Another big question is how badly the launch pad was damaged Another big question is how badly the launch pad was damaged.
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People and vehicles on the launch pad dwindled beneath her.
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The festival has served as a launch pad for some.
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The crew capsule's escape system tested on the launch pad.
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That "mobile launch pad" allows for more flexibility in scheduling.
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The Falcon 9 rocket standing on historic launch pad 39A.
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Shotwell said repairs to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which are still underway, should cost "far less than half" of a new launch pad, which she said runs about $100 million.
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The four other cameras closest to the launch pad were undamaged.
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Launch Pad 41b is located at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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ET, SpaceX's uncrewed Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster exploded on the launch pad on Sept.
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EDT (22014 GMT) from a repaired launch pad on Wallops Island, Virginia.
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A SpaceX Falcon 20183 booster exploded on the launch pad on Sept.
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Aldrin, 89, was to join Collins on the launch pad but canceled.
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There's no better startup launch pad than our world-renowned Startup Battlefield.
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SpaceX has not publicly disclosed the extent of damage to its launch pad.
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Currently, the spacecraft is vertical at the launch pad awaiting the launch window.
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RADDATZ: Senator Rubio, I'm talking about a preemptive strike on the launch pad.
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As planned, its reusable main-stage booster landed safely near its launch pad.
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Headlines - Big setback for Musk as SpaceX rocket explodes on launch pad on.ft.
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Ryan Anderson pitter-pattered into space and then morphed into a launch pad.
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Engineers were also modifying the Florida launch pad and tower to accommodate Vulcan.
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I used this article as the launch pad and inspiration for these lessons.
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In late February, the company's Starship SN1 prototype imploded on the launch pad.
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A launch pad for the new rocket is due to open in 2021.
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The explosion destroyed a $20103 million Israeli satellite and heavily damaged the launch pad.
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SpaceX said it was not yet releasing images or details about launch pad damage.
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX is recovering from a launch pad explosion on Sept.
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A commercial satellite image taken on Thursday showed smoke rising from the launch pad.
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Everybody lingered near the launch pad in a surreal state of shock and confusion.
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An explosion like that would wreck the launch pad and require months of repair work.
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Lift off occurred at 2:30 am ET Tuesday from a launch pad in Florida.
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Being able to be on a rocket launch pad is a perfect example of that.
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It would be a good launch pad as we got resettled back into New York.
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The other camera placed outside the launch pad was also not impacted by the fire.
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I watched the launch from NASA's press site, about 3.5 miles from the launch pad.
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As this happens, people get to watch from three different viewpoints near the launch pad.
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The insurgency, they judge, prevents India from using Afghanistan as a launch-pad for aggression.
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Attached to the tweet was a photo of the launch pad where the explosion happened:
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That firm, Virgin Orbit, has turned a Boeing 747-400 into a flying launch pad.
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The booster slowed to about five mph as it hovered slightly, just over the launch pad.
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The Iridium satellites will be launched from SpaceX's California launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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"You walk up to a fully fueled rocket ... standing erect on a launch pad," says Garriott.
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They returned to flight after their second explosion, which was the launch pad one, really quickly.
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They could launch in other areas maybe in California and just build their own launch pad.
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It's a former launch pad for NASA's Titan family of rockets, which were retired in 2100.
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Squint, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston resembles a launch pad.
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The emails, in their turn, are a launch pad for thinking about what makes literature worthwhile.
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A "no" vote on March 4th could blow up Ms Nahles's leadership on the launch pad.
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"I had six remotes, two outside the launch pad safety perimeter and four inside," Ingalls said.
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Earlier today, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad for no apparent reason.
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SpaceX successfully demonstrated this abort system can work if something goes wrong on the launch pad.
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After all, streaming services like Sling TV had significant growing pains getting of the launch pad.
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But from that familiar launch pad, the game rockets into some weird, amazing, and alien places.
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A lot of history has happened since the Voyager spacecraft first lifted off the launch pad.
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Fortunately, SpaceX has been working on a second launch pad at Cape Canaveral: Launch Complex 39A.
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Even the box it comes in fits the theme, serving as the spacecraft's requisite launch pad.
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The easternmost edge of the village is located about 1.5 miles from SpaceX's beachside launch pad.
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The area has been used as a launch pad for rocket and mortar attacks on Damascus.
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At World View headquarters, just across from the launch pad, mission control gives the all clear.
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You've built the rocket and bought time on a launch pad and established your mission goals.
