Sentences with phrase «which blasted off»

The total cost of the Mars Express mission, which blasted off in June 2003, was about 300 million euros ($ 350 million at current exchange rates), ESA officials have said.
The probe failed just before reaching Mars — a fate shared by the agency's Mars Climate Orbiter, which blasted off in December 1998.
Hoping to learn more, he contributed ideas for NASA's Juno mission, which blasted off in August.

Not exact matches

During the recent Bitcoin blockchain fork in which a faction of the network broke off and created a new currency, Bitcoin Cash, some customers blasted Coinbase for saying it did not intend immediately to support the new money.
«It will start off building just the most elementary infrastructure, just a base to create some propellant, a power station, blast domes in which to grow crops — all of the sort of fundamentals without which you can not survive,» he said at the South by Southwest festival in March.
In the 4 - minute video below, we walk you step - by - step through the exact technical criteria that helped us identify $ KNDI as a Blast Off candidate in early December, which subsequently led to a 60 % winner in The Wagner Daily newsletter less than one month later.
Maple actually contains high levels of two minerals that are vital for muscle recovery — manganese and zinc — which will enable you to blast off that belly fat at your next workout.
It's all part of the month - long Blarney Blast promotion, during which guests at every Bennigan's restaurant across the U.S. will receive scratch - off sweepstakes cards offering the chance to instantly win a free GoPro camera, along with dinners for two, appetizers, desserts and Coca - Cola products.
Two years ago in 2015, we drew 1 - 1 at Everton, before drawing 2 - 2 in the replay at Upton Park which was decided 9 - 8 on penalties, with the winning kick being scored by Adrian, famously throwing off his gloves before blasting home the decisive penalty.
The Outer Space puzzle pairs well with the 1 -2-3 Blast Off With Me Personalized Book which I loved for added color and shapes learning!
Among the boldest easy recycled crafts, you'll find ones that excite little girls looking for a dainty touch and others which fascinate boys wanting to have a blast (off).
According to Okonjo - Iweala, «People are happy to see the symptoms being taken care of, punitive measure, you know it makes big headlines when people are hauled off to jail and the media blasts the story, which is good, there ought to be consequences and punitive actions but it's not enough.
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.
«I can give them a blast of sulfur gas, which is an antimicrobial, to ward off interaction with oxygen...» His voice trails off.
The film shows the two characteristic light output pulses that are seen only in nuclear weapon blasts, which correlate with the device's yield (the amount of energy given off from the explosion).
Three computers control it all from a small room at the other end of the lab, which is sealed off by blast doors whenever the experiment runs.
YAG (yttrium aluminium garnet) lasers emit ten super-short pulses of light each second, which superheat the paint, blasting it off in chips, rather than heating the surface.
Barring any criminal involvement, in which case all bets are off, the two most likely culprits in the blast are anhydrous ammonia and ammonium nitrate.
The researchers, which include U.S. teams from NOAA, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the University of New Hampshire, will be collecting seismic data from this region by bouncing sound blasts off the sea floor to determine its sediment makeup, as well conducting a multibeam analysis that will give them an idea of the shape of the ridge.
They believe this huge blast caused the so - called mid-Permian extinction, which killed off species around the world.
Brian Metzger, an astronomer at Columbia University, said that if we could confirm that plasma lenses are responsible for the repeating FRB's erratic on - off blast cycle, «this would be telling us something important about the environment through which the FRB is passing and thus a strong hint as to their origin.»
History of the Blast Off Game The first version of the «Blast Off» game was called «MyPyramid Blast Off», which -LSB-...]
A couple of weeks ago the Blast class, which is mostly HIIT / bootcamp style, wasn't on ClassPass (< — referral link for $ 40 off), so we decided to try out the Build class instead, which is more about strength and lifting heavy weights.
Then I felt a blast of heat, which signals the laser (it cycles on and off).
All of the levels are designed in such a way that they have exploration and collection aspects (puzzle pieces, secret exits, KONG letters) but also every level can be nonstop speed - ran through for brutal time trials, which is just a blast to pull off.
Fall of Cybertron's multiplayer component also benefits from High Moon's sincere approach to the source material, always enabling those giddy moments in which you and your teammates leap into the air, transform and blast off to the next objective.
The album kicks off with an acoustic tinged intro featuring the always comical lyrical stylings of Oderus Urungus (Dave Brockie) before blasting into «Madness at the Core of Time» which is a song done in typical GWAR fashion.
In a breakneck series of 70 or so microgames, which are divided into channels in the game's main mode, you'll pull out gooey boogers, blast your buddy's head off with a shotgun, and scrub away bubbles to reveal a busty woman in the shower.
