{"id":19418,"date":"2019-08-09T22:45:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T22:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=19418"},"modified":"2019-08-09T22:45:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T22:45:03","slug":"send-students-to-space-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/send-students-to-space-why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Send students to space – why not?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reusability drives the New Zealand-based company Rocket Lab to launch a market for small rockets that uses helicopter and parachute as it lands back on Earth. The question is: is there a possibility to send students to space?<\/strong><\/em>
\nRocket Lab is on its way in developing Electron rockets in a similar ground as Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe difference between these two space companies is that SpaceX uses an automatic landing placed on a drone ship. This could be positioned in either on land or ocean. With Rocket Lab, the company will proceed with helicopter capture during the initial stage mid-air landing.<\/strong>
\nRocket Lab CEO, Peter Beck, describe the helicopter mid-air capture as \u201cnot hard at all.\u201d<\/strong> He said to Ars<\/a> that it has been done before by <\/span>Corona Missions<\/span><\/a> since the 1950s.<\/span>
\nThe challenging part, he added, is how to get \u201cthrough the atmosphere\u201d and figuring out the \u201csensible speed\u201d required particularly when it re-enters back to Earth\u2019s atmosphere. For the solution, the company will employ \u201cunique aerodynamic decelerators\u201d to control and oversee the velocity as a whole:<\/span><\/p>\n

I guess that\u2019s kind of the magic of what we\u2019re trying to do. That\u2019s something that we\u2019ve been a little bit less public on, some of the techniques we’re developing for that.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nOnce the Electron rocket has been launched and exits from the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, the booster will come back and re-enter back to Earth by exhibiting eight point five (8.5) times the speed of sound.<\/strong>
\nThis is when the aerodynamic decelerators come in. It will slow down the rocket within only seventy (70) seconds which will then have the booster release the parachute, The helicopter will capture it on air to carry it back to its designated station.<\/span>
\nRocket Lab revealed that first stage recovery attempts will be conducted in the coming year. If the project became triumphant, it will be the next and only company second to SpaceX which <\/strong><\/span>has done the same feat.<\/strong>
\nBeck stated <\/span>that the project \u201cstimulates more opportunities\u201d and confirmed that they were \u201cnowhere close to keeping up with the demand\u201d to their customers. Opportunities for people for space launch is closer than we have ever before and possibly, for students as well.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reusability drives the New Zealand-based company Rocket Lab to launch a market for small rockets that uses helicopter and parachute as it lands back on Earth. The question is: is there a possibility to send students to space? Rocket Lab is on its way in developing Electron rockets in a similar ground as Elon Musk\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":19419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25],"tags":[591,1350,1407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}