Sentences with phrase «reusable space vehicles»

XCOR Aerospace's rendering of its Lynx Mark III, a reusable space vehicle that will take off from a conventional runway

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.

In the same year that Dunbar entered university, NASA decided to build a reusable space vehicle.

Not exact matches

The autonomous space craft, blandly called the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, is intended to «demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space - test platform.»

What's more, SpaceX hopes to lift off three more of its Falcon 9 rockets — a reusable launch vehicle that's poised to significantly lower the cost of access to space (and maybe save humankind)-- before the year's end.

SpaceX continues to work toward one of its key goals — developing fully and rapidly reusable rockets, a feat that will transform space exploration by delivering highly reliable vehicles at radically reduced costs.

Private spaceflight company Blue Origin is eyeing crewed test flights of its reusable suborbital space vehicle starting next year.

That spacecraft, like the new orbital launch vehicle, will feature a reusable rocket booster capable of vertical landings — a technology that space industry leaders have said can dramatically reduce the cost of commercial spaceflight.

All of the scenarios that people had developed before the Space Age for going to the moon involved a reusable vehicle that goes to and from Earth orbit and a space station as a jumping - off place to go to the Space Age for going to the moon involved a reusable vehicle that goes to and from Earth orbit and a space station as a jumping - off place to go to the space station as a jumping - off place to go to the moon.

In 1993, Kelly quit his job, formed Kelly Space and Technology in San Bernardino, California, and promptly designed a three - stage reusable launch vehicle that is unique in the annals of spaceflight.

If that gambit fails, or if ESA simply wants to hedge its bet, Europe might collaborate with Russia on the Clipper, a partially reusable vehicle that looks like a squatter, smaller space shuttle.

It's not high compared with the distance to space but the ability to take off, land and then take off again, like the vehicles of science fiction, brings a reusable rocket a step closer.

Nearly two years after it launched, the US Air Force's reusable, unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle ended its classified mission on Sunday, becoming the first spacecraft in nearly six years to touch down at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing...

The commercial space industry is entering a growth spurt, with companies cutting costs with reusable launch vehicles, and governments joining forces with entrepreneurs.

The recent test flight of SpaceX's reusable super heavy - lift launch vehicle, Falcon Heavy, garnered international attention and countless Internet viewers... not only because of the promise it holds for the future of space travel, but also due to...

The big issue is cost, as currently only eight tourists have visited space, costing between $ 20 - 40m a time, but this could be massively reduced with reusable vehicles and more efficient transport, with Virgin Galactic offering tickets for a comparatively paltry $ 250k.

Or NASA spent hundreds billions on the space shuttle, it was suppose to be reusable [was mostly failure in this regard], if there rocket fuel in space, it's easier to reuse space vehicle in space.