Sentences with phrase «rocket the company back»

With the S8, Samsung has returned to the flagship market in a big way, and assuming they don't have any recall - level issues, it should rocket the company back to the head of the class.

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The booster pushes the top of the rocket (including the payload) about 40 miles into the sky, then detaches, lands back on the surface, and gets refurbished — a clever method that saves the company millions per mission.

The company, backed by German company Rocket Internet, posed revenue of EUR 349 million ($ 393 million) in 2016.

After SpaceX's first launch back in 2006, Elon Musk spoke with CNBC about the future of his rocket company.

When Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of electric - car company Tesla, founded SpaceX back in 2002, he probably didn't envision that his company, which designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, would be responsible for delivering better coffee to astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).

Rolls - Royce and Boeing have both invested in rocket engine company Reaction Engines as the latest blue - chip companies to back the start - up's thermal management technology.

Like Elon Musk's company, Blue Origin is engineering its rockets to safely land back on earth so they can be reused, thus shaving tens of millions of dollars off the cost of each launch.

Now the rocket company, led by Elon Musk, is on the verge of passing another important landmark: launching a used one back into space.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 making history as an orbital rocket to land back on Earth was enough to give the company's CEO Elon Musk heaps of praise.

Let's just say Bezos, founder of the Blue Origin space company and fellow billionaire, wasn't impressed with the Falcon 9 orbital rocket landing back on Earth.

«Elon Musk has announced that his company, SpaceX, will be ready to fly an unmanned rocket to Mars and back by 2019, and shortly thereafter, they'll be able to send people there to colonize the planet.

They did it: Elon Musk's private spaceflight company SpaceX last night successfully sent a gently used rocket back into orbit for another go - round.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

It was the original motorbike engined track day car, and now more than 20 years on the Light Car Company is putting the Gordon Murray designed Rocket back into limited production.

Layoffs, Elon Musk Back at the Wheel as CEO What we know so far is that Ze'ev Drori is apparently out as CEO, and that Elon Musk (who's also busy sending rockets into orbit with his other company, SpaceX) is replacing him.

The business has received backing from Rocket Internet, a German technology company.

After a handful of delays pushed back the planned first flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket for several hours today, the company finally got the weather to cooperate and were able to hit >>

After a handful of delays pushed back the planned first flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket for several hours today, the company finally got the weather to cooperate and were able to hit the big red button that sent the massive beast skyward.

Musk's rocket company was meant to put Facebook's first ever satellite into orbit back in late 2016, with the AMOS - 6 having been intended to deliver internet coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa.