Remember the Concorde? Boom Technology has picked up a high-profile set of allies in its quest to revive supersonic passenger jets: British...
Boom moves ahead on supersonic plane project, with help from Virgin Galactic
Tag Archives: Galactic
Acceleration of petaelectronvolt protons in the Galactic Centre
Galactic cosmic rays reach energies of at least a few petaelectronvolts (of the order of 1015 electronvolts). This implies that our Galaxy contains petaelectronvolt accelerators (‘PeVatrons’), but all proposed models of Galactic cosmic-ray accelerators encounter difficulties at exactly these energies. Dozens of Galactic accelerators capable of accelerating particles to energies of tens of teraelectronvolts (of the order of 1013 electronvolts)...
Acceleration of petaelectronvolt protons in the Galactic Centre
Galactic cosmic rays reach energies of at least a few petaelectronvolts (of the order of 1015 electronvolts). This implies that our Galaxy contains petaelectronvolt accelerators (‘PeVatrons’), but all proposed models of Galactic cosmic-ray accelerators encounter difficulties at exactly these energies. Dozens of Galactic accelerators capable of accelerating particles to energies of tens of teraelectronvolts (of the order of 1013 electronvolts)...
Virgin Galactic set to unveil second SpaceShipTwo, 16 months after tragic loss of the first one
MOJAVE, Calif. – Virgin Galactic is rolling out a second SpaceShipTwo rocket plane for its public debut today, more than six years after the first SpaceShipTwo’s rollout...
Virgin Galactic gets a 747 jet to serve as flying launch pad for its LauncherOne rocket
Virgin Galactic showed off its latest mothership today: a Boeing 747-400 jet that it acquired from its corporate cousins at Virgin Atlantic to serve as the platform for its LauncherOne rocket. LauncherOne is designed to be launched from a high-flying carrier airplane and send small-scale satellites into orbit. It will use a liquid-fueled engine called Newton, which...