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Palestinian militants kept up their now-daily rocket launchings into Israel as pressure mounted from hardliners in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition for tougher action against Hamas, the dominant force in the Gaza enclave.

When KCBS inquired about the contrail on Nov. 4, it found that there had been no launchings scheduled that day at Vandenberg Air Force Base, north of Los Angeles, where satellites are launched into orbit.

As its existing satellites aged and the delays mounted, NOAA finally put a new model named Suomi into orbit a year ago that now helps bridge the gap until the next launchings, in 2017 and in 2022 — two and four years late, respectively.

The first two Falcon 9 launchings, in 2010, also succeeded.

So did a string of launchings in 2006 and 2007.

If this business plan unfolds as it is written — the company has two fully inflated test modules in orbit already — Bigelow will be buying 15 to 20 rocket launchings in 2017 and in each year after, providing ample business for the private companies that the Obama administration would like to finance for the transportation of astronauts into orbit — the so-called commercial crew initiative.

For instance, in April, during a string of six failed launchings in nine months, a protective shroud covering a payload failed to detach from a Lockheed Martin Athena 2 rocket, dragging an earth-imaging satellite back into the atmosphere, much as the Minuteman did with the kill vehicle last week.

And North Korea resorted to underground blasts after botched rocket launchings in 2006 and 2009.

On the contrary, they expressed their newfound brio with model launchings ranging from a new sporty two-door version of the Mercedes midrange C Class to a four-seat Ferrari, the FF, that marks the company's entry into the family car market, albeit for families with a vehicle budget of several hundred thousand dollars.

12 Space Launching for Russia Russia resumed launchings of its Proton rocket booster, which lifted an Indonesian satellite into orbit from Kazakhstan.

Although North Korea says its missile launchings are to loft satellites into orbit for peaceful purposes, American officials consider the missions a cover for testing technology for intercontinental ballistic missiles that could eventually be used to carry nuclear weapons.