Sentences with phrase «second rocket launch»

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Musk has seen success of the two - stage rocket Falcon 9, which completed nine launches and landings, and earlier this year a rocket finish a second successful mission.

Nearly three weeks after the North's first ICBM test, Kim launches a second Hwasong - 14 rocket to prove once more that the U.S. mainland is within his reach.

A U.S. official and two congressional aides, all familiar with the launch, said on condition of anonymity that the second - stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster rocket failed.

Rocket Lab's second test launch rocket «Still Testing» on the launchpad at the Mahia Peninsula, New ZeRocket Lab's second test launch rocket «Still Testing» on the launchpad at the Mahia Peninsula, New Zerocket «Still Testing» on the launchpad at the Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand.

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.

SpaceX's next and final generation of Falcon rockets is nearly ready to complete its biggest milestone yet, second only to operational launch...

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.

For the test flight, it will jettison the capsule 45 seconds after launch, when the rocket has climbed nearly 5000 metres.

Now it is believed that Torah on the Moon has approached the Spain - based Barcelona Moon Team, an X Prize entrant that is due to launch in the second half of 2015 on a Chinese Long March rocket.

Fortunately, Verne had been dead for 64 years by the time of the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 and was thus spared the embarrassment of knowing the actual launch speed of the aluminum craft that would carry the three men would be 11,424 yards per second, and that part of the rocket would be named «Columbia,» not his own ludicrously off - base suggestion, «Columbiad.»

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 molaunch 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 moLaunch Alliance Delta 2 rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 (OCO - 2) spacecraft back on track for launch this molaunch this morning.

Now their multi-pronged plan calls for the robotic spacecraft Chang» e 5 to launch in the second half of 2017 atop a Long March - 5 rocket, land on the moon and collect several pounds of lunar samples, then hurl the specimens back to Earth.

On 23 June, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket using a booster that had already been to space, only the second time SpaceX has flown used boosters

Failure of a Pegasus XL rocket earlier this year delayed launch of a second probe until next July.

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.

«If it was ground - launched, a rocket failure after one second can leave you in a very nasty place indeed,» he says.

A year later, a Long March 3B rocket blew up twenty - two seconds after launch and crashed into a nearby village, with a death toll of more than two hundred.

The rocket was about 90 seconds from lift - off on Monday when its computers automatically aborted the launch due to a software glitch.

Half an hour after launch, Webb will separate from the rocket and begin its month - long solo journey to its new home, the Second Sun - Earth Lagrange Point.

An Ariane 5 rocket provided by the European Space Agency is slated to launch the observatory to the second Lagrange point?

The RS - 25 engine E2063 test - fired during last week's review is planned for use on the second flight of NASA's new super-heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), which will be Exploration Mission - 2 (EM - 2).

This was the second launch for the rocket, China's largest.

China plans the second launch of its new heavy - lift Long March 5 rocket tomorrow, July 2.

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.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — AmericaSpace's team of photographers worked tirelessly to produce stunning images from the recent launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the second of the United States military's Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous (SBIRS GEO - 2) spacelaunch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the second of the United States military's Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous (SBIRS GEO - 2) spaceLaunch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the second of the United States military's Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous (SBIRS GEO - 2) spacecraft.

If built, it could substantially shorten the gap between the first and second launches of SLS by eliminating the delays that would inevitably come at the launch site as it is modified to handle subsequent larger rockets.

Soon after his breakout in «Bottle Rocket,» Wilson had a small role in Stiller's second movie as director, the dark Jim Carrey comedy «The Cable Guy,» then paired with him on addiction drama «Permanent Midnight,» but the film that really launched them as co-stars was Stiller's absurdist comedy «Zoolander,» with the actors playing moronic male models.

I have seconds before the Gear launches its payload of rockets into me.

Engage S3's the standard launch control and mash the throttle, and you'll rocket from 0 - 60 mph in only 4.7 seconds (according to Audi).

When equipped with the optional Sport Chrono package, which features launch control, the four - cylinder Macan will rocket to 60 mph in 6.1 seconds and continues to a top speed of 142 mph.

A launch - control feature, which enables rocket - like getaways from traffic lights, gets the M4 from 0 - 62mph in just 4.1 seconds, and it will go on to a top speed of 155mph.

The power and torque figures are phenomenal, at 626bhp and 900Nm, which combined with the eight - speed dual - clutch gearbox (the same Porsche PDK unit in the Cayenne) and launch control will rocket the Continental GT to 60mph in an eye - watering 3.6 seconds.

You'll hit 60 mph in a startling three seconds if you can find the traction you need to rocket the car forward in a straight line using its launch control system.

Equipped with PDK and launch control, the GT3 rockets to 60 mph in 3.0 seconds en route to a 197 mph top speed.

Rocket Ride: After 1.25 seconds, Junkrat launches into the air.

There's probably a sequence where the clock is ticking... time's running out... the hero only has seconds to stop the bomb or the rocket launch or the asteroid.

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.

Several events stick out: Laying on my back on the launch pad the second before those solid rocket boosters ignite is a feeling you don't forget.