Street bike used as platform to test propulsion parts for Lynx Suborbital Vehicle
XCOR's innovative piston pump technology took a ride from Roswell, NM to Mojave, CA in April 2012.
XCOR's innovative piston pump technology took a ride from Roswell, NM to Mojave, CA in April 2012.
Engineering
May 4, 2012
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With a new water mist system, fires can be extinguished even from a distance of eight meters. Sinorix H2O Jet is meant for industrial environments, including turbines, painting lines, or production equipment. Special nozzles ...
Engineering
Aug 23, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The ocean is a potentially vast source of electric power, yet as engineers test new technologies for capturing it, the devices are plagued by battering storms, limited efficiency, and the need to be tethered ...
Engineering
Nov 19, 2009
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A test firing of Europe's Helicon Plasma Thruster, developed with ESA by SENER and the Universidad Carlos III's Plasma & Space Propulsion Team (EP2-UC3M) in Spain. This compact, electrodeless and low voltage design is ideal ...
Space Exploration
Sep 7, 2020
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This week, the largest solid rocket motor ever built in one piece will be test fired at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana for the first time.
Space Exploration
Jul 9, 2018
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A small lab-grown diamond measuring a few millimeters per side could one day enable civilian drones to be recharged in mid-flight through a laser. Thanks to the diamond, the laser beam can remain strong enough over a long ...
Engineering
Nov 7, 2018
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The James Webb Space Telescope was fueled inside the payload preparation facility at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of its launch on Ariane 5.
Astronomy
Dec 7, 2021
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Like a well-rehearsed formation team, a flock of flying robots rises slowly into the air with a loud buzzing noise. A good two dozen in number, they perform an intricate dance in the sky above the seething hordes of soccer ...
Robotics
May 3, 2012
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Purdue University students are designing and building a rocket engine that might be used in a vehicle to land on the moon.
Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week, an Ariane 5 GS launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on a journey to place the French military reconnaissance satellite Helios-2B into Sun-synchronous polar orbit. Flight ...
Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2009
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