Sentence examples for In launchings from inspiring English sources
While this development is important to Lockheed's reputation, and having more government contracts undoubtedly helps offset the industry slump in commercial sales, the increase in launchings will not make a big difference in Lockheed's bottom line.
"We have a redesign effort that we have ongoing as we speak," Mr. Counts said, adding that the Atlantis incident had not caused enough damage to warrant delays in launchings for subsequent missions.
Those failures were similar to the basic mechanical breakdowns, electrical shorts and software flaws that led to a spate of recent failures in launchings of commercial booster rockets for lifting satellites into space and in the test program for Thaad, which is a less ambitious antimissile system that is meant to protect troops.
NASA officials said yesterday that they were confident that the spacecraft and roving vehicles could be built and tested in time for launchings in 2003, on May 22 and June 4.
The punishment was in those launchings and landings; sea kayaks are not really designed for surf.
For Orbital Sciences, it was second failure in eight launchings of the Taurus XL.
They determined, for example, that foam fell from a connector to the external fuel tank in seven launchings.
No working missile system had been built — and almost none of the components had ended up being tested in real launchings as planned.
Robert Crais's neat description of Modex Hybrid, an explosive compound used in missile launchings, applies just as well to DEMOLITION ANGEL (Doubleday, $24.95), a flammable techno-thriller with the kind of force that knocks out windows.
The key would be developing a rocket with the lifting power of the Saturn 5, either a cargo version of the shuttle or a larger version of the Delta 6 or Atlas 5. Dr. Zubrin said the mission could be done in two launchings.
Because of the costs and lengthy preparations for a launch, there were just 22 successful government and commercial launchings in the United States in 2006.
