The firm, established by Amazon entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, has a design for a capsule and two-stage rocket.
The concept calls for a two-stage rocket that would be powered by engines burning liquid oxygen and kerosene.
Our scientists and technicians have succeeded in launching the first artificial satellite aboard a multi-stage rocket into orbit.
It is a two-stage rocket powered by liquid oxygen and kerosene.
BBC: The new Falcon 1 rocket has been lost on its maiden flight.
South Korea now plans to develop a fully home-made three-stage rocket.
Rep. INSLEE: The biofuels industry now is what I call the first stage of the rocket.
NASA, will test the idea next year, by deploying a 15km tether from the upper stage of a rocket.
The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket uses nine engines to generate 855, 000 pounds of thrust, and is capable of carrying more than than 7, 000 pounds of cargo.
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The official said the type of oxidiser container that was found from the first stage of the rocket launch would rarely be used by countries with advanced space technology.
The CRS-2 supply mission, operated by Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX, lifted off successfully on a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:10 AM Eastern time.
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All the major events such as rocket-stage separation, fairing separation, and the ejection of the dummy payload occurred on cue.
And in April this year, the upper stage of an American Centaur rocket failed when a guidance parameter was incorrectly entered as -0.199, rather than -1.99, with the result that the satellite it was carrying was placed in the wrong orbit.
These will probably involve upgrading the existing rocket with a more powerful upper-stage whilst at the same time laying down a firm development programme for a next generation rocket that benefits from substantially reduced production costs.
Sources being quoted by the Russian media talk of an anomaly in the rocket's third stage.
It will use a balloon to carry its rocket on the first stage of its flight.
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The I-X carried more than 700 sensors to measure vehicle aerodynamics, controls and performance of the rocket's first stage.
South Korea did need outside help to launch the satellite: The rocket's first stage was designed and built by Russian experts.
One of its two wind probes was knocked out, most probably by a piece of grit kicked up by the rocket-powered descent stage that placed Curiosity on the surface.
Dr Baker reckons that costs can be cut if the launch rocket uses the satellite's guidance computer instead of having its own, and if the satellite's built-in rocket motor is bolstered to do the work now performed by a launch rocket's upper stage.
Those worries assume that all of the rocket's nine first-stage engines, as well as its second stage, will burn and shut off on cue.
The last stage in the sequence will see a hovering, rocket-powered crane lower the rover to the ground on nylon cords.
With the launch of the RadioAstron telescope on board a Zenit-2SB rocket this morning, Russia has embarked on the first stage of a plan to create the largest radio telescope yet.
The second stage opened the capsule in 144 seconds, separated itself from the rocket in 266 seconds and fell on the open waters of the Pacific 1, 646 km off from the launching station, that is 40 degrees 13 minutes north latitude 149 degrees 07 minutes east longitude.
I'm hopeful that in the next couple of years we'll be able to achieve full and operable usability of the first stage, which is about three-quarters of the cost of the rocket.
The proposed Ares I rocket and its crew carrier called Orion are both at an advanced stage.
When the rocket at last blasted off on November 15th, the first-stage engine cut out prematurely, forcing the ground crew to destroy it for safety reasons.
M-5 rocket last month seems to have been caused by a damaged graphite nozzle in the first-stage engine.
Indirect fire is a reference to rocket and mortar fire, and the U.S. military suspects hard-line Shiite militants stage such attacks.
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