Sentences with phrase «rocket launches since»

McCandliss, who now has completed 17 sounding rocket launches since his first in 1989, has co-written a number of published papers based entirely or in part on information collected on these missions.

The Heavy — essentially three SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosters strapped together — is the most powerful rocket launched since the Saturn V, which shot astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program.

Not exact matches

(The Saturn V rocket NASA used to launch astronauts to the moon has been retired since the mid-1970s.)

NEW YORK and CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Elon Musk is getting ready to launch the most powerful rocket that's taken off from US soil since Americans went to the moon in the 1970s.

Mr. Musk has also served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of Space Exploration Corporation, a company which is developing and launching advanced rockets for satellite and eventually human transportation, since May 2002, and as Chairman of SolarCity, a solar installation company, since July 2006.

If there was any precarious truce left standing between Israel and Hamas since the last major conflict over the Gaza strip four years ago, it has been destroyed in the past few days as rockets and air strikes have been launched from both sides.

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.

ICBMs since the 1960s have been solid - fueled; Saturn was liquid - fueled and that would be a huge disadvantage for an ICBM, since it's much harder to keep a liquid - fueled rocket ready to launch for extended periods.

But the event went off without a hitch: The engines lit up on April 12, 1981 stunning spectators with a launch spectacle not seen since the Apollo moon rockets.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket is billed as the most powerful rocket since NASA's Saturn V moon rocket and can launch payloads of up to 119,000 lbs.

Chemical rockets, the standard since World War II, are too slow; the fastest rocket we've ever launched would take 74,000 years to get to Alpha Centauri, our closest stellar neighbor.

This is the first time SpaceX has launched a Dragon cargo vehicle for NASA since June 2015, when one of the company's Falcon 9 rockets exploded shortly after liftoff, destroying the cargo capsule in the process.

SpaceX just launched the Falcon Heavy — the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V — for the first time.

Since 2011, through NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative, 40 small spacecraft have already launched from rockets and produced years» worth of data, while teaching students the basics of space technology.

After several failures, North Korea put its first satellite into space with a long - range rocket launched in December 2012, and has since launched another satellite on a similar rocket.

Elon Musk's space company completes its first launch of Falcon 9 rocket since June failure, and gets a step closer to reusable rockets

Because of previous rocket failures and equipment malfunctions, if launched successfully, ASTRO - H will be the first major x-ray mission put into orbit since 1999.

It's the first climate satellite NASA has launched since a faulty rocket sent the space agency's Glory probe crashing into the ocean in February.

SpaceX has been flying cargo capsules to the International Space Station since 2014 and has pioneered the use of reusable rockets and capsules, but has yet to launch a crewed mission.

Proton rockets have been launched more than 200 times since 1965, with a success rate of 96 percent, and have lifted the Zond, Venera, Mars, Vega, and Phobos interplanetary probes into space, as well as manned Salyut, Kvant, and Kristall modules.

All around are towering launch - pad gantries that have sent dozens of big, expensive, aggressively not - cute rockets skyward since 1958.

The Mars Express probe arrived in December 2003, having launched atop a Soyuz / Fregat rocket in June of the same year, and has since made numerous discoveries that have greatly improved our understanding of the Red Planet.

Since there is no rocket wide enough to hold the JWST, both the sun shield and the mirror will be launched folded and will unfold when the telescope reaches its proper orbit.

Though they may not get the same level of attention as big «AAA» releases, the world of independent game development has lead to some enormous successes with the likes of Rocket League and other titles, with the indie farming sensation Stardew Valley having crossed a major sales milestone at one million copies sold since launch.

Since it's launch and Rocket League has been considered as one of the best games released this year on the PS4.

Switch owners have been anticipating and asking for Rocket League since the Switch launched, so it's very exciting to...

Switch owners have been anticipating and asking for Rocket League since the Switch launched, so it's very exciting to see that it is finally coming.

RiME and Rocket League are two games that have been hyped since the Switch launched.

«Quick Chats» like those have been an essential part of Rocket League since we first launched and based on our community's frequent recommendations, we're increasing that functionality with 27 new Quick Chats in our massive June update.

Rocket league has got to be a contender for game of the year i haven't stopped playing it nearly every day since launch!

Rocket League record revenue reported since launch with over 5M copies sold, and more content updates to be soon announced!

It's been over a year now since Rocket League first launched on PS4 and PC, also it's only been about 5 months since the game released on Xbox One.

Rocket League's popularity is still going strong, as updates and content have been added since the game's launch and will continue for the foreseeable future.

A Tournament system is something we've wanted for Rocket League since our launch in July 2015.

Rocket League has remained on the fast track of success since it first launched last July on the PlayStation 4 and PC.

Dubbed «Galactic Interdimensional Search,» it is Rocket Matter's first major upgrade of its search feature since the product's launch six years ago.

Since launching in 2008, Rocket Matter's elegant and intuitive user interface (UI) has been a major differentiator.

Psyonix, the developer behind the successful «soccer with cars» game, has given massive support to Rocket League and its community ever since it was launched, with regular updates over 2016 that included new cars, game modes, arenas, and other content that kept players engaged.

And since Florida is a busy place for rockets launches, NASA plans to launch this vehicle on May 5th, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California, which is usually pretty open.

SpaceX has now launched the most powerful spacecraft since the Apollo era — the Falcon Heavy rocket — setting the bar for future space launches.

Adoption and use of the X1 Voice Remote has rocketed upwards since its launch in 2015.

Since its launch last year, the total value of Ether has rocketed from nothing to nearly $ 1 billion, easily outpacing every other virtual - coin contender.

A European rocket will launch two communications satellites today (April 5) in its first action since a Jan. 25 anomaly, and you can watch the flight live.