Then the roar of a rocket engine fills the air.
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Thus the SABRE – Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine – was born.
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But technically a rocket engine test can sometimes make it rain.
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A rocket engine would be another step toward long-range missiles.
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The British company is developing a hybrid jet and rocket engine.
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Bezos also unveiled the company's BE-7 rocket engine at the event.
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Raptor is the first methane-fueled rocket engine that SpaceX has developed.
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After a few seconds of coasting, VSS Unity's rocket engine fired on.
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In the latest test flight, Unity's rocket engine fired for 31 seconds.
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The Starhopper measures 60 feet and includes a single Raptor rocket engine.
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Pyongyang responds by testing a rocket engine and missile later that month.
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This plan will establish Aerojet Rocketdyne's facility at NASA Stennis as the company's Center of Excellence for Large Liquid Rocket Engine Assembly and Test and solidify NASA's Stennis Space Center as the nation's premier rocket engine test facility.
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North Korean state media announced its latest rocket-engine test on Sunday, saying it would help North Korea achieve world-class satellite-launch capability, indicating a new type of rocket engine that could be compatible with an ICBM.
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Part of A Rocket Engine Landed in This Guy&aposs Living RoomPart of a rocket engine crashes through the roof of a house in northeast China's Shanxi province…Read more ReadThis sort of thing—sadly—has happened before.
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Since then, it has tested six missiles and conducted two rocket engine tests.
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The rocket engine that America was betting on was the mighty F-22005.
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Once a rocket engine stops, when it runs out of fuel, it's done.
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That system (and its prototypes) will use a new rocket engine called Raptor.
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He took the wraps off a new rocket engine called BE-7, too.
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That launch is believed to have been a test of a rocket engine.
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Blue Origin is opening its new rocket engine production facility in Huntsville, Ala.
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It's really going to need that rocket engine to give it a boost.
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Blue Origin is opening its new rocket engine production center in Huntsville, Ala.
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But this propulsion system isn't a rocket engine the size of a Tesla semi.
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The Raptor is the rocket engine that SpaceX is making to power the Starship.
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A component for the Raptor rocket engine undergoing testing at NASA's Stennis Space Center.
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North Korea's latest rocket-engine test showed "meaningful" progress, South Korea said on Monday.
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A rocket engine that burns liquid fuel involves lots of plumbing and fine-tuning.
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Besides the 2014 crash, a rocket engine exploded in 2007 during testing, killing three people.
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At that point SpaceShipTwo ignited its rocket engine and started zooming upwards at increasing speed.
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So I'm used to a lot of this stuff from rocket engine design, for example.
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This week saw the testing of a powerful new rocket engine and an abortive missile launch.
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Your regularly scheduled Motherboard programming has been disrupted due to an unforeseen MASSIVE ROCKET ENGINE TEST.
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That's when the spaceplane ignites its rocket engine, which propels the vehicle upward through the atmosphere.
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Raptor is a methane-fueled rocket engine, the first of its kind that SpaceX has developed.
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The accident occurred during tests on a liquid propellant rocket engine, the agency said, citing Rosatom.
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North Korea could test a rocket engine alone or as part of rocket launch, Bermudez said.
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The country's leader says it has successfully conducted a solid-fuel, high-powered rocket engine test.
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A nuclear rocket engine would be twice as efficient as the chemical engines powering rockets today.
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In March, it reported the successful ground test of a newly designed solid fuel rocket engine.
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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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And soon enough, a rocket engine the size of a car began blasting Starhopper into the sky.
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That flyover followed North Korea's announcement of what it claimed was a successful test of rocket engine.
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That's exactly what happens when you use a rocket engine to lower down to the lunar surface.
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The Air Force funding certainly breathes a fresh life into rocket engine development in the United States.
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SpaceX is also developing a rocket engine more powerful than any previously developed for a commercial programme.
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Read more: SpaceX test-fired a giant rocket engine with 'insane power' for moon and Mars missions.
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Bezos unveiled the lander alongside a new rocket engine at a press event in Washington, DC, today.
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This time NASA engineers want to create something deceptively simple: a rocket engine powered by nuclear fission.
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On March 19th, North Korea test fired a rocket engine that could possibly be used in an ICBM.
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Bezos earlier this year unveiled Blue Moon, as well as the rocket engine that will power the lander. .
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However, flaming debris spread by Starhopper's powerful rocket engine almost immediately started brush fires near the launch pad.
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Perhaps most importantly, Musk said, SpaceX built and tested a full-scale Raptor rocket engine for the BFR.
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Howard Thompson experienced a rocket engine explosion while trying to lit it at 563,000 feet and Mach 1,15.
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Thanks to YouTuber TheBackyardScientist, we finally get to see a huge aluminum fidget spinner get the rocket engine treatment.
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The spaceplane has yet to fire its rocket engine, but Virgin Galactic plans to continue tests throughout next year.
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Bezos also presented a new rocket engine called BE-7, which can blast 10,000 pounds (4,535 kg) of thrust.
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Last year, part of a rocket engine crashed through the roof of a house in northeast China's Shanxi province.
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In 1965, the most powerful rocket engine at the time was fired up during a test at the plant.
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"[W]hen I met Elon, the rocket engine was key front-line technology for SpaceX," Mueller told LMU Magazine.
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In September of 2014, the company partnered with Blue Origin to jointly develop a new U.S. made rocket engine.
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The company is working on a more powerful rocket engine, with testing slated to begin this year, Bezos said.
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A single Raptor rocket engine is attached to its base, and SpaceX test-fired that engine on July 16.
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The facilities included a rocket engine test stand, which is used to develop liquid-fuel engines for ballistic missiles.
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Kevin Zagorski, an engineer who typically works on rocket engine design, is heading up Virgin Orbit's ventilator manufacturing efforts.
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Launcher, a five-person startup formed last year in Brooklyn, used 3D printers to make a small rocket engine.
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Huntsville is also increasingly becoming a center for commercial space with the establishment of Blue Origin's rocket engine factory.
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On Monday, Bezos tweeted a picture of the BE-4 rocket engine which has been under development for four years.
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As a result, the company is expanding its Center of Excellence for Large Liquid Rocket Engine Assembly and Test there.
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Virgin Galactic had decided to donate the hybrid rocket engine that carried Stucky and Sturckow to space to the Smithsonian.
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The video is actually an edited clip of two different rocket engine tests at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
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Blue Origin will also sell one rocket engine model, the BE-4, to old-guard aerospace firm United Launch Alliance.
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It seems like it's only a matter of time before an entire rocket engine is capable of being 3D printed.
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Once there, the spaceplane is released and ignites its rocket engine, climbing up to 68 miles above the Earth's surface.
