Sentence examples for loft a satellite from inspiring English sources
It needs to, after 14 years of failures in the development of rockets powerful enough to loft a satellite — particularly when its secretive leadership encourages its impoverished people to indulge in grandiose expectations.
North Korea's public portrayal of the event as a complete success was similar in its celebratory tone to the happy note it struck in 1998 after having failed to loft a satellite into orbit.
Such portrayals take bravado, since the failed launching was North Korea's third unsuccessful bid to loft a satellite in a decade, the splashdown made all the more humiliating by Pyongyang's weeks of drumrolls and world defiance.
Asgardia is not yet recognized by any other nation, nor by the United Nations, and it is not clear how, not having its own territory to launch from, it will be able to loft a satellite without it coming under some other nation's control as described by the Outer Space Treaty. .
In two of them, in 1998 and 2009, North Korea claimed to have lofted a satellite into orbit, but Western experts say all four rockets failed.
The Unha-3 missile was supposed to usher North Korea into a group of only eleven nations capable of lofting a satellite into space.
Lofting a satellite would "constitute a highly provocative action, threatening peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia," Cho Byung-jae, the spokesman of the South Korean Foreign Ministry, said in a statement.
It was the first time SpaceX, short for Space Exploration Technologies Corp., had lofted a satellite into a deep-space orbit.
It is also hugely expensive: lofting a typical communications satellite currently costs some $250-$250-$500m
A satellite phone is a good idea.
