Sentence examples for launching preparations from inspiring English sources

Already, launching preparations have been put on hiatus.

Forecasts give an 80percentt chance of favorable weather, and launching preparations have proceeded without any glitches.

Stephanie Stilson, a NASA manager supervising launching preparations, said that technicians replaced the panel with a spare and that there was no indication of further damage.

South Korean news media had speculated that one of the missions of the Chinese delegation might be to try to persuade Pyongyang to refrain from launching a rocket again, with satellite photos appearing to indicate launching preparations.

By the time the BBC's offices in Glasgow were raided by Special Branch over a film that was never broadcast about a secret British intelligence satellite that was never launched, preparations to sack the director general were far advanced.

"This activity is consistent with launch preparations" before the failed April launching, it said.

Launch preparations would take so long that the Americans would have plenty of time to knock them out.

In two weeks' time, he will leave with them for Baikonur and final launch preparations, stopping briefly en route for a press call in Britain.

"If the brigandish U.S. imperialists dare to infiltrate spy planes into our airspace to interfere with our peaceful satellite launch preparations, our revolutionary armed forces will mercilessly shoot them down," the North's state-run Korea Central Radio said.

Launch preparations for the Maven spacecraft – short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution – had ground to a halt Tuesday along with almost all of NASA after Congress failed to provide money for the federal government to continue operating.

The launch preparations come as North Koreans and new leader Kim Jong-un mark 100 days since the death of Kim's father, Kim Jong-il, and prepare to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late Kim Il-sung, the North Korean founder, on 15 April.