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The engine, otherwise known as a Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE), is being built by Oxfordshire business Reaction Engines.
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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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He unveiled a new rocket engine and a mockup of a lunar lander to use for shuttle cargo in May.
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Fuller compared one of these to a rocket engine that blasts out ionized particles or plasma to create pyrotechnic effects.
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But before a nuclear rocket engine gets its first flight, NASA needs to overhaul its regulations for launching nuclear materials.
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Jeff Bezos has unveiled a rocket engine designed to power his Blue Origin's spacecraft to take people and satellites into orbit.
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Hong Kong (CNN)North Korea's test of a rocket engine Sunday showed "meaningful" signs of progress, according to South Korean officials.
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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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Russian media have said the rocket engine explosion may have occurred at a weapons testing area near the village of Nyonoksa.
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But watching a rocket engine strapped into a test facility release its explosive fury here on Earth is somehow even cooler.
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Congress has set a deadline of 24 for phasing out Russian-built rocket engine, which currently power ULA's Atlas V rocket.
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For the most part this experiment seemed pretty docile, with the rocket engine just churning up the water as it burned.
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There is controversy about whether E-23 is the world's largest rocket engine that was 3D printed in a single piece.
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But have you ever wondered what's happening inside a model rocket engine while you're standing a safe distance away from ignition?
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In order to reach hypersonic speeds, the X-15 was designed with a rocket engine fueled by ammonia and liquid oxygen.
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Langbroek determined the direction of the photos based on the shape of the plumes of smoke coming from the rocket engine.
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In addition to the new printers, Relativity also passed a recent milestone in the development of its rocket engine Aeon 33.
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Santa Susana in Ventura County experienced a partial nuclear meltdown while serving as a rocket engine testing facility for Rocketdyne/Atomics International.
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The system would bring the rocket engine and booster safely back to the ground so they can be reused in future launches.
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SpaceX quickly on Thursday passed another milestone in the development of its Raptor rocket engine, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet.
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The secret to getting their spaceplane aloft is the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine, or SABRE, a combination jet engine and rocket.
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Correction: It is actually the BE-3, and not Blue Origin's new BE-4 rocket engine, that will be flying on Sunday.
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Lee Jin-woo, a spokesman at the Defense Ministry, said it showed that the North was developing a more sophisticated rocket engine.
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A rocket engine could act as a brake, but that would require far more fuel than BepiColombo would be able to carry.
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That's where the company has a number of rocket engine test stands, and where BE-43 testing has been done up until now.
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As of now, Relativity has done 124 test fires of its rocket engine, in pursuit of launching the company's first rocket by 2020.
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The kick stage is fitted with a different sort of rocket engine, Curie, which can be started, shut down and restarted as needed.
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The closed cycle [as opposed to an open cycle gas generator system the Merlin engines use] is also a Russian rocket engine development.
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Reaction Engines, which has now raised more than $140 million over the last three years, is developing a hybrid jet and rocket engine.
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Thursday's flight showed that SpaceX has successfully developed a new rocket engine capable of powering, maneuvering, and landing a large vehicle like Starhopper.
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After a few seconds of coasting, VSS Unity's rocket engine will roar to life and drive the vehicle directly upward at supersonic speeds.
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Two people were killed and six injured by the explosion of a liquid-propelled rocket engine at a test site in northern Russia.
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Where Starhopper has one Raptor rocket engine, a full-scale Starship headed for deep space may use more than 40, according to Musk.
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On August 8, 2019, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a liquid rocket engine exploded at one of the state's testing sites.
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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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According to The Associated Press, analysts say images show a rocket engine test stand and another building being razed by North Korean forces.
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Last month, the North said it had successfully conducted a ground test of a new rocket engine that would be used to launch satellites.
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Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and Amazon, appears at a press conference to announce the new BE-218 rocket engine in 218.
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One such instance of technology transfer allegedly came to light earlier this year when North Korea tested a new rocket engine incorporating Iranian technology.
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This week it tested a new type of high powered rocket engine of the type that could be used for an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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North Korea conducted another rocket engine test as part of its efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), according to multiple reports Thursday.
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We'll need a new landing propulsion in which a rocket engine descending at supersonic speeds is ignited in order to slow down for landing.
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Designed to take six passengers and two pilots to the edge of space Once at 50,20143 feet, SpaceShipTwo deploys and ignites its rocket engine.
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Last month, a U.S. official said one of the tests could be signs of an ICBM rocket engine in the early stages, Reuters reported.
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Soon after, on August 2600, 2000, GCH tried to test-fire its innovative rocket-engine design, Percheron, on a launch pad in Matagorda, Texas.
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But now Musk's talking about designing a rocket engine with three times the thrust of anything ever built before, using a novel fuel (methane).
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Right now, the drive can achieve more than 11,000 seconds of specific impulse—which is one measure of how efficient a rocket engine is.
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It requires the precise firing of a vehicle's rocket engine to lower it down to the very small world, which doesn't have an atmosphere.
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Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos has unveiled the rocket engine that will power his space company's giant spacecraft to take people and satellites into orbit.
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NASA has successfully tested their first RS-25 rocket engine for the agency's next heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), for 43 seconds.
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From there, it drops from the wing and ignites its rocket engine, climbing to the edge of space and giving people a taste of microgravity.
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Update: CEO Elon Musk says on Twitter that Starship and Raptor (rocket engine) development is staying in Hawthorne, while prototypes are being built in Texas.
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NASA said in a press release Wednesday that it signed an agreement for Blue Origin to use its rocket engine test site in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Five days later, Pyongyang again ratcheted up tensions by testing a rocket engine, one which showed "meaningful" signs of progress, according to South Korean officials.
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North Korea claimed it tested a new high-thrust rocket engine Saturday, the latest in a string of missile tests over the past few months.
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North Korea claimed it tested a new high-thrust rocket engine Saturday, the latest in a string of missile tests over the past few months.
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Starhopper also used its single Raptor rocket engine to fly over to a beachside landing pad a few hundred feet away and gently touch down.
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SpaceX's full video of the launch, below, showed several live views of the stubby steel rocket ship and its lone Raptor rocket engine taking off.
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Once dropped from the wing of the "mother ship" the X-15 launched its XLR-99 rocket engine to propel the craft at hypersonic speeds.
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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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The very first ancient rockets used gunpowder as a solid fuel, while the liquid rocket engine shares some design traits with jet and automobile engines.
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A U.S. official said on Thursday that North Korea had conducted another test of a rocket engine believed to be linked to Pyongyang's ICBM program.
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He unveiled a cartoon of a growing Mars colony and showed real footage of the Raptor rocket engine that would blast the BFR on its voyages.
