Sentences with phrase «rockets exploded»

When I watched the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer, I saw vivid laser blast flares and detailed explosions as rockets exploded on attacking Imperial AT - ATs.

If I remember correctly, quite a few rockets exploded before the space folk got it right.

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.

In March it made industry history by successfully launching and landing a reusable rocket; six months before that, it watched as one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded during refueling for a so - called test fire.

Instead, Facebook opted to lease broadband onboard Spacecom's AMOS - 6 satellite, which was destroyed when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded during fueling before launch in 2016.

A rocket exploded a concrete pylon, part of a highway overpass, and Skelton was hammered with metal and rock.

But the company suffered setbacks in 2014, when its third resupply mission to the ISS failed after the rocket exploded above the launch pad.

In early September, a SpaceX rocket exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral as it was being pumped full of fuel.

If this rocket exploded too, if the cars didn't arrive, if the investors didn't come through, the game was over.

After having three SpaceX rockets explode while approaching bankruptcy with Tesla, Elon takes action.

But the rocket exploded.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded in August just as NASA's Office of Inspector General reported that, in addition to congressional underfunding, bureaucratic sluggishness could push American ISS launches back to 2018.

A US spy satellite was blown to smithereens last week when its Titan 4 rocket exploded 101 seconds after launch from Vandenberg Air Force base in California.

In 1995, a Long March 2E rocket exploded shortly after launch, killing six and injuring twenty - three.

In 2016, another SpaceX rocket exploded during routine fueling procedures, destroying the $ 185 million Amos - 6 Israeli commercial satellite.

Remote cameras set up around launch pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia captured incredible up - close views of an Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket exploding seconds after liftoff several weeks ago.

Mullah Omar lost his right eye in 1989 when a rocket exploded close by.

This is especially cinematic when the heavy weapons show up, with rockets launching across the screen only to miss the protagonist as he shifts and the rocket explodes a group of goons instead.

But it doesn't take one to observe a rocket explode and fall to the sea.

But the rocket exploded.

Two minutes and thirty - nine seconds after taking off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, however, and just before second - stage separation, the rocket exploded.

Self - proclaimed Cypherpunk and Software Engineer Jameson Lopp went straight for the jugular, likening that launch of Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase to a rocket exploding at takeoff:

A Facebook satellite was destroyed when a SpaceX rocket exploded on a launchpad in 2016.

Not exact matches

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

Bitcoin has rocketed more than 350 % this year while exploding in popularity, particularly in Asia.

Further, as of now, about one in 20 rocket launches fails, or more precisely, explodes in a massive fireball that rains debris down for miles around.

In other words, if the launch is unsuccessful, the rocket could explode with the force of a nuclear weapon.

Surprisingly, the engine was not being purposefully ignited when it exploded: According to the company source, the blast occurred during a «lox drop,» in which liquid oxygen is pumped into a rocket engine to see if it leaks.

The ensuing blast emits speeding metal fragments that in theory penetrate the rocket's warhead and prompt it to explode.

This video provides a blurry view looking down from the rocket... until it explodes.

The rocket stage succeeded in hitting its target but landed too hard, exploding on the robotic boat's deck.

But he has warned that the Heavy is a complex rocket with 27 first - stage engines, and that it, too, could explode.

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).

We love these exploding chalk rockets from Growing a Jewelled Rose, or try our slightly less colourful version.

«You build this huge, high - fidelity instrument, and then you put it on a rocket that is 20 stories high and you explode it into space.

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

Eyewitnesses at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida say a SpaceX rocket has exploded on the launch pad

Myhrvold's irreverent advice was just one of the cutting - edge food science and cooking tips that he shared during his talk, all the while dazzling the audience with film clips of wine glasses shattering, orange zest vaporizing, and a kernel of popcorn exploding in slow motion (as illustration of the kernel's «structural failure» to illustrate how water in food can become a «steam rocket» as the latent heat of the water builds up).

Rocket stages are a particular risk to spacecraft because they often contain large amounts of unused fuel, which can explode when sunlight heats the tank.

The next day, a 1 - metre - wide rocket designed by Space Transport Corporation of Forks, Washington, exploded after reaching a height of about 300 metres in the state's Olympia National Park.

A russian rocket of the same model used to carry cosmonauts into space apparently exploded during flight last month.

The 7 - metre rocket tore through the walls of the launch building, shot into nearby woods and exploded.

«When we realized the launch was good — nothing got torn off, nothing got burned or exploded — of course we were interested in rocket's telemetry, how it would handle its task of putting Sputnik on its specific trajectory,» Ivanovskiy says.

Gravity is heavy, atmosphere is thick, rockets — even simple ones — tend to explode, and the corporate testing ground is strewn with private orbital - services start - ups that have crashed and burned.

In 2017, the Block 5 version of the Merlin rocket engine exploded at a testing facility in Texas, as was noted by Space.com's Mike Wall in his Nov. 2017 article.

In 1996, a French satellite was damaged by debris from a rocket that exploded 10 years earlier, and a 2007 anti-satellite test launched by China introduced more than 3,000 pieces of debris to space, according to NASA.

While sometimes his charges are detonated inside the object, other times he launches a rocket to explode the target.

Snyder was rightly criticized for Superman's lack of regard for saving human lives in the first film, so in this film he tries to rectify that with a montage early on showing Superman saving people from burning buildings, exploding rockets, deadly floods.».».

U-571's plot moves like a rocket, never pausing for breath, and this works to a point, but certain events (what happens to Keith's Major Coonan, for example) are glossed over in favor of more (exceptionally well - done) shots of exploding depth charges and topside battles.

On a more positive note: The maps are huge and unique in geography, the vehicles are very much fun to use, all of them, except maybe the inflatable landing boats, and the combat roles the different classes play out is refreshing: The sniper can lay down claymores and sit back, plinking enemies from, in some maps, perhaps up to a quarter of a mile away, considering he / she is good, and has a good gaming rig, the combat medic can heal allies, and revive those who were fragged, saving them from having to respawn back at base, the support guy can lay down suppressing fire and resupply his allies with ammo, the spec ops guy can sabotage bridges, vehicles, and team assets (such as artillery and UAV trailers) with sticky C4 charges (pity the soldier who takes off in a jet only to have it explode in midflight from a hidden c4 charge stuck on it's body), The engineer repairs vehicles and lays down anti-tank mines, the anti-armour troop works on destroying said vehicles with wire - guided rockets (note that the armour guy in bf2 has his own gun ALONG with a pistol, not just a pistol like in 1942), and the assault guy....