Sentences with phrase «rocket propulsion»

Designing and manufacturing a static test system for developing bi-propellant rocket propulsion systems

A spaceplane is quite simply a vehicle that can fly as both an airplane in the atmosphere — generating lift from its wings — and as a spacecraft in a vacuum using rocket propulsion.

James» first project at Southern Research involved working with red fuming nitric acid — a corrosive, combustible concoction used for rocket propulsion.

Before one relegates the entire field of rocket propulsion to engineering you really have to understand the history of nozzle development, e.g. Like gHz frequency digital modulators it's pretty much (at least was initially) more of an art than a science, let alone an engineering challenge.

The Houston area is now a hub for commercial space ventures including SpaceX, Sierra Nevada Corp, and Ad Astra Rocket Company (AARC)-- who are working to develop advanced plasma rocket propulsion using a concept which has been in development by the company's CEO since 1979.

They all share the goal of replacing rocket propulsion with the traversal of a fixed structure via a mechanism not unlike an elevator in order to move material into or beyond orbit.

TEL was devised by two engineers — John Baxter, a retired rocket propulsion scientist from Australia's Defence Science and Technology Organisation, and Bruce Candy, a consultant.

A hybrid rocket propulsion system comprises propellants of two different states of matter, the most common configuration being a rocket engine composed of a solid propellant lining a combustion chamber into which a liquid or gaseous propellant is injected so as to undergo a strong exothermic reaction to produce hot gas that is emitted through a De Laval nozzle for propulsive purposes.

Qian became the foremost theorist on rocket propulsion in the country.

The bottle - rocket propulsion means you can leap into openings almost as quickly as they develop.

«It would require rocket propulsion to inject a serious extra snap of acceleration beyond what's already occurring at 7000rpm»

Originally created by famous Japanese manga writer, animator, and illustrator, Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy (aka Atom) is a robot boy who flies using rocket propulsion and is equipped with some powerful capabilities to kick enemy ass into next week.

Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone joined the Rocket Propulsion Lab.

There were, for instance, its mockery in 1920 of Goddard's hypothesis that rocket propulsion can take place in a vacuum, a denial of Stalin's forced famine in Ukraine and a whitewash of his show trials by its Moscow bureau chief Walter Duranty, its advocacy of Fidel Castro, and its benign regard for the Soviet spy Alger Hiss.

The rocket propulsion concept that Tappan is developing is a solid - based chemical fuel technology, but differs from classical solid propellants because it is completely non-detonable, making it much less hazardous.

Long thought to be nothing more than a space dream, the EmDrive, a rocket propulsion technology that requires no propellant, has cleared peer review, the International Business Times reports.

Purdue University researchers have developed a way to produce amine - boranes that promises to be safer and cheaper, and could lead to new uses in medicine, energy storage, rocket propulsion and other technologies.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Named after General of the Army George Marshall, Marshall Space Flight Center is where NASA develops its rocket propulsion and other space flight systems.

The game has no illusions that it's an arcadey extreme sports game, with power - ups strewn across the course giving you abilities like a temporary rocket boost (from you butt, or perhaps your abdomen, it's not really clear where the rocket propulsion is coming from).

Aside from your mission, you can collect crystals to increase B.U.D's abilities such as camera zooming or rocket propulsion.

Rocket propulsion, in combination with other natural fauna, can help you traverse the stalks easier and can save you in some tight binds.

[Response: BTW, a contract for the rocket propulsion was just awarded for a launch of OCO2 in 2013, according to Nature — Jim]

And we all know that if someone actually offered Terje a pony, he'd whine that he wanted a pink one, with horns, wings and a rocket propulsion system.

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