Sentences with phrase «with rocket engines»

It's about a Pinocchio with rocket engines for legs, x-ray eyes and a swirly just - got - dunked - in - the - toilet hairdo.

The Lees drive a car with a rocket engine where they have to keep throwing in garbage for some reason to keep it running.

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CNBC's Morgan Brennan talks exclusively with ULA's Tory Bruno about competition, new spacecraft, rocket engines and launch prices.

CNBC's Morgan Brennan talks with Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith about the company's new engine for its latest orbital rocket and new opportunities in space exploration.

Bezos» Blue Origin is rapidly passing milestones with its BE-4 engine, SpaceX astounded millions with its Falcon Heavy launch, Virgin Galactic completed the first powered flight of its Unity rocket and Bigelow took the next step toward the world's first habitable private space station with Bigelow Space Operations.

SpaceX was testing an experimental new version of its Merlin rocket engine at the time of the blast, a company source who is familiar with the matter told Business Insider.

He says that NASA has paid only for the development of the Dragon spacecraft, and that SpaceX developed both the Merlin engine and the Falcon rocket completely on its own, with its original $ 100 million in capital.

The rocket measured 230 feet in length, and was equipped with 27 engines.

With the three rockets, Falcon Heavy had 27 engines.

But he has warned that the Heavy is a complex rocket with 27 first - stage engines, and that it, too, could explode.

But the event went off without a hitch: The engines lit up on April 12, 1981 stunning spectators with a launch spectacle not seen since the Apollo moon rockets.

In fact, an entire industry of nimble space - vehicle ventures has sprung up in recent years, including SpaceX, headed by PayPal founder Elon Musk; Armadillo Aerospace, started by computer - game developer John Carmack; Blue Origin, a pet project of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos; and SpaceDev, which came up with the novel rocket engine that powered SpaceShipOne.

To power its new orbital launch vehicle, Blue Origin is developing a more powerful rocket engine known as the BE-4, which is a joint venture with launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA).

Now, researchers have come up with a way to 3D print tough and flexible stainless steel, an advance that could lead to faster and cheaper ways to make everything from rocket engines to parts for nuclear reactors and oil rigs.

The RS - 68, currently in production for Delta IV rockets, could probably do it with seven or eight first - stage engines.

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.

The firm recently announced a partnership with United Launch Alliance, which regularly launches rockets for NASA, to provide engines for ULA's new Vulcan rocket.

> A propulsion module consisting of four stages, each with four Vulcain 2 rocket engines (now being readied for an upgrade of ESA's Ariane 5 rocket), to propel the spacecraft from low Earth orbit to Mars.

But McKinney added the notion of powering the blades with a tiny rocket engine mounted on the tip of each blade.

Once it filled its tank with liquid oxygen, it could light up the rocket engines and zoom to a height beyond the atmosphere of up to 120 miles.

A video posted on the NASAWatch blog shows an anomaly with one of the Falcon launch vehicle's nine engines near max - Q, the point where the rocket is under maximum physical stress during launch.

But with a forward boost from a set of rocket engines, the wings bump into more air, pushing more of that air down, which pushes the jet pack (and, hopefully, the person wearing it) up.

As rocket engines fire up for lift - off, it fills with streams of hot exhaust, safely diverting them at the expense of being scorched and scarred.

RFGlobalnet.com ran a story that mentioned PPPL's collaboration with Princeton Satellite Systems to develop a fusion engine for rockets.

Hydrogen, being an extremely light element, makes up only about 5 % of the weight of a rocket fuel mixture, and can thus be imported from Earth; heavy insulation and some gelling of the mixture with methane (as the hydrogen will not be fed directly into an engine) will reduce in - space boil - off to negligible levels.

The most realistic of these space transportation options calls for the elimination of both rocket fuel and rocket engines — replacing them with sails.

New Horizons will be launched aboard an Atlas 5 «551» vehicle, with a bulbous five - meter payload shroud built by the Swiss contractor Contraves, five Aerojet - built solid rocket boosters, another single - engine Centaur, and a Star 48B third stage.

And, «An additional beyond - LEO engine for interplanetary travel from Earth orbit to Mars orbit, and back, is being studied as of 2013 at Marshall Space Flight Center with a focus on nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) engines.

Engineers have successfully hot - fire tested an RS - 25 rocket engine with a large 3 - D printed part for the first time, marking a key step toward reducing costs for future engines that power NASA's new heavy - lift rocket, the Space Launch System.

, she winced as she shakenly bounded to the fabulous YoulookKILLA - mobile, which was a converted yellow 1960s Morris Mini with twin NASA rocket engines.

