Sentence examples for launch rate from inspiring English sources

The launch rate is approximately one per year, with selection of two missions occurring every two years.

One recommendation does address a major issue - they recommend that NASA reduce the launch rate of the shuttle.

Europe is stagnant: the euro dipped below its 1999 launch rate against the dollar for the first time in nine years on January 14th.

The first launch is planned in 2020 with a launch rate objective at full operational capability of 12 over a year.

To reduce the launch rate is to insure that the shuttle will never be economically competitive with expendable launch vehicles, such as the French Ariadne.

Even when its vehicles weren't blowing up, the shuttle, Impey notes, never functioned as advertised: "the launch rate ended up ten times lower than originally planned and the cost per launch twenty times higher".

A doubling of flagship launch rates is not implausible.

"Such low launch rates, with their associated high costs, don't yield high commercial success rates," Diamandis explained.

"I don't think there should be more private investment in small sat[ellite] companies until launch rates go up," Rocket said.

Based on the TRANSCOST-Model algorithms a wide range of vehicle sizes — from 20 to 100 Mg payload in LEO, as well as launch rates — from 2 to 100 per year — have been investigated.

Several studies conducted during 1991 2001 demonstrated, with some assumed launch rates, the future unintended growth potential of the Earth satellite population, resulting from random, accidental collisions among resident space objects.