Sentences with phrase «rocket tests in»

NASA is rebooting its Mars landings, thanks to a smart idea from the cold war era, and high - stakes rocket tests in the desert.

Reports say that the rocket used to put the satellite in orbit can carry up to 500 kilos (far more than a rocket tested in 2012), which would be enough to convey nuclear warheads.

Not exact matches

In March, the company inked a contract with NASA to use the Stennis Space Center for rocket tests.

Fresh off the launch of Falcon Heavy — which can lift nearly three times as much as the next largest rockets in operation — Musk is touting BFR as on track to begin testing «short trips» by the «first half of next year.»

Virgin Galactic is «back on track» after completing its first rocket - powered test flight since a fatal crash in late 2014.

«Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks.

In March it made industry history by successfully launching and landing a reusable rocket; six months before that, it watched as one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded during refueling for a so - called test fire.

The Gulf has seen a number of naval incidents between Iran and the US in the past year, including test rocket fire by the Islamic Republic and the brief capture of American sailors who strayed into its territorial waters.

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

In recent years, North Korea successfully put satellites into orbit twice aboard long - range rockets in what the UN called a disguised test of long - range missile technologIn recent years, North Korea successfully put satellites into orbit twice aboard long - range rockets in what the UN called a disguised test of long - range missile technologin what the UN called a disguised test of long - range missile technology.

The long - range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong - 12 (Mars - 12) is launched during a test in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 15, 2017.

Nov. 28, 2017: North Korea unveils its largest and most powerful rocket in its third intercontinental ballistic missile test.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reacts during the long - range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong - 12 (Mars - 12) test launch in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 15, 2017.

Workers also successfully test - fired all 27 of the rocket's Merlin engines in January, which are attached to the boosters in clusters of nine.

Those tests included repeatedly filling up the rocket with cryogenically cooled RP - 1, a type of kerosene used in jets, and liquid oxygen to combust the fuel.

The company, founded in 2002, has already had six missions in 2018, notably its February demonstration test flight of the Falcon Heavy, a powerful new rocket with three reusable side boosters designed to carry heavier payloads.

SpaceX first successfully tested the new recycling system in March of 2017 with its Falcon 9 rocket.

In July, SpaceX conducted a full - duration test - firing of a Falcon 9 rocket that had already been in orbiIn July, SpaceX conducted a full - duration test - firing of a Falcon 9 rocket that had already been in orbiin orbit.

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.

The last major explosion SpaceX suffered was in September 2016, when a pressure vessel failed and caused a Falcon 9 rocket to blow up during a launch - pad test, destroying a satellite payload on top.

The blast occurred in one of two bays the company uses to test Merlin rocket engines — nine of which line the bottom of every reusable Falcon 9 booster.

SpaceX released video of their most powerful rocket engine being tested in McGregor, TX.

An OH - 58D Kiowa Warrior from Task Force Saber, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, fires a 2.75 - inch rocket at a mountainside during a test flight in eastern Afghanistan, March 2, 2012.

The big test came over eight days in November, when Gaza militants fired some 1,500 rockets.

SpaceX tested the main core engine of its Falcon Heavy rocket at its facility in McGregor, Texas.

In pursuit of this goal, the company has designed, developed, and extensively tested their Peregrine lander — which is now officially signed - on to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in 201In pursuit of this goal, the company has designed, developed, and extensively tested their Peregrine lander — which is now officially signed - on to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in 201in 2019.

The tests became more frequent, and each successful test brought the people from Rafael closer to their great goal: to provide, for the first time anywhere in the world, a crushing response to the threat of short - range rockets, that had for years left people in Israel's southern and northern border regions helpless.

Worlds most powerful rocket was tested today and it worked Slon put in orbit his first Tesla that will be in an elliptical orbit that goes almost to the asteroid belt.

Scottish secretary Jim Murphy faced calls for his resignation today if he did not manage to guarantee the future of 125 defence jobs at a rocket test range in the Hebrides.

You likely know that Kim Jong - un, North Korea's young leader, tested a long range rocket in December and set off an underground nuclear bomb in February.

ROCKET BLOCKER The United States» ground - based missile defense system, shown here in a test conducted at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, aims to protect the U.S. from ballistic missiles.

The first tests of the CEV's rocket are scheduled for 2009, with manned flights to low Earth orbit beginning by 2014 (even that hard - charging schedule will leave a gap in America's manned spaceflight program after the planned retirement of the shuttle in 2010).

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

On 28 November, William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's human - exploration division, presented plans to test the agency's next generation of heavy - lift rockets with trips to the vicinity of the Moon in 2017 and 2021.

The Environmental Working Group analysis of 20 million tap water quality tests found a total of 316 contaminants — including industrial solvents, weed killers, refrigerants and the rocket fuel component perchlorate — in water supplied to the public between 2004 and 2009.

Consequently, no launch vehicle today stands ready to take people to the moon and back, although the Falcon Heavy rocket built by private spaceflight firm SpaceX, which is currently in testing, may fill the void.

But when Tim Buzza, SpaceX's vice president for test - launch operations, gazes fondly at the little rocket resting in its truck - bed rack at Vandenberg, he's quite certain that if there are any surprises, they will indeed be surprises.

North Korea has been ramping up its testing of various missiles, rockets and other offensive capabilities in recent years.

At the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, check out a real Apollo - era Saturn V test rocket — a behemoth longer than the Statue of Liberty is tall — plus crew capsules, space suits, parachutes, and a moonRocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, check out a real Apollo - era Saturn V test rocket — a behemoth longer than the Statue of Liberty is tall — plus crew capsules, space suits, parachutes, and a moonrocket — a behemoth longer than the Statue of Liberty is tall — plus crew capsules, space suits, parachutes, and a moon rock.

This module has been used on April 23 for tests on board the FOKUS research rocket aiming to demonstrate whether there really are no differences in how clocks run differently under space conditions like Einstein claimed.

Hours after Seoul noted unusual seismic activity near the North's north - eastern nuclear test site, Pyongyang said in its state - run media that a test had «finally examined and confirmed the structure and specific features of movement of [a] nuclear warhead that has been standardised to be able to be mounted on strategic ballistic rockets».

There, they will be tested and hopefully reused in NASA's future heavy - lifting rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), which is designed for missions beyond Earth orbit.

North Korea officially acknowledged the failure of its latest rocket launch Friday (April 13) in a rare admission from the reclusive nation, which defied international warnings not to launch what the United States and other countries saw as a missile weapons test.

In 1930 the movie company funded a rocket test attended by, among others, a young Wernher von Braun.

The publication of the paper in Oncotarget this week is timely, given the test launch of the Falcon Heavy, SpaceX's largest rocket to date, just last week.

In tests, it fired a 105 - kilowatt beam — enough to destroy rockets, mortars and artillery shells — at a stationary target for 5 minutes.

A B61 - 12 test unit slams into a target at the end of Sandia National Laboratories» 10,000 - foot rocket sled track in a complex forward ballistics test.

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.

Sandia National Laboratories has sent a mock B61 - 12 nuclear weapon speeding down the labs» 10,000 - foot rocket sled track to slam nose - first into a steel and concrete wall in a spectacular test that mimicked a high - speed accident.

Eventually, NASA will pay for four resupply missions a year — which could come from both SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, based in Dulles, Virginia, which is planning to test its Antares rocket and Cygnus capsule later this year.