Sentences with phrase «rocket plane»

Unlike commercial planes, which can use the lower atmosphere's oxygen to give their fuel systems a boost, suborbital rocket planes use liquid oxygen tanks to compensate for the thin air and get the thrust they need.

PoSSUM plans to use XCOR Aerospace's suborbital rocket plane Lynx; two people fit in its flight pod.

The SpaceLiner, a hydrogen - powered rocket plane conceived by the German Space Agency, could someday carry up to 50 passengers through the upper atmosphere.

It is expected to house up to two of Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo launch planes and five SpaceShipTwo tourist - carrying rocket planes, in addition to all of Virgin's astronaut preparation facilities and a mission control.

BOR is a Russian acronym for unpiloted orbital rocket plane; the Russians built the experimental craft in response to the then - new U.S. space shuttle program.

Maverick aircraft designer Burt Rutan captured the Ansari X Prize in 2004 by lofting his manned, reusable rocket plane SpaceShipOne into space, but that was a suborbital flight requiring about 2 percent of the energy needed to reach and maintain orbit.

Other vehicles consist of a US Sherman tank with a T - 34 Calliope rocket launcher, U.S. T95 / T28 Super Heavy Tank, the Sturmtiger (naval gun mounted on Tiger tank), U.S. Goblin jetfighter, C - 47 cargo plane that will serve as a mobile spawn point, the American Armstrong Whitworth AW - 52 advanced fighter, the German Wasserfall guided anti-air missile and the German Natter rocket plane.

Project PoSSUM's executive director, Jason Reimuller, says suborbital rocket planes are scheduled to launch from Alaska in 2018.

The landmark jump comes 65 years to the day after U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in a rocket plane.

Branson has additionally proposed a «rocket plane» that can transport people from one side of the earth to the other in under 30 minutes.

At this point, pilots level off the rocket plane and open a door on its nose.

Burt Rutan, who put a rocket plane at the edge of space last year, has been on our radar screen for decades, going back to his nimble homebuilt airplanes that rest on their noses.