"If you're going to use that propellant in low Earth orbit, it's still maybe a 20 or 30 percent savings, using lunar propellant versus Earth propellant," says Sowers.
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And the more propellant you add, the more propellant you need to lift it all.
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While the Space Shuttle SRBs had four propellant segments, they've been scaled up to five propellant segments for SLS.
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That gel also contained a perfluorocarbon (PFC) as a propellant — because without a propellant, how do you shoot the cannon?
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The super cold temperatures make the liquid oxygen extra dense, so more of the propellant can fit inside the propellant tank.
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But what if instead of taking all the propellant you need with you from Earth, you refill your gas tank with propellant that's already in space?
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The six Shahid Hemmat units targeted by the U.S. sanctions manufacture missile components, missile airframes, liquid-propellant ballistic missile engines, liquid propellant, guidance and control systems.
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Green Propellant Infusion Mission The Green Propellant Infusion Mission, or GPIM for short, will demonstrate a "green" alternative to the usual rocket fuel used in launch and spacecraft.
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So missions into deeper space become even more costly to pay for all the extra propellant needed to get there and the bigger rocket to house that propellant.
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That means there's usually enough leftover propellant for SpaceX to turn around and head back to land, a process that eats up more propellant than landing in the ocean.
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The probe would need extra propellant to help slow itself down as it approached the Pluto system, and that will require a bigger propellant tank than what New Horizons had.
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This will demonstrate the viability of producing and storing liquid rocket propellant on the Moon, and will be a key step toward the development of a Moon-based propellant production plant.
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That simple-sounding trick ejects the propellant about ten times faster than a normal chemical thruster, allowing it to use less propellant in a given time period in order to save weight.
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Solid-propellant missiles require less time because the fuel that propels them is stored inside the missile and is more stable, whereas liquid-propellant missiles must be fueled up immediately prior to launch.
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In the H-IIB configuration, the MHI-built rocket that will transport he HTV includes a liquid propellant central core, along with four solid propellant rocket boosters to give it additional life capacity.
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It's all part of NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM).
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There are a lot of moving parts and propellant involved.
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Similarly, it's inefficient to bring propellant for the return trip.
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He spoke optimistically about SpaceX's ability to create propellant plants.
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Several types of electric rockets use electricity to ionize propellant.
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He also designed rockets and created propellant formulas, prosecutors said.
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The vehicle will run on a new type of propellant developed by the US Air Force that's meant to serve as an alternative to hydrazine, the current propellant of choice for most satellite engines.
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In an email in July 2009, Paresh Khandhadia, the company's top propellant engineer, referred to a direct discussion with Takata's chief executive, Shigehisa Takada, about the likelihood that shocks and vibration could damage the propellant.
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Most spacecraft use a propellant called hydrazine, which is highly toxic.
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Relativity Space's biggest printers produce five-metre sections of propellant tank.
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"Ball propellant" is essentially analagous to gunpowder, and is highly explosive.
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The engine surpassed that in Thursday's test and, when SpaceX switches from "warm propellant" to cryogenic propellant —meaning cooled to extremely low temperature — Musk estimates the Raptor engine will get 10 percent to 20 percent more power.
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But it bounces microwaves around a chamber as a substitute for propellant.
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It held the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant needed for takeoff.
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Additional rockets may have to bring propellant to the BFS, Braun suggests.
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If the propellant combusts violently, it can rupture its steel inflater casing.
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"The higher you want to go, the more propellant you're going to have to load, and the more propellant you load, the bigger the boom if it were to explode," Nield told Business Insider prior to Tuesday's launch.
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If you push on something (like the propellant), it pushes back on you.
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The second stage also seems to have more propellant than the Hwasong-14.
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That means there will be very little propellant leftover to perform a landing.
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So if a satellite runs out of propellant, you can't refill the tank.
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The fantasy of rocket scientists is therefore an engine that needs no propellant.
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The propellant that comes out is really cold, so it gives you frostbite.
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The emails referred to the testing of airbag inflaters, which contain the propellant.
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Rockets send propellant out of their exhaust system, and the EM drive... bupkis.
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The four large round objects hiding behind the main engine are propellant tanks.
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By comparison, solid rocket motors are much simpler than their liquid propellant counterparts.
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Then, rockets wouldn't have to be so big to house all their propellant.
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These suck the propellant up by capillary action, obviating the need for pumps.
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Prior to propellant ignition, the booster hardware was heated to 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Today's test checked the propellant at its coldest-rated temperatures: 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The cubesats run on solar power, and their propellant is fire extinguisher fluid.
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The key ingredients are full reusability of ships and vehicles, and the rest is made up by refilling in orbit, actually producing more propellant on Mars for return trips, and choosing the right propellant to make that possible and efficient.
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The first ship to land on Mars would bring with it a "small propellant plant" The first ship to land on Mars would bring with it a "small propellant plant," which would be expanded as time went on, Musk said.
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Late 240s - Takata starts developing airbags with ammonium nitrate-based propellant in the inflators.
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The main problem revolves around the fuel, or propellant, you need for the trip.
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That means there won't be a lot of propellant leftover to do a landing.
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Musk noted, however, that the actual propellant tanks needed for the prototype are fine.
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Both methods, though, add weight in the form of propellant, thus reducing launch payload.
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The reddish color is from burning nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer propellant from the control system.
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Right now, rockets leaving Earth must carry all the propellant they need with them.
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And the deeper into space you want to go, the more propellant you need.
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First crewed mission with equipment to build rudimentary base and complete the propellant plant.
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First, since no on-board propellant is required, there is more room for instruments.
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The images revealed what looked like hardware and propellant being moved around the site.
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What does it mean to witness the destruction of 1.5 million pounds of propellant?
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And there's water, which could be used as a propellant for deep space exploration.
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That's the highest temperature the propellant can be, with the engine still functioning properly.
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The U.S. now depends on China for a key ingredient in Hellfire missile propellant.
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The only thing that needs to change is you reload propellant and fly again.
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In theory, it should hold cryogenic propellant without leaking and without a sealing linker.
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That helps ensure leftover propellant doesn't trigger a spontaneous explosion in the satellite's afterlife.
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The rocket was fully fueled for this launch, causing the propellant to light up.
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Video footage from a company called ExoAnalytic Solutions showed the satellite's propellant leaking into space.
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For the EchoStar 23, there just won't be enough propellant to either kind of landing.
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Musk notes that propellant for the rocket is only about 0.3 percent of the cost.
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It doesn't have nearly enough propellant needed to push the ISS out into deep space.
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In the past, NASA astronauts boarded the Space Shuttle only after propellant had been loaded.
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The whole thing could be done with little or no propellant, which greatly simplifies operation.
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But perhaps the biggest and most immediate application for lunar water is making rocket propellant.
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An ion drive accelerates charged particles derived from a liquid propellant to very high speeds.
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But "the propellant tanks will explode eventually as the temperatures get high enough," he said.
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That could be used one day to make propellant for a return trip to Earth.
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My goal is to get closer and closer to the ultimate propellant, drug-like song.
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Encyclopedia Astronautica lays out the following breakdown of the advantages and disadvantages of solid propellant.
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That's because there's usually enough propellant left over to pull off such a ground landing.
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An explosives plant St. Marks Powder is a ball propellant manufacturing plant in Crawfordville, Florida.
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That's typically done by redirecting the gases created by the explosion of the cartridge propellant.
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Crew Dragon's design includes two distinct propulsion systems — a low-pressure bi-propellant propulsion system with sixteen Draco thrusters for on-orbit maneuvering, and a high-pressure bi-propellant propulsion system with eight SuperDraco thrusters for use only in the event of a launch escape.
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Most of the costs of space travel come from the hardware, not the propellant, Bezos said.
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According to the listing, the ingredients include a propellant, alcohol, iron oxides, talc, and fumed silica.
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Intelsat says that something damaged the satellite, causing its onboard propellant to leak out into space.
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The father and son build sport rockets fuelled by a propellant commercially available at hobby stores.
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On the Space Shuttle, for instance, propellant was loaded many hours before crew boarded the vehicle.
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Yet during shutdown, several of the engine valves failed to close, leading to a propellant leak.
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Heart of Gold spaceship flies to Mars loaded only with equipment to build the propellant plant.
