Sentences with phrase «rocket boosters because»

Not exact matches

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.

That's because of the same reason SpaceX's other rockets are already revolutionizing the business of getting to space — it's a lot cheaper to reuse the rocket boosters that propel something out of Earth's gravity well than to use new ones every time.

This rocket can lift twice as much weight as any other rocket at a fraction of the cost because all 3 boosters come back to land.

Because the asteroid's orbit closely resembles the path of the Earth around the sun, says Paul Chodas of JPL, the object may turn out to be a rocket booster discarded from an earlier space flight.

But its share has dropped to only 30 per cent, largely because American rockets are old - fashioned and more expensive to operate than their competitors» boosters.

It even increases the efficiency of your boost, because the booster at the apex of your jump has to start «pushing» against gravity, and with the bounce already moving you upwards that initial need for a «push» is nullified, meaning you get an immediate — and drastic — increase in your speed, allowing you to really rocket off.

By your logic, because solid rocket boosters were used getting Apollo 11 off the ground, gravity can not have played any part in the rest of the journey to the moon.