Sentences with phrase «rocket parts»

Space is full of junk like used rocket parts and dead satellites.

The technology could help dramatically lower the cost of access to space, since rocket parts costs tens of millions of dollars but are usually discarded in the ocean.

«Aerospace test goes green with alternative to explosives: Hopkinson bar technology applied to gas gun shot to test rocket part.»

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

It proved SpaceX could lift twice the payload to space for about 25 % of the cost of its closest competitor while recycling rocket parts worth tens of millions of dollars.

Relativity's goal is to introduce a highly automated rocket construction process that relies on nearly 100 percent 3D printed rocket parts, to create custom, mission - specific rockets that can launch payloads the size of small cars, or much larger than those of some of its cubesat - targeting competitors.

It boasts a process that has reduced rocket part count from around 100,000 to just 1,000, while also dropping labor and build time, using machine learning and even proprietary base materials to achieve these drastic reductions.

The rocket part will help ferry a new communications satellite into orbit — then go for a second touchdown.

In this video, the SpaceX founder goes beyond computers to design the rocket part with free - standing projection.

The 60 - foot - long gas gun used compressed nitrogen gas to shoot metal projectiles into a resonant beam coupled with a resonant cone to expand the final diameter to interface with the rocket part, essentially a hybrid version of a large - scale Hopkinson bar.

Sandia National Laboratories has successfully demonstrated a new, more environmentally friendly method to test a rocket part to ensure its avionics can withstand the shock from stage separation during flight.