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The accident occurred during tests on a liquid propellant rocket engine, the agency said, citing Rosatom.
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Today's reaction-powered spacecraft works like this: Propellant exhaust carries momentum away and generates forward thrust.
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There's no cartridge, no propellant, no explosive – just a solid piece of metal attached to fins.
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The spacecraft is dangerously low on a propellant that's required to correct or change its orbit.
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But there was not enough propellant fuel left to safely send Cassini anywhere except into Saturn.
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Still, Honda pushed a particularly problematic configuration of the propellant over Takata's objections, the filing said.
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When a gun is fired, propellant gases travel from a small barrel chamber into open air.
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These inflaters "have not shown any propellant degradation, and have pressure measurements within specification," Ford said.
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Breathe uses vegetable glycerin as its propellant, whose long-term effects when inhaled are not known.
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That fuel, in theory, would eventually be cheaper to make in space than propellant launched from Earth.
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Other propellant-less options, like solar sails, have low thrusts that may not work for heavier spacecraft.
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The spokesman said on Monday the propellant in the truck contained ammonium nitrate, a volatile chemical compound.
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Another rocket could then bring up propellant from Earth, dock with the tug, and transfer fuel over.
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Batteries are used to power the turbopumps — key hardware that funnels the vehicle's propellant into the engines.
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The biggest modifications made the pad revolved around the ground propellant systems, according to CEO Elon Musk.
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According to the Russian ministry of defense, a liquid propellant rocket engine had gone awry and exploded.
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The goal was also to cover as much territory as possible while trying to conserve Cassini's propellant.
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The failure was apparently complex, involving an elaborate interplay of materials in an extremely cold propellant tank.
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They're used by other major rocket manufacturers, such as the United Launch Alliance, to pressurize propellant tanks.
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Fortunately, most of the booster's propellant should be exhausted by the time it falls off the rocket.
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The officials cited intelligence suggesting movement of components and propellant at North Korea's Sohae satellite launch facility.
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On the Falcon 9, the COPVs sit inside the propellant tanks and keep them pressurized during flight.
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He took advantage of resentment toward Hungary's large Roma population as a volatile propellant for his party.
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And recently, Boeing experienced a propellant leak during a test that pushed back development of its Starliner.
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Kerosene is used as a propellant for rockets such as ULA's Atlas V and SpaceX's Falcon 9.
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The initial launch, however, was scrubbed because of a ground leak of propellant during the fueling process.
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For every second of their mayfly-short life, the boosters will eat through 20143 tons of propellant.
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SpaceX uses a super cool propellant that's much colder than what was used on the Space Shuttle.
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Three of these vessels sit inside the upper oxygen tank that holds the supercooled liquid oxygen propellant.
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They're responsible for filling and pressurizing the empty space that's left when the propellant leaves the tank.
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Biggest question right now is sealing the carbon fiber tanks against cryo propellant with hot autogenous pressurization.
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Ideally, a team would build a propellant plant on Mars and send the ships back that way.
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The propellant, called ammonium nitrate, can become unstable over time or when it is exposed to moisture.
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Dr. Rayman said he and his team had expected Dawn to exhaust its remaining propellant by March.
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If Trump was the flame, Bannon's message was the propellant that created the electoral inferno last November.
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"The higher you want to go, the more propellant you're going to have to load, and the more propellant you load, the bigger the boom if it were to explode," George Nield, a former FAA associate administrator who led its Office of Commercial Space Transportation, previously told Business Insider.
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Takata is the only global air bag maker to use ammonium nitrate as a propellant in its inflators.
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The second and third stages consumed 716 pounds (325 kilograms) and 172 pounds (78 kilograms) of propellant, respectively.
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Propellant is a heavy thing to bring along, and interstellar travel requiring lots of jet fuel isn't feasible.
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Two experts said in separate interviews with Reuters that a liquid rocket propellant explosion would not release radiation.
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Most of the effort expended in a rocket launch is therefore directed towards lifting propellant rather than payload.
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That should prevent the oxygen from turning into a solid, lowering the chances of the propellant catching fire.
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These defective airbags use a propellant that might rupture the airbag and cause serious injuries, or even deaths.
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When the press site gets word that the rocket is being loaded with propellant, we burst into applause.
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Zubrin said it&aposs the cheapest propellant combination, with only a hydrogen-oxygen mix providing better exhaust velocity.
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Depending on how deep into the surface the ice goes, that could be ample fodder for rocket propellant.
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The company went bankrupt in 2013, leaving thousands of tons of potentially explosive M6 propellant at Camp Minden.
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This activity also ties nicely into their goal of perfecting a rocket thruster that requires water as propellant.
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"Finally, there's enough scientific evidence to point to the humidity issue as affecting the propellant," Mr. Upham said.
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Instead, its side-curtain inflaters use stored compressed gas and a different solid propellant to inflate the airbag.
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Developing ways to transfer propellant in space could also be a game changer for other companies beyond SpaceX.
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That propellant might be familiar from high school science experiments: It's citric acid and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda).
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Both could provide propellant for rocket engines, and the oxygen would also provide air for astronauts to breathe.
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Orbion's thrusters are Hall-effect thrusters, which use an electric field to accelerate their propellant and create thrust.
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Typically, satellites are supposed to get rid of all their propellant before they move to the graveyard orbit.
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Mr. Musk on Saturday discussed his desire to manufacture rocket propellant on site, instead of trucking it in.
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Wright was vice president of operations at Explo Systems, which had an Army contract to "demilitarize" M29 artillery propellant.
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Scientists with their eyes on long-distance space travel have contemplated thrusters that wouldn't need any propellant at all.
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Wright was vice president of operations at Explo Systems, which had an Army contract to "demilitarize" M6 artillery propellant.
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He was vice president of operations at Explo Systems, which had an Army contract to "demilitarize" M6 artillery propellant.
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The size, dimensions and the amount of propellant needed to activate the inflator can vary according to vehicle model.
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As a result, even the most modern rockets start off with a mass that is more than 90% propellant.
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In contrast, the "green" propellant going up next week — hydroxylammonium nitrate — is much more palatable, with no noxious fumes.
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This green propellant also comes with an added bonus of being more efficient for satellites since it's much denser.
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The exercise is meant to run through the major steps of launch, such as loading propellant and engine firing.
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The heart of Momentus' technology is a new propulsion system that uses water as a propellant instead of chemicals.
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He also talked about the need to build a methane-based propellant production plant on Mars for the spaceships.
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A propellant tanker is loaded onto the booster to refuel the spaceship in orbit for its trip to Mars.
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Sunlight is free and unlimited, whereas rocket propellant must be carried into orbit and be stored onboard a spacecraft.
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NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission is an effort to develop more environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional chemical propulsion systems.
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This ionized propellant is then driven out the back of the spacecraft, producing thrust that moves the vehicle forward.
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The reason SpaceX has such a short turn around time has to do with the propellant the company uses.
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Liquid helium exists at -452 degrees Fahrenheit, a lot colder than SpaceX's liquid oxygen propellant at -340 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Back on Earth, the booster lands on a launch mount and a propellant tanker is loaded onto the booster.
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The propellant tankers will go up anywhere from three to five times to fill the tanks of the spaceship.
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Given his estimates, it would take about $560 million to manufacture one booster, one spaceship, and one propellant tanker.
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The Cassini mission has been extended twice and finally used up the last of its rocket propellant this week.
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The KN-08 and the submarine-launched missile are both complex missile technologies that rely on liquid-propellant engines.
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These missiles are domestically produced and rely on solid propellant, making them more battlefield-ready and easier to transport.
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This spacecraft will have five thrusters on board that will help test this propellant through various maneuvers to be performed.
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The combined capabilities of the propellant can also return the craft to Earth's atmosphere at the end of its mission.
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"We had to reconfigure all the propellant systems," CEO Elon Musk told The Verge in a direct message on Twitter.
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A valve accidentally leaked some of the vehicle's propellant, starting a chain reaction that caused the spacecraft to burst apart.
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Nathan Beal said his father built sport rockets fueled by a propellant that is legally available at specialty hobby shops.
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Transporting propellant from the Moon to other locations in space is nowhere near as pricey as transporting it from Earth.