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The space exploration company founded by billionaire Elon Musk has successfully tested a new rocket engine that could one day help humans establish life on Mars.
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The descent stage came with a big rocket engine, which slowed the vehicle enough to drop out of lunar orbit and fall toward the moon's surface.
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Amid a blast of sand and rocket-engine exhaust, Starhopper presumably flew at least 65 feet (553 meters) into the air at around 11:45 p.m.
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The Air Force is finally moving in the right direction to curtail U.S. support for Russia's rocket engine industry and, by extension, for China's space program.
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The latest test fired the spacecraft's rocket engine for 11 seconds longer than the previous test, making it possible to set new records for Virgin Galactic.
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Additional commercial satellite images captured on Saturday and Sunday by Planet Labs suggest North Korea conducted a rocket engine test at the same site, Lewis said.
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In March 2016, state media said Kim oversaw a "successful" test of a high-power solid-fuel rocket engine "designed and manufactured in the Korean style".
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Bezos also released details about a new rocket engine, called the BE-7, that he said would be test fired for the first time this summer.
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" In fact, says Virts, the BE-4 engine Blue Origin is building, "I think is going to be the most important rocket engine of the 21st century.
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Russia has given no official explanation for why the explosion of a rocket engine near the White Sea in northern Russia would have caused radiation to spike.
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Washington (CNN)Two US defense officials told CNN Monday that the rocket engine North Korea tested Sunday could possibly be used in an eventual intercontinental ballistic missile.
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The hardware didn't get very high, but it was the first time the test vehicle flew detached from the ground, powered by SpaceX's next-generation rocket engine.
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When Noosphere Ventures bought the company, the purchase included all of the original company's facilities, such as rocket engine test stands and machine manufacturing shops in Texas.
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Geopolitical tensions heightened in recent weeks after North Korea launched ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan and tested a new type of high-thrust rocket engine.
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Indeed, just hours before his talk, a team of SpaceX engineers gave the Raptor, the rocket engine that will power Musk's interplanetary fleets, its first test run.
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Footage captured by reporters present at the South Texas launch site show fire and smoke erupting from Starhopper's massive Raptor rocket engine, obscuring the vehicle from view.
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NASA was able to develop a turbopump for their rocket engine that was put together with 45 percent fewer parts than pumps made through conventional manufacturing processes.
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It's a 6.6-pound, 1:10-scale HobbyKing Desert Fox RC car upgraded with a single rocket engine producing 120-pounds of thrust—you do the math.
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North Korean state media released photos Thursday of Kim inspecting a test of a new solid-fuel rocket engine, a key component of the KN-08 missile.
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The United States assessed the Thursday test could be for the smallest stage of an ICBM rocket engine, according to Reuters, which cited an unnamed U.S. official.
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It is large enough to conceal the first stage of North Korea's Musudan intermediate range ballistic missile, its Unha space-launch vehicle, or a new rocket engine.
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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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Aside from these two achievements, the X-15 also had a number of notable firsts, including being the first restartable, throttle-controlled and man-rated rocket engine.
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Two people are dead and at least four others are injured after a rocket engine exploded at a naval base in Nyonoksa, northern Russia, state media said.
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Back in 2014, U.S. lawmakers opted to exempt the rocket engine from a ban on Russian military technology due to it importance to the U.S. space program.
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Earlier this year, SpaceX was conducting an abort test for its SuperDraco rocket engine for Crew Dragon when an error caused an explosion that destroyed the capsule.
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Mr. Kim later attended another ground test of a new long-range rocket engine, exhorting his government to prepare for another rocket launch as soon as possible.
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North Korea also reportedly carried out two rocket engine tests at a satellite site, later saying the results will have "an important impact" on the country's position.
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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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If everything goes according to plan, InSight will begin a slow descent to the planet's surface with the help of a heat shield, parachutes, and its rocket engine.
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The rocket engine explosion occurred at a weapons testing area near the village of Nyonoksa in Arkhangelsk region, the Interfax news agency cited unnamed security sources as saying.
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It's not every day that a colossal rocket engine designed to blast humans to Mars is loaded onto a specialized barge for a cruise along the Gulf Coast.
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At this year's summit, there were fellows working on rocket-engine startups, biotech companies specializing in gene editing, augmented reality, genetic testing, and AI startups of all stripes.
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During boost phase, the missile is at its most vulnerable state, as it's doing a controlled burn of its rocket engine and it hasn't deployed any decoys yet.
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As of today, however, it's cleared a major hurdle: the rocket engine it will use to get to the Red Planet just fired-up for the first time.
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The rocket engine explosion occurred at a weapons testing area near the village of Nyonoksa in Arkhangelsk region, the Interfax news agency cited unnamed security sources as saying.
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In controversial remarks that later forced him to resign, former ULA executive Brett Tobey suggested that Blue Origin was the obvious, preferred provider for their next rocket engine.
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The Washington-based think tank 38 North said last week satellite imagery indicated activity at the site's vertical engine stand, possibly in preparation for a rocket engine test.
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Once the craft reaches the outer atmosphere, at an altitude of about 60 kilometers, it uses a small rocket engine to push it the rest of the way.
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The early programs laid the foundation for a nuclear rocket engine; NASA's next step was to develop the hardware needed to take the engine from theory to reality.
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The issue with the Angara A5 was brought to attention by scientists at rocket engine manufacturer Energomash in a paper ahead of a space conference later this month.
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Jeff Bezos on Thursday unveiled a brand new rocket engine and a mockup of the lunar lander it wants to use to shuttle cargo or people to the moon.
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The North's test of a new rocket engine for satellite launchers this week was believed to be part of a long-range missile program, according to the South's military.
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The attempted launch comes four days after the North Korea announced it had tested a new rocket engine, describing it as a "great leap forward" in their missile program.
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The attempted launch came just 4 days after North Korea announced it had tested a new rocket engine, describing it as a "great leap forward" in their missile program.
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Today, private spaceflight venture Blue Origin announced its plans to manufacture the company's new rocket engine, the BE-4, at a state-of-the-art facility in Huntsville, Alabama.
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The Raptor engine's firing test is a good sign, but a successfully-firing rocket engine is still a long ways away from a fully operational spacecraft and launch system.
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The company will use the site to test-fire two rocket engine models that promise to be game-changers for the commercial rocket industry, and will be built nearby.
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This site, too, comes with historical aerospace baggage: In the 1960s, it was a test spot for Thiokol Chemical Company, where engineers tried out the then-largest rocket engine.
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It claimed to have tested a more powerful rocket engine and to have succeeded at shrinking the size of a nuclear weapon so it can fit on a missile.
