Sentence examples for rocket ignition from inspiring English sources

Down the road, inside the workshops at XCOR Aerospace, engineers are testing a rocket ignition system.

While the launch got the rocket up in the air and on its way, the rocket itself didn't make it all the way to orbit – Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck explained in a press release that things mostly went smoothly to that point, including the first stage burn, as well as fairing separation and second stage rocket ignition.

Rocket ignition was controlled either by a time-delay switch, or a barometric switch.

Years ago, Scott Andrews developed a device that uses the sound of the rockets' ignition to trigger the camera shutters.

Three arming wires also connected the bomb and the aircraft; as the bomb dropped, a brief tug from the wires would arm the warhead fuzes and the rocket-ignition circuit, and unlock the electrical generator, allowing it to spin freely.

SEOUL, South Korea North Koreaea carried out a rocket engine ignition test for a long-range ballistic missile at a previously unknown missile launching site this year, according to unconfirmed reports in South Korean news media on Tuesday.

The reliability of the rocket booster ignition was considered unsatisfactory, with a failure rate of around 37% during the trials.

During the month of March, every night at three minutes to midnight, 54 screens in Times Square fill with Brambilla's video montage of clips of real lunar surface, engineering tapes of the rocket's ignition from NASA's archives, a stream of numbers that scramble like ticker tape, and real transmissions from astronaut Frank Borman of the first team to reach, not land, on the moon.

Among the rejected courses were the study of "fuse technology," the design of "antitank rockets" and "ignition and explosives".

An experiment system is designed for 90% hydrogen peroxide laboratory-scale hybrid rocket motor with catalytic ignition.

The control of ignition in a rocket engine is a critical problem for combustion chamber design.