News tagged with rocket motor
Scorpions inspire scientists in making tougher surfaces for machinery
Taking inspiration from the yellow fattail scorpion, which uses a bionic shield to protect itself against scratches from desert sandstorms, scientists have developed a new way to protect the moving parts of ...
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Singapore family books $1 million Virgin space flight
A Singaporean businessman, his wife and two children have paid $1 million to become the first Asian family to fly together on space-tourism airline Virgin Galactic, the company announced Monday.
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Nov 14, 2011 |
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The spark of a new era
Seventy-five years ago this Halloween, at 9 a.m., a truck from the California Institute of Technology turned on to a road owned by the Pasadena Water Department and after heading down a small hill came to ...
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Oct 20, 2011 |
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Students building rocket for moon vehicle
Purdue University students are designing and building a rocket engine that might be used in a vehicle to land on the moon.
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Sep 14, 2011 |
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NASA successfully tests five-segment solid rocket motor
NASA and ATK Space Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of Development Motor-3 (DM-3), Thursday, Sept. 8. DM-3 is NASA's largest and most powerful solid rocket motor ever designed for ...
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Sep 09, 2011 |
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Russia blames 'chance' defect for space crash
Russia on Friday blamed a one-off production fault in a rocket engine for the crash of an unmanned spaceship last month but nevertheless ordered checks of all similar rocket motors.
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Sep 09, 2011 |
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GRAIL mission to launch today
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's GRAIL spacecraft are set to launch to the moon aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket on Sept. 8, 2011, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. There are two instantaneous ...
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Sep 08, 2011 |
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Russia delays next manned space flight
Russia on Monday delayed its next manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) by at least a month after an unmanned cargo vessel crashed into Siberia instead of reaching orbit.
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Aug 29, 2011 |
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NASA's Stardust: Good to the last drop
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Thursday, March 24 at about 4 p.m. PDT (7 p.m. EDT), NASA's Stardust spacecraft will perform a final burn with its main engines.
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Mar 24, 2011 |
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Mars 'hopper': Space scientists develop new breed of space vehicle
Scientists and engineers at the internationally acclaimed Space Research Centre at the University of Leicester are developing a conceptual motor design for a Mars 'hopping' vehicle which should lead to a greater ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 18, 2010 |
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NASA and ATK successfully test five-segment solid rocket motor (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- With a loud roar and mighty column of flame, NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of the largest and most powerful solid rocket motor designed ...
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Aug 31, 2010 |
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NASA Marshall Successfully Tests Sub-Scale Rocket Motor (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fire and sparks flew as a 24-inch-diameter solid rocket motor was successfully tested May 27 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. The 21-second firing tested a NASA sub-scale ...
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May 28, 2010 |
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Maiden flight for Virgin Galactic's 'SpaceShipTwo' (Update)
Virgin Galactic's experimental SpaceshipTwo (SS2), an aircraft designed to one day carry paying customers into space, had its maiden flight in the California desert Monday, company officials announced.
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Mar 22, 2010 |
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NASA's Space Shuttle Program Conducts Final Motor Test In Utah (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah.
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Feb 25, 2010 |
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NASA Buys Additional Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Motors
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has purchased two reusable solid rocket motors from ATK Launch Systems Inc. of Brigham City, Utah, to provide a "launch on need" rescue capability for the final planned space shuttle mission, targeted ...
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Dec 16, 2009 |
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