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Sowers recently did an analysis on how much it would cost to transport lunar propellant to different locations from space.
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Water is fundamental for life as we know it but could also be used to make propellant or radiation shielding.
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At the time of the call, there were issues with loading the rocket's propellant, which resulted in an overall abort.
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Launching from nearer the equator means using less propellant, saving the country roughly $6 million each time it blasts off.
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This time around, NASA wants to see how the booster will handle much colder propellant, at around 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
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As he was flying a lunar lander in Houston, propellant started leaking out of the vehicle, rendering his controls useless.
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Propellant There's been a lot of speculation as to how the BFS will have enough fuel to get to Mars.
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Fourteen automakers have recalled 28 million airbag inflaters, the metal casing that contains the propellant, in about 24 million vehicles.
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In March 2006, its Monclova plant was severely damaged by a series of blasts blamed on the ammonium nitrate propellant.
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That led to the spacecraft squandering its propellant, and a planned docking at the International Space Station was called off.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense initially said that a liquid-propellant rocket engine exploded and no harmful emissions were released.
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Not only does this green propellant pose less of a threat to humans handling it, but it's also more efficient.
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The US used liquid propellant with all of its original intercontinental nuclear missiles, but switched to solid fuel later on.
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Mission managers concluded that the propellant for its thrusters had run dry, and Dawn could no longer control its orientation.
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Wind and temperature changes, variations in air density and even the temperature of its propellant can cause it to stray.
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During its trip to orbit, the spacecraft set its clock to the wrong time, causing it to deplete its propellant.
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With all the diversions and divisions, the strongest propellant for action on taxes remains alarm over next year's congressional elections.
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Radiation levels are normal after the explosion which involved a liquid-propellant rocket engine, the defense ministry was quoted as saying.
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The company wants to build a giant centrifuge that would harness angular momentum to fling payloads into orbit without any propellant.
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Propellant is heavy and takes up a lot of space — that's why you need a huge rocket to house it all.
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Moisture contamination of the ammonium nitrate propellant is one factor officials have identified as a reason why Takata inflators have ruptured.
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Plus, the interface would include some kind of system for transferring fluids in case the satellite has run out of propellant.
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Part of the reason for this is because traditional ion engines make use of relatively large pumps to move propellant around.
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However, the Electron's engines ignited and then quickly shut off after computers detected that the rocket's propellant was getting too warm.
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Two earlier launch attempts on February 24th and 25th were scrubbed because of concerns with SpaceX's super-chilled liquid oxygen propellant.
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Each propellant has its own advantages and disadvantages, but this patent aims to optimize the performance of both with—what else?
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The return vehicle would include propellant made from Martian carbon dioxide and water, specifically to generate the fuels methane and oxygen.
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According to Oxley, the most common type of homemade bomb uses smokeless powder, a type of propellant commonly used for ammunition.
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One day Blue Origin also hopes to use water harvested from the Moon to make propellant that would fuel Blue Moon.
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The SLS boosters are slightly longer than their shuttle counterparts, so they can carry the propellant needed to lift the SLS.
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Among the issues: metal shavings inside some inflator parts; improperly welded inflator casings; bad propellant wafers, and bent or damaged parts.
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But this thrust would perform much better, especially for long-distance missions, than a higher thrust on heavier, propellant-based spaceships.
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These cryogenic temperatures increase the density of propellant that can be used in the rocket, giving the vehicle much more power.
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In fact, this engine will have to be so good that it will be capable of generating thrust without consuming propellant.
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To move through space, vessels need a push, which comes from the propellant that spurts out the back of a rocket.
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One big way is to classify a rocket based by the type of fuel it uses — a liquid or solid propellant.
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This switch is motivated by the company's Martian ambitions, as methane would be a relatively abundant propellant on the red planet.
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Normally, satellites prepare for disposal by venting any remaining propellant in their fuel tanks, a process that can take several months.
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That propellant, based on a volatile compound, raised concerns internally at Takata at the time, and long plagued the company's engineers.
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MOXIE will convert that gas into the oxygen, which astronauts will need not only to breathe but for propellant as well.
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The propellant, ammonium nitrate, can break down over time, making it unstable and prone to unexpected explosions when exposed to moisture.
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Prior to SpaceX's lease, the pad was made to support Space Shuttle launches, which used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for propellant.
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Known as solar electric propulsion, the technique requires about 10 times less propellant than a traditional thruster would need, according to NASA.
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The source of the failure originated within the rocket's upper liquid oxygen tank, which stores the vehicle's super chilled liquid oxygen propellant.
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Tank was a big challenge for the reasons mentioned above — that carbon fiber is difficult to maintain with cryogenic propellant contained within.
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"It is also possible that the lander exploded on impact, as its thruster propellant tanks were likely still full," the agency said.
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The engines also use electric turbopumps, rather than the more conventional option of gas turbines, to push propellant into their combustion chambers.
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To date, 14 automakers have recalled 28 million airbag inflaters — the metal casing that contains the propellant — in about 24 million vehicles.
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Normally, rocket propellant is created in huge industrial mixers, which work the same way the ones in kitchens do, with rotating blades.
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The engines ignited and fired during the full test, according to Boeing, but when they shut down, something caused a propellant leak.
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The heart of Momentus' propulsion technology for space flight is a new system that uses water as a propellant instead of chemicals.
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In fact, most of the weight of a rocket at launch is just the propellant needed to get the thing into space.
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A company could harvest an asteroid for water which can be broken into hydrogen and oxygen and used to create rocket propellant.
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Correction June 27th 3:00PM ET: A previous version of this article misstated the amount of propellant the boosters use per second.
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Propellant was being loaded into the Falcon 9 for the test when an explosion occurred around the top section of the rocket.
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The expanded recalls will include all ammonium nitrate-based propellant front airbag inflators without a chemical drying agent, known as a desiccant.
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Even as deaths, and recalls, mounted, Takata maintained that limited manufacturing errors were at fault, not a fundamental problem with the propellant.
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Although the propellant stays reasonably cool, the temperatures inside the booster soar almost as high as 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit during the test.
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A combination of time, environmental moisture and fluctuating high temperatures contribute to the degradation of the ammonium nitrate propellant in the inflators.
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Photo: Martin TajmarIf you want to send something deep, deep into space, it's impractical to load it up with lots of heavy propellant.
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It'll also be working on further developing engine nozzles for rockets with liquid propellant that would be well-suited for lunar lander vehicles.
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Boca Chica is also near the Port of Brownsville, which would permit the delivery of large quantities of propellant and supersized rocket parts.
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SpaceX says that a leaky valve caused the propellant needed for these thrusters to cross into another system — one of really high pressure.
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But one spacecraft heading to orbit next week will be testing out a "green" type of propellant that's a lot more user-friendly.
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When hydrazine reacts in an engine, it gets up to 900 degrees Celsius, while the green propellant gets up to 1,800 degrees Celsius.
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To do this it needs propellant — usually xenon, which has several (rather difficult to explain) properties that make it useful for these purposes.
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SpaceX keeps its oxygen extra cold — at -340 degrees Fahrenheit, close to its freezing temperature — since it makes the propellant much more dense.
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Throttling is no easy feat, though, which is why most rockets go "full throttle," or burn all their propellant at a constant rate.
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Liquid-fuelled rockets are preferred as satellite launchers because their thrust can be tuned by changing the flow of propellant to the motor.
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And, by varying the rate at which the propellant tube entered the engine, it was possible to control the amount of thrust developed.
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Assuming the same mass of propellant, the T6 thrusters can accelerate BepiColombo to a speed 15 times greater than a conventional chemical thruster.
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If you want your satellite to break free of Earth's gravity, you need a lot of propellant to fuel the ride to orbit.
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On July 16, 1968, one year to the day before the launch of Apollo 11, first-stage propellant tanking tests were declared complete.
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While Tumlinson wasn't giving away many details, he notes that it's a very advanced type of thruster that uses water as its propellant.
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Solar panels on a spacecraft convert sunlight into an electric charge, which is used to excite and accelerate the probe's on-board propellant.
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It would be particularly applicable in space, where achieving the speeds necessary to reach escape velocity usually requires large amounts of chemical propellant.
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In fact, according to the NASA researchers, the EmDrive would outperform other "zero propellant" propulsion systems studied to date, such as light sailing.
