Sentence examples for test rockets from inspiring English sources

Tesla was late delivering its first electric supercars to celebrity customers, while SpaceX's test rockets kept blowing up.

The Pentagon has no plans to launch test rockets from the base, because it is close to populated areas.

The mapping aided the placement of listening devices that eavesdropped on prowling Soviet submarines, and monitored the plop of test rockets fired from Cape Canaveral.

The radar unit cannot rotate and therefore cannot track missiles coming from California or Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific, where the military is likely to launch most of its test rockets.

Spaceport America has three other clients apart from Virgin who sporadically test rockets or launch payloads, but their fees – along with Virgin's $1m lease – still don't cover the upkeep the state has been paying every year.

So far, despite some spectacular and fiery failures of its test rockets, SpaceX has launched satellites for commercial use and is the first private company to dock with, and provide supplies to, the International Space Station.

In 2012 SpaceX began flying an unwieldy-looking legged test rocket called Grasshopper.

The Guardian filmed an al-Aqsa test rocket launch, fired into an uninhabited area of the Negev desert, last month.

NASA's other RLV test rocket, the smaller, aircraft-launched X-34, was rolled out in 1999 and prepared for its first flight tests.

Once, three minutes before the scheduled launching of a small test rocket, a scientist pressed the siren switch to warn the local fishermen, as was the norm then, but the switch launched the rocket.

When XCOR Aerospace, a private California rocket-building company, was looking for a wide-open place to test rocket engines and space planes, it found an ideal site in Midland.