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New XCOR Rocket Engine Passes First Test
apsmith writes "XCOR Aerospace just successfully test-fired their new liquid oxygen/kerosene rocket engine. This is significantly more powerful than the engines used in the XCOR EZ-Rocket vehicle, and will be further developed for use in the Xerus suborbital vehicle. XCOR is one of the serious X-Prize contenders, and partly funded by John Carmack of Id and Armadillo Aerospace (Carmack's in-his-free-time X-prize contender)."
Note that omitting a reentry vehicle could substantially save on fuel costs.
Roving Web-Teleoperated Robot
What do you reckon the chances are of me being able to get hold of one of these babies for my car?
- Welcome the coming of the New World Odour
This is slashdot. Maybe a PERL conference in space, but not a honeymoon.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
"One step closer to having honey moons in space? Wooo"
You have greater challenges towards having a honey moon than getting into space.
When it runs low on pressure, do you have to pump the little plunger a zillion times until you're back to full-blast?
(if you haven't been camping and used a coleman lantern, you won't get this.)
Please help metamoderate.
...that you're trying to turn an urban legend into a real Darwin Award.
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
I hope he names the final design the BFR-3000.
The government's moral compass is controlled by GPS.
In times of crises, they alter it to suit their needs.