Sentences with phrase «minutes 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.
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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.
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.
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...
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.
Not exact matches
It begins 1 hour and 39 minutes before liftoff and ends at «negative return» — the point at which the mission can no longer be aborted without going into space, some 4 minutes after launch.