Sentence examples for prior missions from inspiring English sources

In each of the three prior missions with similar problems, a number of protective heat tiles were damaged, Mr. Counts said.

This is SpaceX's first launch of the X-37B, which has been sent into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket for each of its prior missions.

In the prior missions to Mars, the approaches used to estimate the bioburden could easily be conservative without penalizing the project because spacecraft elements such as the descent and landing stages had relatively small surface areas and volumes.

NASA has been working on SEP technology since the 1950s and they've used SEP on prior missions like the Dawn spacecraft, which is currently in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres and is the first spacecraft to orbit around two extraterrestrial bodies.

No prior missions had attempted such a flyby.

Principal Investigators of small and medium sized space and earth science missions face many challenges during formulation, design, development, integration and test, launch, and operations; these challenges may be more easily met by team leaders with prior mission experience.

In any event, with UN chemical weapons investigators already in Damascus on a prior mission, the pressure to allow them to examine the affected sites is hard to resist.

The first step involves a rough global search of the global search space, which has, however, been somewhat bounded based on prior mission-design experience, intuition, and energy arguments.

In light of its growing political integration, Hezbollah adopted a new manifesto altering its prior mission statement that focused on establishing an Islamic regime in Lebanon, ending the "colonialist entity" (aka the Israeli State) and bringing justice to Phalangists (Maronite Christians) to what is expected to be a more politically integrative and constructive mandate.

For instance, Wardrop said, "there isn't a proper library of information at the UN" that gathers documents from prior peacekeeping missions — to shed light on lessons learned.

Some tankers were shipped to Europe without having so much as driven a car before; some tank commanders were forced to teach their men how to load and fire their tank guns in the field prior to missions.