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Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA has announced that it will stop using the rocket fuel that has been an aeronautics mainstay since the 1940s and switch to a greener, environmentally-benign propellant. The space agency says that the first space flight powered with this new fuel will take place in 2015. Hydrazine was used to power the first rocket-powered fighter plane in World War II, the Viking Missions of the 1970s, and more recently the Curiosity mission on...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A team of scientists say they have detected the brightest flare ever observed in our galaxy's black hole. The astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory to detect the brightest flare ever observed from Sagittarius A*. The black hole is considered to be low-key, emitting very little energy for its size. It gives off about as much energy as the sun, despite it being 4 billion times as massive. The recent flare is 150...
Pyrotecnico represented the USA at GlobalFest's Trico Homes International Fireworks Festival and came home with first place, the "Best of Trico Homes International Fireworks Festival" trophy. New Castle, PA (PRWEB) August 28, 2012 Pyrotecnico’s full throttle, high energy show set to American Pop and Rock N’ Roll, “Pops in the Park,” took the skies and thrilled the audiences at Elliston Park in Calgary, Canada over the weekend, winning the "Best of Trico Homes...
NASA has selected a team led by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colo., for a technology demonstration of a high performance "green" propellant alternative to the highly toxic fuel hydrazine. With this award, NASA opens a new era of innovative and non-toxic green fuels that are less harmful to our environment, have fewer operational hazards, and decrease the complexity and cost of launch processing. Today's use of hydrazine fuel for rockets, satellites and...
WASHINGTON, Aug.16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO) THURSDAY, AUGUST 16: FIREWORKS Profile America -- Thursday, August 16th. Yes, the 4th of July is long gone, but in La Porte, Indiana, fireworks fans have been having a festival, which began last Saturday and runs through this Friday. That's because La Porte is the site of this year's annual...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected a team led by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colo., for a technology demonstration of a high performance "green" propellant alternative to the highly toxic fuel hydrazine. With this award, NASA opens a new era of innovative and non-toxic green fuels that are less harmful to our environment, have fewer operational hazards, and decrease the complexity and cost of launch processing. (Logo:...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Aug. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- FireOne, developer of the world's most advanced digital firing system and integrated fireworks-to-music choreography system, is proud to support U.K.-based Kimbolton Fireworks to create spectacular fireworks for the closing ceremonies of the 2012 Olympic Games. FireOne proprietary technology was also pivotal in the success of the opening ceremony fireworks display on July 27. With fireworks bursting over Olympic Park and...
One month and a day after celebrating its independence with fireworks exhibitions throughout the country, America will carry its penchant for awe-inspiring aerial pyrotechnic displays to the skies of another world. Some pyrotechnics will be as small as the energy released by a box of matches. One packs the same oomph as a stick of TNT. Whether they be large or small, on the evening of August 5th (Pacific time), all 76 must work on cue as NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, carried by the Mars...
BETHESDA, Md., June 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the American Pyrotechnics Association (APA), backyard fireworks have never been more popular or more in demand. Since 2000, there has been an on-going proliferation of state and local legislation to liberalize consumer fireworks laws and lift fireworks prohibitions.[1] These legislative changes were made in part because of significant improvements in product quality and industry efforts to encourage compliance with the U.S....
SALT LAKE CITY, April 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The whistleblower whose False Claims Act case against a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) settled for about $37 million said he was pleased with the outcome announced today. The settlement requires ATK Launch Systems (ATK) not only to pay $21 million to the federal government to settle the qui tam case but also requires ATK to retrofit the 76,000 defective flares that remain in the government's inventory. The...
