Sentence examples for booster stages from inspiring English sources

The Trident warheads are launched by three solid-fueled booster stages and are dispersed toward their targets by a liquid-fueled "bus" in the missile's front end.

We packed granola bars and water in squeeze-top bottles, then pumped in the liquid oxygen for the two booster stages and the hypergolic chemicals for the one-shot firing of the translunar motor, the mini-rocket that would fling us to our lunar rendezvous.

It consists of dual booster stages, which are attached to an advanced expendable core.

Solid rocket motors always find a place in launch vehicles, especially as booster stages on account of their capability to deliver higher thrust needed during the initial phase of flight, most importantly during lift-off phase.

SpaceX has publicly disclosed a multi-element, incremental test program for booster stages that includes four aspects: low-altitude (less than 760 m ), low-velocity testing of its single-engine Grasshopper technology-demonstrator at its Texas test site low-altitude (less than 3000 m), low-velocity testing of a much larger, second-generation, three-engine test vehicle called F9R Dev1.

high-altitude (91 km ), very-high-velocity (approximately 2.0 km/s; ) ballistic reentry, controlled-deceleration and controlled-descent tests of post-mission (spent) Falcon 9 booster stages following a subset of Falcon 9 launches that began in 2013 Eight low-altitude booster flight tests were made by Grasshopper in 2012 and 2013.

By 20 miles, the last pacemaker dropped away, like the booster stage of a rocket.

That launch also was the first time SpaceX successfully recovered the booster stage of the Falcon 9 in one piece, landing it back at Cape Canaveral.

It is what I see as the booster stage — the rational-expectation hypothesis and the vulgar versions of the efficient-markets hypothesis that have run into trouble.

Once again, SpaceX was able to successfully land the booster stage of the rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic.

It is what I see as the booster stage — the rational-expectations hypothesis and vulgar versions of the efficient-markets hypothesis — that has run into trouble.