» A five-gear space rocket engine | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com

Citation added: February 24th, 2007, 8:04 am
Rocket engines used today to launch satellites run at maximum exhaust velocity until they reach orbit. For a car, this would be analog to stay all the time in first gear. So they have designed a new space rocket which works as it has a five-gear transmiss
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YouTube - Rocket Blows Up

Citation added: February 1st, 2007, 8:16 am
Sea Launch has a bad day.
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Proton rocket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Citation added: January 28th, 2006, 5:52 pm
The name "Proton" originates from a series of large scientific satellites, which were among the rocket's first payloads. The enormous capacity of the new rocket allowed the heavy materials used in particle detectors. Thus the Proton satellites were pionee
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