Sentences with phrase «solid rocket motors»

These used solid rocket motors the laboratory had developed for the Army's Sergeant guided missile.

Johns was on the engineering team that evaluated ablative materials used to protect the Shuttle from the high thermal loads and 5,500 - degree temperatures generated by its massive solid rocket motors.

Uses improved solid rocket motors to lift up to 150 - metric tonnes to LEO.

DEFECTS in the US space shuttle's solid rocket motors, which grounded the entire shuttle fleet last month, were caused by a change in NASA procedures intended to make the shuttle safer.

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

Not exact matches

Martin Ross, another of the paper's authors, who works at the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., explains that hybrid motors favoured by space tourism companies are safer, cheaper to run, and quicker to refuel than the liquid or solid rocket boosters that have dominated rocketry thus far.

Firing solid rocket fuel motors within 10 milliseconds of an IED blast temporarily makes the vehicle weigh 120 tons, freezing it in place and protecting everyone inside

A solid rocket or a solid fuel rocket is a rocket with a motor that uses solid propellants (fuel / oxidizer).

Solid - fuel rocket motors are currently destroyed by incineration, but the risk of explosion makes this process dangerous and expensive.

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.

Solid or liquid rocket Boosters are often used for parallel staging schemes and all motors are ignited at launch.

Generally each stage consists of one or more motors, plus fuel and oxidiser tanks for a liquid rocket or the casing for a solid rocket.

Wikipedia states «Solid - fuel rocket boosters (SRBs) are large solid propellant motors used to provide thrust in spacecraft launches from initial launch through the first ascent stage.&rSolid - fuel rocket boosters (SRBs) are large solid propellant motors used to provide thrust in spacecraft launches from initial launch through the first ascent stage.&rsolid propellant motors used to provide thrust in spacecraft launches from initial launch through the first ascent stage.»