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The 1.5-tonne rocket hovered 40 metres above the ground before descending back to its concrete launch pad after 30 seconds, to the relief of 26-year-old chief executive Hu Zhenyu and his engineers - one of whom cartwheeled his way to the launch pad in delight.
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The 1.5-tonne rocket hovered 40 meters above the ground before descending back to its concrete launch pad after 30 seconds, to the relief of 26-year-old chief executive Hu Zhenyu and his engineers - one of whom cartwheeled his way to the launch pad in delight.
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The new launch pad is at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, just north of the Cape Canaveral site.
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He had multiple cameras set up, and this one was actually the furthest from the launch pad.
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In order to bring the first stage back to a launch pad, additional lateral maneuvers are required.
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This includes strapping the rocket to the launch pad and firing the engines up to full throttle.
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The spectacular display included two booster rockets returning in synchronised formation to land near the launch pad.
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At 28,000 frames per second, a wonderful pyrotechnics show is revealed as it leaves the launch pad.
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On its launch pad an Electron stands 22 metres tall and has a diameter of 2700 metres.
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On top of this, there will be significant damage to the launch pad infrastructure at Cape Canaveral.
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After the Apollo program, LC-22017A became the de facto launch pad for the Space Shuttle era.
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Personnel were clear of the launch pad at the time, so there were no injuries or fatalities.
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Since it first began, The Launch Pad has become wildly popular, and other schools have replicated it.
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A wildfire began burning through the foothills surrounding the satellite's launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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The explosion also damaged the launch-pad, leaving it unusable, although SpaceX has access to two others.
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I guess we wanted "new rave" to become a launch pad rather than a career-defining genre.
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Instead, SpaceX has been working on a new launch pad at Launch Complex 39A at the Cape.
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Incirlik air base in southern Turkey has become a key launch pad for coalition airstrikes against ISIS.
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There's a wonderful feeling of camaraderie and closeness on the launch pad that is gratifying to see.
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Groups like Al Qaeda have used Yemen as a launch pad to attack targets in the West.
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It's actually very interesting because our launch pad is ... in a good geographic position to do launches.
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Significant smoke plume coming from the Cape Canaveral Space X launch pad in Florida, seen on radar.
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While the explosion badly damaged the company's Florida launch pad, SpaceX will have the option of flying from two additional sites when it gets back to spaceflight: one at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and another launch pad at Cape Canaveral that the company leases from NASA.
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Then, the following summer, SpaceX lost another Falcon 753 after an explosion at its Cape Canaveral launch pad.
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The agency is investing in its own heavy-lift rocket, capsule and launch pad modifications targeting Mars travel.
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As a result, the rocket released a short burst of exhaust plumes but remained on the launch pad.
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The command vehicle orders a launch and selects the best placed launch pad, usually cited on a truck.
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On a cloudy day in May 250, a Russian-made rocket roared off a launch pad in Kazakhstan.
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Belhasa's Instagram is the launch pad for Money Kicks, his urbanwear brand founded on his love of sneakers.
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The 30-mile-long island serves as a launch pad and refueling station for US warplanes and ships.
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Yesterday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, destroying its entire payload.
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California's notorious coastal fog quickly set in, shrouding the launch pad in aesthetically-pleasing but functionally-irritating wisps.
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Together, they visit Disney World, just an hour drive from SpaceX's launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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However, flaming debris spread by Starhopper's powerful rocket engine almost immediately started brush fires near the launch pad.
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"We're on the launch pad," said Cashin, UBS' director of floor operations at the New York Stock Exchange.
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We had the same playing field, the same launch pad, the same support system from a community standpoint.
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NASA and SpaceX have not said when they expect Crew Dragon to be back on the launch pad.
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Falcon Heavy's first customer Many questioned whether Falcon Heavy was obsolete before it ever reached the launch pad.
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Fast forward to yesterday when a privately-funded rocket carrying a privately-funded satellite exploded on the launch pad.
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The Orbital ATK Antares rocket is rolled from the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) to launch Pad-0A, Thursday, Oct.
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SpaceX sent its first rocket into orbit since an explosion on a launch pad last September grounded its fleet.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and payload were lost on the launch pad during preparations for a routine test.
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Typically, the payload represents only about 5% of the mass of a rocket as it leaves the launch pad.
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The New Zealand launch pad is scheduled to be completed by the end of the first quarter in 2016.
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Blue Origin previously tested the system both on the ground and on the launch pad, but not in flight.