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Also on Wednesday, the Russian news agency Tass reported that a third-stage Soyuz rocket engine failure doomed a Russian cargo run to the space station on Dec. 1.
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The engine would help North Korea achieve world-class satellite launch capability, KCNA said, indicating the test was of a new type of rocket engine for long-range missiles.
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An attempt this evening would be SpaceX's second in as many days, following a try on Wednesday that engineers cut short right after ignition of Starhopper's single rocket engine.
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Congress has finally consented to new studies of how a space-based network can rain interceptors down on an offensive missile while its original rocket engine is still burning.
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Russia's state nuclear agency Rosatom has acknowledged that nuclear workers were killed in the explosion, which occurred during a rocket engine test near the White Sea in far northern Russia.
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Private spaceflight company Blue Origin has finally assembled its first full-scale BE-4 rocket engine — the main engine the company plans to use to propel its future orbital rocket.
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For the first time, Blue Origin successfully fired up its BE-24 rocket engine, a crucial piece of hardware the company has been working on for the last six years.
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The company slowly progressed through the vehicle's test flight program, first conducting unpowered glide flights with the spaceplane and then doing short powered flights by igniting VSS Unity's rocket engine.
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The long-awaited Pentagon deal known as the Launch Services Agreement enables the U.S. to transition away from foreign propulsion systems such as the Russian-built RD-180 rocket engine.
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One week after boasting about the Raptor engine's initial, successful test, SpaceX has posted a video of its brand new methane-fuelled rocket engine in all its shock diamond glory.
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The aircraft flew to about 40,000 feet, where Unity was released from the mother ship, lit its rocket engine and eventually reached Mach 3 and an altitude of 55.85 miles.
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SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk showed off a photo and videos of the company test firing its new Raptor rocket engine in a series of tweets late on Sunday.
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The New Zealand-based company was founded in 2006, and for years pursued smaller projects while putting together the Rutherford rocket engine, which would eventually power its Electron launch vehicle.
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Recent commercial satellite imagery indicates new activity, possibly preparations for a rocket engine test, at a North Korean launch site where the country fired a long-range rocket on Feb.
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But if you do have this big rocket engine coming outta your hand, and you're trying to control yourself, now you've gotta put that thrust through your center of gravity.
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Each time, a booster (powered by Blue Origin's own hydrogen-fueled BE-3 rocket engine) sent an uncrewed space capsule just beyond the boundary of space, and landed it safely.
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A nuclear rocket engine would be twice as efficient as the chemical engines powering rockets today, but space travel is dangerous enough without having to worry about a nuclear meltdown.
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In September, North Korea conducted the ground test of what it called a new long-range rocket engine in Tongchang-ri, days after it conducted its fifth underground nuclear test.
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While it has been used to test liquid-fuelled rocket engine technology used in North Korea's long-range missiles, it has never been used to launch a long-range missile.
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With this week's success, the company will conduct several additional glide tests before moving on to the next phase of testing, where the rocket engine will be ignited in the air.
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Seoul (CNN)North Korea claims to have successfully conducted a ground test of a new type of high powered rocket engine, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Tuesday.
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Image: Jeff Bezos via TwitterDick-shaped aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin has finally revealed its BE-4 liquid rocket engine—an engine the company has been developing for more than four years.
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An apparent rocket-engine test stand can be seen in a corner of the base -- the type on which a rocket is positioned on its side and test-fired in place.
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U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday that North Korea had carried out another test of a rocket engine that could be part of its program to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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About 45 seconds into the test, Blue Origin will activate a small rocket engine on the underside of the capsule, which will push the spaceship up and away from the booster.
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As it then swings around the sun, the spacecraft would fire a rocket engine, accelerating to a speed where it could cover close to a couple of billion miles a year.
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Its launch vehicle, called the Electron, boasts a battery-powered rocket engine printed on 3D parts that enables the firm to offer such low pricing and frequent trips, Rocket Lab said.
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The company estimates that SABRE, or "Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine," will be capable of reaching speeds of Mach 5 while operating as a jet, using Reaction Engine's "air-breathing" technology.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has bestowed posthumous awards on five nuclear experts and "national heroes" who died in a mysterious explosion at sea during a rocket engine test, authorities said on Sunday.
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It was released from under Eve's wing about an hour later, when Unity's rocket engine roared to life, sending the spacecraft at about twice the speed of sound to 114,500 feet.
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The North's leader, Kim Jong-un, recently watched as military engineers conducted a ground test of the design, a solid-fuel rocket engine, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported.
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Rocket Lab, which has contracted with NASA and private companies to provide low-cost rocket launches out of New Zealand this year, has designed the world's first 3D printed rocket engine.
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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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The probe, which is the first to orbit Jupiter since the Galileo mission ended in 2003, completed a 35-minute rocket engine burn to make it through the huge planet's radiation belts.
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It has built one of the world's largest 3-D printers, called Stargate, as well as developed its own rocket engine called Aeon 1, which has been tested more than 124 times.
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On Friday, a U.S. official told Reuters that North Korea had carried out another test of a rocket engine believed to be part of its programme to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Launched at altitudes of 40,90003 feet or higher, a powerful rocket engine propels the missile up to heights approaching 100,000 feet, where it encounters less air resistance and reaches its dizzying speeds.
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NASA has awarded a $67 million contract to rocket engine manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne, in order to create new type of electric propulsion system that could be used for deep space exploration missions.
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North Korea has carried out another test of a rocket engine that U.S. officials believe could be part of its program to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, officials told Reuters on Monday.
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North Korea said Saturday it has successfully tested the booster capability of a new intercontinental ballistic rocket engine that could give it the power to target the United States with nuclear strikes.
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That's right: If we ever want a four-hour trip to the moon or a two-month trip to Mars, we're going to need a rocket engine that doesn't need rocket fuel.
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But on Thursday he admitted he tried to shield some members of his family from the inevitable risk he took on firing a rocket engine up to 260,000 feet in the air.
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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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Blue Origin is spending $200 million to build its rocket engine factory, a 350,2300-square-foot facility in Huntsville that will employ 23.5 people and is expected to open early next year.
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Spokesman Sean Spicer made the comment at a news briefing in reply to a question about Tillerson's reaction to an announcement by North Korea about its latest rocket-engine test on Sunday.
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Three years of work have already gone into developing the spacecraft, but at an event on May 9, Bezos said there was a key problem that Blue Origin needed solved: the rocket engine.
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North Korea has tested several weapons systems so far this year: a nuclear device, a three-stage rocket, a submarine-launched missile, a mobile-launched missile, and a new long-range rocket engine.
