Sentences with phrase «shortly after liftoff»
A SpaceX rocket headed to the International Space Station on a resupply mission broke apart shortly after liftoff in Cape Canaveral, FL..
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A still from an animation shows what SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket may look like shortly after liftoff.
The company does however intend to land the booster on their offshore drone ship shortly after liftoff, with the intent to reuse it for the upcoming NASA CRS - 15 Dragon resupply mission to the ISS as soon as June 2018.
Shortly after liftoff, the rocket separated from the vehicle.
The Wallops Incident Response Team completed today an initial assessment of Wallops Island, Virginia, following the catastrophic failure of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket shortly after liftoff at 6:22 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Oct. 28, from Pad 0A of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
OCO - 2 was built to replace the original Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) spacecraft, which was lost shortly after liftoff in February 2009 when the nose - cone fairing of its Orbital Sciences Taurus XL rocket failed to open as planned.
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.