• RocketMotorTwo (RM2) is a family of hybrid rocket engines developed for the Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane. The first-generation...
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  • Sierra Nevada Corporation (category Rocket engine manufacturers of the United States)
    Centaur rocket as the launch vehicle for Dream Chaser's cargo configuration starting in 2022. The corporation was the main contractor on RocketMotorTwo for...
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    112 km (70 mi). SpaceShipTwo was designed to reach 4,200 km/h (2,600 mph), using a single hybrid rocket engine — the RocketMotorTwo. It launched from its...
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  • class of two-bogie four-axle tram Mendoza RM2, a light machine gun from Mexico RocketMotorTwo (RM2), a Tier-1b rocket engine for SpaceShipTwo RM2, a cancelled...
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    A hybrid-propellant rocket is a rocket with a rocket motor that uses rocket propellants in two different phases: one solid and the other either gas or...
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  • A pulsed rocket motor is typically defined as a multiple-pulse solid-fuel rocket motor. This design overcomes difficulties shutting down and reigniting...
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    solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel rockets powered...
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    Richard Branson, Dave Mackay, Michael Masucci, Beth Moses, Colin Bennett. The rocket plane flew 85 km (53 mi) above Earth, thereby qualifying the crew as FAA...
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  • Motors for model rockets and high-powered rockets (together, consumer rockets) are classified by total impulse into a set of letter-designated ranges...
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  • propellant rocket engine, the propellant mass is composed of two different types (densities) of fuel. In the case of a tandem dual-thrust motor, the fuel...
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  • October 2014). "Blazing a Trail: SpaceShipOne and the Ansari X Prize". Rocket STEM. Knut Samset (2012). Beforehand and Long Thereafter. Ex Ante. p. 121...
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    White Knight One SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise† VSS Unity White Knight Two VMS Eve VMS Spirit of Steve Fossett RocketMotorTwo SpaceShipThree Stratolaunch...
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    glided for 6 s, then went into nose-up attitude and the rocket motor was ignited. The rocket motor was capable of burning for approximately 87 s, having...
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  • 2018-04-28. "Super Cali upstart's new rocket test approaches, even though the size of it won't launch a Tesla motor". The Register. Retrieved 2018-04-28...
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    conversion powerplants. EZ-rocket XCOR Aerospace modified a Long-EZ and replaced the engine with twin liquid-fueled rocket engines to form a flight test...
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    Composites for Stratolaunch Systems to carry air-launch-to-orbit (ALTO) rockets, and subsequently repurposed to offer air launch hypersonic flight testing...
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    $1 million less. In an effort to stimulate demand, Beech began offering two-year leases on new Starships in 1991. One of the Starships appeared in the...
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    Rutan's lead test pilot. In 1997, Melvill and Dick Rutan, Burt's brother, flew two Long-Eze aircraft that they built side-by-side around the world. This "around...
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    White Knight One SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise† VSS Unity White Knight Two VMS Eve VMS Spirit of Steve Fossett RocketMotorTwo SpaceShipThree Stratolaunch...
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    Operations, and was one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, the experimental spaceplanes developed by the company. On April 8, 2004...
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    separated from White Knight at 07:49, and promptly ignited its rocket. The rocket motor was capable of burning for approximately 87 s. The burn-out altitude...
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    "Virgin Galactic Hails RocketMotorTwo Milestone". ParabolicArc. Messier, Doug (August 19, 2014). "SNC Abandons Own Hybrid Motors on Dream Chaser". Parabolic...
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    Atlantic airline, and built by Burt Rutan's company, Scaled Composites. The two companies subsequently worked together on Virgin Galactic. In February 2006...
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  • 000 ft (14.0 km) and a speed of 120 knots (62 m/s). After ten seconds the rocket was lit, for a 55 second burn. At burn-out the altitude was 150,000 ft (45...
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    Voyager test flight was ended by the failure of a propeller pitch-change motor that resulted in an emergency landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base. On a...
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  • injured at the Mojave spaceport while testing components of the rocket motor for SpaceShipTwo. An explosion occurred during a cold fire test, which involved...
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    SpaceShipTwo and LauncherOne. With the spinoff of Virgin Orbit in 2017, Cosmic Girl was also transferred. The air launch to orbit LauncherOne rocket was originally...
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    1988. Binnie also copiloted the Atmospheric Test Vehicle of the Rotary Rocket. In 2006, he received an honorary degree from the University of Aberdeen...
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    Industries. The aircraft is of pod-and-boom, push-pull configuration with its two Continental TSIO-550-E piston engines mounted to provide centerline thrust...
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    built for Bell by the California research company Scaled Composites. The two demonstrator aircraft were powered by an Allison 250-C20 turboshaft engine...
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