Sentences with phrase «rocket engine»

The craft lands vertically on its tail, using rocket engines to slow it while landing.

A new technique is set to strengthen 3D printed stainless steel parts, such as this previously printed rocket engine component.

By repeating this tier - by - tier addition, engineers can build complex shapes, such as rocket engines.

If the trials are successful, they could open the way for full - scale development of the air - breathing rocket engine.

More recently, the company's next generation rocket engine blew up during a test.

In the last 30 years, only two new American rocket engines have been developed.

Huge rocket engines allowed the designers to ignore any gravitational effects more subtle than the tug of the planet they were leaving and that of the planet they were headed to.

It uses 72 small rocket engines arranged in a ring at the bottom of the rocket.

Testing will involve installing the flight core stage on the B - 2 stand and firing its four RS - 25 rocket engines simultaneously.

The ambitious design is based on a novel hybrid jet — rocket engine concept that just may provide the necessary boost.

The company has already built an entirely 3 - D printed rocket engine, which it's tested nearly 100 times.

And it also has lots of Rocket Engines set up to burn Mario!

Hello Adam, the video you have posted is the exact rocket engine testing facility that I addressed in our video (and it is in the US).

According to researchers, the budding space tourism industry may be mooning efforts to slow climate change by blasting extra soot, or black carbon, from rocket engines high into the atmosphere.

Deepak Atyam has co-founded and is running a NewSpace startup, Tri-D Dynamics, which focuses on mass producing liquid rocket engines for the burgeoning launch vehicle markets.

Aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has posted the first - ever images of the fully - completed BE-4 liquid rocket engine on Twitter, giving the world a look at the technology that his company plans to use to send its New Glenn...

Rolls - Royce and Boeing have both invested in rocket engine company Reaction Engines as the latest blue - chip companies to back the start - up's thermal management technology.

Buffeted by the currents of contemporary politics, he was often frustrated by his failed attempts to kick - start or be involved in research on rocket engines.

It's about a Pinocchio with rocket engines for legs, x-ray eyes and a swirly just - got - dunked - in - the - toilet hairdo.

So we understand how to make rocket engines in volume, so even though the most vehicle uses 42 on the base and nine on the upper stage — so we have 51 engines to make — that's well within our production capabilities for Merlin, and this is a similarly sized engine to Merlin, except for the expansion ratio, so we feel really comfortable about being able to make this engine in volume at a price that doesn't break our budget.

SpaceX was testing an experimental new version of its Merlin rocket engine at the time of the blast, a company source who is familiar with the matter told Business Insider.

Three - dimensional printers are letting doctors in Minnesota make simulated body parts in a hospital and a Brooklyn startup create rocket engines designed to put satellites into orbit, executives said Thursday at an event hosted by General Electric Co..

The US has no really big liquid - fuel rocket engine in production today, and historically has been averse to large engine clusters.

Two hot Russian rocket engines had recently become available, the NK - 33 and NK - 43.

Ursa Major is developing high performing, 3D - printed rocket engines at a fraction of the cost of traditional engines.

Low - inertia turbocharging for faster, more controllable turbo response, featuring rocket engine materials designed for high temperature applications.

«They will tell us what we need to know to build rocket engines that can handle megawatts of power,» says applied physicist Tim Glover, a board member and co-founder of Ad Astra.

Unless you're using a VitaMix blender — then, it's rocket engine science.

This isn't mere sci - fi speculation: In a nondescript warehouse in Webster, Texas, a forward - thinking scientist is developing a prototype rocket engine that could make space travel faster than ever before.

Because the nucleus is so small, these jets act like rocket engines, spinning up the comet's rotation, Jewitt said.

The next time rocket engine No. 2059 fires for that length of time, it will be carrying humans on their first deep - space mission in more than 45 years.

Huntsville, AL — Rocket engine nozzles operate in extreme temperatures and pressures from the combustion process and are complex and expensive to manufacture.

Blue Origin's BE-3 rocket engine ramps up to full power operations of 110,000 lbf thrust.

Hybrid rocket engines use a combination of solid and liquid or gaseous propellants.

Original high - compression 425ci Super Rocket engine and automatic transmission.

Low - inertia turbocharging for faster, more controllable turbo response, featuring rocket engine materials designed for high temperature applications; and

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, has 3D printed nickel alloy rocket engine parts using a fabrication technique called selective laser melting, or SLM.

The Amazon founder's Blue Origin aerospace outfit will develop rocket engines for the United Launch Alliance — a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing that creates spacecraft for the U.S....

SpaceX engineers will then have to attach four room - size Raptor rocket engines and two other engines, plus all of the other internal propellant tanks, plumbing, and electronics that a rocket requires.

Another eye - catching agreement was the sale of Russia's advanced space rocket engine, RD - 180, to China.

Trump told reporters that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was «acting very, very badly» hours after the rogue state test - fired a new type of high - thrust rocket engine.

They are using for the second - stage rocket engine essentially the same engine that was on the Saturn [upper stages], which is a very low - tech steel - cased engine.

A chemical rocket engine can use solid propellant (as does the Space Shuttle's SRBs), liquid propellant (as does the Space shuttle main engine), or a hybrid mixture of both.

In fact, an entire industry of nimble space - vehicle ventures has sprung up in recent years, including SpaceX, headed by PayPal founder Elon Musk; Armadillo Aerospace, started by computer - game developer John Carmack; Blue Origin, a pet project of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos; and SpaceDev, which came up with the novel rocket engine that powered SpaceShipOne.

Instead of rocketing astronauts off into deep space, the Asteroid Redirect Mission would send a robotic spacecraft to a small asteroid, secure it (potentially by grabbing it and stuffing it into a giant high - tech bag) and tow it back to orbit the moon using a hyper - efficient kind of rocket engine technology called solar electric propulsion.

Innovative, reusable rocket engines are being developed that are so powerful, they could one day fly a suborbital spaceplane from London to Sydney in just 4 hours.

If you had to do it using a regular rocket engine, you'd need an enormous amount of propellant.