In this system the spacecraft is moored to the surface of an irregular asteroid such as 216 Kleopatra by using a rocket-propelled anchor with a cable.
ASTRIUM is preparing the development of a safe and passenger friendly Suborbital Spaceplane, taking off and landing from a standard runway, powered by turbofans and using a rocket engine of proven design to reach 100 km altitude.
A company called Celestic Inc. will blast some of your "cremains" to the moon for about $12,500, using a rocket launched by a commercial space company from either Vandenberg Air Force Base or Cape Canaveral.
By using a jet and a rocket, we've got the best of both worlds.
Eutelsat should have used a rocket built by Arianespace, a French firm, they were told by one of Mr Sarkozy's advisers.Until the financial crisis struck successive French governments had been reducing their involvement in business.
North Korea said it was exercising its right to the peaceful use of space technology by using the rocket to put a scientific satellite, called Kwangmyongsong, into orbit.
The satellites were launched on Sunday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia using a single rocket supplied by Eurockot Launch Services, a German-Russian commercial launching company.
Since many existing launch vehicles obtain such separation velocities by using conventional solid rocket motors (retro-rockets), the implementation of the new separation system design can reduce dramatically the mass of the separation system and increase safety.
During February ,March, and August 2002 and April, July, and September 2003, rock pigeons from northwest Atlanta rail yard, Fulton County, Georgia (33°48´40.1´´N, 84°27´28.4´´W), were collected by Wildlife Services personnel by using rocket nets as part of a cooperative nuisance wildlife removal project.
The CryoSat-2 spacecraft was constructed by EADS Astrium, and was launched by ISC Kosmotras, using a Dnepr-1 carrier rocket, on 8 April 2010.
Pro-Gbagbo forces had "intensified and escalated" the violence, he said, by using mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and machine-guns against ordinary Ivorians.
