News tagged with fuel rocket
Rocket science leads to new whale discovery
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Rocket science is opening new doors to understanding how sounds associated with Navy sonar might affect the hearing of a marine mammal - or if they hear it at all.
Ariane 5 - First launch of 2009
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Feb 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou, in French Guiana, on its mission to place two multi-role telecommunications satellites into geostationary ...
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Japan to develop midair rocket-launch system
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2009 |
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The government has launched a project to develop a midair rocket-launching system that can place satellites in orbit, it has been learned.
Chemists look for cleaner, cheaper rocket fuel
Dec 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mark Gordon recently held up a small vial containing three liquids layered one on top of another. That middle layer, the brownish one, is an ionic liquid, Gordon explained.
The rocket that thinks it's a jet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A reusable spaceplane that can take off from a conventional aircraft runway, carry over twelve tonnes to orbit and then return to land on the same runway could be less than a decade away thanks ...
NASA Conducts First Test On New Motor For The Ares I Rocket
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have completed first-round testing of a critical motor for NASA's new Ares I rocket. The Ares I is a two-stage rocket ...
Problem cancels moon rocket test firing in Utah
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A mechanical failure forced a NASA contractor on Thursday to call off the first test firing of the main part of NASA's powerful new moon rocket.
Discovery is mated with external fuel tank
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Space shuttle Discovery has been attached to its external fuel tank and rocket boosters in preparation for its launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
New rocket aims for cheaper nudges in space: Plasma thruster is small, runs on inexpensive gases (Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Satellites orbiting the Earth must occasionally be nudged to stay on the correct path. MIT scientists are developing a new rocket that could make this and other spacecraft maneuvers much less ...
Rocket Racing Could be Futuristic NASCAR Sport
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2008 |
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With its first demonstration of a rocket-powered plane, the Rocket Racing League is hoping to have invented a new sport. Thousands of spectators witnessed the league´s first flight, held at the Experimental ...
New aluminum-water rocket propellant promising for future space missions
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are developing a new type of rocket propellant made of a frozen mixture of water and "nanoscale aluminum" powder that is more environmentally friendly than conventional propellants ...
Rocket-fueled bacteria clean up waste
Oct 26, 2005 |
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Bacteria that make rocket fuel as part of their metabolism are making sewage treatment less expensive and kinder to the environment, British researchers say.
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