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The tank's last inhabitant was not a koi or a betta, but rather a model rocket engine that ignited in a blaze of glory while submerged under a couple of gallons of water.
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"Alabama is a great state for aerospace manufacturing and we are proud to produce America's next rocket engine right here in Rocket City," Robert Meyerson, president of Blue Origin, said in a statement.
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There the latter detaches and fires up its rocket engine, accelerating to high speed and high altitude, after which it glides to the surface and lands more or less like any other plane.
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The infrastructure needed to make Amazon flourish is vastly different than the infrastructure needed for the space industry to flourish; a remote payment system is far less complex than a cryogenic rocket engine.
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MOSCOW, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Russia has bestowed posthumous awards on five nuclear experts and "national heroes" who died in a mysterious explosion at sea during a rocket engine test, authorities said on Sunday.
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The BE-4 rocket engine (Image: Blue Origin)Previous Blue Origin launches have been heavily-shrouded from the public, with the launches often remaining secret until well after they had been successfully-completed.
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Russia's state nuclear agency, Rosatom, has acknowledged that five of its nuclear workers were killed in an August 8 explosion during a rocket engine test near the White Sea in far northern Russia.
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Only at the eleventh hour did the Senate pass an amendment to allowing the Defense Department, NASA and the commercial sector to retain access to a unique Russian rocket engine, the RD-180.
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If all goes well, a heat shield, parachutes and a rocket engine will slow InSight to a safe landing in a flat plain just north of the Martian Equator known as Elysium Planitia.
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According to North Korean state media, the country last year successfully tested engines for launching ICBMs, including a solid-fuel rocket engine that would allow a missile to be launched quickly with little forewarning.
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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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"The test-fire proved to the full all the technical specifications of the rocket ... like guidance and stabilization systems ... and reconfirmed the reliability of new rocket engine under the practical flight circumstances," KCNA said.
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"The rail-mounted environmental shelter has been moved up against the engine test stand since February 5, either for maintenance or to position a rocket engine for testing," 38 North said in a note.
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Starhopper stands about 60 feet tall, 30 feet wide, and uses one Raptor rocket engine; meanwhile, a full-scale Starship headed for deep space could use more than 41 such engines, according to Musk.
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The transfer of sophisticated rocket engine know-how to the Chinese, by an engine manufacturer that the U.S. relies upon for its own super-secret military and intelligence duties, is a major concern. Rep.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has carried out another test of a rocket engine that U.S. officials believe could be part of its program to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, officials told Reuters on Monday.
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At the time, North Korea's official media said the engine would help it achieve world-class satellite launch capability, indicating the test was of a new type of rocket engine for long-range missiles.
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The Obama administration has not sought sanctions, knowing they would be vetoed by Russia and China, nor has it said much in public about the details of the cooperation on the new rocket engine.
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The facility consists of a missile assembly building, a launch pad with a gantry and mobile launch platform, fuel and oxidizer storage, a rocket engine test stand and an instrumentation stand, according to NTI.
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The RD-250, a Soviet-era rocket engine that some experts say resembles engines used in recent North Korean launches, used to be produced in Dnipro, Mr. Turchynov said, but production stopped in 1991.
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's latest test of a rocket engine showed that the country was making "meaningful progress" in trying to build more powerful rockets and missiles, South Korean officials said on Monday.
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Trump teeters on the edge of a familiar North Korean trap In March, North Korea tested a new rocket engine which state media said represented a "great leap forward" for the country's rocket industry.
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A Pentagon statement said the two contracts implement a 2015 law requiring the development of a next-generation rocket propulsion system to end the U.S. military's dependence on the Russian-supplied RD-180 rocket engine.
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Allegations of ties to Russia have cast a shadow over U.S. President Donald Trump's first five months in office, North Korea testing a rocket engine and Brexit negotiations are all fueling concern about global stability.
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North Korea has carried out another test of a rocket engine that the United States believes could be part of its program to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday.
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There's always a risk a rocket may explode during its launch, and that risk is higher for experimental vehicles like Starhopper, which SpaceX built as a test bed for its new Raptor rocket engine design.
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Mr. Kim visited the rocket engine test site in 2017 when engineers there successfully tested a new high-thrust engine, which was believed to have powered intercontinental ballistic missiles that the North launched months later.
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In the apparent re-entry simulation, the official newspaper of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party showed pictures of a dome-shaped object placed under what appeared to be a rocket engine being blasted with flaming exhaust.
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Bezos' space company won a massive rocket engine deal for its propulsion business in September, completed a key flight test for New Shepard in July and won NASA support for its Blue Moon lunar lander program.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's state nuclear agency acknowledged for the first time on Saturday that nuclear workers were involved in an explosion during a rocket engine test that caused a spike in radiation in a nearby city.
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SpaceX also showed off the company's rocket engine tests, noting that the longest continuous burn test for the so-called Raptor engine is 26 seconds, but that 229 seconds will be typical for Mars landing requirements.
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To get into the proper orbit for its scientific mission, Juno's onboard system executed a precise 35-minute rocket engine burn that delivered it through Jupiter's extreme radiation belts and into an orbit around its poles.
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If you thought Steve-O was wild in "Jackass," then strap in for his new project that supposedly puts Johnny Knoxville's stunts to shame ... with things like human snow angels doused in burning rocket engine fuel.
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It launched four ballistic missiles from near its west coast on March 6 and this week conducted a rocket engine test that its leader, Kim Jong Un, said opened "a new birth" of its rocket industry.
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A Pentagon statement said the two contracts implement a 2015 law that requires the development of a next-generation rocket propulsion system to end the U.S. military's dependence on the Russian-supplied RD-180 rocket engine.
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Russia's military said that the fire occurred when a liquid-fueled rocket engine exploded at the testing site, but that radiation levels remained at normal background levels, contradicting reports from the municipal authorities in nearby Severodvinsk.
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Musk said that the next five to six months will see SpaceX building multiple new iterations of Starship, as well as ramping up rocket engine production to a target of one per day by early 2020.
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SEOUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Satellite imagery captured before and after North Korea conducted what it called a "very important" test at its missile launch site suggested it had tested a rocket engine, experts said on Monday.
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Russia's military said that the fire occurred when a liquid-fueled rocket engine exploded at the testing site, but that radiation levels remained at normal background levels, contradicting reports from the municipal authorities in nearby Severodvinsk.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has carried out another test of a rocket engine that the United States believes could be part of its program to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, a U.S. official told Reuters on Thursday.
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The company told GeekWire that it is "ending the development of their family of launch vehicles and rocket engine," in order to focus on its flagship aircraft, which is expected to take its first flight this year.
