Sentences with phrase «suborbital rocket»

But the measurements can be done in space — avoiding that glow — in just the short amount of time that a suborbital rocket flies above the atmosphere, before descending again back toward the planet.

Chakrabarti's suborbital rocket flights were made possible through NASA funding, as was the bulk of recent progress in high - performance coronagraphs for space telescopes.

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

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

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.

The New Shepard suborbital rocket ship has already flown to space and back five times as part of the test flights, and it was a huge success.

For years Chakrabarti and his colleagues have been pursuing a middle way between the laboratory and orbit, using NASA funding to conduct low - cost test flights of these advanced optics technologies with small suborbital rockets and high - altitude balloons that reach the edge of outer space.

Not exact matches

Though their rockets didn't quite make it to suborbital space, the group did pull off dozens of successful launches.

Musk notes that making it into orbit requires going eight times faster and producing 65 times more rocket energy than a suborbital vehicle like SpaceShipOne.

Until now, Blue Origin's rockets had been designed to go into suborbital space, which entails flying more than 62 miles above the earth's surface, but not high enough to make a full revolution.

XCOR is pursuing the latter paradigm with its winged rocket - powered Lynx, a reusable space vehicle that will take off from a conventional runway and blast into suborbital space (roughly 330,000 feet, or 63 miles) powered by an onboard rocket motor before flying back to Earth and landing on a conventional runway.

Bezos posted on Twitter, a not - so - oblique reference to his company nailing a landing of its suborbital New Shepard rocket a month ago.

Visible from North Carolina to upstate New York, the eerie trails were created by five suborbital NASA rockets that soared to altitudes of 50 to 80 miles, where they released chemical tracers that reacted with oxygen in the thin upper atmosphere.

The group hopes to eventually fly a human on a suborbital flight to space using a beefed - up version of the rocket, which is...

The NASA - funded FOXSI instrument captured new evidence of small solar flares, called nanoflares, during its December 2014 flight on a suborbital sounding rocket.

Meanwhile, Virgin Galactic hopes to offer suborbital flights in the air - launched SpaceShipTwo rocket, built by Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, in the next couple of years.

Blue Origin, an aerospace company based in Kent, Washington, and led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is working on a rocket - propelled vehicle called New Shepard to carry people and microgravity experiments on suborbital trips into space.

In 2004, the aircraft and rocket maker Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, won the Ansari X prize for SpaceShipOne, the first commercial spacecraft to reach suborbital space.

His love of rockets spurred a $ 30 million gamble on SpaceShipOne, which won the X Prize as the first manned craft in suborbital space.

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.

On June 19, Blue Origin launched their reusable New Shepherd rocket and crew capsule into suborbital space over western -LSB-...]

NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), in Wallops Island, Virginia, leads technical and scientific reviews for the 47 teams planning to fly on suborbital and orbital vehicle platforms, such as CubeSats, aircraft, sounding rockets, and balloons.