Sentences with phrase «rocket engines designed»

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..

Not exact matches

This included the engines, which were designed by Rocketdyne, a Los Angeles - based rocket company.

Our Falcon 9 rocket is designed to accommodate shutting down engines in flight.

Wurst's idea is to mate the engine with a new airplane design, take the craft up to an altitude of about 30 miles, at which point the ramjets can no longer be used, coast to an altitude of 60 miles, then release the satellite payload with a small conventional rocket attached.

Although the new rocket will use engines derived from the shuttle, the capsule will be a fresh design three times the size of the Apollo capsule — large enough to put four astronauts on the moon.

Complicating matters, both the Boeing and Sierra designs rely on Atlas 5 rockets to get to orbit, which in turn rely on Russian - made RD - 180 engines, Handberg notes.

The third engine, an RD - 105, was a water - shed design that led to the development of the R - 7, the engine on the rocket that lifted Sputnik into space.

Two RD - 110 missile engines (left and center) used during the 1940s and 1950s suffered from rough combustion and thermal stress design problems and were abandoned as an approach to rocket propulsion.

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

Henrik Fisker and Galpin designed the Rocket — it comes packed with a V - 8 engine that offers 725 horsepower underneath its racing striped hood.

It was the original motorbike engined track day car, and now more than 20 years on the Light Car Company is putting the Gordon Murray designed Rocket back into limited production.

The Alero had no Rocket V - 8, making do with a rather noisy 3.4 - liter V - 6, a pushrod design not unlike the engines that powered Oldsmobiles four decades ago.

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

Verifying the structural design will withstand the forces applied by the rocket engine using the finite