Sentences with phrase «rocket lands on»

When the rocket lands on our nearest astronomical neighbor, the astronauts realize they don't have enough fuel for the trip home.

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Depending on whether you're landing on a planet or a moon that has no atmosphere, a thin atmosphere, or a dense atmosphere, and depending on whether you're reentering with no payload in the front, a small payload, or a heavy payload, you have to balance the rocket out as it's coming in.

The booster pushes the top of the rocket (including the payload) about 40 miles into the sky, then detaches, lands back on the surface, and gets refurbished — a clever method that saves the company millions per mission.

Since its first attempt in January 2015, SpaceX has been trying to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rockets on a floating ocean platform.

If that wasn't crazy enough, he followed that tweet up with another zinger, suggesting that the rocket and party balloon will «land on a bouncy house.»

In December 2015, SpaceX did something no commercial aerospace company had done before: It launched a satellite into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, then safely landed the rocket's lower half, called a first - stage booster, on a launchpad.

This plan called for a large rocket to launch a single spacecraft to the moon, but only a small part of that spacecraft (the Lunar Module) would actually land on the surface.

The SpaceX team didn't attempt to land on a barge in the ocean from the get - go, they instead practiced with lighter rockets, on land first.

The mission will launch using a Falcon 9 rocket, which will return to land on the SpaceX autonomous ship in the Atlantic Ocean about 8 minutes after liftoff.

Deep expertise has its uses — if you're trying to land a spaceship on the moon you want the best rocket scientists money can buy on your team — but one of those uses isn't necessarily generating the most creative ideas.

While the Falcon 9's lower stage is expected to land, SpaceX will likely not be attempting to recover the rocket's upper stage on this mission, as that part of the rocket is not expected to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

There is really none when one of his companies can suddenly decide to buy another for close to $ 3 billion, and he announces the deal on a day when he's not working on landing rockets for his other company.

«This guy has figured out how to land a rocket on a ship,» Gerber said, referring to SpaceX's reusable rockets.

Like Elon Musk's company, Blue Origin is engineering its rockets to safely land back on earth so they can be reused, thus shaving tens of millions of dollars off the cost of each launch.

A recycled SpaceX rocket booster recovered at sea from its first flight nearly a year ago blasted off again on Thursday from Florida on a satellite - delivery mission, then returned to land successfully on a floating platform at sea.

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.

On December 21, 2015, SpaceX landed its first rocket.

In all, it has launched and landed six rockets — four at sea and two on dry land.

Like last time, the rocket will soar up into space, then use GPS tracking to land itself smoothly on the platform.

Earlier this month, Musk's SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket and attempted to land it on a floating platform in the Atlantic ocean.

Musk believes that SpaceX could begin landing spaceships on Mars as soon as 2022, while Muilenburg said on Thursday's that Boeing's own next generation rockets would be tested starting in 2019.

This photo shows the used, roughly 140 - foot - tall Falcon 9 rocket booster landing on a drone ship in the ocean.

SpaceX successfully landed all three boosters that propelled the rocket, but the rocket's second stage, with the Roadster on top, was launched into an orbit around the sun.

They gamed Google at every turn, adjusted keyword density to a precise percentage, generated staggering amounts of copy on thousands of interlinked web pages — rocketing their clients» landing pages to the top of SERP 1 (the first search - engine - results page).

The sole fatality was an Israeli - built satellite, but the accident nevertheless raised questions about SpaceX's mad dash into the solar system — particularly since it plans to use the same rocket, the Falcon 9, to ferry crews to the International Space Station in a few years (SpaceX has in the past supplied the ISS and successfully landed a Falcon 9 back on Earth so it can be reused).

SpaceX's Falcon 9 making history as an orbital rocket to land back on Earth was enough to give the company's CEO Elon Musk heaps of praise.

Let's just say Bezos, founder of the Blue Origin space company and fellow billionaire, wasn't impressed with the Falcon 9 orbital rocket landing back on Earth.

The company is focusing its efforts on reusable rockets that could land and launch again and again.

For the third successful time, Blue Origin launched the reusable New Shepard rocket and landed it back on Earth last April 2.

Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos's commercial space - flight company, Blue Origin, successfully launched and landed a rocket ship at its launch site in West Texas on Monday.

The rocket stage succeeded in hitting its target but landed too hard, exploding on the robotic boat's deck.

During that mission, a Dragon resupply ship will launch toward the station, and SpaceX will also attempt to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on an «autonomous spaceport drone ship» in the Atlantic Ocean.

Musk did write that the innovative «hypersonic grid fins» on the rocket are vital for the landing attempt.

In response to a question about the planned Falcon 9 first - stage rocket landing, Musk said the stage would use «mostly gravity» to stay on the robotic ship, with «steel shoes over the landing feet as a precautionary measure.»

The reused rocket was also the first to successfully land on the Of Course I Still Love You drone ship, which was sailing across the Atlantic Ocean.

Elon Musk's company SpaceX tried landing a rocket on a barge called the Falcon 9.

«The rocket scientists (at financial institutions) managed to create a missile that landed on themselves.»

Bezos posted on Twitter, a not - so - oblique reference to his company nailing a landing of its suborbital New Shepard rocket a month ago.

Good enough to launch a rocket into space and land a rover on Mars to investigate Mars?

Buell had worked on rocket motors for the Gemini program that eventually were a key part of the Apollo program allowing spacecraft to land on the Moon.

Two of the rocket's three boosters detached and returned to Earth, touching down on landing sites nearby.

He said that on housing, Labour «bet the ranch on the private oligopoly of house builders but it's in their interests to bank land and ration housing so that house prices continue to rocket».

Discovering molecular hydrogen on the moon was a surprise result from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which crash - landed the LCROSS satellite's spent Centaur rocket at 5,600 miles per hour into the Cabeus crater in the permanently shadowed region of the moon.

And now imagine slowing it down, balancing it on a jet of rocket exhaust and landing it with an accuracy of 10 meters on a target smaller than a football field.

SpaceX has landed Falcon 9 rockets 21 times on land or its robotic drone ships, and has reflown boosters six times, as part of the company's reusable - rocket program.

SpaceX has also been testing a reusable booster for its current Falcon 9 rocket, and has made several unsuccessful attempts to land the booster stage on a drone ship this year.

In a dramatic feat of engineering prowess, the private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully landed a reusable Falcon 9 rocket booster yesterday — the second such landing for the company, and the first successful touchdown on a ship.

For instance, when the Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars in 2008, it kicked up enough dust to reveal water ice — a surprise to its builders, who hadn't thought that the lander's relatively weak rocket engines could have moved so much material.

It could scan Mars and map out subsurface pockets of water ice and even assist in X-marking a safe and sound landing zone for astronauts where they can draw on water for oxygen - sustaining needs as well as for concocting rocket fuel.

The space plane will land on a runway, while the rocket, after delivering its payload, will fly back to the ground like the space shuttle.