US rocket with Russian engine gets to work.
A new high-performance player has entered the crowded field of satellite launching with the inaugural flight in August 2002 of the Atlas-V rocket from Lockheed Martin Corp.'s brand new facility at Cape Canaveral, Fla. For its main propulsion system on the first stage, the Atlas-V boasts a Russi...
| Pubblicato in: | IEEE spectrum 39, 10(duplicate) (2002). |
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| Lingua: | English |
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