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The planet may have less gravity, but any vehicle departing Mars still needs rocket engines and a lot of propellant to take off.
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ET. "The anomaly originated around the upper stage oxygen tank and occurred during propellant loading of the vehicle," SpaceX said in a statement.
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At the heart of Takata's defect is its propellant, the explosive that helps inflate the airbag in a tiny fraction of a second.
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"Eventually, the spacecraft will run out of propellant," said Andy Driesman, Parker Solar Probe project manager at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.
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Solid propellant motors are the kind of rocket engine you might give to your grandma, a small child, or a drunk to operate.
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And the Grenfell-style cladding covered by the government fund is hardly the only fire propellant lining the sides of English high-rises.
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Exposure to moisture and temperature fluctuations can degrade the propellant, which contains ammonium nitrate, a volatile compound Takata's inflaters use to deploy airbags.
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It includes projects that range from developing autonomous navigation for satellites, better propulsion systems, rover tech, advanced spacecraft avionics, cryogenic propellant and more.
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They're tricked out with new propellant charges and stabilizing fins that can be folded down so the rockets can be launched from a tube.
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Eventually, Virgin Orbit will fill LauncherOne with water, to simulate its weight when filled with propellant, and then drop the rocket from Cosmic Girl.
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The rocket's loss occurred while the first and second stages were being filled with propellant, the company said late on Thursday in a statement.
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ISRO, which is overseeing this mission, says the spacecraft will now need less propellant to reach the Moon and will last longer in space.
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Takata, the only major airbag manufacturer to use the ammonium nitrate propellant, has said it is safe when properly treated with a stabilizing compound.
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And it was unclear from the emails whether the data in this instance was directly related to propellant problems or inflater fragmentation, she said.
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Most airbag inflators use oxidizers in the propellant that deploys the bag, which leads them to be classified as hazardous waste, the EPA said.
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The engineering report issued on Tuesday focused only on inflaters made with the earlier version of Takata's ammonium nitrate propellant, without the drying agent.
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That's where the "super-chilled" liquid oxygen propellant is stored, which is needed to fuel the engine in the upper part of the rocket.
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In a tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said accident happened when propellant was being loaded, but the cause of the explosion was not determined.
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In a regular gun, the bullet's acceleration is provided by burning a propellant, which pushes the bullet down the barrel thanks to expanding gas.
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These bottles sit inside the main propellant tanks of the rocket, filling them with helium when the fuel is rapidly gobbled up during flight.
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And making rocket propellant out of the water on the Moon could drastically cut down on the cost of doing ambitious missions in space.
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I only know the legends I've heard from folks and what I've heard and seen from his deep catalog of propellant, fearless, virtuosic work.
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Some designs are no longer fired by lighting a fuse, but at a safe distance with a car battery wired to the propellant charge.
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Fueling is a "hazardous operation" The most vocal about these propellant risks was Air Force Lt. General Thomas Stafford, who chairs the advisory committee.
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For his test rockets, Barnard currently uses readymade solid fuel rocket propellant, but hopes to transition to something with more power in the future.
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Water can be split apart and made into rocket propellant, which could then be used to launch spacecraft to and from the lunar surface.
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Takata's propellant degrades over time when it is exposed to moisture and temperature fluctuations, which can cause its metal casing to overpressurize and rupture.
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From Eagle Pass, the propellant is transferred to separate trucks that then travel to Takata's airbag factory in Monclova, Mexico, according to the document.
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They have become widespread following the phaseout of another refrigerant and aerosol propellant, chlorofluorocarbons, under a 1987 climate treaty known as the Montreal Protocol.
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Takata's propellant is based on a solid compound called ammonium nitrate, which can break down over time when exposed to moisture or high temperatures.
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In the same email is a discussion of 212,000 airbags that are "under review" because the propellant was manufactured during a similar time period.
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A 2009 report lays out multiple root causes of the ruptures, including moisture, hot weather, propellant density, leaky inflaters and even mere field exposure.
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Instead of ending missions when a satellite's propellant runs out—which normally takes a few years—air-breathing satellites would have much longer lifespans.
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Ms. Waldman, however, was drawn to microdosing not so much as a career propellant, but as a last-ditch attempt to find mental equilibrium.
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The ammo concept relies on plastic case rather than a brass one to hold the propellant and the projectile, like a conventional shotgun shell.
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And McDowell estimates that the space lab probably still has about 700 kg (1,540 lbs.) of its original 1,000 kg (2,23 lbs.) propellant load left.
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NASA admitted that part of a propellant tank needed for testing out the rocket was damaged at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
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Specifically, the officials have identified a pattern of cracking in the rocket's turbine blades, which drive the turbopumps that rapidly funnel propellant into the engines.
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Bellatrix Aerospace's first customer is ISRO, which is also mentoring the company as it readies a water-based propellant to help manoeuvre satellites in space.
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Hydrazine has to be transported in certain types of metal containers and explosive-safe trucks, and people must wear protective gear when handling the propellant.
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One was about what to expect between now and 2022: would SpaceX perform hop tests with the BFR, build new facilities, and test out propellant?
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These vessels store cryogenic helium, which is needed to fill up and pressurize the liquid oxygen tank when the propellant is used up during flight.
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Using giant 212D printers that can create all of the parts needed to build a rocket — from the engines to the propellant tanks and structure.
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That way more of the oxygen can fit into the tank, increasing the amount of propellant SpaceX rockets can use, according to CEO Elon Musk.
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That's why SpaceX loads its propellant half an hour to 45 minutes before launch — to prevent as much of it from boiling away as possible.
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In November, a panel of expert advisors to NASA expressed anxiety about SpaceX's plans to load propellant into the Falcon 9 with people on board.
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As the solid propellant burns, the rocket's centre of mass rises and the wind pushing on the base curves the vehicle's path into the wind.
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For instance, the weird behavior of SpaceX's liquid oxygen propellant led to one of the company's Falcon 9 rockets exploding on a launchpad in 2016.
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Click here to view original GIFFor practical purposes, the metal Cesium can be found in spacecraft propellant, radiation devices that treat cancer and atomic clocks.
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Basically, SpaceX engineers need to eliminate the flow path within the launch system such that the liquid propellant cannot leak into the gaseous pressurization system.
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Courtesy of 150,000 Newtons of thrust delivered by solid-propellant boosters, it made the trip in about 22 minutes, hitting its target with astounding precision.
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Railguns use electromagnets to accelerate solid metallic projectiles to high speeds (around 4,500 miles per hour), unlike conventional weapons that use propellant and explosive shells.
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This is in order to build a propellant production plant on the red planet, which will be constructed when two crewed ships arrive in 2024.
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The ammonium nitrate-based propellant used in the inflators have a tendency to explode violently in hot, humid conditions, spraying metal shrapnel into vehicle compartments.
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That water could create propellant for long-term missions — including to Mars — which could launch from a body that has far less gravity than Earth.
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Standing at about 211 stories tall, each booster burns about 205 tons of propellant per second and provides about 3.6 million pounds of maximum thrust.
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"It is also possible that the lander exploded on impact, as its thruster propellant tanks were likely still full," ESA said in its release. Awesome.
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The first ship to land on Mars would bring with it a "small propellant plan," which would be expanded as time went on, he said.
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It also pointed to the risks associated with Takata's transport of the explosives across the country from a propellant factory in Washington State to Mexico.
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Given the severity of the crash, he said, the ammonium nitrate propellant could have triggered an explosion by itself, with or without the inflaters present.
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Russia's Department of Defense at first released only a brief statement saying two of its own employees had been killed testing a liquid propellant system.
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NASA is testing a technology that shoots out propellant, identical to the material you find in some fire extinguishers, to steer around space, said Krajewski.
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Landing a vehicle propulsively requires a lot more extra weight than previous landing methods, because extra propellant is needed to fuel the engines during descent.
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The outer one holds water; the inner is further divided into two sections, one containing vaccine solution, and the other containing a dry chemical propellant.
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Reuters reports that the Russian defense ministry told state media that a liquid-propellant rocket engine exploded on Thursday, killing two people and injuring six.
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It is unlikely that a liquid-propellant rocket engine explosion alone would cause a rise in radiation levels, leading to speculation about what really happened.