Alan Bond (born 1944) is an English mechanical and aerospace engineer, as well as Managing Director of Reaction Engines Ltd and associated with Project Ellwyn E. Angle was a rocket engineer who, in the 1940s and 1950s, worked on various advanced projects in the US, including the Bell X-1 and X-5.

On May 30, 26 1st through 5th graders blasted off for outer - space exploration in two transformed school buses outfitted with coats of fresh white paint, welded nose cones, rocket engines, and on - board laboratories for conducting zero - gravity experiments.

It is reassuring to drive something with a rocket for an engine and have a lot of car around you.

The Galpin - Fisker Rocket's new face sits on top of a carbon - fiber front splitter, which is matched with enlarged front intakes and two massive hood scoops that help cool the car's 725 - hp V - 8 engine.

Henrik Fisker and Galpin designed the Rocket — it comes packed with a V - 8 engine that offers 725 horsepower underneath its racing striped hood.

The Quattro combined surer grip from its 18 - inch wheels (19s are available) with the lovable 2.0 - liter engine, which rockets the A3 from stoplight to 60 mph in about 5.8 seconds.

Our heroes will have plenty of performance at their disposal, as the Mini Cooper S is equipped with a 2.0 - liter turbocharged inline - four engine rated for 189 hp and 207 lb - ft of torque, enough to rocket the cars to 60 mph in 6.4 or 6.5 seconds, depending on whether buyers pick the six - speed automatic or manual transmission.

Mind you, the sensations you feel driving this car hard are only magnified with the top down — the air whooshing past, the engine wailing behind your ears, the squeaks and squeals of the nearby tires scrabbling for grip as your rocket into and out of turns.

With modified internals, a larger intake system, and a free - flowing side - exit exhaust, the engine kicked out an impressive 385 hp and 385 lb - ft of torque, which was good enough to rocket this beast to 60 mph in just 4.4 seconds.

With Futuramic styling, as it was called, and a Rocket V - 8 engine, Olds» open - air model was made to turn heads in the competitive post-war market.Weighing in at 4,200 pounds and measuring nearly 18 feet long, the Olds was an imposing machine, propelled by a 135 - horsepower engine with a two - barrel carburetor.The Ninety - Eights had a rear center armrest, front and rear floor mats, chrome - plated body moldings, electric clock and stainless - steel wheel trim riWith Futuramic styling, as it was called, and a Rocket V - 8 engine, Olds» open - air model was made to turn heads in the competitive post-war market.Weighing in at 4,200 pounds and measuring nearly 18 feet long, the Olds was an imposing machine, propelled by a 135 - horsepower engine with a two - barrel carburetor.The Ninety - Eights had a rear center armrest, front and rear floor mats, chrome - plated body moldings, electric clock and stainless - steel wheel trim riwith a two - barrel carburetor.The Ninety - Eights had a rear center armrest, front and rear floor mats, chrome - plated body moldings, electric clock and stainless - steel wheel trim rings.

Powered by a 324ci Rocket V8 engine with 4 - barrel carburetor and 4 - speed Hydramatic automatic transmission.

For $ 400 more, Chevy will sell you an RS with the 170 - horsepower engine, which should make RS a bargain rocket.

Matching - numbers rocket 455ci V8 engine with 370hp and matching - numbers 4 - speed manual transmission.

With 125 lbs ft of torque from 1800rpm to 4250rpm it's obviously no rocket but nor does it feel underpowered thanks to the spread of thrust which gives the engine almost diesel characteristics.

Claimed to be the fastest, most powerful, most luxurious and most exclusive SUV in the world, Bentley's Bentayga backs up this boast with a new twin - turbocharged 6.0 - litre W12 engine thumping out 600 horsepower and 663 pound - feet of torque — enough to rocket the full - sized sport - ute to 100 kilometres an hour in a claimed 4.1 seconds.

Along with the more powerful engine, the GT500 will rocket itself down the quarter - mile thanks to a new Drag Strip mode and bring everything to a halt by way of (likely optional) carbon ceramic brakes.

The tuning house fitted the Rocket 900 with its own ECU, though it's safe to say that it is mostly the engine modifications that are responsible for the extra output, not the uncorking of the engine software.

Tepid but dependable with the base engine and automatic transmission, it turned into a rocket with the turbo engine and manual transmission.

The Alero had no Rocket V - 8, making do with a rather noisy 3.4 - liter V - 6, a pushrod design not unlike the engines that powered Oldsmobiles four decades ago.