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NASA Engineers Complete Engine Test Series For Ares I Rocket

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have completed a series of tests on a key component of the J-2X engine. The J-2X powers the upper stage of the Ares I rocket, which will ...





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The bombardier beetle, power venom, and spray technologies

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 01, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 6

The bombardier beetle is inspiring designers of engines, drug-delivery devices and fire extinguishers to improve spray technologies, writes Andy McIntosh, from Leeds University, and Novid Beheshti, of Swedish Biomimetics ...


MIT develops initial step toward carbon sequestration

Researchers develop initial step toward carbon sequestration

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 5

MIT researchers have developed designs for a new kind of coal-burning power plant, called a pressurized oxy-fuel combustion system, whose carbon-dioxide emissions are concentrated and pressurized so that they ...


Iowa State engineer develops laser technologies to analyze combustion, biofuels

Iowa State engineer develops laser technologies to analyze combustion, biofuels

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 05, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Let’s say a fuel derived from biomass produces too much soot when it’s burned in a combustion chamber designed for fossil fuels.


Testing Gelled Rocket Fuels

Researchers cooking up new gelled rocket fuels

Chemistry /

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Engineers and food scientists are teaming up to develop a new type of gelled fuel the consistency of orange marmalade designed to improve the safety, performance and range of rockets for space and military ...


Gasoline Pumps

Gasoline-diesel 'cocktail': A potent recipe for cleaner, more efficient engines

Technology / Energy

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (26) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diesel and gasoline fuel sources both bring unique assets and liabilities to powering internal combustion engines. But what if an engine could be programmed to harvest the best properties ...


US Chamber of Commerce releases questionable survey results

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In an article from a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies the results of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Liability Survey for recent years are analyzed. The annual Chamber of Commerce surveys (dating back t ...


Rice as a source of electricity

Technology / Energy

created Nov 21, 2006 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Rice yields an abundance of biowaste: Husks make up around one quarter of the weight. Only a small fraction of this is utilized, for instance, to fire distillery furnaces. Researchers at Hanoi University of Technology now ...


Timothee Pourpoint Adjusts Valves

New purdue facility aims to improve NASA moon rocket engine

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Purdue University engineers are conducting experiments using a new hydrogen facility to help NASA create designs to improve the cooling efficiency and performance of the J-2X rocket engine, critical for future ...


Researchers work toward spark-free, fuel-efficient engines

Researchers work toward spark-free, fuel-efficient engines

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 23, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (48) | comments 0

In an advance that could help curb global demand for oil, MIT researchers have demonstrated how ordinary spark-ignition automobile engines can, under certain driving conditions, move into a spark-free operating ...


First firing of STERN rocket

First firing of STERN rocket

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 26, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

A team of engineers from Bristol University has conducted the first firing of the STERN rocket motor. Rocket engines equipped with the STERN (Static Test Expansion/Deflection Rocket Nozzle) rocket motor should ...



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