Sentences with phrase «on rocket motors»
Buell had worked on rocket motors for the Gemini program that eventually were a key part of the Apollo program allowing spacecraft to land on the Moon.
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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.
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.
But in doing so, the motor will knock the rocket back with a force of more than 300,000 newtons, likely inflicting severe damage on it.
According to Nozomi project manager Hajime Hayakawa, there is only a 1 % chance that the craft will plunge through the martian atmosphere and crash on 14 December if Nozomi's rocket motor can't fire.
The newly released images include pictures of a rocket motor production plant in Biysk, Russia; a surface - to - air missile system in Cbelyabinsk; a submarine shipyard on the White Sea; and a bomber airfield in Kazakhstan.
Johns was on the engineering team that evaluated ablative materials used to protect the Shuttle from the high thermal loads and 5,500 - degree temperatures generated by its massive solid rocket motors.
On Tuesday the spacecraft carried out a rocket motor burn that boosted its velocity by 0.4 meters per second (less than 1 mile per hour).
These electric motors account for 551 lbs of weight but produce 295 hp, helping the Lamborghini Asterion can still rocket from 0 - 62 mph in 3.0 seconds on its way to a top speed of 199 mph.
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In 1908, the Ford Motor Company began production on the Model T, rocketing automobiles into the mainstream.