Sentence examples for launch altitude from inspiring English sources

Most sailplanes are towed to launch altitude, although some employ small, retractable auxiliary engines.

American aviation pioneer Burt Rutan's company Scaled Composites, for example, was developing SpaceShipOne (SS1), which would be carried to a high launch altitude by a twin-engine jet aircraft, rocket into space, and then glide to a landing.

The climb to launch altitude takes about an hour and then the countdown begins.

Your thoughts as you and the rocket were carried by airplane to a launch altitude of 48,000 feet?

When it eventually enters service, Enterprise will be carried to its launch altitude by the "Eve" carrier plane before being released in mid-air.

Virgin Galactic's White Knight Two - the jet-powered mothership that will carry SpaceShip Two to launch altitude - appeared at Friday's ceremony at Spaceport America near the Mexican border.

The secretive Google X operation sees itself as firmly on target with a plan to launch high altitude Internet-transmitting balloons across the southern hemisphere, as it aims to provide wireless coverage to billions of people in remote areas.

(See also: Styrofoam cups on submarines and the size of stratosphere balloons at launch vs. altitude).

The packing launch-method is a revolutionary way of launching high altitude balloons made of thin polyethylene films.

For the proposed experiment, Keith and fellow Harvard professor Frank Keutsch plan to launch high-altitude balloons that would spray small amounts of materials such as sulfur dioxide, alumina, or calcium carbonate into the stratosphere.

The United States and Israel have said they would not rule out an airstrike to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb, and while Iran has continued to hold out the possibility of compromise, it has also showed off new long-range missiles, submarines and plans to launch high-altitude satellites.