Sentences with phrase «on rockets carrying»

But up until now, CubeSats have always been stowaways, hitching rides on rockets carrying larger satellites.

Not exact matches

Then SpaceX launched its new Falcon Heavy rocket toward orbit around Mars on a demonstration mission — carrying Musks's very own cherry - red Tesla Roadster as part of the payload.

Interestingly, despite the extensive refurbishment work carried out on the reused Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX saved on costs.

In a broader war, he says, it is possible that the interceptors could be used to protect emergency stores, sensitive installations and air force bases to allow them to carry on fighting even under rocket attack.

But he pulled through, as did the three companies which are all doing well, despite continuing challenges (a SpaceX rocket carrying a $ 200m satellite to be used by Facebook exploded last September on the launch pad).

a) men are real b) the moon exists c) rockets exist d) men have ridden in rockets e) rockets have carried me to the moon f) there are men alive today who walked on the moon and returned g) there are photographs and motion pictures of men walking on the moon

Pirates on two boats reportedly fired rocket - propelled grenades at the Seabourn Spirit, a luxury liner carrying 151 passengers, as it rounded the Horn of Africa on its way from Alexandria, Egypt, to Mombasa in Kenya.

After carrying our several raids and attacks on Boko Haram camps, rocket making factory and foiling attempts to attack troop's location, Special Forces of the Nigerian Army supported by Nigeria Airforce aircraft, have killed about 40 Boko Haram terrorists and destroyed their rocket fabrication factory.

«Furthermore, troops of 111 Special Forces Battalion, 7 Division Garrison Nigerian Army, during a special raid operation carried out on Tuesday at Delwa general area, discovered and knocked out Boko Haram terrorists» rocket factory at Jamrari, Borno State.

After carrying our several raids and attacks on Boko Haram camps, rocket making factory and foiling attempts to attack troop's location, Special Forces of the Nigerian Army supported by Nigeria Airforce aircraft, have killed about 40 Boko Haram terrorists and -LSB-...]

After carrying our several raids and attacks on Boko Haram camps, rocket making factory and foiling attempts to attack troop's location, Special Forces of the Nigerian Army supported by Nigeria...

On 18 May, an H - IIA rocket will carry IKAROS into space along with its main payload, Japan's new Venus orbiter (see «Venus orbiter to fly close to super-rotating wind»).

A SpaceX rocket carrying a communications satellite exploded on a Florida launch pad this morning, Wired reports.

On its fifth flight, for instance, Rocket Lab is scheduled to carry 10 NASA - funded CubeSats that will include experiments to monitor space weather and Earth's radiation belts, and conduct technology demonstrations for solar sails and on - orbit repairOn its fifth flight, for instance, Rocket Lab is scheduled to carry 10 NASA - funded CubeSats that will include experiments to monitor space weather and Earth's radiation belts, and conduct technology demonstrations for solar sails and on - orbit repairon - orbit repairs.

Curiosity's chauffeur carried the rover though space for eight months and — with the help of a heat shield, a parachute, and a rocket - powered platform — deposited the rover gently on the surface of Mars on August 6.

The European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft took off from Kourou, French Guiana at 01:04 local time on 3 December, one day later than planned due to a technical issue with the Vega rocket that carried it into orbit.

Instead, her dozen or so minisatellites, each no larger than a loaf of bread, would be carried into space on rockets being used for other missions.

Because the launch window was only 30 seconds, mission controllers did not have time to analyze the issue and get the United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 (OCO - 2) spacecraft back on track for launch this morning.

Conventional rockets would carry the miniature probes into Earth orbit, and a synchronized array of ground - based lasers would then focus its beams on individual sails, imparting enough force to accelerate each probe to 20 percent of the speed of light.

The Jules Verne will fit atop an Ariane rocket and carry supplies to the International Space Station, freeing the Europeans from their dependence on NASA's space shuttle and Russia's Progress supply ship.

Blue Origin, an aerospace company based in Kent, Washington, and led by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is working on a rocket - propelled vehicle called New Shepard to carry people and microgravity experiments on suborbital trips into space.

