Sentence examples for launch a vehicle from inspiring English sources

It does seem absurd to launch a vehicle into space only to spend the most of the mission checking to see if it's safe to come back again.

The Ansari X Prize is an award for the first privately financed team to build and launch a vehicle capable of taking a pilot and two tourists into space twice within two weeks.

One reason is the $10m "Ansari X Prize", funded by private donors, for the first privately financed team to build and launch a vehicle capable of taking tourists into space.

"Any time you launch a vehicle, you put considerable stress on the manufacturing system to maintain productivity and quality," said Gary L. Cowger, president of G.M.'s North American operations, in a statement.

He said he seldom saw enemy fighters though they had launched a vehicle packed with 5,000lb of explosives at them, which they fired at until it blew up.

The last launch of a vehicle based on the Titan ICBM was on October 19 , 2005

The people in Detroit today seem to have forgotten how to launch a new vehicle.

"Whenever you launch a new vehicle for complaints, you tend to see increases," Bragdon said.

A flame deflector is a structure that prevents damage to a launch vehicle and a launch pad due to exhaust plumes of a lifting-off launch vehicle.

The MBSAT spacecraft was launched on 13 March 2004 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on an Atlas III-A launch vehicle.

The former consists of a continuous miner, addcars (belt conveyor cars), a launch vehicle, a stacker conveyor and a loader as shown in Fig. 2.