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Inside, huge tanks full of liquid oxygen and RP-1 kerosene propellant will rip open — so a large explosion and fireball is almost a given.
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In June 2018, some of the abort engines didn't close properly during a test fire at White Sands, causing some propellant to leak out unexpectedly.
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The company is also looking at other ways to minimize how much propellant is on board Spaceway-1 before it's moved, according to the FCC.
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While the first passenger Starship is parked around Earth, another Super Heavy will need to launch a second "tanker" Starship, one filled with mostly propellant.
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Raptor engines use methane as fuel, and it might be possible to extract methane from Mars or other bodies for use as propellant one day.
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Bellatrix Aerospace's first customer is ISRO, which is also mentoring the company as it readies a water-based propellant to help maneuver satellites in space.
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If the desiccant can prevent all moisture from reaching the inflator propellant, "then it would be possible that the inflators could be used safely," he said.
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Dozens of the deconstructed warheads, awaiting modification, lie in a dark annex, and a long table with calipers and small tubs of homemade propellant stands nearby.
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The range of recalled models means more inflator designs have to be modified, tested to calibrate their propellant force, and manufactured to fit each different model.
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If you plan on taking all your propellant with you for a deep-space mission, then you definitely need a huge rocket to house it all.
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As early as 2000, around the time the propellant, which includes a compound called ammonium nitrate, was introduced into Takata models, failures occurred during internal testing.
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Airbag-related recalls now apply to about 24 million vehicles, a number that could grow if Takata cannot prove that its propellant, ammonium nitrate, is safe.
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SpaceX determined that the materials making up the COPVs had a bad reaction with the liquid oxygen in the tank, ultimately causing the propellant to ignite.
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That's the tank that stores the super cold liquid oxygen propellant needed for the engine in the second stage, or the top portion of the vehicle.
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But when astronauts fly with SpaceX, the plan is for them to board the crew capsule on top of the rocket before the propellant is loaded.
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Accion's engine, about the size of a small coin, uses 2100 microscopic nozzles that make use of capillary action that direct propellant out of the engine.
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The small thrust offered by the EM drive would only be useful for long-haul space missions, ones that would otherwise necessitate enormous amounts of propellant.
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The old plant that once sat on the site was actually used in the 1960s to build rocket engines that ran on solid propellant for NASA.
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The reusability of ships back and forth between Mars, is another key cost reduction ingredient, and that requires building a propellant plant on Mars, Musk said.
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Nathan Beal told The Associated Press on Thursday that his father built sport rockets fueled by a propellant that is legally available at specialty hobby shops.
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Or it could act like a gas delivery service, sending massive amounts of propellant into orbit to fuel up spacecraft for long journeys to deep space.
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Image: NASA/Chris GunnWithout the ability to refuel, a satellite's lifespan is restricted by the amount of propellant engineers can pack in its tank at launch.
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SpaceX needs all the fuel it can muster to get this satellite to space, so the company isn't saving any leftover propellant to perform a landing.
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The explosion hurled fragments of the orbiter away, shredding the left wing, forward fuselage (with crew cabin), and main engines (still burning propellant) in different directions.
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Shortly after the accident, SpaceX CEO Musk said the explosion happened when propellant was being loaded but the actual root cause has yet to be determined.
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Virgin hoped to have paying passengers take space tours by 2007, but 3 technicians were killed that year by an explosion while testing a propellant system.
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In particular, they described their research results on the EmDrive, a type of "impossible" spacecraft engine that is theoretically able to generate thrust without any propellant.
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But the need to carry sufficient propellant is a strong limit for space travel, which makes long-distance space missions expensive to the point of infeasibility.
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Boeing still needs to test the heat shields and parachute systems of its spacecraft and address the potential for propellant leakage during the emergency abort process.
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SpaceX has already initiated several actions, such as eliminating any flow path within the launch escape system for liquid propellant to enter the gaseous pressurization system.
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Mark Lillie, a former Takata engineer who raised concerns about the ammonium nitrate propellant in the late 1990s, said he felt vindicated by Takata's expanded recall.
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The subcommittee also brought up SpaceX's failure from 2016, in which one of the company's Falcon 9 rockets exploded while it was being loaded with propellant.
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"Several hours after the launch attempt, Musk revealed the cause of its abort, tweeting early Thursday: "Pc (chamber pressure) high due to colder than expected propellant.
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To think about it another way, liquid propellant engines are everything a true-blue gearhead wants and needs: lots of things to fiddle with and adjust.
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The spacecraft has enough propellant left to possibly head to a third target, but that depends on whether there is anything close enough along its path.
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The cargo included 1,400 pounds of propellant, 112 pounds of oxygen, 53 pounds of water, and 2,750 pounds of spare parts, supplies and scientific experiment hardware.
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On Sunday, November 5, SpaceX was preparing for an experimental engine test at its facility in McGregor, Texas when a propellant leak ignited, damaging the test stand.
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SpaceX has been flying a variant of its rocket called the Falcon 20163 Full Thrust, which utilizes a super-chilled liquid oxygen propellant that helps with reusability.
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In January, the company revealed that a complex interplay of materials — including liquid oxygen and helium pressure vessels — in the rocket's upper propellant tank sparked the explosion.
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Regulators have said that millions more airbag inflaters may need to be recalled unless the company can prove that the propellant they use — ammonium nitrate — is safe.
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Most propellant tanks are equipped with small hatches, and the company plans to add docking tunnels to these hatches to allow crews to get inside the tanks.
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Nearly all the propellant on board will be reserved for launch, and there won't be much left over to perform a powered landing with the vehicle's engines.
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Speeding up the energy release would make solid metallic hydrogen an excellent propellant, to replace the liquid H23/O212 fuel now used to launch rockets into space.
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The ingredients are there on Mars to create a propellant plant "with relative ease," Musk said, to fuel up the craft for the return trip to Earth.
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An unmanned spaceship would then be sent with equipment to build a propellant plant, followed by the first crewed mission with equipment to build a "rudimentary base".
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It's a stage that runs on solid rocket propellant, designed to give an extra boost to the spacecraft to put it on its path to the Sun.
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However, this means that when SpaceX starts flying NASA astronauts for the Commercial Crew Program, passengers will have to board the rocket before propellant has been loaded.
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Water from the Moon could be mined, broken apart into rocket fuel, and transported to a propellant depot either near the Moon or in low Earth orbit.
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For example, using lunar propellant to refuel rockets would lower the cost of going to the Moon from Earth by a factor of three, according to Sowers.
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Because we knew we were gonna need it for the next stage and we wanted to get practice with that hardest-to-use but highest performing propellant.
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That can be a costly addition to a spacecraft, and the propellant needed for these thrusters add weight, which is precious when launching things off of Earth.
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Individual modules, containing emitter, thrusters and enough propellant for an hour of thrust, are about the size of a sugar cube and weigh less than four grams.
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Later this month, a small satellite will hitch a ride on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for the world's first demonstration of "green" satellite propellant in space.
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According to NASA, because AF-M315E is denser than hydrazine, it offers a 50 percent increase in a spacecraft's maneuvering capability for the same volume of propellant.
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It said the device featured a liquid propellant rocket engine mounted with "nuclear batteries" - military jargon Izvestia said was used to describe new isotope sources of power.
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All of the investigations found flaws in the airbag's propellant, which includes a compound called ammonium nitrate and is enclosed in a steel casing called an inflater.
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When a space company receives a SSN alert, they typically move their satellite into a different orbit — and out of harm's way — by burning a little propellant.
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The airbags use a propellant based on ammonium nitrate, which has come under scrutiny for its tendency to break down over time and combust violently when triggered.
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In addition, Washington should be concerned about the potential for the sale or transfer of solid-propellant medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) from North Korea to Iran.
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For instance, many companies are hoping to mine the Moon's water and turn it into rocket propellant that can be stored in so-called "depots" in space.
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In an email discussion in September 2010, Takata officials discussed eliminating, or sharply reducing, a type of safety testing that measures the density of the airbag's propellant.
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Just a base to create propellant, a power station, blast domes in which to grow crops, all the sort of fundamentals without which you could not survive.
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All four said that while there were wide-ranging discussions about how to penalize the North, they could not remember any that focused specifically on the propellant.
