NASA fails to set air-speed record; Unmanned: It blows up rocket that was supposed to launch the air-breathing jetASSOCIATED PRESS
If for some reason the chemical rocket blows up and the nuclear-powered engine ends up in the ocean, the nuclear hardware still can't "go critical," Thomas said. The in-space rocket system doesn't work until it reaches orbit. Perhaps the greatest safety risks come into play during ground...
principal investigator of the project. “Some of those systems are going to be technological, and some of them are going to be human. And it’s just as bad if the human part of the system fails as if a rocket blows up.”
Moments later, 12 small rocket motors will fire up, horizontal velocity will be nulled out, the lander will orient itself so its solar arrays will receive maximum sunlight on the surface and it will descend to a five-mile-per-hour touchdown in the Elysium Planitia area 4.5 degrees north of ...
Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander blasted off Monday from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, then successfully separated from its rocket. Just hours later, though, Astrobotic reported an inability to orient Peregrine's solar panel...
“A volcano just waking up may emit SO2 before there is any detectable seismic (地震的) activity, “Los Alamos National Laboratory remote sensing researcher Steve Love explained in a news release. “That gives us a chance to identify a potentially erupting volcano before it actually blows.”If...
You have to remember NASA was set up to stop the power grab between the USAF and the Army, both of whom had rocket programs. It was effectivly made a civilian research organisation with the task of getting to the moon. After Neil Armstrong put his foot down NASA nolonger had a mission...
NASA’s new 3D-printed rocket nozzle, made from a unique aluminum variant, promises lighter components for deep space missions. After successful testing, the technology holds potential for broader aerospace applications. NASA recently built and tested an additively manufactured – or 3D printed – ...
What drives the supersonic solar wind – the constant stream of solar material that blows through the entire solar system? And finally, what accelerates solar energetic particles, which can reach speeds up to more than half the speed of light as they rocket away from the Sun?
NASA's Space Environment Testbeds, or SET, will launch in June 2019 on its mission to study how to better protect satellites in space. SET will get a ride to space on a U.S. Air Force Research Lab spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Fl...