Sentences with phrase «decommissioned missiles»

The Ballistic Orbital Removal System is said to be able to be put into action inexpensively, by launching water on decommissioned missiles.

According to Discovery News, «Launched on ballistic flight paths that quickly re-enter the atmosphere, the water wouldn't add to the debris problem, unlike some other proposals to clean up space... The so - called Ballistic Orbital Removal System could be operated inexpensively by launching water on decommissioned missiles out of suborbital launch complexes, such as NASA's Wallops Island in Virginia, he added.»

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Of that, $ 130 million is intended to offset the cost of decommissioning ballistic missiles, nuclear submarines and bombers.

This Art in the Park Centennial exhibition invited visitors to the decommissioned coastal batteries Godfrey, Boutelle, and Marcus Miller, the Nike Missile Administrative Office (Building 1648) and the Chapel at Fort Winfield Scott.

Installed at the decommissioned coastal batteries Godfrey, Boutelle, and Marcus Miller; the Nike Missile Administrative Office (Building 1648); and the Chapel at Fort Winfield Scott in the Presidio, Home Land Security is a free exhibition open to the public until December 18.

On the other side of the former Cold War border in a similar four - screen format, Gamma (1999) shows Greenham Common, a decommissioned U.S. military base in Berkshire that housed nuclear cruise missiles.