Sentences with phrase «using rocket engines»

The craft lands vertically on its tail, using rocket engines to slow it while landing.

Rather than use rocket engines, which have to lug their own oxygen, Wurst wants to use a ramjet, a sort of super jet engine commonly used on planes that travel three or more times the speed of sound.

The DC - X will use its rocket engines for a powered descent back to Earth, roaring to a stop at the spaceport where it had been launched for a vertical landing.

Not exact matches

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.

This is the rocket engine that SpaceX plans to use to go to Mars.

Unless you're using a VitaMix blender — then, it's rocket engine science.

The rocket engines can be used for thousands of flights, potentially making scientific ventures more affordable.

They are using for the second - stage rocket engine essentially the same engine that was on the Saturn [upper stages], which is a very low - tech steel - cased engine.

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.

The rocket uses a nuclear engine, a technology that was under serious investigation for a long time (and may yet see its day in space).

Having just one kind of first - stage engine in all of its rockets «is like Southwest Airlines deciding to use only 737s,» says Musk.

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.

Rocket engines, gas turbines and diesel engines experience conditions in their combustion chamber that exceed the critical conditions of their fuel, and supercritical finely atomized sprays are used to coat tablets in the production of medicines.

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

Although the new rocket will use engines derived from the shuttle, the capsule will be a fresh design three times the size of the Apollo capsule — large enough to put four astronauts on the moon.

This principle is used in real rockets and jets that shoot a high - speed stream of gases out the back of their engines, propelling the vehicle forward.

Russia has agreed to halt sales to India of rocket engines that the US feared could be used to launch nuclear - tipped missiles.

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.

Two RD - 110 missile engines (left and center) used during the 1940s and 1950s suffered from rough combustion and thermal stress design problems and were abandoned as an approach to rocket propulsion.

It uses a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propulsion system, which includes the RS - 25D / E rocket engines from the Space Shuttle Program for the core stage and the J - 2X engine for the upper stage.

The part will be used on the J - 2x engine for the largest rocket ever built, known simply as the Space Launch System.

The BE-3 rocket engine is the first new hydrogen engine developed in the United States since the RS - 68 engine (used on ULA's Delta - IV) over a decade ago.

Hybrid rocket engines use a combination of solid and liquid or gaseous propellants.

Aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos has posted the first - ever images of the fully - completed BE-4 liquid rocket engine on Twitter, giving the world a look at the technology that his company plans to use to send its New Glenn...

The RS - 25 engine E2063 test - fired during last week's review is planned for use on the second flight of NASA's new super-heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), which will be Exploration Mission - 2 (EM - 2).

In some engines, especially for turbine engine blade cooling and liquid rocket engine cooling, fuel is used as a coolant, as it is simultaneously preheated before injecting it into a combustion chamber.

Named after the Lockheed F - 94 Starfire jet fighter, the original Starfire was a 5 - passenger convertible that had a fiberglass body, a 200 hp (150 kW) Rocket V8 engine, and a wraparound windshield like that used on the top - of - the - line and limited - production 1953 Fiesta 98 convertible.

Verifying the structural design will withstand the forces applied by the rocket engine using the finite