Its team of computer scientists from Caltech turned their data-sifting skills from rocketry to consumer behavior.
John Carmack, the videogame programmer and cofounder of id Software, has a rocketry startup called Armadillo Aerospace.
Rocketry is a mature technology, and NASA has always relied on using contractors to build its rockets and spacecraft.
Just so they could raise enough money for the rocketry team to compete.
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Another is that not even quirky North Korea would use its expensive long-range rocketry to carry conventional high explosives.
Many in the rocketry business are pigeonholed in such highly specialized fields as astronautical engineering, space policy, or space law.
"The test was a resounding success", said Ben Jarvis of the Mars Advanced Rocketry Society (Mars), Britain's longest-running rocketry group.
A.L.L.S. is the annual "experimental" meet of the Tripoli Rocketry Association, a 3, 800-member organization devoted to what its members call high-power rocketry.
He's attacking rocketry the way he would assemble software: design, build, test and repeat in rapid-fire succession to quickly determine what works and what doesn't.
To keep itself out of trouble, AeroTech only sells to hobbyists who have been qualified by the two main rocketry organizations, Tripoli and the National Association of Rocketry.
Rocket fuel is covered under the new law, prompting the National Association of Rocketry and the Tripoli Rocketry Association to file suit in federal court in Washington, D.
Where a C-class motor from Estes puts out the equivalent of 2 pounds of thrust for one second, an H-class motor--the entry point to high-power rocketry--puts out 55 pounds.
Mr Bennett, whose love of rocketry was inspired by the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, has predicted that he could put a small satellite in low Earth orbit by the year 2001.
Although the western world reckons it has some idea of what sort of rocketry other countries possess, it is much less sure whether they can equip those rockets with non-conventional warheads: nuclear, chemical or biological.
"Typically a habitat is less than the cost of large rocketry, " Michael Griffin of NASA told AP, and successfully utilizing the native materials on the moon will be a crucial to creating a viable base there.
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