Word: rocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gliders and small planes. Popov quickly discovered that conventional chutes would not work because most accidents happen so close to the ground that the canopies do not have enough time to inflate. To get around that problem, Popov devised a parachute that could be completely deployed by a tiny rocket in a matter of seconds. Since then, the company he founded to make the product, Ballistic Recovery Systems of South St. Paul, Minnesota, has sold 10,000 parachute systems for ultralight and homemade aircraft and, he says, has saved 73 lives...
...takes up no more space than a large briefcase and is mounted over the center of the wings. If the craft's engine conks or another plane clips the Cessna's tail off, all the pilot has to do is pull a handle in the cockpit. That ignites the rocket, which deploys the parachute. The plane drifts to earth for a safe, if still somewhat bumpy landing...
...will be to stage large-scale terrorist operations into Israel. The Israelis will still command the bridge connecting Jordan and Jericho, but they will no longer control Gaza port. Today the Palestinians have no missiles that can reach Israel from the occupied territories, but a simple, crude Katyusha rocket smuggled in by sea could hit the Israeli city of Ashkelon, only eight miles away...
...cheap rocket could give the space business a boost...
Sources apparently within the SDI program told the Times that the 1984 launchings did not prove the efficacy of the heat-seeking infrared sensor. Rather, the target ICBM carried a beacon that guided the interceptor rocket toward a set-up collision. Officials involved with the test have vigorously defended the test results. Said General Eugene Fox, the retired Army missile- defense chief: "We didn't gimmick anything." William Inglis, the experiment's civilian test director, dismissed the accusations of an SDI hoax as "technical nonsense." There was indeed a beacon, but, said Inglis, it served only for "range safety" purposes...