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Unfortunately, he said, they happened to make that investment just before another SpaceX rocket exploded on the launch pad.
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Those successes effectively made the Kinect a stepping stone (or even a launch pad) for bigger and better things.
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The real issue is that they so often fail at providing a good launch pad for a winning candidate.
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They've already tested a few of these and it looks like they're preparing the launch pad for another act.
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The bus is the one taking them to the launch pad, and the root of this idiosyncratic liquid ritual?
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A fire erupted on the launch pad during a pre-launch test, killing all three astronauts in the rocket.
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CST (1722 GMT) and landed itself minutes later back on the launch pad, the company said in a statement.
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The BFR is shown taking off from and landing back at Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.
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Once filled with liquid methane and oxygen at the launch pad, though, it may weigh seven times that amount.
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In late July, the first successful test launch of Starhopper almost immediately started brush fires near the launch pad.
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BALLS' youngest members use the event as a launch pad to continue to profoundly shape our future in space.
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Zillow's house-flipping business is a launch pad into further transforming the homebuying experience, CEO Richard Barton told CNBC.
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Obviously, having a SpaceX rocket explode on the launch pad, with a Facebook satellite on board, isn't helping matters.
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The 23-story booster soared off its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 213:20713 a.m.
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But for me, the best part was this footage of the Heavy's two side boosters returning to the launch pad.
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Still, Forczyk said the ultimate test will come when Relativity finally puts a Terran 1 rocket on a launch pad.
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SpaceX The explosions lasted for four minutes when a SpaceX rocket blew up on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
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But that plan ended when the rocket blew up on the launch pad early Thursday morning at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Launch Pad and Gantry with Hermes A-1 Rocket, V2 Launch Complex 33, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, 2006.
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It took a bit of work to go from driveway to launch pad, including extensive testing on NASA's vomit comet.
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They're launching off of Space Launch Complex 4E, the launch pad that originally hosted Atlas launches from 1962 until 2005.
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I just hope it makes it far enough away from the launch pad that it does not cause pad damage.
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One aspect of his plan, he said, was to launch a manned spaceship from an airplane, not a launch pad.
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For the first time since July 25, a Falcon 9 sits perched atop SpaceX's California launch pad, ready to fly.
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He might regard this latest almost-martyrdom, on a sound point of ultraconservative principle, as a rather useful launch-pad.
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Just prior to take off, the giant service tower is rolled away, revealing the rocket on its launch pad underneath.
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It's a big step for Orbital, after the company's original Antares rocket exploded on a Virginia launch pad in 2014.
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Redirecting a returning rocket to land on a launch pad requires extra fuel capacity that some missions just can't spare.
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Personnel in the Launch Control Center watch from Launch Complex 211A, three and a half miles from the launch pad.
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Personnel in the Launch Control Center watch from Launch Complex 39A, three and a half miles from the launch pad.
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That vehicle has been grounded since 2014, after one of the rockets exploded on the launch pad during take off.
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The rocket doesn't travel straight upward into space but follows a parabolic arc up and away from the launch pad.
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The launch pad was unharmed, but the fires took a week to contain and damaged electrical wiring to the facility.
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Read More: Check Out Motherboard's Photos from the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Pad This system has been tested once before.
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The company also has not said how much damage the blast caused to the launch pad and ground support equipment.
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All three crew members died in a fire inside their capsule during a pre-launch test on the launch pad.
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This time around, it seems that something caused an explosion on the launch pad just before that test got underway.
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Earlier this month a Falcon 9 exploded as it was being fueled on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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"This bigger structural base of support provides the launch pad for a short- to intermediate-term move up," Ross said.
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SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when it exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
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The Spektr-R radio telescope at Baikonur Space Center, within the integration and test complex of Launch Pad No.20053.
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The rocket exploded on its launch pad at a space center in northern Iran on Thursday, an Iranian official said.
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A balcony looks east with a view of SpaceX's work yard and, a couple of miles away, the launch pad.
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The 23-story tall rocket took off from its seaside launch pad at Kennedy Space Center at 7:15 a.m.
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Many automakers, including Volkswagen, view China as a sort of launch pad for their electric vehicles, CNBC reported in April.
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In simple terms, the Stratolaunch aircraft is a giant flying launch pad, designed to hurtle satellites into low Earth orbit.
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More recently, observers from the NTSB and FAA helped SpaceX investigate the launch pad explosion of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule.
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The Boeing 747 system allows it to skip the costly and time-intensive process of building a dedicated launch pad.
