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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.
D. Bally, S. Todireanu, S. Rîpeanu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 12 | Number 2 | February 1962 | Pages 157-159
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE62-A26053
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The dependence of the total neutron cross section of crystalline and liquid aluminium was studied for energies between 0.003 ev and 0.009 ev. The results obtained for crystalline aluminium have shown that in the case of absence of texture they are in fair agreement with the calculated values. The study of liquid aluminium has shown that the scattering cross section determined by subtraction of the calculated absorption cross section from the measured total cross section, in the studied range, decreases with increasing wavelength.
