interstellar rocket
1Interstellar travel — Montage of fusion powered rocket concepts from 1987–2004, which could form the basis for an interstellar vehicle. Included are: VISTA (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories,1987), Discovery II (NASA/GRC, 2002), Human Outer Planet Exploration… …
2Interstellar Boundary Explorer — The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a NASA satellite that will make the first map of the boundary between the Solar System and interstellar space. The mission is part of NASA s Small Explorer program. IBEX will be launched on a Pegasus… …
3Interstellar probe — An interstellar probe is a space probe which has left or is expected to leave the solar system and enter interstellar space (typically defined as the region beyond the heliopause). Alternatively, the term interstellar probe is used to refer to a… …
4Rocket — This article is about vehicles powered by rocket engines. For other uses, see Rocket (disambiguation). A Soyuz U, at Baikonur Site 1/5 A rocket is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust from a rocket engi …
5Rocket Red Brigade — Superteambox imagesize= caption = Rocket Red Brigade, artist Ivan Reis team name=Rocket Red Brigade publisher=DC Comics debut= Green Lantern Corps #208, (January 1987) creators=Steve Englehart writer Joe Staton artist base=Russian Federation… …
6rocket propulsion — noun reaction propulsion using stored oxygen for combustion; used where there is insufficient atmospheric oxygen • Hypernyms: ↑reaction propulsion * * * noun : propulsion by means of a rocket engine * * * propulsion of an object by thrust… …
7Relativistic rocket — A relativistic rocket is any spacecraft that is travelling at a velocity close enough to light speed for relativistic effects to become significant. What significant means is a matter of context, but generally speaking a velocity of at least 50%… …
8Alan Bond (rocket developer) — Alan Bond (born 1944) is Managing Director of Reaction Engines Ltd [http://www.reactionengines.co.uk] and associated with Project Daedalus, Blue Streak missile, HOTOL, Skylon and the Reaction Engines A2 hypersonic passenger aircraft.Alan Bond is… …
9Nuclear photonic rocket — In a nuclear photonic rocket, a nuclear reactor would generate such high temperatures that the blackbody radiation from the reactor would provide significant thrust. The disadvantage is that it takes a lot of power to generate a small amount of… …
10Non-rocket spacelaunch — Non rocket space launch (NRS) is a launch into space where some or all needed speed and altitude is provided by non rocket means, rather than simply using conventional chemical rockets from the ground. A number of alternatives to rockets have… …
