How Big Is Your Rocket?
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- USAF predicts antimatter propellants could... Scott, W.B. // Aviation Week & Space Technology;3/21/88, Vol. 128 Issue 12, p19
Air Force-sponsored research programs aimed at developing new propulsion systems have determined that rockets based on high energy-density chemical compounds could be available by the year 2000, with antimatter-derived propulsion a possible reality early in the 21st century. Research has...
- Air Force refurbishing Apollo-era test stand for advanced launch system. // Aviation Week & Space Technology;2/27/89, Vol. 130 Issue 9, p67
Reports that the Air Force is refurbishing an Apollo-era liquid rocket test stand to control development costs of advanced launch system propulsion components. Propulsion development program.
- Now you see it, now you don't. Aiken, L. // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Apr1992, Vol. 48 Issue 3, p6
Features the Timberwind nuclear rocket program, which has been relaunched as the benign scientific program known as Space Thermal Propulsion Program, the United States' best bet for producing rockets suitable for a trip to Mars. Air Force less than forthcoming on why the program is their's and...
- Blast off! // Boys' Quest;Aug/Sep96, Vol. 2 Issue 2, p6
Presents information on build-it-yourself rockets. Safety precautions; Recommended models.
- Pentagon reveals secret nuclear-powered rocket. Charles, D. // New Scientist;1/25/92, Vol. 133 Issue 1805, p19
Reveals that the Pentagon is working on a rocket engine powered by a nuclear reactor. Amount of money spent since 1987 on the project; Critics of the project; The United States Air Force's Phillips Laboratory is in charge of the project.
- How do rockets work? M.S. // Odyssey;Oct96, Vol. 5 Issue 7, p10
Discusses the mechanism of rockets. Characteristics of the simplest form of rockets; Balloons as the simplest forms of rockets; Effect of scientist Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion.
- Arrows of fire. Day, Nancy // Odyssey;Oct96, Vol. 5 Issue 7, p20
Presents historical information on the uses and development of rockets. Chinese' discovery of a simple form of gunpowder that gave way to the development of rockets; Development of the step rocket, a multistaged system for sending fireworks into the sky, by German Johann Schmidlap; Use of...
- Build and launch a paper rocket! // Odyssey;Oct96, Vol. 5 Issue 7, p40
Presents a method in building a paper rocket. Materials; Options to achieve a gliding flight; Precautions in launching a paper rocket.
- Too many rockets spread profits too thin. Kiernan, Vincent // New Scientist;4/16/94, Vol. 142 Issue 1921, p8
Reports on the profit outlook for rocket companies. Decline in the number of commercial satellite launches; Disadvantage of American rockets; Availability of rockets from Japan, Russia and China at subsidized prices; American companies' interest in developing a reusable launch vehicle;...
