready to set his sights on an ambitious project known as Starlink.

SpaceX and Boeing are both building spacecraft for NASA's commercial crew program, with the project goal being to get American astronauts on American rockets back into space.

Operation Protective Edge has moved into its third day with an uneasy status - quo of Israeli air - raids on Gaza and incessant Hamas rocket barrages on Israel.

Let's just say Bezos, founder of the Blue Origin space company and fellow billionaire, wasn't impressed with the Falcon 9 orbital rocket landing back on Earth.

The worst rocket attack was on the Kiryat Malachi region with four rockets intercepted by Iron Dome but a missile hit a cowshed causing carnage among the cattle.

On October 1, 2015, we announced a multi-mission launch contract with Rocket Lab USA for up to five launches.

Just as with rocket technology, the foundation for space's economy should be based on future standards.

For many years, car insurance companies rewarded women for their safer track record on the roads, while young men put up with rocketing insurance costs.

With Rocket Mortgage, you can view rate estimates, upload documents and check the status of your application on your own schedule.

It has nothing to do with any launch on the SpaceX flight manifest or any rocket that SpaceX currently manufactures.

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.

That means occasionally putting up with big «pops,» or significant jumps in price on the first day of trading: Rocket Fuel and FireEye both doubled their offering prices in their first day of trading last month.

It may perform a static fire of its new Falcon Heavy rocket as soon as Saturday on its Florida launch pad, and it is pressing ahead with future launches.

Trump quickly took the opposite position, writing on Twitter «I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man...,» using his latest epithet for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

In response to a question about the planned Falcon 9 first - stage rocket landing, Musk said the stage would use «mostly gravity» to stay on the robotic ship, with «steel shoes over the landing feet as a precautionary measure.»

To give investors confidence again, someone needs to be empowered to run Tesla's factory as a full - time job they actually like — not one they're willing to do between building high - speed trains, or rockets, or riding a roadster to Mars on an intergalactic road paved with comet cocaine, while talking themselves out of a fortune.

«SpaceX has several different kinds of licenses, and some allow them to launch the same rocket with the same general payload on the same trajectory an indefinite number of times,» Nield said.

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.

On April 15th as gold plummeted our portfolio rocketed, allowing us to bank 2 trades with profits of over 100 %.

Christian indie pop - rockers The Rocket Summer (think Owl City or MuteMath) make their debut on Universal with Of Men and Angels on February 23rd.

What happens when they build their own robot king, with laser eyes and heat - seeking rockets and a built - in toaster, for breakfast on the go?