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Private spaceflight company Blue Origin showed off shiny, new footage today of its next-generation rocket engine igniting during a recent test — and the video is the perfect way to pump yourself up on this Monday morning.
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The explosion of a liquid-propellant rocket engine killed two people on Thursday in Russia's northern Arkhangelsk region, but released no dangerous substances into the atmosphere, RIA news agency had earlier cited the Defense Ministry as saying.
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North Korea has conducted a ground test of a new type of high-thrust rocket engine that leader Kim Jong Un is calling a revolutionary breakthrough for the country's space program, the North's state media said Sunday.
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Musk has said that the Raptor engine — SpaceX's next generation rocket engine — has about 500,000 pounds of thrust, which means the BFR would use somewhere in the neighborhood of 50–33 Raptor engines in its first stage.
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Russia's state weather service said radiation levels spiked in the Russian city of Severodvinsk by up to 16 times last Thursday after what officials say was an explosion during a rocket engine test on a sea platform.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's nuclear safety authority is analyzing tiny amounts of radioactive iodine detected in the air in northern Norway in the days after a deadly explosion during a rocket engine test over the border in Russia.
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Two people are dead and at least four others are injured after a rocket engine exploded at a naval base in Russia's northwestern Arkhangelsk region, the country's state-run media reported Thursday, citing the country's defense ministry.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Reports of a second blast from a deadly Russian rocket engine test may be wrong, and the signals could stem from unrelated mining activity, the Norwegian monitor that first presented the double explosion theory said.
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South Korea's Defense Minister on Tuesday said that a recent test at a North Korean rocket liftoff site was a rocket engine, as the Trump administration exhibits concern about the possibility of escalation from the rogue nation.
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If you want to get to space these days, the typical method of travel entails strapping yourself into a vehicle with a high-powered rocket engine and then hurtling through the sky at thousands of miles per hour.
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Early Thursday morning, the company's passenger spaceplane, the VSS Unity, ignited its rocket engine longer than ever before over the Mojave Desert, soaring above the 262-mile boundary that the Air Force defines as the beginning of space.
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At his presentation, Bezos unveiled a model of one of the proposed rovers, roughly the size of a golf cart, and presented a new rocket engine called BE-7, which can blast 10,000 pounds (4,535 kg) of thrust.
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The engines required to propel the giant booster and spaceship into space need to be powerful yet more efficient than any other rocket engine created before, whilst possessing the ability to endure multiple flights and re-entry cycles.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian authorities have recommended residents of Nyonoksa leave their village while work is carried out nearby following a rocket engine accident that caused a spike in radiation last week, Interfax news agency cited local officials said.
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The United States assessed that the test, the latest in a series of engine and missile tests this year, could be for the smallest stage of an ICBM rocket engine, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
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The test flight took off from the Mojave Air & Space Port in California at 7:11 am PT. Just after 8:00 am PT, VSS Unity detached from the mothership and lit its rocket engine, swooping directly upward.
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The team waited in a tense silence as the countdown to ignition reached zero, but the telltale plume of smoke on the horizon that arrives a few seconds ahead of the roar from the rocket engine never appeared.
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Zerbo drew the ire of IAEA heavyweight Russia last month by saying where and when Russian CTBTO monitoring stations that scan the air for radioactive particles went offline after a mysterious explosion during a rocket engine test there.
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Commercial satellite images taken on Saturday by Planet Labs showed vehicles and equipment likely to be used in a rocket engine experiment, while those captured on Sunday morning had signs of a conducted test, analyst Jeffrey Lewis said.
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A short-term spike in radiation levels was recorded in a northern Russian city after a rocket engine exploded at a military testing site on Thursday, TASS news agency cited a spokeswoman for city authorities in Severodvinsk as saying.
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A small start-up based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard is staking its claim among the next generation of rocket companies: by developing a rocket engine that it says is the world's largest 23D printed in a single piece.
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"Now our rocket industry has radically turned into high-thrust solid-fuel-powered engine from liquid-fuel rocket engine and rapidly developed into a development- and creation-oriented industry, not just copying samples," Mr. Kim was quoted as saying.
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The vehicle's rocket engine will also use a different rubber-like fuel, something that will make combustion more efficient, the company said; but this new fuel has also been known to cause Virgin Galactic engine trouble in the past.
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In the apparent re-entry simulation, the official newspaper of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party carried pictures on Tuesday of a dome-shaped object placed under what appeared to be a rocket engine and being blasted with flaming exhaust.
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OSLO (Reuters) - An explosion that killed five Russian scientists during a rocket engine test this month was followed by a second blast two hours later, the likely source of a spike in radiation, Norway's nuclear test-ban monitor said on Friday.
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Commercial satellite imagery of the Sohae station from June 12 shows no apparent activity related to dismantlement of its rocket engine test stand, according to 38 North, a Washington-based website that tracks developments in the isolated nation&aposs weapons programs.
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Analysts with the website 38 North, which tracks North Korea, reported Pyongyang may be preparing to test a rocket engine at a facility in Sohae, North Pyongan province, where all of the North's satellite launches have taken place since 2012.
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A static fire is a term in the space industry for a specific type of test, where a rocket engine is strapped down to the ground and fired up, to simulate the motor during flight and show it operates smoothly.
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Using a rocket engine to lower a large spacecraft down to the lunar surface kicks up a whole lot of fast-moving dust that can travel far and wide, capable of hitting and even damaging spacecraft on and around the Moon.
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But if you're gunning for a more intimate look at how rockets expend fuel to generate thrust, check out this new explainer on how to make a DIY see-through model rocket engine, released Tuesday on the YouTube channel Warped Perception.
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Johns Hopkins University's 38 North project, which monitors North Korea, said recent commercial satellite imagery showed new activity in the isolated country, including a convoy of trucks at its satellite launch station that could be preparations for a rocket-engine test.
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The notice says "action required" and warns of "potential risk to health and safety" during SpaceX's upcoming launch attempt of Starhopper: a stubby yet roughly 60-foot-tall (18-meter-tall) steel prototype with a single, truck-size Raptor rocket engine.
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Experts are, once politics are taken out of it, in quiet agreement on this fact: We will not get an American-made rocket engine with the RD-180's development train, extraordinary reliability, and heavy lift ability in the near-term.
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said on Thursday that it had successfully tested a new rocket engine that would significantly bolster its missile capabilities, and South Korea called on its people to heighten vigilance against possible terrorist attacks by the North.
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Photos released in the North's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper, whose front two pages featured the test, showed a black-and-white painted missile clearing the surface of the water, then the rocket engine igniting to propel it into the sky.
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The new site will be responsible for high-volume production of the Blue Origin BE-4 rocket engine, which will be used on the company's own New Glenn orbital rocket as well as the ULA's forthcoming Vulcan heavy-lift launch vehicle.
