Sentences with phrase «after liftoff»

Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff in 1986, and Columbia broke apart upon re-entry to Earth's atmosphere in 2003.

OCO - 2 was built to replace the original Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) spacecraft, which was lost shortly after liftoff in February 2009 when the nose - cone fairing of its Orbital Sciences Taurus XL rocket failed to open as planned.

After separating from Dragon a few minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9's first stage performed several flyback engine burns, then eventually lowered itself vertically onto a SpaceX drone ship that was stationed off the Florida coast.

LOS ANGELES - NASA has secured the area around the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as the investigation begins into why an Orbital Sciences Antares rocket blew up just seconds after liftoff on its way to deliver a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).

The Wallops Incident Response Team completed today an initial assessment of Wallops Island, Virginia, following the catastrophic failure of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket shortly after liftoff at 6:22 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 28, from Pad 0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Then, in 1986, the Challenger exploded just after liftoff with a crew of seven on board.

Developed by LuxSpace in Luxembourg, 4M will start transmitting radio signals back to Earth for amateur space enthusiasts soon after the liftoff.

Young's achievements were paired with a laconic style and a heartbeat that barely jumped after liftoff.

The Falcon 1 rocket's engine caught fire 25 seconds after liftoff from the Pacific island of Omelek.

Moon astronauts will be three days from help, and Mars astronauts will, at best, be months away — virtually alone after liftoff.

The docking was initially expected just six hours after liftoff, however the unexpected space - junk avoidance maneuver on July 26 put the station too high for the shorter four - orbit rendezvous profile.

«The ORS - 4 mission on an experimental Super Strypi launch vehicle failed in mid-flight after liftoff at 5:45 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time (7:45 p.m. PST / 10: 45 p.m. EST) today from the Pacific Missile Range Facility off Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii,» the Air Force said in a brief statement early Nov. 4.

after liftoff as the rocket was descending.

Remote cameras set up around launch pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia captured incredible up - close views of an Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket exploding seconds after liftoff several weeks ago.

The question is whether the fed funds rate will slip below the «floor» created by ON RRP, likely to be set at 0.25 percent after liftoff.

A U.S. Airways jetliner that took off from LaGuardia Airport Thursday afternoon made an emergency landing in the frigid Hudson River minutes after liftoff, and it appears all 155 people...

NASA's first attempt at a Mars orbiter also failed when Mariner 8 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after liftoff in May 1971.

Reaching new heights SpaceX's Falcon I is an unmanned two - stage rocket with a reusable first stage that will parachute to a water landing soon after liftoff.

after liftoff at 6:22 pm EDT, and range safety officials triggered the vehicle's flight termination system about 20 sec.

A SpaceX rocket headed to the International Space Station on a resupply mission broke apart shortly after liftoff in Cape Canaveral, FL..

The craft was on its own 14 minutes and 15 seconds after liftoff.

«Mission Impossible» aborts just after liftoff.

The mission will launch using a Falcon 9 rocket, which will return to land on the SpaceX autonomous ship in the Atlantic Ocean about 8 minutes after liftoff.

After liftoff, the company's Dragon spacecraft separated from its Falcon 9 rocket and attached to the space station on Apr. 4.

An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff.

A Progress robotic delivery spacecraft that launched toward the International Space Station suffered a serious malfunction shortly after liftoff

This is the first time SpaceX has launched a Dragon cargo vehicle for NASA since June 2015, when one of the company's Falcon 9 rockets exploded shortly after liftoff, destroying the cargo capsule in the process.

Musk also reported early signs of success in SpaceX's test to have the first stage of the Falcon 9 reignite its engines and slow the stage to a soft landing on the ocean's surface a few minutes after liftoff.

Phobos - Grunt's main engines were supposed to fire shortly after liftoff to send the spacecraft on its way to the Red Planet.

For the first 30 seconds after liftoff, everything was fine.

The company does however intend to land the booster on their offshore drone ship shortly after liftoff, with the intent to reuse it for the upcoming NASA CRS - 15 Dragon resupply mission to the ISS as soon as June 2018.

A still from an animation shows what SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket may look like shortly after liftoff.

The Falcon Heavy rocket has three boosters, including two outer cores that landed successfully at Cape Canaveral, after breaking away from the middle center some two and a half minutes after liftoff, and the central core which failed to return safely to Earth.

A SpaceX rocket headed to the International Space Station on a resupply mission broke apart shortly after liftoff in Cape Canaveral, FL. (Source: AP Photo / John Raoux)