Sentence examples for Expendable space from inspiring English sources

While NASA's expendable Space Launch System (SLS) faces an uncertain future, SpaceX's development of Starship and Super Heavy would enable a vast array of missions at a fraction of the cost of the SLS – not least the company's own ambition of sending humans to Mars.

Russian modules were carried into space by Russian expendable launch vehicles, after which they automatically rendezvoused with and docked to the ISS.

Orbital ATK's contract, worth $46.9 million, is for the development of new technologies to serve the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle, a US Air Force space launch program.

And that it also gives us aircraft that can go into space, replacing all the expendable rockets we use today".

Earlier this year, Boeing was sanctioned for using a rival's proprietary documents when it bid for a space rocket called the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle.

Both the Delta IV and Atlas III were developed under the U.S. Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program, which aimed to reduce space launch costs by at least 25% over current systems.

If NASA pulls its support, Seery says one option would be to launch AMS on an expendable launch vehicle and fly it freely in space.

Last month, Musk testified before Congress seeking the right to bid on the Air Force's space launch program, called the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle.

In the space sector, Lockheed Martin builds the Titan IV, the largest American expendable launch vehicle; the commercial Atlas families of expendable launchers; the Centaur upper-stage rocket; the Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile; and smaller tactical missile systems for aircraft and ground-based platforms.

With the exception of the U.S. manned space shuttle, all space missions make use of expendable launch vehicles (ELVs).

Satellites launched on expendable boosters allowed the United States to achieve strategic dominance in space.