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The NF-104A is used to perform "Zoom" flights: A typical flight profile sees a level acceleration to Mach 1.9 at 35,000 feet; the rocket engine ignition and on reaching Mach 2.1, a 50-70 degree climb at 3.5 g.
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Display of force The rocket engine test came hours before Tillerson met Chinese President Xi Jinping, and a day after America's top diplomat warned that all options -- including military action -- remained on the table when it came to dealing with North Korea.
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The United States assessed that the test, the latest in a series of engine and missile trials this year, could be for the smallest stage of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) rocket engine, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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Beijing (CNN)North Korea marked the final day of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's Asia visit Sunday by claiming to have tested a new type of rocket engine, underlining the country's defiance of recent calls for calm on the Korean Peninsula.
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Also last month, North Korea state media said the country had conducted a test of a high-thrust engine that would help achieve world-class satellite launch capability, indicating the test was of a new type of rocket engine for long-range missiles.
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Russian authorities had previously said that two people had been killed in the incident and that a nearby city had reported a rise in radiation levels when a rocket engine blew up at a testing site in the Archangelsk region on Thursday.
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Primary mission remains nominal → SpaceXJanuary 17, 2016 This outcome is not that surprising considering the immense challenges of blasting a rocket engine to supersonic speeds, slowing it down for reentry, then landing it on heavily unstable boat racked by 15 foot waves.
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It also claimed success in testing the re-entry technology that allows an ICBM to return to the Earth's atmosphere without breaking up, as well as a solid-fuel rocket engine, which would allow for a shorter preparation time before a launch.
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Mr. Kim has shown up frequently to watch missile tests and what his government has called the successful tests of technologies, including a new rocket engine, needed to make nuclear-tipped long-range missiles as a deterrent against invasion by the United States.
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Read more: Russia gave posthumous awards to 5 nuclear experts who died in a mysterious explosion last weekThe Russian defense ministry, by way of Russian state media, said earlier that only two people were killed when a liquid-propellant rocket engine blew up.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Medics who treated victims of an accident during a rocket engine test that caused a spike in radiation last week have been sent to Moscow for medical examination, TASS news agency cited an unnamed medical source as saying on Tuesday.
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YouTube's Warped Perception channel cut an Estes model rocket engine in half (something you definitely shouldn't try at home) and constructed a special see-through housing so they could film the burn at 1,500 frames-per-second using a high-speed camera.
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North Korea insists that it has done enough so far: This year, it has suspended nuclear and missile tests, dismantled its nuclear and rocket engine testing sites and returned the remains of some American servicemen killed during the 1950-53 Korean War.
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The bill is timely, as North Korea on Thursday conducted another rocket engine test as part of its efforts to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, on top of a dozen missile launches this year, as well as three engine tests in March.
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The test of the rocket engine took place at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground in Tongchang-ri, in northwestern North Korea, where the country fired a carrier rocket in February of last year to place its Kwangmyongsong, or Shining Star, satellite into orbit.
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And while any system that so closely resembles a rocket engine has the potential for what engineers delicately refer to as a RUD — "rapid unplanned disassembly" — those working directly on the project say they have designed safety features that give them confidence.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia closed off an area of the White Sea to shipping for a month after the fatal explosion of a rocket engine on a military testing ground in Russia's north earlier on Thursday, Interfax news agency cited the port of Arkhangelsk as saying.
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The conference's organizers awarded Bezos with the "IAF Excellence in Industry Award," recognizing Blue Origin's space tourism division "for its significant and sustainable contribution towards enabling an enduring human presence in space through its New Shepard launch system and BE-3 liquid hydrogen rocket engine."
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"Tori is such an incredible vocalist, one of the most effortless singers I have ever heard, and once she starts singing it is like a rocket engine has been strapped on to the song and she takes us all on a ride," adds Grant.
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MOSCOW, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Medics who treated victims of an accident during a rocket engine test that caused a spike in radiation last week have been sent to Moscow for medical examination, TASS news agency cited an unnamed medical source as saying on Tuesday.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two people were killed and a nearby city reported a rise in radiation levels when a rocket engine blew up at a testing site in northern Russia on Thursday, forcing authorities to shut down part of a bay in the White Sea to shipping.
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This test of a 75-ton rocket engine by the Korean Aerospace Research Institute is immensely satisfying on many levels, but it's the deep rumble of that engine at full thrust that will have you turning up your speakers, or, better yet, reaching for your headphones.
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On Tuesday, North Korea said it had conducted the ground test of a new long-range rocket engine used to put a satellite into orbit, an effort long considered by Washington and the United Nations Security Council to be a cover for developing an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 1803 (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force on Monday awarded contracts worth more than $160 million to two separate firms involved in the development of a new rocket engine to help the United States end its dependence on Russian rocket engines for national security space launches.
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Chairman Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnBolton rips Trump administration's move to block UN meeting on North Korea South Korea: North tested rocket engine The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - Democrats to release articles of impeachment today MORE also wants a deal with the United States.
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READ: North Korea claims successful test of rocket engine The munitions In its announcement, South Korea said the nuclear facility attack simulation will take place using a GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munition, a kit that converts bombs that normally just free-fall from planes into guided munitions.
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So if you aim a rocket engine at the Moon for an extended period of time — which you typically need to do to lower something down to the surface — it can easily accelerate lunar dirt to speeds of thousands of meters per second, sending them hundreds of miles away.
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Here on Earth, if you pointed a rocket engine at a bunch of dust, gravel, and rocks, the thick atmosphere of air that surrounds our planet would slow down the smaller particles first, while the larger particles would cut through the wind resistance and travel the greatest distances.
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Over the past month and a half, the Russian military has seen a fire claim the lives of sailors aboard a secret nuclear submarine, an explosion at a ammunition depot, and, as of Thursday morning, an explosion during the testing of a rocket engine at a military test facility.
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The July 20 images showed work at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station to dismantle a building used to assemble space-launch vehicles and a nearby rocket engine test stand used to develop liquid-fuel engines for ballistic missiles and space-launch vehicles, the 38 North think tank said.
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This rocket-engine explosion, even though it occurred in tests, is sure to catch the attention of not just commercial clients of SpaceX, but also the Pentagon (which uses the company to launch satellites into orbit) and NASA (which uses Falcon 9's to deliver cargo to the International Space Station).
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Before Elon Musk walked on to the stage at the 67th annual International Astronautical Congress to declare exactly how humans are going to become an interplanetary species by colonising Mars, one piece of the gargantuan interplanetary jigsaw had to fall into place to give SpaceX's ambitions credibility: the Raptor rocket engine.