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An ISRO Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifting off from a launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India.
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And after doing its job, the Falcon 9 did return smoothly to a launch pad at Kennedy's space center in Florida.
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This is the same launch pad used by the Saturn V rocket that first took people to the moon in 1969.
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Launch Pad 39A, which underwent modifications to adapt to SpaceX's needs last year, sits on marshland not far from the Atlantic.
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Here is satellite imagery of the Sohae launch pad, showing Pyongyang has made progression in its construction at the site. Jul.
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SpaceX has finally revealed what caused one of the company's Falcon 9 rockets to explode on the launch pad on Sept.
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The launch pad control systems are in relatively good condition, the company reports, and SpaceX's rocket support building had no damage.
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While teaching at the University of Miami, she founded The Launch Pad, which was considered the top model in entrepreneurship education.
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From there he was dispatched to another meeting point on Interstate 45 that was serving as a launch pad for boats.
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On September 1st, a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, while it was being fueled.
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We don't know what the root cause of the accident was, however, or how badly the rocket's launch pad was damaged.
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SpaceX built its first launch pad within about 1.5 miles, or 2.4 kilometers, of a nearby community called Boca Chica Village.
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Rocket Lab will be opening a third launch pad, the company announced, just after declaring its second in Virginia this month.
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The rocket reportedly reached an altitude of 25 miles (40 kilometers) and traveled some 170 miles (273 km) from the launch pad.
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There is NO threat to general public from catastrophic abort during static test fire at SpaceX launch pad at CCAFS this morning.
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"I had six remotes, two outside the launch pad safety perimeter and four inside," Ingalls said in a post on NASA's website.
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Communist scientists had put the first satellite, dog and man into orbit, while America's efforts flared and fizzled on the launch pad.
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A plan to create Europe's first-ever rocket launch pad taps into a commercial desire to send satellites into the Earth's orbit.
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The top portion of a launch pad tower, which is used to raise the rocket and support it vertically, had canted over.
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It pointed out that rocket motors burn out so quickly that interceptors would have to get unfeasibly close to the launch-pad.
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SpaceX's primary launch pad, located just south of Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, was damaged in the Sept.
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Only the Saturn V moon rocket, last flown in 1973 from the same launch pad, delivered more payload to orbit, it says.
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In fact, the film and music events are really just getting underway, but Interactive is the launch pad for the whole event.
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Diego Garcia became an important U.S. base during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, acting as a launch pad for long-range bombers.
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On Sunday, California-based Rocket Lab launched its second Electron two-stage rocket from a launch pad in New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula.
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This would not only give SpaceX engineers more information about the failure, it would also protect the launch pad from an explosion.
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There was also activity on the launch pad itself, but it's not clear if the site has a rocket yet, Reuters reports.
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An investigation began into the explosion of a SpaceX rocket as it was undergoing tests on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
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SpaceX's next flight had been slated for later this month from a second launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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Moon told reporters that Kim had agreed to dismantle a missile test site and launch pad in the presence of international observers.
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In late July, the vehicle rocketed to about 60 feet (18 meters) off the ground and landed back on its launch pad.
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If it destroys the launch pad, meanwhile: Well, if it blows up the pad… that'll be a real pain in the neck.
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Then one of his SpaceX rockets blew up during a launch pad test, taking with it the satellite that Mark Zuckerberg's Internet.
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There is no shortage of radicalized Islamic entities that ISIS can position as the next launch pad for major external terror operations.
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No more waiting in line for a slot to open up on a spacecraft blasting off from a traditional terrestrial launch pad.
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Hughes promised another launch was coming on Saturday, February 3rd, but the big day came and went without anything leaving the launch pad.
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This time, a Falcon 9 will blast off with a telecoms satellite for the British company Inmarsat from SpaceX's Cape Canaveral launch pad.
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Another one happened when they were on the launch pad and they were fueling for a preflight test and the rocket exploded. Right.
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The Soyuz launch pad is seen ahead of the Soyuz rocket being rolled out by train at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Monday, Nov.
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The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Monday, July 4, 2016.
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Once it arrives, it executes a landing not unlike the current Falcon 9 first stage at another landing/launch pad, where passengers disembark.
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However, the lot of workers is improving and entry-level jobs are a much better launch pad to something better than joblessness is.
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TV makers love to use CES as a launch pad for TVs that they don't actually expect a ton of people to buy.
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Both the launch pad and engine test stand were in about the same condition since last August, according to the 38 North report.
