Sentence examples for controlled descent from inspiring English sources

The crippled aircraft manages a partly controlled descent in spreading flames, as a voice off-camera shouts, "sarook," or rocket, before it strikes the ground and explodes.

In late November, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin managed to do what most refer to as the 'Holy Grail of Rocketry' — successfully send a rocket 62 miles into space and then, in a carefully controlled descent, land it upright just four-and-a-half feet from the center of its Launchpad.

In late November, Jeff Bezos Blue Originn managed to do what most refer to as the 'Holy Grail of Rocketry' — successfully send a rocket 62 miles into space and then, in a carefully controlled descent, land it upright just four-and-a-half feet from the center of its Launchpad.

The space vehicle reached an altitude of nearly 330,000 feet after it launched from Van Horn, Texas, then made a "gentle, controlled" descent back to the launchpad.

In September 2013, SpaceX announced that the fourth Falcon 9 v1.1 flight which occurred in April 2014 —would be the second test of the booster controlled descent test profile.

This cycle of controlled ascent, weightlessness, and controlled descent creates the parabolic flight path characteristic of zero-g experiences.

Those were not controlled descents; by the time the planes got close to the water, they were going far too fast for any kind of safe landing.

Peter Siebold, 43, was unaware that the feathering system that controls descent had been unlocked early by co-pilot Michael Alsbury, who was killed in the crash in the Mojave desert in California on 31 October, the NTSB said.

Musk noted in response to an audience question that Dragon 2 "technically still is" capable of landing propusively (controlling descent via retrorockets, instead of floating back to Earth via parachutes), but it's not being pursued for the final spacecraft at the moment.

Jumping from higher altitudes means reaching higher speeds during free fall in both vacuum and atmospheric conditions, and creates extra challenges for the spacesuit wearer to control descent and avoid going into a fatal spin.

Stick insects must be considered as being non-volant although they often possess wings, which they generally use to control descent from the canopy rather than for sustained flying [ 21].