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Takata's airbag system is particularly susceptible to moisture and temperature fluctuations that over time can degrade the propellant used to deploy the airbag, according to federal regulators.
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Called the Green Run Test, the event will entail filling the core up with propellant and igniting stage's four main engines, just as they would during flight.
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At the southern edge of the city are Potrero Canyon and Laborde Canyon, two remote patches of badlands once used by Lockheed Martin for rocket-propellant testing.
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The propellant is housed in a steel container called the inflater, which in the Takata case can rupture, shooting metal fragments toward the car's driver or passengers.
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Although patents show that its engineers have long struggled to tame the propellant, the company still maintains that the explosive can be stabilized to withstand moist conditions.
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Former Takata engineers have said that cost considerations drove the company to switch to a less expensive yet problematic propellant in its inflaters in the early 120s.
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He also patented a new kind of pyrotechnic device that combusts smaller amounts of black powder, or a smokeless propellant, more efficiently to launch fireworks into the sky.
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The explosion of a liquid-propellant rocket engine killed two people on Thursday in Russia's northern Arkhangelsk region, RIA news agency cited the Defence Ministry as saying earlier.
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Liquid fuel missiles like the one that failed in April 2017 can cause large explosions, even without a warhead, when the hypergolic propellant and oxidizer mix on impact.
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The EmDrive, a copper cone that would supposedly push forward on the vacuum of space without any propellant, is one such idea—unfortunately, it's probably another dead end.
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Different types of launches use up different amounts of propellant during the Falcon 9's ascent, which is why SpaceX alternates between drone ship landings and ground landings.
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Adranos successfully tested a prototype rocket powered by its ALITEC propellant last year, and was the winner of the first-ever xTechSearch competition run by the U.S. Army.
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While NASA is testing out the green propellant, another organization will be testing out a way to propel spacecraft through the cosmos without using any fuel at all.
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By the time it's in orbit, most of propellant in the stage's tank has been depleted, which creates a whole lot of empty space that is going unused.
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For example, NASA has expressed concern about the safety of SpaceX's plan to fuel the rocket with potentially explosive propellant after the astronauts board the Crew Dragon capsule.
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In fact, the Falcon 9 went through what is known as a "safing" sequence when it landed in the water, meaning it vented the propellant from its tanks.
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Instead, it manipulated data to hide results that showed the propellant could combust violently, causing its casing — called an inflater — to overpressurize and rupture, according to the documents.
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SpaceX was originally planning for a Thursday launch, but it delayed the mission by multiple days to test out propellant loading of the rocket on the changed launchpad.
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Boeing has been struggling with the development of the SLS core stage — the main body of the rocket that contains the primary engines and most of the propellant.
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"This is a result of different expertise all along Europe and the big facilities we have in Kourou for casting large quantities of solid rocket propellant," says Ierardo.
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The committee cited SpaceX's accident in 2016, which occurred when one of the company's Falcon 9 rockets exploded while it was being loaded with propellant for a test.
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This particular test was a cold motor test used to provide data on how the rocket motor operates at the colder end of its accepted propellant temperature range.
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In a recall notice filed with NHTSA, Ford said data from the two incidents and an anomalous test all occurred with inflators from the same propellant production lot.
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Each of these rockets was fueled by a propellant, and despite the wide variety of rocket propellants available, none of them are exactly what you'd call environmentally friendly.
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Even on its lighter trips, when acting as an ITS tanker for refuelling other ITS spaceships, the booster will need to carry 380 tonnes of propellant into LEO.
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The Cassini mission, which arrived at the Saturn system in 2004, has been extended twice and will finally use up the last of its rocket propellant this week.
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Even that would save precious space on a crewed flight to Mars, though, since MOXIE could hypothetically replace both oxygen tanks and three-quarters of the necessary propellant.
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Safety experts have been on edge about the failure, since SpaceX wants astronauts to board the rocket before the propellant is loaded — which could pose a safety hazard.
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The expansions mean all Takata ammonium nitrate-based propellant driver and passenger frontal air bag inflators without a chemical drying agent, known as a desiccant, will be recalled.
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The solid rocket propellant provides a great deal of the structural integrity of the rocket, which means that it's carrying and distributing a load while it's on fire.
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Military analysts, citing videos purporting to show the launches, say the missiles used were precision-guided solid-propellant Fateh class missiles with warheads ranging between 250kg to 580kg.
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The H-IIB features one central booster and engine with liquid oxygen propellant, and four solid-fuel boosters attached to the base of the rocket for additional lift.
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"The main benefit of [the electric sail], in comparison to the current propulsion systems which are chemical rockets and ion engines, is that it's propellant-less," Janhunen told Gizmodo.
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The agency hopes to overcome the bothersome weight constraint imposed by propellant by mining the surfaces of alien worlds for valuable resources like water, oxygen, and rocket fuel components.
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Two weeks ago, the company came to the conclusion that the problem started in the Falcon 9's upper liquid oxygen tank, which stores super chilled liquid oxygen propellant.
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In the September explosion, the super-chilled liquid oxygen had a bad reaction with something inside the propellant tank — one of three small vessels that hold very cold helium.
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The propellant, known as AF-M315E, is a hydroxyl ammonium nitrate based fuel/oxidizer blend developed by the US Air Force at the Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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The test, in which Orbital ATK would fire the booster for two minutes, until its propellant ran out, would occur just over a mile away from the viewing area.
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The company said it had received an elevated number of product complaints about a bulging of the outside wrapper, indicating a leak of the propellant that delivers the medicine.
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Those problems eventually could allow moisture to contaminate the ammonium nitrate propellant, which in turn could lead to an inflator rupture, one of the former Takata managers told Reuters.
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NHTSA in November said tens of millions of additional vehicles with inflators containing ammonium nitrate propellant will be recalled by 2018, unless Takata can prove that they are safe.
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The SpaceX CEO said he wants to build methane propellant plants that would create fuel for the spaceships on the Red Planet, rather than carrying that fuel from Earth.
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The probe will make at least 24 passes around the sun, with gravity assists from Venus for seven of them, and continue going as long as it has propellant.
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Long-term exposure to environmental moisture and wide temperature fluctuations over time can degrade the propellant used to deploy the airbag, making it unstable and prone to unexpectedly explode.
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The propellant contains a compound called ammonium nitrate, which can become volatile when it is exposed to moisture or to temperature swings, or if it lacks the proper density.
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It's a shame because plasma propulsion is a fundamental necessity for some types of satellite operations, regardless of budget – and it's also a much more propellant-efficient method vs.
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Takata was forced into bankruptcy last year amid lawsuits, multimillion-dollar fines and crushing recall costs involving airbag inflaters that use the explosive chemical ammonium nitrate as a propellant.
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However, a problem with the capsule's clock — somehow the time was off by 11 hours — caused the spacecraft to waste propellant, and the space station docking was called off.
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In particular, refueling spaceships in Earth's orbit could save a lot of money because companies won't need to launch a spacecraft loaded down with all that propellant into orbit.
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"By establishing a propellant depot in the asteroid belt or on one of the moons of Jupiter, you can make flights from Mars to Jupiter no problem," Musk said.
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Autoliv, a rival airbag supplier, tested the compound in the 1990s and found it too dangerous to use as an airbag propellant, former engineers at the company have said.
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Musk did say that SpaceX will design the ISRU (in-situ-resource utilization) system designed to collect materials for propellant on Mars and that the design is pretty far along.
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For particularly heavy cargo or human crews going into deep space, even more propellant is needed; the engine has to burn longer to compensate for the extra weight and distance.
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Both of these factors combined mean that the Falcon 9 will need to use a whole lot of propellant during launch to get the satellite where it needs to go.
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"The decision of Takata ... the only device maker ... to use ammonium nitrate as the propellant, which has proven to be unstable in humidity, was a fatally flawed decision," Jackson said.
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The idea is that some of the liquid oxygen from the propellant tank got between the carbon fibers and the aluminum, where it pooled into the recesses of these buckles.
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Liquid oxygen is a common propellant used by aerospace companies, but the kind that SpaceX uses is even colder than most liquid oxygen propellants, which hover around -298 degrees Fahrenheit.
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While the Falcon 9 that launched in December was a new model with more fuel and a more efficient propellant system, this month SpaceX will be launching an older, 9.1.
