The phrase "a single launch of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to one instance of launching something, such as a product, service, or event.
Example: "The company announced a single launch of their new smartphone model next month."
Alternatives: "one launch of" or "a solitary launch of".
The cost of a single launch of the SLS could be in the vicinity of $1 billion.
Even a single launch of pure shielding material cannot protect an astronaut in deep space for more than 180 days using the assumptions adopted in the analysis.
"I think it's conceivable that they could do it with a single launch of Falcon Heavy, if they expend the boosters [rather than landing them back on Earth]," says space consultant Rand Simberg.
"We looked at the airline industry and said: 'how many people does it actually take to maintain and fly a 747?' and 'how many people does it take to support a single launch of a single Space Shuttle?' We want to get that down closer to how an airline operates and that's what we've been doing".
Still, he said, a single launch "can affect hundreds of flights". Now, a robust commercial space industry is growing fast, and it intends to fly much more frequently, forcing more airspace restrictions.
Each battery consists of a single launch rail and six two-stage missiles with a range of about 200 miles, according to information available here.
For major launch vehicles and strategic missiles, the absence of a pilot on board, the great expense of a single launch, and the inability to recover and reuse the test vehicle call for rigorous test techniques, highly elaborate instrumentation both in the vehicle and on the ground, and extraordinarily intensive preflight checkout in order to prevent a costly abort.
The United Launch Alliance, which sends rockets to space for NASA, commercial corporations, and the Department of Defense, estimates that the average cost of a single launch is two hundred and twenty-five million dollars.
"The failure of a single launch in the early to mid-1980s," MRanelaghagh quotes the report as saying, "could negate all of our capability for a particular type of collector for a protracted period of time.
(A single launch failure in 2006 accounts for half of those lost).
Other proposals involved launching the Gemini spacecraft on a Titan IIIC, and refueling in low Earth orbit before proceeding to the Moon, and a single launch architecture using a three stage variant of the Saturn IB.
