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Rocket jumping has appeared in other media as well. In William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, a reference is made to being hoisted with his own petard, or being lifted by the explosion of one's own bomb. In the live-action film Transformers, the character Ironhide performs a rocket jump over a screaming woman after transforming from his truck mode ...
The backblast area is a cone-shaped area behind a rocket launcher, rocket-assisted takeoff unit or recoilless rifle, where hot gases are expelled when the rocket or rifle is discharged. [1] The backblast area is dangerous to ground personnel, [2] who may be burned by the gases or exposed to overpressure caused by the explosion. [3]
By MORGAN WHITAKER New video has emerged of the impressive sights and sounds spectators experienced as they watched Tuesday evening's disastrous launch of a NASA contractor's unmanned Antares rocket.
Engineer Arihiro Kanaya, 23, was conducting a high pressure endurance test on a pipe used in the first stage rocket engine of the H-2 (H-II) launch vehicle when it exploded. The explosion caused a 14 cm (5.5 in) thick door in the testing room to fall on Kanaya and fracture his skull, killing him.
Starship launch live: Huge cheers from SpaceX team. 13:05, Anthony Cuthbertson. Huge cheers can be heard from SpaceX engineers as the world’s biggest rocket lifts off and heads up and out over ...
A video shows the explosion of Elon Musk’s Starship rocket as it blows up right after take off from its launch site Starship launch news – live: SpaceX launches world’s biggest rocket, which ...
RS-68 being tested at NASA's Stennis Space Center Viking 5C rocket engine used on Ariane 1 through Ariane 4. A rocket engine is a reaction engine, producing thrust in accordance with Newton's third law by ejecting reaction mass rearward, usually a high-speed jet of high-temperature gas produced by the combustion of rocket propellants stored inside the rocket.
On 30 January 2007, a Sea Launch Zenit-3SL space rocket exploded on takeoff. The explosion consumed the roughly 400,000 kg (400 t) of kerosene and liquid oxygen aboard. This rocket was launched from an uncrewed ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, so there were no casualties; the launch platform was damaged and the NSS-8 satellite was ...