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SpaceX Water injection into SpaceX raptor engine during first 10s

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Flow rate of air through constriction

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Looking for blueprints to the ISS solar panel array

  • paul3337
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Surveillance Cameras for Pilots

  • anorlunda
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What are the unique characteristics of a scramjet exhaust plume?

  • Flyboy
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Experience the Thrill of Dynamic Soaring for Extreme RC Glider Speeds

  • Flyboy
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NASA Does the ISS Rotate to Stay Earth-Facing?

  • DaveC426913
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Is 'Airwolf' possible with our current technology? (Supersonic Helicopter)

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FAA proposes five options for orbital booster disposal

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Boeing Boeing 737 Cargo Plane Ditches off Honolulu

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GE initiates testing on second XA100 "adaptive cycle" fighter jet engine

  • berkeman
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On the cusp of fully grasping Method of Characteristics

  • Benjies
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Gap needed for two adjacent aerodynamic blades to be useful

  • T C
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Nuclear Thermal Rocket (NTR) propulsion

  • Astronuc
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What exactly is Voyager 2's backup Power Supply?

  • NTL2009
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ESA's Dual Stage 4 Grid Ion propulsion

  • darkdave3000
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Improve Result of my CFD results

  • Smushiehippo
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What happens to shock waves when a plane decelerates from hypersonic speed?

  • Mustafa Bayram
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What was the strange aircraft I heard at the dock?

  • DaveC426913
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J58 jet engine and supersonic flight

  • Astronuc
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Why does this refueling pod on Navy fighter jets have a propeller?

  • berkeman
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Lifetimes of jet aircrafts and their engines

  • Astronuc
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Let's Share Innovative Space Tech Ideas We Want to Bring to Earth!

  • Angito54
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Would Earth not be seen flashing from space like a lighthouse?

  • earthlingjeff
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Supersonic and hypersonic shockwave mitigation

  • avaneeshg
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Federal lawsuit against Boeing regarding IP of Wilson Aerospace

  • Astronuc
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Can I build an SSTO spaceplane if I win the lottery?

  • benswitala
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Books on the Thickness and Material of Space Suits

  • emilmammadzada
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NASA What is the propulsion method for the metallic orb?

  • Curiousity2023
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NASA Artemis 1 going to the Moon (launched Nov 16)

  • mfb
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Why is lift perpendicular to the wing?

  • thetexan
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How to design an overexpanded nozzle

  • T C
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JUICE spacecraft deployed and en route to Jupiter

  • Astronuc
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Article about JPL and Mars/Venus missions

  • Frabjous
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Rocket thrust equation in under-expanded nozzle

  • pejsek
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Can Electromagnetic Fields Generate Net Thrust with a Metal Plate?

  • StoyanNikolov
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How Can I Maximize My Radio's Power for Moonbounce Communication?

  • proteo
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If we have a non combustible power source

  • Dee
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Why is the Dual-Stage 4-Grid ion drive not widely covered?

  • darkdave3000
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How to Approximate Aerodynamic Coefficients? (Lift/Drag)

  • Dikuza
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Ramjet artillery shell of a big size

  • Destroyer500
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Ways to join thin components in a secure way and quick to unfasten

  • theoster
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Using a mylar drag sheet from a sounding rocket to deorbit small debris

  • Flyboy
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Airbus and CERN develop superconducting power systems for aircraft

  • pinball1970
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Searching for information on the General Electric J31 engine

  • jesusnd12
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Change of ellipse while accelerating the rocket

  • NODARman
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Increasing the Range of Howitzers

  • chemisthypnos
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Using Arduino to Obtain Absolute Orientation from a 6-Axis Gyro

  • Leo Liu
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Why doesn't aircraft weight affect descent angle in a gliding flight

  • Leo Liu
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Can the thrust of Ion Thruster be increased at the cost of speed?

  • gggnano
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Power requirements for lifting 180 kg with an ion thruster on Earth

  • gggnano
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Wait, what? Whose fighter jets are those?

  • berkeman
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NASA What if NASA had rescued Columbia

  • jedishrfu
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Possible to create laminar flow in fast moving air?

  • Swamp Thing
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Does an airliner use elevator in a coordinated turn?

  • Leo Liu
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What type of letters are used in aero-engineering when hand writing?

  • John Mcrain
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NASA NASA - Bimodal NTP/NEP with a Wave Rotor Topping Cycle

  • Astronuc
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SpaceX Is Rocket Lab's Neutron Rocket a True Competitor to SpaceX's Falcon 9?

  • gleem
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Solar power tower at geostationary orbit with rotating mirrors

  • MacIntoShiba
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Building a Flying Car from Frisbie Aerodynamic Principles

  • Beginner1
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Sign convention for negative gust load factor and wing bending

  • TEST65
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Is private space exploration worth the investment compared to pure science?

  • sophiecentaur
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Induced drag of ground effect-vehicle

  • Jurgen M
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Can a Wing Truly Feel the Effective Airflow?

  • Jurgen M
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Plasma thruster - plasma instability in magnetic nozzle

  • Astronuc
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Does induced drag theory include the Lift = Weight condition?

  • Jurgen M
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The choice of sweep angle (low speed) and its impact on C_L, C_D, C_M

  • Leo Liu
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Ranking "by eye" bi-material cross sections for strength/stiffness

  • greg_rack
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How battery position affects pitching moment slope in model aircraft

  • Leo Liu
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Downwash reducing angle of attack of a wing?

  • Jurgen M
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Will rotating detonation engines replace turbofan engines?

  • Abheer Parashar
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Reusable boosters in moon missions

  • Paul Colby
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NASA Inflatable heat shield a ‘huge success’, NASA says

  • berkeman
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Compare aerodynmics of two cars

  • Jurgen M
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Ideal car rear roofline angle and shape for low drag?

  • Jurgen M
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Water rocket design for school competition

  • StellarisVoid
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Reducing pollution from rocket launches

  • Astronuc
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SpaceX What's Next for SpaceX and Space Exploration in 2018?

  • mfb
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What's wrong with this math: A lot of thrust and almost no fuel?

  • gggnano
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Can Spin Launch's kinetic catapult compete with conventional rocket first stages?

  • sophiecentaur
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Why Do Windward Tell Tales Stream Up in a Sail?

  • Jurgen M
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A350 paint degradation problem is getting nasty

  • anorlunda
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What are the drawbacks to "annular wing"/"super circle" aircraft?

  • TechDIYaspirant
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High Altitude Platform: Power Requirements

  • alikim
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Subsonic airbreathing engines and inlet blade angle

  • Benjies
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I just have a couple questions about parts on an F-16

  • MathExplorer
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Why Was the DCSS/ICPS Designed This Way (launch vehicle)?

  • MattRob
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What is aerodynamics function of front active lip spoiler?

  • Jurgen M
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Self-adjusting orbiting solar shield

  • OwlHoot
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If the lightest metal around were iron, would aerospace even be possible?

  • swampwiz
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Why Not Titanium Alloy Rocket Engine Nozzles?

  • Ozen
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Trying to calculate G-Forces in LUA

  • Wetter42
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Margaret Hamilton, Lead Programmer, Apollo Program's Guidance Computer

  • Astronuc
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Rocket possible collision with Moon

  • Astronuc
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Solar Sails -- What are the current limitations?

  • dansmith170
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Could cymatics keep Martian dust off solar panels?

  • Cerenkov
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Any favorite books on propeller/impeller design?

  • theycallmevirgo
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Chasing the Moon, PBS documentary

  • Astronuc
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