Sentences with phrase «supersonic speeds of»

As long predicted, the meteor's initial pinprick of light spreads into a curved bow shock as it plows into the upper atmosphere at supersonic speeds of 71 kilometers per second.

The encounter puts the brakes on the solar wind, causing it to abruptly slow from supersonic speeds of 400 to 700 kilometers per second down to subsonic speeds of 100 km / sec, according to simulations.

Not exact matches

Lockheed Martin and a supersonic airplane start - up are planning to develop a business jet that can travel faster than the speed of sound.

«We were a company that had never built a supersonic aircraft, and here we had to go straight up into space at Mach 3» — three times the speed of sound.

The sum is going to Boom Supersonic, Japan Airlines said Tuesday, in hopes that the Denver - based upstart will successfully develop a plane that could cut flight times in half with cruising speeds of Mach 2.2 — more than 1,450 miles an hour.

After the demise of the Concorde supersonic jet in 2003, flight times have stayed relatively constant — but Blake Scholl, founder and CEO of Boom Technology, says air travel could get a speed boost in just a few years.

That meant the first generation of SSTs were banned from flying at supersonic speed over land, which greatly reduced the appeal of supersonic aircraft.

Lockheed Martin has won a nearly quarter - billion dollar NASA contract to develop a plane capable of supersonic speed without creating the deafening sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier.

However, plans for building the first section of Hyperloop are alive and well for the supersonic train that can carry passengers at speeds up to 800 miles per hour.

The China Aerospace Science and Industrial Corporation will begin development of supersonic transportation technology, rivaling Tesla CEO Elon Musk's designs with an intercontinental model that will travel at speeds up to 2,300 mph.

Drawing technology from the F - 22 would give the new plane top - of - the - line stealth capabilities as well as the ability to travel at supersonic speeds.

Hyperloop One, a three - year - old, L.A. - based company working to create near - supersonic trains that can whisk both passengers and cargo in giant pneumatic tubes at speeds of many hundreds of miles per h

There was some mention of «supersonic speeds» and a guy sitting in a chair, white - knuckled hands clutching the armrests, yelling, wearing sunglasses, his hair and necktie blown back by what was implied to be the speed of said CD - ROM drives available for purchase.

When an object such as a pebble drops into water, an air - filled cavity is created which ejects air at supersonic speeds, discovered Stephan Gekle at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and colleagues.

At 27 kilometres, he would go supersonic: the first man to exceed the speed of sound with nothing more than gravity as a power source.

Ultimately, the Federal Aviation Administration banned supersonic civilian flights over the continental United States, partly explaining why the Concorde went out of production and why airliners have been cruising at roughly the same speed for the past 50 years.

Among the large questions of design, construction and operation that remain to be solved before airliners travel faster than sound, one of the most difficult is the problem of sonic boom: the explosive sounds generated when an object moves through the air at supersonic speed.

Both involve an explosion and creation of a shock wave that travels at supersonic speeds through the surrounding gas.

Since no volume of air moves against another at supersonic speed, shock waves never form.

It's two jet engines generate 110,000 horsepower — about a thousand times more than a Ford Escort — guzzle 5 gallons of fuel a second, and take about thirty seconds to get the 54 - foot - long, 7 - ton car up to supersonic speeds.

Sonoluminescence, the puzzling glow emitted by a bubble in a field of high - pitched sound waves, may be caused by a tiny jet of liquid that shoots across the interior of the bubble at supersonic speed and slams into the opposite side, a Johns Hopkins researcher has proposed.

Last October, British driver Any Green managed to keep his supersonic car, Thrust SSC, firmly on the ground as it sped down a 14 - mile course in the Black Rock desert of Nevada.

Modern theories of aerodynamics, advanced materials and computer analysis have made possible parachutes that can decelerate a capsule from supersonic speeds to a snail's pace in a matter of seconds

And some shoots like a jet from the disk's center at velocities up to 30 times the speed of sound, triggering supersonic shock waves.

WHEN the supersonic car Bloodhound SSC streaks across the desert sometime in 2011 in its bid to break the land speed record, it will be powered by no fewer than three different types of engine.

Geysers of vapor — a couple of hundred kilometers tall and possibly erupting at supersonic speeds — occasionally spew from the south polar regions of Europa, one of Jupiter's ice - covered moons, a new study suggests.

Engineer Barbara Wyslouzil of Ohio State University and colleagues made the cubed ice by shooting nitrogen and water vapor through nozzles at supersonic speeds.

By TARA PATEL Aerospace manufacturers are pressing ahead with their plans to develop the next generation of supersonic jetliners despite renewed uncertainty about the environmental impact of exhaust emissions that could ground the high - speed aircraft.

The planet's shock wave would be pushed in front of it as it orbits at supersonic speeds, and the wave would absorb some of the UV light emitted from the star.

(The change is on the order of one centimeter per second, the crawling speed of an ant, whereas an atom at room temperature moves at the speed of a supersonic jet.)

When some swift, massive stars — moving at speeds faster than 50,000 miles an hour — plow through space, they can cause material to stack up in front of them in the same way that water piles up ahead of a ship or a supersonic plane creates a shockwave in front of it.

One of these technologies is supersonic retropropulsion — the use of retrorockets to slow a craft as it blazes into the Red Planet's upper atmosphere at supersonic speeds.

Apparently, whenever a hard object falls into a pool of water, a jet of air is produced that briefly reaches supersonic speeds.

The mixture of gases was jetted out of the microreactor through a tiny nozzle at supersonic speeds, arresting the active chemistry within the heated cell.

Supersonic Bloodhound car in 200mph tests ahead of land speed record attempt The fleeing car, boxed in by three police cars, can be seen swerving into one of them in the video.

â $ œIn Sonic Colors, Â players run at supersonic speed through incredible looking planets each with their own unique visual style.â $ commented Gary Knight, Senior Vice President of Marketing, SEGA.

It was like a 3D F - Zero on meth, and the sense of blasting around a track at a supersonic speed was visceral.

In Jet Car Stunts the players control a Jet Car — the combination of a formula racing car and a jet plane that lets them perform nearly impossible gravity - defying stunts, like driving through loops, jumping over incredible distances, corkscrew maneuvers, drifting near the edge of the racing track,... all of that in supersonic speed, miles above the ground.

Modern Sonic is fun when he's allowed to run at supersonic speeds, but most of the time the game punishes him for doing so.

Combining supersonic speed rhythm with Afro - beat percussion and lushly mysterious strings, «Bourne» was more music for a whirling dervish dancer than a murder - programmed spy, a fusion of alternative club stylings with solidly symphonic tradition, graced with a memorable theme to tie its kinetic energy together.

Some of the film's footage, such as a disjointed walk through a mall at supersonic speed, just seems disposable if not for cool visual appeal.

The average speed of the moon crossing the USA is about 1,651 mph (two times faster than a supersonic jet).

tail down, nose up, powering through the corner like a ground - hugging supersonic weapon of speed and virility.

And the latest MANSORY enhanced supercar will also conquer the high speed hearts of its future owners at supersonic speed.

The engine's supercharger spun at 24,000 rpm, the tips of its blades hitting supersonic speeds.

The transformation of Sonic into Supersonic, flying around the screen in an invincible glowing - golden blur as the music sped up and the badniks withered before your awesomeness, represents, to this day, probably the best reward - to - work payoff of any video game I've ever played.

They are designed with a long, pointed nose more like that of a supersonic plane than a conventional high speed train.

Virgin Galactic's new spaceship climbed at supersonic speed over California's Mojave Desert on Thursday in the company's first powered flight since the fatal crash of its original rocketship in 2014.