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Having the local propellant source and fresh food production could go a long way to creating a self-sustaining colony on the Red Planet located 33.9 million miles from Earth.
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When astronauts fly on the Falcon 9, SpaceX plans to load crew members onto the rocket, quickly fill the vehicle up with super-cold propellant, and then launch shortly afterward.
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Mission controllers will conduct a series of orbital maneuvers "to demonstrate the performance of the propellant during attitude control maneuvers, changes in orbital inclination and orbit lowering," according to NASA.
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The core measures 211 feet (215 meters) tall and 22017 feet (213 meters) wide, and weighs 21 tons without any fuel (fun fact: it's 20175 tons when packed with propellant).
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NASA is always striving to save weight for missions to orbit and beyond for a simple reason: heavier spacecraft need more propellant and are more difficult to launch to space.
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According to a transcript received by Space News, he argued that the supercooled liquid oxygen that SpaceX uses as propellant actually became so cold that it turned into a solid.
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The site in question is the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground where North Korea has previously tested "liquid-propellant engines for its long-range ballistic missiles," an American official told Reuters.
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According to the review, the root cause of the ruptures linked to more than 100 injuries is exposure to humidity, design issues and the use of controversial propellant ammonium nitrate.
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Next, the first crewed mission, which will have about a dozen people, will fly to Mars to troubleshoot the propellant plant as well as the Mars Base Alpha power system.
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The upshot is not that migrants are a vector but that the continuing, enhanced enforcement activities of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice are a propellant.
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The company noted in its filing that it could only remove a "nominal portion" of the 73 kilograms of propellant within the satellite and requested a waiver of the rule.
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That version of MOXIE will be about 200 times larger and run for a year straight, Hecht said, sufficient enough to support between four to six astronauts and make propellant.
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The United States on Thursday sanctioned five Iranian-based entities it said were owned or controlled by a industrial firm responsible for developing and producing Iran's solid-propellant ballistic missiles.
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Metered-dose inhalers contain liquified, compressed gas hydrofluoroalkane (HFA) -- a greenhouse gas -- which acts as a propellant to atomize the drug being delivered and to pump it out to the user.
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ULA plans to transfer all of the propellant from one ACES to the other, using the fully fueled stage to propel the B330 the rest of the way to lunar orbit.
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The authors say metallic hydrogen would be "important for solving energy problems and can potentially revolutionize rocketry as a powerful propellant" in their paper published online in the journal Science yesterday.
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Inside this architecture, engineers construct the SLS boosters and concoct the propellant, which begins as a Play-Doh-like pseudoliquid and hardens into the consistency of a (highly flammable) pencil eraser.
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An especially appealing way to pull a satellite out of orbit is with a light sail, which uses the sun's energy to move an object and so needs no onboard propellant.
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But it also means that the company doesn't have a whole lot of time between fueling the vehicle and takeoff, since the propellant runs the risk of warming up too much.
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The probe will make at least 24 passes around the sun, with gravity assists from Venus for seven of them, and continue going after that as long as it has propellant.
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The probe will make at least 85033 passes around the sun, with gravity assists from Venus for seven of them, and continue going after that as long as it has propellant.
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Even if the North Koreans were able to master solid propulsion tomorrow, it's practically impossible to swap out a liquid propellant engine for a solid rocket motor because, well, rocket science.
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In 2005, Nissan began investigating the use of adding a drying agent to Takata's airbag inflaters out of concern that exposure to moisture made the propellant particularly unstable, the filing says.
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Ford chose Takata's inflaters over the objections of the automaker's own inflater expert, who opposed the use of Takata's propellant because of its instability and sensitivity to moisture, the filing said.
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Over the years, Takata has used a variety of chemical agents to keep the propellant dry, with some combinations showing a greater propensity to fail than others, according to federal regulators.
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The investigation found that the "anomaly" that occurred during the test was the result of oxidizer mixing with the helium component of the SuperDraco rocket engine propellant system at very high pressure.
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When voyaging to space, however, packing the right volume of propellant means the difference between success and failure, because there's no way to refill the gas tank once you're off the planet.
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At issue was a malfunction last month of the Starliner's launch abort systems wherein the engines fired properly, but malfunctioning valves led to a leak of toxic hypergolic propellant, according to Geekwire.
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Solid-fuel missiles do not have to travel with a retinue of tankers carrying propellant, and they can be launched at five minutes' notice, against the hour required to prepare the Nodong.
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Ultimately, Rocket Lab settled on Wallops because much of the infrastructure is already in place to support a new launchpad, such as places to store propellant and stations to track launching rockets.
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Sources who've spoken to the SpinLaunch team tell me the idea is to create a much cheaper and sustainable way to get things like satellites from earth into space without chemical propellant.
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Such information is critical for NASA and companies that want to mine the Moon's resources someday; water ice could be used for things like drinking water or even made into rocket propellant.
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Lunar scientists are pretty positive that there is exposed water ice on the surface of the Moon, and Lockheed says those resources could be exploited and split apart to form rocket propellant.
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He noted that a homemade system would need propellant and a guidance system and added that if the suspects built it on their own, they likely wouldn't be able to test it.
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The procedure is ideal for SpaceX, though, since the company uses extremely cold propellants, and fueling the vehicle just before takeoff limits the propellant from warming up too much and boiling away.
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Without a drying agent, the ammonium nitrate-based propellant used in Takata inflators has a tendency to explode violently following prolonged exposure to hot, humid conditions, spraying metal shrapnel into vehicle compartments.
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The laboratory's journey will take about three years because it is making use of solar-electric propulsion, a far more efficient, albeit slow, method of propulsion when compared with chemical rocket propellant.
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SLS will use two of these 17-story tall solid rocket boosters, each of which is capable of burning 5.5 tons of propellant per second to create 3.6 million pounds of thrust.
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Presumably, there'll be some propellant behind this with the fiscal policy, that is, the tax cuts, inducement for capex, and-- perhaps, a better regulatory environment for private businesses-- than they had before.
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Something happened while propellant was being loaded into the Falcon 18, but it's still unclear if the rocket is to blame or if it was a problem with the launch pad equipment.
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The explosionFirst word of the explosion came from the Russian Defense Ministry, which initially said the August 8 blast of a liquid-propellant rocket engine killed two people and injured six others.
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A Mars ship could be provisioned with enough fuel to get it to cis-lunar space where it would be topped off by lunar-refined propellant before proceeding to the Red Planet.
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"Some of the worst industrial accidents at the worldwide level involve ammonium nitrate," Luigi T. De Luca, an Italian academic and a leading expert in solid propellant rockets, said in an email.
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Problems with the propellant that inflates the airbag can cause a metal part to rupture when the bag is deployed in a crash, shooting metal fragments toward the car's driver or passengers.
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Read more: Here's why the Russian military has so many serious accidentsRussia's initial explanation for the explosion doesn't make senseRussian media initially reported that a "liquid propellant jet engine" exploded during testing.
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SpaceX tried to launch and fly its gleaming Starhopper rocket ship prototype into the skies above South Texas on Wednesday, but an issue with the vehicle's propellant cut short the test flight.
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Months of investigation later revealed that a leaky valve had caused some of the propellant from the engines to cross over into another system, sparking a chain reaction that destroyed the capsule.
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Consumer spending has been the main propellant of Britain's recovery from the financial crisis and policymakers have said they want to see greater investment by businesses to secure a more balanced economy.
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The tanker could then meet up with the Starship already in orbit and transfer its propellant to the vehicle, providing enough fuel for the ship to travel to the Moon or Mars.
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According to the Verge, Musk tweeted that the Starship's mooring blocks broke during 50 mile per hour winds and that the fairing will take weeks to repair, though its propellant tanks are fine.
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The Epsilon-2 three-stage rocket is part of a new generation of solid propellant rockets and makes it possible for launch costs to be reduced up to one third, according to JAXA.
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SpaceX will be working on technology that will help move rocket propellant around safely from vehicle to vehicle in orbit, a necessary step to building out its Starship reusable rocket and spacecraft system.
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In fact, that's how Cassini has been moving around the system since its arrival in 2004—rather than burn precious propellant, the craft tucks into Titan's orbit and then slingshots back out again.
