Sentence examples for launch decisions from inspiring English sources

Two decades after the end of the Cold War, it is bordering on madness to maintain systems requiring launch decisions in a matter of minutes, rather than hours or days.

We also empirically demonstrate that the strategic launch decisions that managers take have an effect on future reaction by competitors.

Thinking based on rising passenger numbers "produced the Airbus A380 launch decision, the triumph of volume over profit".

Kim said the North's launch decision was made when "the hostile forces were getting evermore frantic to suffocate" North Korea, and called for launching more working satellites in the future.

As a result, the fifty missiles in each squadron are connected by coaxial cable to ten control centers, assuring redundancy and enabling one center to veto another's launch decision.

Typically, it takes four to five years between the time the "launch" decision is made for a new jet model — that's when Boeing commits to building it and starts taking orders for it — and the time the first plane hits the runway.

Furthermore, this gate charts out the path ahead by ensuring that plans and budgets have been made for Stage 4. A go to launch decision will mean the product team will receive investment capital to start trading immediately.

Our sources in Asia tell us that Palm continues to push development of the device but is far from making a launch decision.

Nuclear security expert Bruce Blair reports that "the closest the U.S. came to an inadvertent strategic launch decision by the President happened in 1979, when a NORAD early warning training tape depicting a full-scale Soviet strategic strike inadvertently coursed through the actual early warning network.

Dekker explains Vaughan's influential term coined through her study of the Challenger launch decision: "The 'normalisation of deviance' describes a process whereby a group's construction of risk can persist even in the face of continued (and worsening) signals of potential danger… Small departures from an earlier established norm are often not worth remarking or reporting on" (ref. 39, p.538).

A well-known example of their limitations occurred in the wake of the Challenger disaster when a focus on compromised O-rings (i.e., a failed, technical component) as the proximate cause of failure threatened to mask the overarching influence of powerful cost and timeline pressures on organisational scheduling and launch decision-making (e.g., Vaughn 1997).