Finally, a separate blast gauge can be utilized to pull off very powerful Mystic Artes, which regularly turn the tide of the battle when executed.
Low - budget horror fans will find little to complain about in the straightforward first half - hour, which stacks up an entertaining series of episodic mishaps — an overpowered Pec Deck machine pushes a guy's ribs out through his torso; ceramic tiles fly off the walls of a fully - occupied women's locker room as steam blasts out of the shower heads; and, in the quickest and most brutal tableau, an unfortunate patron gets a Friday the 13th - style arrow through the back of the neck.
From the opening - credits sequence, in which each title appears in the empty space vacated by Pearce's head after a hulk named Rupert punches it off the screen, this cheaply made, disposable product of the Luc Besson factory glories in its hero's cheerfully antisocial persona — Pearce is the whole show here, and he's having a blast.
Get swept off you feet with Disney's DVD release of Enchanted, which includes bloopers, deleted scenes, behind - the - scenes featurettes (for the Happy Working Song, That's How You Know and A Blast At The Ball), and an interactive game (Pip's Predicament: A Pop - Up Adventure).
And it pays off extraordinarily well in the second - half, which heads back to colonial Africa for an homage to F.W. Murnau «s film of the same name, silent beyond narration, and the occasional blast of Wall of Sound pop.
«Once Upon a Time in Venice» is a cheerfully depraved guilty pleasure in which Willis and a host of other recognizable faces meander about, cracking off a few good lines here and there while the soundtrack blasts mood - setting tunes that all but announce the filmmakers didn't have the budget to pay for REAL pop tunes.
A few Sonic spin - offs are included which are Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic Spinball, and Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.
When equipped with PDK, the Cayman will, under certain conditions, coast in near total silence with the engine cut off, which tends to comes as a bit of a surprise after an extensive blast through the decibel stratosphere.
Lot # 737.1 - This custom GMC 100 series pickup has undergone a frame - off rotisserie restoration during which time the exterior was completely sand - blasted before it was finished in new two - tone blue and white paint.
50 levels of blasting - off - the - wall gameplay, 2 - 4 player co-op, an explosive gameplay mechanic, all of which coming from a developer you can trust?
One mission you can activate see's you fueling up and launching a spaceshuttle which blasts down the middle of the screen, while another mission will end up turning off the gravity while you desperately try to fix it, but the gravity will occasionally return for a few seconds sending you into a panic as you try to save the ball.
Players will often times hilariously ragdoll when checked, which is fine, but in a gloves - off fight the same physics just blast away the realism.
Abilities can be equipped such as micro missiles that are capable of locking onto enemies, a laser pulse which shoots hi - intensity laser beams in all directions, blast grenades that produce a large blast radius, a grenade launcher that is capable of bouncing grenades off walls and many more abilities.
The left shoulder button can be held to loose volleys of rapid - fire shots, but, if you ease off the trigger for a few moments, you can charge up a more powerful blast, which is a neat way of dispatching larger or immediate threats.
In Nintendo Power's Super Mario Adventures comic, a Bullet Bill makes a relatively small appearance; after accidentally activating a Bill Blaster after knocking Luigi off it, Mario is blasted by a Bullet Bill, which he ends - up riding straight into the Koopaling's Tower, where he is captured by Bowser's forces.
i enjoyed it far more than raging blast which had very dissatisfying combat system that mainly relied on the specials to be the meat of combat, I enjoyed looking at it more than playing it, which I cant say about budokai (though I hate the dragon rush it throws off the skill the game takes), the intimate combat made the fights more rewarding, but i felt that it would benefit from a limited 3d environment (like storm or the old revolution series), and a lot of the features that were in the tenkaichi / raging blast series.
The fastest man alive is getting a spin - off from the main show «Arrow» in which Barry Allen made a cameo and was blasted by electricity and chemicals.
First there's the Buzzkill that fires out saw blades across the battlefield that will ricochet off any surface and second is the Dropshot which launches an aerial bomb across the map, firing straight down the line, killing anything in its blast radius.
As I previously mentioned, there are new and formidable machines to tackle but there's also the new snake - like control towers which can not only knock you off your mount with their purple «daemonic» blast, but they can also restore the surrounding machines you're are battling whilst you try and override this new foe.
More prosaically, just about every driving manoeuvre that you pull off which would lead to police sanction in real life earns you rewards, whether you are deliberately blasting past speed cameras as quickly as possible, pulling off near - misses or demolishing fences.
Pulling off that trick if you're on the motorcycle or saving your RUSH ability, which is a blast of speed, for the right second.
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