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Heavy satellites need more propellant to get to orbit, so getting such a massive device to such a high altitude is going to use up a lot of the Falcon 9's supplies.
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Reports released on Friday included one from Germany's Fraunhofer Group commissioned by Takata, which said prolonged exposure to moisture and hot conditions could cause the propellant used in inflators to become more volatile.
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Launched in 13, Intelsat 901 has already had a long, productive mission, but the satellite is running low on propellant and ground operators won't be able to control the spacecraft for much longer.
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If these stages go to a low enough orbit, they're usually deorbited on purpose; any remaining propellant is used to redirect the stage toward Earth and have it burn up in the atmosphere.
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" It's thus extremely light, and the paper affirms that the EmDrive performs "two orders of magnitude higher than other forms of "zero-propellant" propulsion, such as light sails, laser propulsion, and photon rockets.
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Several lawmakers are pressing the Obama administration to accelerate the recall process and to force the recall of every Takata airbag that uses a volatile chemical compound called ammonium nitrate as its propellant.
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The company has shown off a few tests done on key components of the rocket, such as pressure tests on the vehicle's massive propellant tanks and ignition tests of sub-scale Raptor engines.
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"The cheapest solution is going to be relying on the propulsion of the satellites and making the propellant tank bigger," Jonathan Goff, president and CEO of startup Altius Space Machines, tells The Verge.
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Folks have been buzzing about an "impossible" rocket thruster, one that looks like an air blaster you'd buy at Disney World and somehow generates thrust without propellant to push it forward, since forever.
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During propellant loading for a hot-fire test to check engines and the fuel system, something went wrong and there was a catastrophic explosion, which completely destroyed the vehicle and damaged the pad.
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Patent # 7,773,362: Accelerator System and Method of Accelerating Particles Last but not least, here's a proposed method for scooping up Moon dust and turning it into propellant to power future lunar surface operations.
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After nearly two years of debate, NASA has finally approved SpaceX's plans to load propellant onto its rockets with people on board — a move that has been considered risky by some aerospace experts.
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Some of the resulting fuel is then used to launch the rest of the water off of the Moon on a transport vehicle, sending it to whatever propellant depot needs it in space.
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When it returned to Earth from space, the rocket hit the atmosphere at close to 4,000 miles per hour, according to SpaceX, and it landed with just 3 seconds of propellant to spare.
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Elleman's analysis indicated that the modified high-performance liquid-propellant engine used during successful launches of intermediate and intercontinental range missiles in recent months is based on technology developed by the Soviet Union.
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Obviously there's a limit to how far you can go with that, but there's a lot of cross-plumbing and really good propellant management, and it can compensate for an 'engine out' [scenario].
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An internal document provided by a former Takata employee shows that Takata transports its explosive compound more than 2,000 miles across the United States, from its propellant-manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, Wash.
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During a visit in late December, Musk tweeted he was "up all night" working on the "most difficult part" of Starship&aposs steel structure: the domed ends of 30-foot-wide propellant tanks.
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The company used a variety of chemical agents to keep the propellant dry in its devices over the years, with some combinations showing a greater propensity to fail than others, federal regulators said.
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But the Long March 5 project, originally announced in 2001, suffered lengthy delays due to funding challenges and difficulties in developing new technologies for the first Chinese launcher to fully use liquid propellant.
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To get humans to Mars and beyond, SpaceX is also planning to develop new fuel types, build refueling stations orbiting in space, and construct machinery that would produce new propellant on Mars itself.
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They've been scattered around the country since Nancy Pelosi added propellant to the impeachment fire — and now they'll be followed at every turn by reporters looking for a comment about where things stand.
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Fueling the rocket with its explosive, toxic, and corrosive propellant takes a couple days — a period when it's just sitting out there on the launch pad, extremely vulnerable to long-range missile attack.
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T air bag propellant material at the center of a global recall crashed and exploded in Texas last week, killing one woman and injuring four other people, the auto parts supplier said on Monday.
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RIA news agency quoted the defense ministry as saying no dangerous substances had been released into the atmosphere by the explosion of what it called a liquid-propellant rocket engine in the Arkhangelsk region.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense, quoted by state-run news outlets, said that two people died and six were injured on Thursday in an explosion of what it called a liquid propellant rocket engine.
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Earth has a pretty sizable gravity well, so a vehicle has to burn lots of propellant to reach a speed of thousands of miles per hour needed to break free of the planet's pull.
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According to the AP, Branson hoped to have paying passengers take tours to the edge of space by 2007, but three technicians were killed that year by an explosion while testing a propellant system.
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The satellite will then spend about a year doing some experiments for the Air Force before it uses its propellant one final time to take itself out of orbit and plunge into Earth's atmosphere.
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During propellant loading, the rocket ignited in a fireball that lead to the vehicle's destruction and the loss of the Amos 6 satellite it was supposed to carry into space a few days later.
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It involves firing up all 27 engines on the Falcon Heavy while the vehicle is on the launchpad to go through the important first steps of flight, such as loading propellant and engine ignition.
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During this stage, the goal will be to build a propellant plant as well as take the first people to mars, and to build up a base in preparation for an expanded surface presence.
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At the moment, ion drives are not used on CubeSats because both space and weight are at a premium in such small devices and an ion drive needs pumps to move the propellant around.
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That didn't happen of course, but some of their ideas — like sending a return vehicle to Mars before sending a human crew and making propellant from the planet's resources — are still considered viable options.
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And if the industry is able to make enough propellant with this water, they could fill up multiple "space depots" — which could be used to refuel spacecraft in orbit around Earth and the Moon.
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Still, investigators are likely to scrutinize how the propellant was packaged and shipped, whether the drivers were certified to handle hazardous materials and whether their working hours were within legal limits, Mr. Wicks said.
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The Starship design calls for the vehicle to get "filled up" with propellant while in orbit around Earth, so that it has all the fuel it needs to break free of our planet's gravity.
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Morgan was employed in the company's Rocketdyne Division, which had received a contract from the Defense Department to improve the efficiency of rocket propellant so that a Jupiter missile could make it to orbit.
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Once it has succeeded in putting Intelsat 901 back on track, it's very possible the MEV-1 could do the same thing for yet another orbital satellite running low on its own propellant supply.
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The cans, which contain a propellant, also have a warning that advises against spraying on heated surfaces, or near or open flame, and states that they should not be stored on or near the stove.
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Although the root cause of the defect is still unknown, regulators have focused on the airbags' propellant, which contains ammonium nitrate, a compound that breaks down over time or when it is exposed to moisture.
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Lockheed Martin also described a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant system which would source fuel from water sources within reach, including frozen ice found on asteroids, after exhausting an initial supply brought from Earth.
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Moving forward, SpaceX says that all new Falcon 9 rockets will be built according to the upgraded design, which exhibits 30% better overall performance, thanks in part to a deep-cryo liquid oxygen propellant system.
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Wilson said each year about 70 satellites of the 380 communications satellites in orbit could potentially need servicing as they reached the end of the propellant that allows them to maintain their position in space.
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SLS is outfitted with twin solid rocket motors and four liquid propellant engines, and will produce an estimated 72 million pounds of lifting power—but before engineers know it can fly, it must be tested.
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"The two rockets are at the same level ... though different propellant mix means the Delta is still a bit more efficient," He Wei, the LM-5's general designer, told CNN before the failed launch.
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"Because of their decision to use a propellant known for its dangerous properties, Takata airbags are killing and maiming drivers and passengers across the country involved in otherwise minor and survivable accidents," the lawsuit said.
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A stretched version of Blue Moon, with larger propellant tanks, could carry larger payloads of more than 14,000 pounds — including a module that carries astronauts and provides the propulsion for getting off the moon again.
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Per the new Starship site, the final vehicle will be 160 feet tall (without the booster) and 30 feet in diameter, with a propellant capacity of 23,200 metric tons of liquid methane and liquid oxygen.
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Among the updates detailed, Musk articulated how Starship will be used to make humans interplanetary, including its use of in-space refilling of propellant, by docking with tanker Starships already in orbit to transfer fuel.
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Attempts to send a command to fix the problem apparently did not reach the spacecraft because it was in between satellite communication links, and it used too much propellant to continue to the space station.
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