Sentence examples for contract to launch from inspiring English sources

SpaceX also has a large backlog of commercial satellites it is under contract to launch.

Boeing also has a NASA commercial contract to launch astronauts in a capsule on top of an Atlas V rocket.

The company has also won a contract to launch one of its used rockets with a payload; Thursday's launch involved a new rocket.

NASA has awarded the Boeing Company a $168 million contract to launch three satellites and space probes on Delta II rockets.

Robert Boehme, the leader of Part-Time scientists, said his team — which is backed by Audi, the carmaker — had a contract to launch in mid-2018.

The private companies aim to reduce those costs to $4.6 million to $7 million, and one specialized space mission company is under contract to launch two satellites at a cost of $11.5 million apiece.

SpaceX and Boeing, meanwhile, have contracts to launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.

In addition to carrying out the 12 space station resupply missions, the company has contracts to launch satellites for Canada, Thailand, Taiwan, Israel and Argentina.

In 1970, Heldman persuaded the woman who would become her main accomplice, Billie Jean King - the most effective player activist the game has known - and seven others to accept $1 contracts to launch the Virginia Slims Circuit with a tournament in Houston.

For years, the company has been in a heated battle with ULA over big contracts to launch national security payloads, long seen by Musk as a key source of revenue.

It has also been contracted to launch satellites for a number of government and commercial clients.Mr Musk thinks his non-bureaucratic, low-cost approach could reduce the cost of launching payloads into low-earth orbit from around $6,000-10,000 6,000-10,000 today to around $3,000 with Falcon 9, and eventually (by reusing more of each launcher) to around $1,000.