Sentence examples for a spacecraft launch from inspiring English sources

Plans to build a dedicated launch facility were unveiled at Farnborough airshow as an ambitious bid to transform Britain from a nation that has never seen a spacecraft launch from its own soil into a leading space nation.

A major difference between ISS and satellite programs is that the research funding will be expended on scientific instrumentation and analysis and not on a spacecraft, launch vehicle, and flight operations.

The later a spacecraft launches, the farther and longer it will have to travel.

The X-rays from this and other flares were observed by Rhessi, the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, a spacecraft launched in February.

The flights would be the first to give nonprofessional astronauts the chance to go into orbit aboard a spacecraft launched from the United States.

There is an atmosphere, but it is extremely thin — and NASA is spending more than a quarter of a billion dollars to study it with a spacecraft launched on Friday.

A16 Woman Dies After Disney Ride A 49-year-old woman who had become ill at Disney World after going on a ride that simulates a spacecraft launching has died.

He was a member of the imaging team for the voyage to Mars by Mariner 9, a spacecraft launched in 1971 that was the first to orbit another planet; it transmitted 7,300 photographs of the Martian surface.

What's more, a spacecraft launched between 2001 and 2006 could take advantage of Jupiter's gravity for a slingshot effect that would shave years off the trip.

The constellation was meant to be completed by 2011, but a spacecraft launched last December carrying the last three satellites veered off course.

Using data collected by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a spacecraft launched jointly by NASA and the European Space Agency, the two scientists tracked the motion of small zones of magnetism on the sun's surface carried poleward by meridional flow.