It was set up in 2009 to fight threatened job cuts at military rocket test facilities on the Western Isles.
Mississippi Gulf Coast has beautiful beaches, the nation's largest shipbuilder, a giant NASA rocket test complex, a huge oil refinery, air force and naval bases and a dozen casinos.
Instead, he said, increased economic sanctions against North Korea are likely the only path the Obama administration can pursue in response to any rocket test by Pyongyang, which would be in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions.
The agency is preparing to launch a test rocket that incorporates key features of the new Ares vehicle.
SpaceShipTwo, its inventively named commercial vehicle designed to take (well-moneyed) civilians into outerspace, has just completed its first rocket-powered test flight.
Neither the House nor the Senate ever specifically gave the green light to using a Delta rocket for the planned test mission.
It is launching a fleet of spy satellites and plans to test a rocket that can reenter the atmosphere--officially, for space shuttle research.
If the project is approved, engineers would hope to have the propulsion unit, or service module, ready to fly on the American rocket's first test flight.
In August, Iran performed a test of a rocket capable of launching a satellite into orbit.
Washington, Tokyo, Seoul and others consider both the rocket launch and the nuclear test provocative acts that threaten regional security.
Senior U.S. officials had expressed concerned about the test of the rocket, saying Iran could use the rocket to deliver warheads.
When ignited in a test pit the rocket, called the B4, produced a thrust of about a quarter of a tonne and behaved exactly as predicted.
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (CNN) -- The best time in the life of a rocket scientist is the time spent standing by a launch pad or a test stand, watching a brand-new rocket go through performance tests.
Orbital Sciences, best known for making satellites, hopes to carry out a much-delayed test of its Antares rocket in the coming weeks.
The Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) will shortly test its new Antares rocket before undertaking its own ISS demonstration with a robotic vessel called Cygnus.
The United States test launched a captured German V 2 rocket from the deck of a ship in 1947.
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Its first test last year failed when the launch rocket malfunctioned.
At my first test location, the T-Mobile Rocket drove the ThinkPad to an average download speed of 4.88 megabits per second, versus just 1.36 megabits per second for the Verizon data modem.
Thursday's flawed flight was the first time an Ariane rocket had malfunctioned since Ariane-5's maiden test flight exploded 37 seconds after launch in 1996.
For Mr. Branson, the test flight met its most important goal: validating the rocket ship's design.
This afternoon, the Wall Street Journal got word from government officials that an unmanned rocket funded by Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos crashed during a test flight last week.
It is contained within the case of the rocket, into which is pumped a liquid oxidiser called high-test peroxide (HTP), a concentrated form of hydrogen peroxide which is relatively safe to handle.
Obama said he and Abe were united in their "determination to take strong actions" in response to North Korea's nuclear test this month, which followed a successful long-range rocket launch last month.
Last year, in its most recent test, the X-51 fell for about four seconds before its booster rocket ignited, but the aircraft failed to separate from the rocket and plunged into the ocean.
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At least some of the incoming Republican panel chairmen and other senior GOP lawmakers, these officials said, may view the proposed test flight as circumventing congressional language to quickly develop a new heavy-lift NASA rocket able to transport astronauts past low-earth orbit.
NASA, will test the idea next year, by deploying a 15km tether from the upper stage of a rocket.
For Mr. Branson, the test flight met its most important goal: "We need to make sure that the rocket that works well" on the ground, he said, performs equally well in the air.
And while you didn't exactly have to be a rocket scientist to join the original space missions (the U.S. Mercury and Apollo programs recruited many test pilots), if you want to stand a chance against other heavily-qualified applicants, it's certainly an advantage.
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