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53 relations: Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Aerospace engineering, Air show, Alliant Techsystems, Aluminium alloy, Bankruptcy, BE-3, Blue Origin, California City, California, Centaur (rocket stage), Chapter 7, Title 11, United States Code, Chief executive officer, Dick Rutan, EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, Ethane, Jeff Greason, John H. Gibson, Layoff, Liquid hydrogen, Liquid oxygen, Liquid-propellant rocket, Methane, Midland International Air and Space Port, Midland, Texas, Midland, Texas metropolitan area, Mojave Air and Space Port, Mojave, California, Multistage rocket, Nitrous oxide, Orion (spacecraft), Polymer, Popular Science, Private spaceflight, Privately held company, RL10, Rocket engine, Rocket mail, Rocket Racing League, Rocket-powered aircraft, Rotary Rocket, Rutan Long-EZ, Space tourism, SpaceNews, Sub-orbital spaceflight, Thermoplastic, United Launch Alliance, Universe Today, Velocity SE, Vulcan (rocket), ..., X Prize Cup, XCOR EZ-Rocket, XCOR Lynx. Expand index (3 more) »
Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage
The Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage (ACES), formerly the Advanced Common Evolved Stage, is a proposed liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen upper-stage rocket for use on the Vulcan space launch vehicle.
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Aerojet Rocketdyne
Aerojet Rocketdyne is an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer.
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Aerospace engineering
Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft.
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Air show
An air show, (or airshow, air fair, air tattoo) is a public event where aircraft are exhibited.
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Alliant Techsystems
Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) was an American aerospace, defense, and sporting goods company with its headquarters in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States.
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Aluminium alloy
Aluminium alloys (or aluminum alloys; see spelling differences) are alloys in which aluminium (Al) is the predominant metal.
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Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a legal status of a person or other entity that cannot repay debts to creditors.
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BE-3
The BE-3 (Blue Engine 3) is a LH2/LOX rocket engine developed by Blue Origin.
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Blue Origin
Blue Origin, LLC is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Washington.
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California City, California
California City is a city incorporated in 1965 in the northern Antelope Valley in Kern County, California, southwest of Death Valley National Park.
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Centaur (rocket stage)
Centaur has been designed to be the upper stage of space launch vehicles and is used on the Atlas V. Centaur was the world's first high-energy upper stage, burning liquid hydrogen (LH2) and liquid oxygen (LOX).
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Chapter 7, Title 11, United States Code
Chapter 7 of the Title 11 of the United States Code (Bankruptcy Code) governs the process of liquidation under the bankruptcy laws of the United States (in contrast, Chapters 11 and 13 govern the process of reorganization of a debtor in bankruptcy).
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Chief executive officer
Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.
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Dick Rutan
Richard Glenn "Dick" Rutan (born July 1, 1938) is a retired United States Air Force pilot and record-breaking aviator who piloted the Voyager aircraft around the world non-stop with co-pilot Jeana Yeager.
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EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (formerly the EAA Annual Convention and Fly-In) is an annual gathering of aviation enthusiasts held each summer at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States.
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Ethane
Ethane is an organic chemical compound with chemical formula.
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Jeff Greason
Jeff Greason is the CEO and co-founder of Agile Aero, Inc., a company targeting rapid prototyping capabilities for aerospace vehicles.
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John H. Gibson
John Holden Gibson II (born February 15, 1959) is an American businessman and government official serving as the Chief Management Officer of the United States Department of Defense since 2018.
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Layoff
A layoff is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing an organization.
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Liquid hydrogen
Liquid hydrogen (LH2 or LH2) is the liquid state of the element hydrogen.
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Liquid oxygen
Liquid oxygen—abbreviated LOx, LOX or Lox in the aerospace, submarine and gas industries—is one of the physical forms of elemental oxygen.
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Liquid-propellant rocket
A liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket is a rocket engine that uses liquid propellants.
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Methane
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen).
