Sentences with phrase «of rocketing up»

Perhaps these were all positions within the same field, or in hopes of rocketing up the ladder, or learning new skills.

Noble: «I think anything that's a bit of a rocket up the arse, anything that kicks against the routine, against the mundane things that close down your mind, is a refreshing and good thing.

Not exact matches

So going to rocket capability, This gives you sort of a rough sense of rocket capability, starting off at the low end with a half ton, going up to BFR, with 150.

It starts with building up a revenue stream using SpaceX's current fleet of reusable Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft.

For much of the history of space exploration on Earth, the powerful rockets used to propel people and cargo to orbit or beyond typically end up in a watery grave at the bottom of the ocean or eventually burning up in the atmosphere.

Another one of Elon Musk's rockets may have recently blown up, depriving astronauts of much needed supplies, but at least he can be happy about one of his other transportation - related pursuits.

Once the booster has used up its fuel dozens of miles above Earth, it detaches, and the second - stage rocket motor ignites.

Pokémon Go, a mobile game that has rocketed to the top of Apple (aapl) and Android app stores in record time, looks set to challenge young Internet companies that specialize in increasing foot traffic for small businesses and may end up playing a role in major brands» marketing, according to industry experts.

Nick Woodman and I are strapped into the cockpit of a vintage racecar on a winding, narrow road in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, taking cliff - side turns at 60 miles per hour and rocketing up to 100 on the straightaways.

That's because Falcon Heavy essentially takes the Falcon 9 system, which SpaceX has now launched and landed quite a few times, and adds two identical first - stage boosters (which provide most of the rocket's thrust) to the sides of the central booster, cranking up the power.

He still needs a rocket that can survive reentry and a guidance - and - control system capable of directing it to the U.S. without breaking up.

It has been six months since Rocket Internet, Germany's biggest incubator for online companies, and Ooredoo, Qatar's leading carrier, teamed up to shift mobile e-commerce across Asia into high gear — and, with luck, make a ton of money along the way.

But the numbers drop pretty fast when certain niceties are specified — such as $ 100,000 - and - up price tags, the likelihood of severe motion sickness, dizziness, and acceleration - induced unconsciousness, as well as an unknown but certainly less than trivial chance of being incinerated in a rocket explosion or errant atmospheric reentry.

Rutan thought up a simplified design for a rocket motor and contracted its manufacturing out to SpaceDev, a company in Poway, Calif., that had developed rocket motors that burn a relatively easy - to - control mixture of liquid laughing gas and rubber, producing a full ton of thrust.

Those savings could further compound as SpaceX prepares to debut its gigantic Falcon Heavy rocket system, which will use three boosters — all of which can self - land, be fueled up, and launch again.

With a robust rocket - building supply chain, Orbital's newly announced OmegA rocket bulks up its existing quiver of launch vehicles, which includes the light - to - medium lift class Pegasus, Minotaur and Antares rockets.

Newfoundland baker Courtney Ralph, of St. John's Rocket Bakery, looked back to her childhood for inspiration in recreating the Twinkie, playing up the classic kid - friendly flavour triad of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.

Trump's positive outlook on relations with Kim Jong Un is a marked departure from social media taunts in November of last year, in which he called Kim «Little Rocket Man» and noted that his people and military «put up with living in such horrible conditions.»

Cause of death: Either impaled by Yondu or shot by Rocket... or in Taserface's case, blown up when his ship explodes.

The current high cost of human space transportation is largely tied up in rocket stages that are destroyed after a single use.

As of December 2016, a baseline Atlas 5 rocket launch was selling for about $ 109 million, though satellite operators can make up at least half that cost by getting more favorable insurance rates and other factors, including an on - time launch, ULA has said.

But it's looking likely the rocket ship will stall in 2017, unless makers of the pricey software can come up with a raison d'etre — and soon.

If you're having trouble generating an environment of creativity, here are some simple, yet effective, ways though that you can help your organization to come up with innovations that will rocket your business into the future.

