Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The spaceship Emporium, inspired to the Mars Excursion Module, is equipped with a special Jump Drive engine, which allows it to travel between two points via teleportation in hyperspace. TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) – various spacecraft- time machine hybrids equipped with some sort of jump drive featured on the television ...
The acronym was alternatively stated as standing for Big Falcon Rocket or Big Fucking Rocket, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the BFG from the Doom video game series. [ 83 ] The BFR was designed to be 106 meters (348 ft) tall, 9 meters (30 ft) in diameter, and made of carbon composites .
When stacked and fully fueled, Starship has a mass of approximately 5,000 t (11,000,000 lb), [c] a diameter of 9 m (30 ft) [15] and a height of 121.3 m (398 ft). [16] The rocket has been designed with the goal of being fully reusable to reduce launch costs; [17] it consists of the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage [18] which are powered by Raptor and Raptor Vacuum engines.
Porsche and Star Wars teamed up to design an epic new spaceship. Future collaborations could be in the works. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
2014: Space stations in the video game Elite: Dangerous (and its prequels) rotate to create artificial gravity. 2015: Thunderbird 5 in the ITV TV show Thunderbirds Are Go features a rotating gravity ring section on the space station which features a glass floor to observe the Earth below. The series is set in the year 2060.
NASA and Boeing have been monitoring two issues with the Starliner spacecraft: one with a set of thrusters and the other involving helium leaks in the propulsion system.
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space. [1] Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes, including communications, Earth observation, meteorology, navigation, space colonization, planetary exploration, and transportation of humans and cargo.
Early spacecraft or space vehicles were sometimes known as "spaceships", [2] [3] a term which comes from science fiction to designate a hypothetical vehicle which travels beyond low Earth orbit and is 100% reusable, needing only to be refueled like an airplane.