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Midland International Air and Space Port
Midland International Air and Space Port (formerly Midland International Airport) is a city-owned international airport located approximately midway between the cities of Midland and Odessa, in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States, on the Southern Plains of the state's western area.
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Midland, Texas metropolitan area
The Midland Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of one county – Midland – in West Texas, anchored by the city of Midland.
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Mojave Air and Space Port
The Mojave Air and Space Port, also known as the Civilian Aerospace Test Center, is located in Mojave, California, at an elevation of.
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Mojave, California
Mojave (formerly, Mohave) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States.
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Multistage rocket
A multistage rocket, or step rocket is a launch vehicle that uses two or more rocket stages, each of which contains its own engines and propellant.
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Nitrous oxide
Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas or nitrous, is a chemical compound, an oxide of nitrogen with the formula.
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Orion (spacecraft)
The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion MPCV) is an American interplanetary spacecraft intended to carry a crew of four astronauts to destinations at or beyond low Earth orbit (LEO).
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Polymer
A polymer (Greek poly-, "many" + -mer, "part") is a large molecule, or macromolecule, composed of many repeated subunits.
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Popular Science
Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is an American quarterly magazine carrying popular science content, which refers to articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects.
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Private spaceflight
Private spaceflight is flight beyond the Kármán line (above the nominal edge of space at Earth altitude)—or the development of new spaceflight technology—that is conducted and paid for by an entity other than a government agency.
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Privately held company
A privately held company, private company, or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately.
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RL10
The RL10 is a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine used on the Centaur, S-IV, and Delta Cryogenic Second Stage upper stages.
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Rocket engine
A rocket engine uses stored rocket propellant mass for forming its high-speed propulsive jet.
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Rocket mail
Rocket mail is the delivery of mail by rocket or missile.
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Rocket Racing League
The Rocket Racing League was a racing league that planned to use rocket-powered aircraft to race a closed-circuit air racetrack.
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Rocket-powered aircraft
A rocket-powered aircraft or rocket plane is an aircraft that uses a rocket engine for propulsion, sometimes in addition to airbreathing jet engines.
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Rotary Rocket
Rotary Rocket Company was a rocketry company that developed the Roton concept in the late 1990s as a fully reusable single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) manned spacecraft.
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Rutan Long-EZ
The Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ is a homebuilt aircraft with a canard layout designed by Burt Rutan's Rutan Aircraft Factory.
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Space tourism
Space tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.
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SpaceNews
SpaceNews is a print and digital publication that covers business and political news in the space and satellite industry.
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Sub-orbital spaceflight
A sub-orbital spaceflight is a spaceflight in which the spacecraft reaches space, but its trajectory intersects the atmosphere or surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched, so that it will not complete one orbital revolution.
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Thermoplastic
A thermoplastic, or thermosoftening plastic, is a plastic material, a polymer, that becomes pliable or moldable above a specific temperature and solidifies upon cooling.
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United Launch Alliance
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense, Space & Security.
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Universe Today
Universe Today (UT) is a popular North American-based non-commercial space and astronomy news website.
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Velocity SE
The Velocity Model 173 SE (Standard Elite) is the entry level canard pusher aircraft from Velocity Aircraft.
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Vulcan (rocket)
The Vulcan rocket, also known as the Vulcan Centaur, is an American heavy-payload launch vehicle under development since 2014 by United Launch Alliance (ULA), funded by a public–private partnership with the US government.
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X Prize Cup
The X Prize Cup is a two-day air and space exposition which was the result of a partnership between the X Prize Foundation and the State of New Mexico that began in 2004 when the Ansari X-Prize was held.
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XCOR EZ-Rocket
The XCOR EZ-Rocket is a test platform for the XCOR rocket propulsion system.
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XCOR Lynx
The XCOR Lynx was a proposed suborbital horizontal-takeoff, horizontal-landing (HTHL), rocket-powered spaceplane that was under development by the California-based company XCOR Aerospace to compete in the emerging suborbital spaceflight market.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCOR_Aerospace