Edi was working for Gilbert when he and co-founders Marc Hudson and Randy Foster, both software developers for Quicken, came up with the idea of Rocket Fiber, the ultrafast Detroit internet service provider.

Those tests included repeatedly filling up the rocket with cryogenically cooled RP - 1, a type of kerosene used in jets, and liquid oxygen to combust the fuel.

Other winners: Boeing, which picked up $ 18 million for its own seven - person space capsule, and the United Launch Alliance, a Boeing - Lockheed Martin joint project, which received $ 6.7 million to develop a way to monitor the health of unmanned rockets that could be recycled to launch manned spacecraft.

At press time, the total market value of all virtual currencies had rocketed past $ 135 billion, up from just under $ 20 billion at the beginning of the year.

The digital currency exchange Coinbase has been on a rocket ship ride for the last year, signing up a flood of new retail and institutional clients eager to be part of the ongoing crypto craze.

But at the conference, Eshel noted that «many elements busy achieving their goals» in Syria's civil war were interested in preventing any fresh hostilities in Lebanon, where Israel says Hezbollah has built up an arsenal of more than 100,000 rockets.

When he's not plotting the colonization of Mars and firing rockets into orbit, the gutsy billionaire lives it up like the rest of us, only bigger.

It was a rocket ship, with thousands of people signing up for its workplace collaboration tools each week.

Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, also heads up the Blue Origin private space company, which successfully launched a rocket on Sunday.

«Just bear in mind that there is a good chance this monster rocket blows up,» Musk reportedly told Plait in an email, «so I wouldn't put anything of irreplaceable sentimental value on it.»

The Israeli government also plays up the rockets to milk U.S. taxpayers out of our hard - earned money — who do you think paid for the Iron Dome?

«There are ongoing challenges in translating a reused rocket to tangible capex savings — worries about it failing, insurance implications, retrofitting turnaround, building up a critical mass of reused first stages in the warehouse,» Jefferies said.

Since the 1990s, the total taxation of the Swedish economy as a percentage of GDP has fallen more than 5 %, while labor market reforms, such as Denmark's cutting of unemployment benefits have helped Scandanavian economies rocket up measures of economic freedom.

In recent years, SpaceX has moved from a spunky start - up with a seemingly outlandish goal of colonizing Mars to disruptive competitor that has remade the rocket launch business.

If it ends up winning, Blue Origin will have a new source of income to bankroll its planned New Glenn rocket.

The company is run by consultants, which is reminiscent of the firms started in India by German start - up investor Rocket Internet.

The successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket may have opened up more asteroid mining opportunities, according to an astrophysics researcher.

If ABX acts the same as Homestake did during the market crashes of the past, it's value should go up by a bit or even sky rocket.

With that vision, Wang and DHgate.com opened up the first era of business - to - business (B2B) e-commerce in China, and the company has since rocketed to be a leading Chinese Internet company.

That means occasionally putting up with big «pops,» or significant jumps in price on the first day of trading: Rocket Fuel and FireEye both doubled their offering prices in their first day of trading last month.

Rubin (2011, 21 — 22) estimated that the average number of rockets fired per fatality climbed from about 100 in 2002 up to 2,100 by 2008.

For example, one military interviewee said the IDF managed to «successfully intercept 85 percent of 1,500 rockets» during Pillar of Defense and «up to 90 percent out of 4,700 rockets» during Protective Edge (Lapidot 2015).

The following image provided by the BBC shows how Falcon stacks up against other rockets from the perspective of payload to low - Earth orbit, as measured in metric tons:

But after a double Trump victory, interest rates of rocketed higher and I am finally building up municipal bond portfolio to earn double taxation free income.

Problems arise in states like Washington, Idaho, Nevada and Utah, each of which saw home prices rocket by more than 10 percent in the 12 months leading up to that November.

In the case of Grad rockets, Hamas's bread and butter, which threaten Israeli targets up to 40 km from Gaza (most of Israel's southern cities fall within this range), Hamas has thousands of them.

However, the election finally unleashed the stock and it rocketed up 50 % over a short period of time.