Sentence examples for launch position from inspiring English sources

"From the launch position onward, our swings are identical," Bichette said.

Aircraft can climb above bad weather to a more suitable launch position.

There, it was lifted to its launch position by a hydraulic ram.

By calculating the acceleration imparted by external forces (including the rocket engine's thrust), and by comparing these forces to the launch position, the guidance system can determine the missile's position, velocity, and heading.

However, it placed the launch position in a different place to others, and said the attack could only have been carried out using a discontinued Buk M-1 system, which it claimed the Ukrainian army operated but the Russian army did not.

Silly me, I thought it had something to do with Republicans not wanting a young (she had just turned 45), highly qualified judge sitting in the D.C. Circuit's famous launch position (hello, John Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Warren Burger...) Now I realize it's not about anything so sophisticated.

The cupola was then moved from its launching position on Tranquility's outboard end to an Earth-facing port.

Neither ever flew, and after 35 years in launching position, the once-gleaming sentinels of the New Frontier are peeling, sagging hulks.

Every now and then I see a truck driving around town with what appears to be a rocket, tilted up into launching position, attached to the back.

Thompson has a baby face, the posture and uniform drape of a fifty-year old man, and the ability to receive passes while moving hard to one side; he can cantilever his momentum by squaring mid-air into launching position and score from Sausalito.

The launching position of SPPs is fixed at the end of waveguide, and the focused spot is limited to the diffraction.