Sentences with phrase «small rocket engines»

It uses 72 small rocket engines arranged in a ring at the bottom of the rocket.

Not exact matches

Smith said the smaller New Shepard rocket was launched five times without removing the BE-3 engine «or anything else on the rocket itself.»

Because the nucleus is so small, these jets act like rocket engines, spinning up the comet's rotation, Jewitt said.

Instead of rocketing astronauts off into deep space, the Asteroid Redirect Mission would send a robotic spacecraft to a small asteroid, secure it (potentially by grabbing it and stuffing it into a giant high - tech bag) and tow it back to orbit the moon using a hyper - efficient kind of rocket engine technology called solar electric propulsion.

An example of what rocketeers call a pintle engine, even to a lay observer it is brilliantly straightforward, with one high - pressure coaxial fuel injector to mix rocket - grade kerosene and liquid oxygen instead of the hundreds of smaller injector holes used in other rocket engines.

Wurst's idea is to mate the engine with a new airplane design, take the craft up to an altitude of about 30 miles, at which point the ramjets can no longer be used, coast to an altitude of 60 miles, then release the satellite payload with a small conventional rocket attached.

But the Falcon Heavy is still much smaller than Musk's fully reusable Mars rocket, which will also employ a new engine.

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space station.

At the fringes of space, the dual - mode power plant would switch to a conventional rocket engine, drawing on the liquid hydrogen and a small supply of liquid oxygen to propel the winged craft into orbit at a final speed of Mach 25.

The relatively small, fuel - injected engine does a commendable job of keeping the van up with traffic, but do not expect it to turn the 3,500 - pound van into a land rocket.

Neither of the engines make the Renegade a rocket, but both dutifully move the small SUV's low -3,000-pound mass.