Sentences with phrase «rocket motors»

For more than 20 years, the company's space exploration department has helped build technologies ranging from handheld rocket motors to communication satellites.

Orbital also supplies solid rocket motors and other rocket parts for ULA.

The scanner, one of only two in the world at the time, was designed to probe solid - fuel rocket motors for cracks, holes, and other flaws.

Solid - fuel rocket motors are currently destroyed by incineration, but the risk of explosion makes this process dangerous and expensive.

«Rocket motor concept could boost CubeSat missions.»

DISCOVER spoke to Burt Rutan about his inspiration for SpaceShipOne, what SpaceShipTwo passengers can expect to get for their money, why the future of spaceflight doesn't belong to NASA — and the aftermath of a recent explosion at one of Rutan's test facilities during a test of rocket motor components that killed three people and severely injured three others.

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.

The complex forward ballistic test used rocket motors to accelerate the sled along the track, releasing the B61 - 12 unit to a free - flight crash.

Meanwhile, the aircraft's rocket motor incinerated itself in its first test, and then kept falling just short of the needed power.

The other path to reusability is single - stage systems: those that go to space and back all in one piece without shedding rocket motors and fuel tanks along the way, allowing them to be reused over and over again.

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.

NASA's $ 159 million Contour spacecraft apparently broke into at least two pieces during the firing of its onboard rocket motor last Thursday.

DISPOSING of redundant rocket motors has been an explosive headache for the US, as it scales down its arms stockpile following the end of the Cold War.

BLASTING off to the edge of space in SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic's commercial spacecraft, may be one step closer after the successful testing last week of a new solid - liquid hybrid rocket motor.

The embargo was imposed as a result of India purchasing a cryogenic rocket motor from Russia, which the Americans claimed could be adapted for military use.

When you're driving down a twisty road, the Momo wheel alive in your hands, your eyes at the height of a Camry «s plastic door cladding, and that overgrown crotch - rocket motor sitting behind your ears just begging for ludicrous revolutions, there really isn't another car you'd rather have.

Mathematical modeling: Rocket motor internal ballistics Gas generators for military and commercial applications Heat and mass transfer studies

These used solid rocket motors the laboratory had developed for the Army's Sergeant guided missile.

So Deyu Li of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues have developed a more forceful drug release system: a capsule with a drug - ejecting piston that is driven by a tiny solid - fuel rocket motor (Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol 159,...

Meanwhile, SpaceDev, the rocket motor supplier for SpaceShipOne, is also working on a manned orbital vehicle, funding itself not only through rocket motor sales but through contracts with NASA — which might eventually be willing to pay big bucks to a private company to get government astronauts into orbit.

SpaceShipOne itself suffered several such problems in its three space flights, including the loss of its navigation system, a sudden lurch that carried the ship some 30 miles off course, the buckling of the aircraft's skin from the rocket motor's heat, and an uncontrolled wobble that spun the craft around at high speed some 20 times before pilot Melvill — he flew the first prize - winning flight, Binnie the second — stilled it, possibly just in time to prevent a fatal tumble.

Rutan thought up a simplified design for a rocket motor and contracted its manufacturing out to SpaceDev, a company in Poway, Calif., that had developed rocket motors that burn a relatively easy - to - control mixture of liquid laughing gas and rubber, producing a full ton of thrust.

Most daunting of all, Rutan and Scaled had never built a rocket motor — the source of fully half of all space - launch failures — and had never had to deal with the nightmarish heat and extreme forces generated from reentering the atmosphere at high speeds.

Prime candidates for such treatment, he adds, are components of vehicles used in deep - space exploration, satellites, rocket motors, and prosthetic organs.

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a rocket motor concept that could pave the way for CubeSats zooming across space.

According to Nozomi project manager Hajime Hayakawa, there is only a 1 % chance that the craft will plunge through the martian atmosphere and crash on 14 December if Nozomi's rocket motor can't fire.

The rocket motor works in many of the same ways as a conventional chemical rocket motor.

The recorder also had its own battery, requiring extra safety oversight since the battery power was compatible with the rocket motors» ignitors, meaning the rocket motor would ignite if there was an electrical path between the battery and the motor's initiator, Petti said.

DEFECTS in the US space shuttle's solid rocket motors, which grounded the entire shuttle fleet last month, were caused by a change in NASA procedures intended to make the shuttle safer.

The newly released images include pictures of a rocket motor production plant in Biysk, Russia; a surface - to - air missile system in Cbelyabinsk; a submarine shipyard on the White Sea; and a bomber airfield in Kazakhstan.

Uses improved solid rocket motors to lift up to 150 - metric tonnes to LEO.

Johns was on the engineering team that evaluated ablative materials used to protect the Shuttle from the high thermal loads and 5,500 - degree temperatures generated by its massive solid rocket motors.

On Tuesday the spacecraft carried out a rocket motor burn that boosted its velocity by 0.4 meters per second (less than 1 mile per hour).

The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is outlandishly quick and capable of generating such fierce acceleration that you'll be forgiven if you erroneously think that Chevy secretly strapped a rocket motor underneath the car.

For the first time in about four years, Virgin Galactic has fired up the rocket motors in one of its spacecraft for a test flight.