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Tuesday that it had conducted the ground test of a new long-range rocket engine used to put a satellite into orbit, an effort long considered by Washington and the United Nations Security Council to be a cover for developing an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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The test wasn't a complete success – a modification to the off-the-shelf rocket engine they used didn't work exactly as expected – but it did demonstrate that their in-flight launch platform orientation tech worked as intended, and Safari says the malfunction that did occur is relatively easy to fix.
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Earthbound fission reactors operate at around 600 degrees Fahrenheit; the reactors used in rocket engines must be cranked to more than 4,000 degrees F. For the last decade, Emrich and a team of engineers have been simulating the extreme conditions inside a nuclear rocket engine at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
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On March 20, North Korea tested a revved-up rocket engine, a few days after Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson warned in South Korea that the Trump administration might take pre-emptive military action if the North Koreans elevated "the threat of their weapons program" to a level deemed unacceptable.
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A man watches a TV news program from South Korea showing an image of a high-thrust rocket engine in North Korea on March 19, 2017 (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)North Korea was pretty proud of itself earlier this month when it was able to perform four times in a single day.
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Moon made the comments during a visit to the state-run Agency for Defense Development, where he watched a test-firing of an indigenously developed ballistic missile, hours after U.S. officials said North Korea has carried out a test of a rocket engine that they believe could be for an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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The new Virgin Galactic video of the flight shows Unity being released from its carrier aircraft WhiteKnightTwo before its rocket engine kicks on, propelling itself under its own power up to an altitude of 114,500 feet and reaching a speed of Mach 1.9 before gliding back to the Mojave Desert for landing.
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Trump and Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnBolton rips Trump administration's move to block UN meeting on North Korea South Korea: North tested rocket engine The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - Democrats to release articles of impeachment today MORE have met three times but no progress toward a denuclearization deal has been reached.
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That, at least, is one of the official North Korean explanations for the testing last week of a rocket engine that, if as powerful as the North claims, would rival the commercial rockets that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, of Amazon and Tesla, now use in their aerospace companies to fire payloads into space.
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But in 2008, two years after its first nuclear test, Condoleezza Rice, then secretary of state, warned allies that the North was on the verge of another leap: A Soviet rocket engine representing "a substantial advance" had aided its development of longer-range missiles, according to a secret memo disclosed in 2010 by WikiLeaks.
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Among the four are SpaceIL from Israel--which announced last year that its lander will be hitching a ride on a Falcon 9 rocket constructed by Elon Musk's SpaceX--and Moon Express from the U.S. The latter will be launching its lander on Rocket Lab's Electron vehicle, which boasts a battery-powered rocket engine printed on 3D parts.
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Related: How North Korea's Rocket Launch Could End Up Screwing China in a War Against the US Johns Hopkins University's 38 North project, which monitors North Korea, said recent commercial satellite imagery showed new activity in the isolated country, including a convoy of trucks at its satellite launch station that could be preparations for a rocket-engine test.
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MORE FROM REUTERS: Europe sets sights on cheap rocket engine by 210s Two Iranian airlines plan to buy 210 Airbus jets Slideshow: High tech flight at the Paris Airshow That included 3213 new orders and commitments for the 2321 MAX 20117, plus 210 conversions to the MAX 10 from other models to support the launch of the new plane.
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For the foreseeable future, attempts to acquire a much desired, reliable American heavy-lift rocket engine will be slow in coming; the only currently available substitute is more expensive and less reliable; and Congress has given us a band-aid — not assurance that we will be able to maintain today's capability until tomorrow's solution is reality.
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It features a 6,853-pound thrust rocket engine at the base of the vertical tail, nose and wingtips&apos reaction control thrusters, a larger vertical tail, increased wingspan, as well as tanks to store the rocket propellants, provision for a full pressure suit, a cockpit hand controller to operate the reaction control thrusters, and modified cockpit instrumentation.
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Signs that North Korea had begun acting on its pledge to Trump were detected in July, when a Washington think tank said satellite images indicated work had begun at Sohae to dismantle a building used to assemble space-launch vehicles and a nearby rocket engine test stand used to develop liquid-fuel engines for ballistic missiles and space-launch vehicles.
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Although Blue Origin has yet to fly people, the company has taken what it's learned from its space tourism program and applied it to a variety of ambitious spaceflight endeavors: Developing a powerful yet reusable rocket engine, building a massive new rocket and leading a bid to fly cargo and people to the moon for NASA on a lunar lander.
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Read more: It looks like the Russians are trying to hide the truth about that nuclear accident in NyonoksaRussian authorities claimed that the incident happened "during tests of a liquid propulsion system involving isotopes," (Russian state media initially said a rocket engine exploded), but Bohmer reportedly explained that short-lived radioactive isotopes would not have been produced by that sort of test.
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Those remarks reflect North Korean leader Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnBolton rips Trump administration's move to block UN meeting on North Korea South Korea: North tested rocket engine The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - Democrats to release articles of impeachment today MORE's comments from September 2017 when he said he would "tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard," referring to Trump.
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I've learned that Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnBolton rips Trump administration's move to block UN meeting on North Korea South Korea: North tested rocket engine The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - Democrats to release articles of impeachment today MORE thinks I am a rabid dog, should be beaten to death with a stick, and he gets a love letter from Trump.
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Company founder Elon Musk announced that his company's Raptor engine had its first successful firing test and included a few pictures of the mysterious engine in action:Musk also revealed a few specs for the rocket engine, including its thrust capabilities of over 300 metric tons, a specific impulse of 382 seconds, and chamber pressure of almost three times greater than that of the Merlin engine in SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
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NASA Just Tested the Rocket Engine We&aposll Use to Visit MarsNASA's RS-25 engine, the powerhouse aboard the SLS rocket that will one day launch us to Mars, just …Read more ReadIn today's test, the booster burned for a full two minutes, the same amount of time that it will need to run to get the SLS rocket lifted off the ground when it's finally put into action.
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The rocket engine that Skyrora is testing will eventually power the final stage of its 22-meter (72-foot) Skyrora XL launch vehicle (closer to Rocket Lab's Electron at 57 feet than SpaceX's Falcon 9 at 229 feet), which will be capable of delivering multiple payloads to separate orbits ranging up to 20203 km (310 miles) above Earth, a popular low-Earth orbit target range for small satellite payloads.
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Kim Jong UnKim Jong UnBolton rips Trump administration's move to block UN meeting on North Korea South Korea: North tested rocket engine The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - Democrats to release articles of impeachment today MORE has been threatening to send the United States a "Christmas gift," and sure enough, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced that a "very important test took place at the Sohae Satellite launching Ground" on Dec.
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