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.

When it lifts off on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, it will be carrying a German stereo camera capable of taking 3 - D images of most of the surface of Mars.

On Wednesday, a Soyuz rocket failed to reach orbit, causing the Progress cargo ship it was carrying to crash in Russia's Altai region.

The next time rocket engine No. 2059 fires for that length of time, it will be carrying humans on their first deep - space mission in more than 45 years.

Update on 8 November: The rocket carrying the Phobos - Grunt spacecraft launched at 2016 GMT but reports suggest the spacecraft is not behaving as planned

Due to launch on Aug. 8, 2013, the VERIS rocket, short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, will launch for a 15 - minute trip carrying an instrument that can measure properties of the structures in the sun's upper atmosphere down to 145 miles across, some eight times clearer than any similar telescope currently in space.

Oh, and yes, the Falcon 9 rocket that carried TESS into space landed safely on the droneship «Of Course I Still Love You.»

On February 6, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launched a Tesla Roadster toward Mars carrying a dummy driver named «Starman.»

The Soyuz - FM rocket carrying the Soyuz TMA - 16M blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Mar. 27, 2015, bound for the space station.

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va., March 27, 2018 — After long delays caused by storms and rough seas, NASA on Sunday launched a rocket into space carrying an experiment built by students at Utah State University.

On Tuesday the spacecraft carried out a rocket motor burn that boosted its velocity by 0.4 meters per second (less than 1 mile per hour).

After a series of brief studies by infrared instruments carried on sounding rockets had detected about 4,000 celestial sources of infrared radiation, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands built IRAS to map the sky at infrared wavelengths of 12, 25, 60, and 100 micrometres.

On Jan. 19, 2006, a powerful Atlas V rocket thundered off from Florida carrying NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

North Korea successfully launched a long - range rocket carrying a satellite into orbit around the Earth on Wednesday.

Rocket League on Switch carries over remarkably well with the only compromise being graphical in nature.

But no worries, Lamborghini fans, the 640 - hp, 442 - lb - ft AWD rocket now holds, according to the company and «press trials carried out by prestigious magazines on their circuits of reference,» eight records at various (lesser known) tracks around the world, including Variano (Italy, 1:09.43), Balocco (Italy, 2:38.07), Contidrom (Germany, 1:29.6), Mira (U.K., 1:05.3), Wroughton (U.K., 1:16.8), Boxberg (Germany, 42.3), Le Mans Bugatti (France, 1:42.49) and Anneau du Rhin (France, 57.5).

Significantly, the new flagship carries no Oldsmobile badging except for the division's name on the radio faceplate; instead of a rocket badge, there's a unique Aurora logo.

Carrying Albert Home By Homer Hickam Morrow • $ 15.99 • ISBN 9780062325907 Hickam, author of the bestselling memoir Rocket Boys, drew on his parents» real - life adventures in crafting this entertaining tale of a young couple, an alligator and a long road trip to Florida.

Moreover, The New York Times noted, the carry - on limits are incredibly strict for the rockets that carry astronauts to space (and sadly they can't pay extra to check a bag).

When you call a rocket in you get to choose exactly what it will carry based on weight and the cash you have to spend, so you can get it to bring various resources or pre-fab buildings so that you can construct things that you've not researched yet.

This is just a simple match - games can go on for many more rounds depending on which limits you set, and soldiers can carry a variety of weapons, from shotguns to rocket launchers.

So the two - headed fiends in Double Header were now carrying roast turkeys as clubs instead of run - of - the - mill wooden batons and the rocket - firing menaces from Gone Tomorrow now have a target on their back that you have to destroy.

In Musk's paper, titled «Making Life - Planetary,» he offers an update on the development of SpaceX's Big Falcon Rocket that he hopes will carry Earthlings to Mars.

This is the second time NASA is relying on a used Falcon 9 rocket to get equipment to the space station, and it's the third time a used Dragon cargo capsule will carry supplies to the ISS, as well.