Sentences with phrase «after liftoff in»

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

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.

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Musk is CEO of both, and one day after the triumphant liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center's old Apollo pad, he was on a conference call with Wall Street analysts to explain how Tesla managed to lose the most money in its history in 2017.

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 watching «Twas the Night Before Liftoff», we learned about lift, weight, thrust, and drag and were determined to hold a little flying machine STEM challenge in our

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...

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.

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

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.

In human history, only one type of human spacecraft launched has occurred away from teams of engineers — lunar liftoffs — and those took place only a few days after landing had occurred.

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).

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.

During my time on the track, I tried to make it liftoff oversteer and failed, and it was only after a few dozen laps that it did do it, but not when I intentionally provoked it... On the track it's generally very well balanced and, in a word, superb.