Sentences with phrase «rocket design»

American rocket designs are based on nuclear missiles, and use technology dating from the 1960s and 1970s.

They realized that incremental improvements in rocket design would not provide enough lift.

A 1.2 - metre - wide rocket designed by John Carmack, creator of the hugely successful Doom video games, crashed about 20 seconds after launch in Texas on 7 August.

Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla and SpaceX, believes the same thing, which is why his company has been working hard on reusable rockets designed to cut the cost of traveling through space on a regular basis.

The next day, a 1 - metre - wide rocket designed by Space Transport Corporation of Forks, Washington, exploded after reaching a height of about 300 metres in the state's Olympia National Park.

Another start - up, Masten Space Systems, with headquarters in Mojave, Calif., is developing rockets designed for unmanned research flights.

In July the U.S. Air Force is expected to award three suppliers with contracts for next - generation rocket designs under the Pentagon's launch services agreements program, with ULA, SpaceX, Orbital and Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin as the likely competitors, Jefferies said.

Hot on the heels of the launches came a flurry of space - tourism announcements, including the creation of a $ 50 million prize for sending the first private craft into Earth orbit and an announcement that the X Prize Cup, an annual series of rocket competitions to encourage innovative and safe commercial rocket design, would begin in 2006.

In 1984, physicist Robert Forward pioneered a clever laser - sail rocket design.

16, 2017 — For ten straight years, Vanderbilt has soared to success with innovative rocket designs and payloads, and this year is no exception.

Dynetics has announced the completion of the universal stage adapter's (USA) preliminary design review for NASA's new SLS rocket designed to send humans to the Moon and possible Mars.

Students diagnosed with emotional or intellectual impairments now work side by side with their non-disabled peers in areas such as rocket design, break dancing, football, art, poetry, music, theater, and cooking.

In the end, the Saturn V rocket was dramatically different from previous rocket designs — because it had to be.

The Falcon Heavy is a reusable heavy - lift rocket designed to get large payloads into space.

This pin features a retro - style rocket design, like something out of a sci - fi comic from the 50's.

This allows players to design the most insane rocket designs that you can imagine, with no restrictions at all, while also being able to just play around more so than any of the other areas of the game, as there are no penalties for crashing your ship and killing the Kerbal inside.

Cooper in Space In spite of not having an aeronautics or rocket design program Cooper Union graduates have played important roles in designing, building, and launching the rockets and satellites Sidebar: General John W. «Jay» Raymond Visits Cooper

Like you, we're waiting for Elon Musk to light the wick on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy, his next - level rocket designed to lift large payloads into earth orbit and beyond.

And in 2010, lack of funding and new government priorities forced NASA to shut down its Constellation program which was working on a rocket designed to take us back to the moon and beyond.

He founded Starcraft Boosters, a rocket design company, in 1995 to pursue his vision for manned space exploration.

Mueller turned to the rocket design.

• Continue with the current plan, but cancel the Ares I rocket designed to put a crew capsule in low - Earth orbit.

«We will finalize a rocket design no later than 2015 and then begin to build it,» he said.

It will be launched by a rocket designed to shoot beyond low Earth orbit.

Orth also was directly involved with the joint LLNL and NASA project to conceptualize the VISTA spacecraft, a rocket design that could be powered by Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF).

Over eight weeks, her students researched Isaac Newton and rocket design, iterated and tested, documented and reflected.

Originally built as a one - off for a customer, the Rocket design was so popular that the cargo bike company has now put it into production, both as a traditional pedaled version and as an e-bike (e-trike?).