... launch vehicles, is so much more reliable? This is partly because of the gentler ‘steady state’ conditions that commercial jets experience during cruise. Even at full thrust during take-off, smoothly-running turbofans usually operate well...
...-driven human space exploration paradigm. About the author Tibor Balint is a Principal Human Centred Designer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. His current...
... get their data down faster, airlines could save 20 percent on fuel costs by more efficiently routing their jets around storms. To make the most of Earth observation satellites, we need a highspeed data connection in space Earth observation...
... readers, such as The First Book of Space Travel (Franklin Watts, 1953) by Jeanne Bendick and Rockets and Jets (Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1952) by Marie Neurath. In this age of instant information and communication, books still...
... manager Joseph Hunt declaring the spacecraft decommissioned and the its mission concluded in mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on 30 January 2020. My first Great Observatory was the Hubble Space Telescope (HST...
... why the gas and dust (as illustrated here) have a more cone-shaped morphology than the familiar jet-like form resulting from the supermassive black hole accretion in the hearts of other active galaxies. These...