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In early 2006, a start-up company launched a small rocket from a tiny island in the Pacific. It exploded, showering the island with debris. A year later, a second launch attempt sent a rocket to space but failed to make orbit, burning up in the atmosphere. Another year brought a third attempt—and a third failure. The following month, in September 2008, the company used the last of its funds to launch a fourth rocket. It reached orbit, making history as the first privately funded liquid-fueled rocket to do so.
C. W. Ricker, S. H. Hanauer, and E. R. Mann
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 33 | Number 1 | July 1968 | Pages 56-64
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE68-A20918
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Fluctuation spectra of the current from a neutron-sensitive ionization chamber located in a reactor have been determined experimentally with increased precision. The cold and clean Bulk Shielding Reactor core was held critical and at various subcritical reactivities up to ρ = −10β. The amplified current fluctuations were processed on-line in a ten-channel spectrum analyzer utilizing analog-computer components. The shapes of the spectra, and the values of neutron generation time and reactivity inferred therefrom, were in good agreement with theoretical predictions and with values measured using the pulsed-neutron technique. The results were the same for the two detector locations investigated.