air-launched rocket

In 2005, a new trajectory that an air-launched rocket could take to put satellites into orbit was tested.

An air-launched rocket also provides more flexibility than a fixed ground pad as to when and from where a payload can be sent into space.

Instead of a $60 million rocket, both will be flown on $12 million Pegasus air-launched rockets.

It was the first air-launched rocket to be used for an orbital launch attempt, however none were recorded as having reached orbit.

For these reasons, the space experts of the Congressional Research Service have been asked by Congress to look into the air-launched rocket.

The military hopes that development of the air-launched rocket will enable it to launch more small satellites for communications, surveillance and perhaps anti-missile defense.

Later, he was a pioneer in the development of nuclear propulsion, nuclear weapons, guidance systems for ground- and air-launched rockets, and underwater anti-submarine weapons.

The air-launched rocket concept was eventually named the Falcon 9 Air, and was being designed to have only four Merlin 1D engines.

In 1944 the Air Technical Service Command chose Dover as a site to engineer, develop, and conduct classified air-launched rocket tests.

Unlike their real-life radiation-seeking counterparts, Shrike and Standard Missiles fire as unguided salvos in the game, just like air-launched rockets normally do.

The Falcon 9 Air was eventually replaced by the Orbital Sciences Pegasus II air-launched rocket.

The Executor Plus is used on the Haas 2 air-launched rocket and on the second stage of the Super Haas rocket.

On Feb. 4, the Pentagon called for industry proposals for the air-launched rocket, noting that the craft should be capable of "quickly placing small payloads into low earth orbit."

Industry experts say the air-launched rocket is not accurate enough to be used as an anti-satellite weapon, but it could become so with the development of a special warhead meant to zero in on targets.

Missiles: The Pulse jet-powered V-1 flying bomb was the world's first cruise missile, Rockets progressed enormously: V-2 rocket, Katyusha rocket artillery and air-launched rockets.

Engineers for the project said that advances in propulsion technology, including the use of lightweight graphite rocket casings and wings, combined with miniaturization of electronics made the air-launched rocket system feasible.

In November 2012, Stratolaunch announced that they would partner with Orbital Sciences Corporation instead of SpaceX to develop the air-launched rocket, effectively ending development of the Falcon 9 Air.

The first air-launched rockets were fired by the French and British flying Nieuport 11s equipped with Le Prieur rockets to shoot down German observation balloons over the Western Front in 1916.

'It's Crazy,' Critic Says Some military planners say the air-launched rocket system would be inexpensive, less vulnerable to attack than spaceports on the ground, and ideal for quickly lofting small spy satellites to monitor fast-moving battles.

The legacy of its lighter graphite-wound solid rocket motor technology lived on in the GEM side boosters used on the Delta rockets, and the Orion stages of the Pegasus air-launched rocket.

Yet the air-launched rocket could be fired from remote parts of the globe, far from Soviet trawlers and spy satellites that monitor military launchings from the East and West coasts of the United States.

"It's crazy," said Donald C. Latham, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense who left the Pentagon last year to become a vice president of the Computer Sciences Corporation, in Falls Church, Va. "The nation looked into air-launched rockets 20 years ago and found them wanting.

The thunder of exploding Yugoslav Army shells and and air-launched rockets continued to roar around the Croatian port city of Dubrovnik and dozens of other Adriatic coastal towns today, hours after the presidents of the warring Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Serbia agreed to a cease-fire.