Sentence examples for apogee of about from inspiring English sources

Sounding rocket missions based on VSB 30 motors, that are used in the TEXUS program, allow for a 16 min ballistic flight reaching an apogee of about 250 km after 4.2 min ascent, followed by about 6 min of μg time [17].

And then I ask him about the apogee of his book, his definitive walking experience, when he talks about how, in the mountains of the Cévennes, his favourite spot, in a period of fine weather, he simply abandoned his rucksack.

American officials assessed that the missile flew on a "lofted" trajectory to reach an apogee of 2,300 miles, before landing about 620 miles from its launch site in Chagang province in northwestern North Korea, near the border with China.

This news seemed like the apogee of our fears (or fantasies) about big tech – companies that just can't wait to drop the façade of tepid consumerism in favour of projects that wouldn't look out of place in the prologue to a sci-fi epic.

But even at the apogee of the American century there were doubts about the future.

The apogee of the Earth's Moon, for instance, is about 50,000 km (31,000 miles) more distant from the Earth than its closest orbital point.

So it's probably worth noting at this stage that people have been declaring episodic storytelling, mixed voices and unreliable narrators as the apogee of innovation at least since Achaemenides told Aeneas about Polyphemus.

In Gilroy, once the aromatic apogee of garlic, the herb is now grown on only about 500 acres.

"That's really the apogee of progressivism in North Carolina," says Korstad, who coauthored a book about the fund called To Right These Wrongs.

Garriott's not fighting mad about the movie's current underground status, but he wants "Apogee of Fear" to come out.

The second stage of the phil-Hellenistic period extends from the first quarter of the 2nd century until about 30 bc and embraces a period when Parthia reached the apogee of its power and worldwide territorial expansion.