Sentences with phrase «rockets launched into»

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.

Not exact matches

«We wanted to be the first student group in the world to launch a rocket into space,» Ellis says of the friends» time at the University of Southern California.

Gilliland notes private company Solara bested the government - funded Human Genome Project by hitting important milestones first, and Elon Musk's SpaceX found a way to send rockets into space for a fifth the cost of a NASA launch.

They're typically smaller than rockets that launch satellites and people into space, but structurally, the missiles aren't too different — which is why militaries pay close attention to countries that develop human - spaceflight programs.

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by tech mogul Elon Musk, is poised to make good on its promise to slash the cost of launching things into space.

In December 2015, SpaceX did something no commercial aerospace company had done before: It launched a satellite into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, then safely landed the rocket's lower half, called a first - stage booster, on a launchpad.

In March, SpaceX, into which Musk has poured $ 100 million, launched a rocket 180 miles above Earth.

Yet, SpaceX — the spaceflight company created by Telsa founder and PayPal co-founder Elon Musk — had imagined a way to drastically cut the cost of launching anything into space: simply make the rocket re-usable.

[CEO Pavel] Durov's idea is to launch an entirely new blockchain, using the Telegram's 180 million users as rocket fuel to power forward into mainstream adoption off cryptocurrency and making Telegram, effectively, a kingmaker of other cryptocurrencies, because of its existing scale.

Following the conclusion of its investigation into an explosion last year in September, Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technology Corp., or SpaceX, will take its rocket to the launch pad again on Sunday,

Viasat originally signed a contract with SpaceX to launch its ViaSat 2 satellite into space via SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.

Relativity Space has created the world's largest metal 3D printer to print its own rockets and launch satellites into space.

Or «starting a business is like a rocket ship taking off into space» and «launching a business is like getting a jumbo jet off the runway» or «Launching a business is like launching launching a business is like getting a jumbo jet off the runway» or «Launching a business is like launching Launching a business is like launching launching a rocket.

Traveling to orbital space means the rocket will have the ability to launch satellites, or to take tourists and scientists into orbit.

In 2017, Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to send its seven - seat Dream Chaser spacecraft into orbit, while Boeing will launch the most powerful space rocket ever built — the one that will launch NASA / Lockheed's Orion and crew to an undetermined destination beyond orbit in 2021.

A military satellite launched by Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies appears to have crashed into the sea following a malfunction in the latter stages of its ascent, representing a potential setback for the billionaire's rocket program.

He wants to use this rocket for every launch, be it sending a legion of tiny research satellites into low Earth orbit or intrepid astronauts to Mars.

When complete and ready to ferry payloads — and eventually people — into space, the Dream Chaser will be positioned atop an Atlas V rocket and launched skyward.

The company, on Apr. 16, will launch NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (known as TESS) on a Falcon 9 rocket into high Earth elliptical orbit.

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

(Block - five will help the company launch heavier payloads into higher orbits around Earth while being able to land and reuse its boosters, which are the most expensive part of a rocket.)

In June, SpaceX successfully launched two rockets into space, surpassing the previous record of eight rocket launches in a single year.

When a spacecraft is launched into orbit, the rockets jettison and are not retrieved.

SpaceX successfully landed all three boosters that propelled the rocket, but the rocket's second stage, with the Roadster on top, was launched into an orbit around the sun.

For the last decade, SpaceX has been developing commercially viable rockets to launch customers 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.

Elon Musk's bright red Tesla Roadster, which was launched into space aboard the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Feb. 6, could be looping around the Solar System and will survive close encounters with Earth for millions of year.

ISRO's GSLV Mk III rocket, India's most powerful rocket, launched the GSAT - 19 communication satellite into orbit on Monday, June 5.

NASA has released the results of its inquiry into what went wrong during SpaceX's catastrophic CRS - 7 mission rocket launch in 2015.

Starting a business is like launching a rocket into space.

SpaceX was just able to land a rocket after launching it into orbit, which could transform the economies of space.

The historic launch of a partially recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into space on Thursday drew cheers from Americans who celebrated what could be the beginning of a new era of space travel, a field that's quickly become more commercialized and competitive...

In 2006, he entered into the $ 278 million agreement to demonstrate — with three launches — his ability to put his Falcon 9 rocket into space.

SpaceX is converting the site, formerly known as Launch Complex 13, into a landing pad for the reusable Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rocket stages the company is developing.

Durov's idea is to launch an entirely new blockchain, using the Telegram's 180 million users as rocket fuel to power forward into mainstream adoption off cryptocurrency and making Telegram, effectively, a kingmaker of other cryptocurrencies, because of its existing scale.

Both sides have stepped up their aggression in the past few days, with rocket launches from Gaza into Israel and Israeli airstrikes against Gaza.

The latest batch of fighting began last week when Hamas launched a rocket into Israel, and Israel responded with a series of aerial strikes.

Good enough to launch a rocket into space and land a rover on Mars to investigate Mars?

The favorite among my crew is the Xcelerator, on which riders rocket from 0 to 82 miles per hour in a mere 2.3 seconds, launching hundreds of feet into the air before immediately hurtling 90 degrees straight down.

The satellite launch happened during a caution period, giving everyone at the track (and viewers around the world) the chance to see the rocket shoot high into the sky.

Somehow the action of putting the foam rocket onto the stomp launcher and jumping on it to make it launch into the sky can easily keep kids entertained for up to an hour.

Also, in the US, the Federal Aviation Administration governs launching rockets from the US into orbit, but that's only in the US.

And so too is launching rockets into Israel...

But so far, Rosetta has had trouble getting off the ground; its original launch date, last January, had to be postponed because one of the new French - built Ariane 5 rockets, a close cousin of which was to blast Rosetta into space, blew up during another launch.

An Indian - made rocket called PSLV - C37 soared 310 miles into the Earth's ionosphere last February and launched 104 space satellites, spitting them out rapidly from both sides.

The founders estimate that printing parts in space could reduce the structural mass of objects by at least 30 percent, because the objects would not need to survive Earth's gravity or the extreme G - forces of launching into orbit aboard a rocket.

Vantablack also has other useful qualities: It withstands the stress from launching a rocket into space, long - term vibrations and extreme temperature fluctuations.

Later that year, when the company won the $ 10 million Ansari X Prize for becoming the first commercial organization to launch a reusable, manned rocket ship into space twice within a two - week period, Congress approved a phased approach to regulations for private manned spaceflight, a move that was intended to encourage investment in the field.

In April 2015, the entire system was flown on a research rocket for a 6 - minute parabolic flight into space as part of the TEXUS program that launches from the Esrange Space Center in Sweden.

Nearly 40 years ago, in the wake of Sputnik's launch, New Math was supposed to save America — perhaps by implanting creative concepts into the minds of future rocket scientists and nuclear engineers.