Sentences with phrase «after liftoff as»
after liftoff as the rocket was descending.
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The $ 250,000 prize went unclaimed for 33 years as craft after craft failed liftoff or crashed.
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.
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.
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).