The space agencies of the European Union, Japan and Canada also launch from here on Russian rockets, under an agreement with NASA to repurchase about half of the six seats NASA buys annually from the Russians.
On the other hand, the agreement is a safeguards agreement, and it involves mutual assurances" to American companies likely to launch from here that "there is no risk of their technology being broadcast in an unauthorized manner".
Since Hamas, a radical Islamist group that opposes Israel's existence, carried out what amounted to a coup d'état in Gaza against the more secular Fatah party a year ago, hundreds of rockets and mortar shells have been launched from here at Israeli civilians, truck and car bombs have gone off and numerous attempts to kidnap Israeli soldiers have taken place.
We'll be launching from here later this decade.
You can still swipe right-to-left to launch the camera from here, but additionally there are buttons with a useful haptic response that take you to their respective features.
Along the way my team built a minimum viable product, launched from obscurity here on TechCrunch, raised a seed round of funding from local venture capitalists and angel investors, and worked like mad to translate our initial success into long-term growth, engagement and monetization.
"The whole notion that the battlefield is no longer limited to Afghanistan and Pakistan and that rockets are being launched from right here concerns me — and the possibility of retaliation," she said.
"Rijkaard launches the spit from here, now stop it there," he observed, before getting to work with his magic pen and charting the trajectory of the offending gully with an illustrative squiggle.
"Launching real-time traffic from HERE on Esri's platform for our ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS for Transportation Analytics software products will offer a deeper level of logistic and analytic capabilities for enterprise and government fleet companies," notes Chris Cappelli, sales director at Esri, in a statement.
D: You can see the interceptor leave its launching pad, not far from here, and then suddenly, mid-flight, it hones in on the exact location of the rocket and changes its angle of flight, Tzzzzt... O: Wow M: Yeah (sigh; she sounds deflated all of a sudden), it's so depressing.
We launched this campaign not far from here on a beautiful June day.
