• and electric propulsion for station-keeping maneuvers or to reduce the propellant demands of orbit changes. Electric power is provided by 44 m (144 ft)...
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    Moon, and Mars, Starship will rely on orbital refueling; a ship-to-ship propellant transfer demonstration is expected to occur in 2025. SpaceX also plans...
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    approximately 12 people, with goals to "build out and troubleshoot the propellant plant and Mars Base Alpha power system" and establish a "rudimentary base...
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  • two stage Stage 1: Nike - solid propellant rocket stage, loaded/empty mass 599/256 kg Stage 2: Hydac - solid propellant rocket stage, loaded mass 300 kg...
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  • Coast. It is bordered by the Brownsville Ship Channel to the north, the Rio Grande and Mexico to the south, and the Gulf of Mexico to the east. The area extends...
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    The first tracking antenna was installed in August 2016, and the first propellant tank arrived in July 2018. In late 2018, construction ramped up considerably...
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  • community in Cameron County, Texas, United States, at the mouth of the Rio Grande. It was formed in the late 1960s, and is still extant as of 2021, although...
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    northwest of Kauai. The Starship and Super Heavy stack was loaded with propellant at Starbase and was set to launch at 13:20 UTC (8:20 a.m. CDT). However...
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    previously seen, chiefly because of the use of iron tubes for holding the propellant. This enabled higher thrust and a longer range for the missile (up to...
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    September 2016, the 29th Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launchpad while propellant was being loaded for a routine pre-launch static fire test. The payload...
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  • variant that will utilize the same bi-propellant propulsion system as SHERPA-LTC with 6 times more propellant to deliver satellites and hosted payloads...
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    a better accuracy but a lower rate of fire and more fouling issues. The Grande Armée marched into the German countries and left approx. 750,000 muskets...
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    the energy and propellant efficiency is very poor, but have been employed for short bursts of speed and takeoff. Where fuel/propellant efficiency is of...
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  • desenvolvimento de blindados (PDF) (Monografia). Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. p. 36. Bastos Jr., Paulo Roberto (2024-04-14). "Exército inicia...
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    developed to exploit the new "QF" technology, which involved loading the propellant charge in a brass case with integrated primer in its base. This allowed...
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    (22 lb) projectile to a range of 200 m (220 yd) using a smokeless powder propellant charge. The requirement also specified a weapon that could be produced...
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  • port opening that adjusts the rifle to function reliably with various propellant and projectile specific pressure behavior, making the FAL not ammunition...
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    of rocket-propelled grenade proximity fuses and thousands of pounds of propellant for rocket-propelled grenades seized from ships used by Iran through civil...
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    automatic rifle using a gas-operated, long-stroke piston rod actuated by propellant gases bled through a vent in the barrel. The bolt is locked by a rising...
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  • Beam Riding LP – Liquid Propellant LP – Listening Post LPC – Launch Pod Container LPC – Launcher Pod Carrier LPG – Liquid Propellant Gun LPO – Leading Petty...
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    in 1930. It tended to "cook off" (fire by spontaneous ignition of the propellant when overheated) when fired in long bursts. 4,000 of this model were made...
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  • Explosion of a gunpowder factory in Grenelle, France 843 9 July 1917 Propellant explosion of the British dreadnought battleship HMS Vanguard 800 14 April...
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  • public domain. "Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM)". Ball Aerospace. 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2014. "The Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM)"...
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    containers, colored methyl cellulose "slime", and used gravity and liquid as a propellant. This technique is one that he modified time and again, such as for making...
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    explosive as a propellant charge. The barrel was dug into the roadside with a substantial overburden and camouflaged. When the Ammonal-based propellant charge...
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  • obsolete ammunition. The main explosion, involving more than 400 tons of propellant in containers, destroyed hundreds of houses within a few kilometres from...
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    was a single-stage, liquid-fueled, fin-stabilized rocket, using a solid-propellant rocket motor as a booster. This booster was jettisoned after 2.5 seconds...
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    ammunition with a metal (usually brass) cartridge case containing the propellant charge. The cartridge case also provides obturation (sealing of the chamber)...
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    (machines consisting of a pump driven by a turbine engine) to feed the propellants (liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen) into the engine's combustion chamber...
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    wall is correspondingly curved. On firing, the extreme pressure from the propellant gases is thereby able to force the bolt-end down, back to the horizontal...
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