Sentences with phrase «failed rocket launches»

«T - Minus 0», a series of flags depicting failed rocket launches by artist Kambui Olujimi, hang along a wall in his exhibition titled «Zulu Time,» now at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art through August 13.

SpaceX encountered three failed rocket launches and Tesla Motors» flagship Roadster hit production problems.

Not exact matches

Only after the Falcon Heavy is rigorously tested and SpaceX manages to deliver on its promises of cheaper space launches, a return to the moon, and a mission to Mars (or fail to, for that matter) will we be able to say for sure which rocket was the true champion of human space exploration.

Even though the first demonstration of its rocket failed, Musk said the government was «reasonably happy» with the launch.

A U.S. official and two congressional aides, all familiar with the launch, said on condition of anonymity that the second - stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster rocket failed.

Further, as of now, about one in 20 rocket launches fails, or more precisely, explodes in a massive fireball that rains debris down for miles around.

The last major explosion SpaceX suffered was in September 2016, when a pressure vessel failed and caused a Falcon 9 rocket to blow up during a launch - pad test, destroying a satellite payload on top.

But the company suffered setbacks in 2014, when its third resupply mission to the ISS failed after the rocket exploded above the launch pad.

While Orbital Sciences Corporation spent much of the first decade of the new millennium struggling with repeated failed launches of their Taurus vehicle, Lockheed Martin was developing a newer, more powerful rocket than their extant Athena model.

The land - for - peace experiment has most certainly failed, as evidenced by the hundreds of rockets launched into southern Israel from the Gaza strip since its becoming independent, as well as the continued holding of the captured soldier, Gilad Shalit, who is being denied his Geneva Convention rights.

After two high - profile launch failures in 2013 and 2014, Russian rocket scientists suffered a further setback last Saturday when another Proton - M rocket failed to launch.

On July 2, a Long March - 5 rocket failed during the launch of a communications satellite, raising concerns about an upcoming Moon mission that will use a similar vehicle.

A Falcon 9 rocket failed in June 2015 during a Dragon cargo ship launch for NASA.

The private spaceflight firm SpaceX launched its sixth cargo mission to the International Space Station, but failed a test of a reusable rocket

The statement was released more than four hours after the failed Unha - 3 rocket launch, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, which published the account.

«Unfortunately, that unit was onboard the Orbital Sciences rocket that failed shortly after launch October 28, 2014, at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Two veteran travelers But there is an important difference between Aquarius and the previous failed launches: It's flying on a Delta II rocket, not the Taurus XL rockets that carried Glory and OCO.

An aerial view of the Wallops Island launch facilities taken by the Wallops Incident Response Team Oct. 29 following the failed launch attempt of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket Oct. 28.

The announcement was triggered by the failed launch of a cargo ship last week that has called into question the safety of Russian Soyuz rockets used to carry people to orbit.

ESA's original mission to measure changes in ice sheets and sea ice in Earth's polar regions failed on October 8, 2005, when a software problem caused the commercial launch rocket to fail.

Air Force rules require that the Titan 4 rocket on a nearby pad launch first, on the off chance that the Falcon I's flight, which would pass nearly overhead, might fail and rain damaging debris.

The first rocket launched from Hawaii failed less than a minute into its flight on Tuesday, spacenews.com reports.

On June 19, a CZ - 3 rocket launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan province failed to deliver a television broadcasting satellite into orbit.

It too launched on a Taurus XL rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, and again the fairing failed to separate properly.

The movie works overtime to steep us in the details of this imagined nation, like the architecture and sundries of daily life, as well as the major set - pieces like the rocket launches (both successful and failed) and stupendous aerial sequences.

As if rockets crash - landing into the map weren't enough, the close - quarters combat is further complicated via two separate rocket test engines sites that opposing forces can trigger, sending massive fireballs into the already intense firefights, and the failed launch of a massive rocket has a dramatic effect on the combat.

An independent rocket expert said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is right about the upcoming launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket: It'll probably fail.

«In one chapter, he describes an impromptu experiment in which he showed how the O - rings in the shuttle's rocket boosters could have failed due to cold temperatures on the morning of the launch.

Steve Goddard (08:09:13): «In one chapter, he describes an impromptu experiment in which he showed how the O - rings in the shuttle's rocket boosters could have failed due to cold temperatures on the morning of the launch.