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The company recently suffered a major failure after one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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WarnerMedia is using the HBO brand as a launch pad for its service, called HBO Max, which is scheduled to debut next April.
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The Interceptor, a drone-hunting machine from Silicon Valley startup Airspace Systems, slinked off its launch pad and dashed away in hot pursuit.
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Safety is the top priority, so Commercial Crew astronauts have practiced evacuating SpaceX's launch pad in the unlikely event of danger before liftoff.
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Astronauts will board the spacecraft, Crew Dragon, through an aerial walkway after it's attached to a rocket and hoisted onto its launch pad.
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Small-satellite launch company Rocket Lab just officially declared its second launch pad open, but it has already broken ground on a third.
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Rocket Lab's new launch pad at Launch Complex-1 (LC-1) will provide it with the ability to launch with even more frequency.
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These rockets are the boosters that get spacecraft airborne and are designed to be returned to the launch pad to be used again.
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The initial April launch was ahead of a United Launch Alliance mission for the Department of Defense in June from the Cape Canaveral launch pad in Florida, so Boeing would have needed to clear the launch pad by the first week in May, one of the sources said, describing the pressure not just on technical issues but also launch schedules at Cape Canaveral.
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The Syrian army boasted that the capture of Palmyra would be "a launch-pad to expand military operations" into Raqqa and Deir Ezzour provinces.
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Once we determined it was possible, our Attitude Control team worked with our Mission Operations team to point a Dove at the launch pad.
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But television footage showed the 10-metre (33-foot) rocket crashing back down to the launch pad seconds after liftoff and bursting into flames.
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Joined Goldman's commodities broker unit J. Aron & Co in 1997, also the launch pad for Blankfein and Goldman's former chief operating officer Gary Cohn.
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It would also be the first time the company used its refurbished Cape Canaveral launch pad since last year's Falcon 9 explosion, reports Wired.
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My most vivid memory of that night was a view of the rocket on the launch pad through the telescope of some amateur astronomer.
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Depending on the rocket's velocity and the mass of its payload, there may not be enough fuel to get back to the launch pad.
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Throwing hot gas out of its engines at high speed (the action) thrusts a rocket off its launch pad and into space (the reaction).
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At this year's Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, a key launch pad for horror and fantasy films, more such nuanced fare was on show.
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From the Korean Peninsula, we will take them down either with ballistic missile defenses or we&aposll take them out on the launch pad.
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Human traffickers increasingly use Tunisia as a launch pad for migrants heading for Europe after Libya's coastguard aided by armed groups tightened its controls.
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The group said the images indicated no significant changes at the launch pad itself, where work platforms on the gantry towers remained folded forward.
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In October 2012, Blue Origin tested the same crew capsule in an escape system test from a launch pad (without the integrated rocket booster).
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Small satellite launch company Rocket Lab says it's looking to expand its spaceflight operations by creating a new launch pad in the United States.
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When one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets exploded on a launch pad just before a test on September 1, the spaceflight community collectively gasped.
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SpaceX is launching its first mission since a Falcon 239 rocket exploded on a launch pad during preflight routines in September of last year.
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Activities were also noted at the launch pad, however, but it was not clear whether a rocket had already been delivered to the site.
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While there were no injuries, the rocket and the Amos-6 satellite it was carrying were destroyed, and the launch pad was severely damaged.
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Artemis 1 will take off from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with an intended launch time frame of June 2020.
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Meanwhile, NASA, Orbital, and the state of Virginia spent a year repairing the launch pad at Wallops to get it ready for flights again.
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These foreign visits have often been a launch pad for purchases of luxury items, since they would avoid the hefty taxes levied in China.
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Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has not yet said how much damage was done to its launch pad, located at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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A brushfire caused by the rocket launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California engulfed the camera set up furthest from the launch pad.
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But several hours later, CEO Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX would spend July 4 doing a full review of rocket and launch pad systems.
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But the company suffered setbacks in 2014, when its third resupply mission to the ISS failed after the rocket exploded above the launch pad.
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The use of a Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) in the hangar of Cape Canaveral's 39A launch pad assembles components manufactured at their Hawthorne, Calif.
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Soon after, on August 2600, 2000, GCH tried to test-fire its innovative rocket-engine design, Percheron, on a launch pad in Matagorda, Texas.
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The flight, which will be SpaceX's first since a launch pad explosion in Florida four months ago, is now targeted for 9:54 a.m.
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Transportability issues: Solid propellants are cast into the motor in the factory, unlike liquid fuel rockets which can be fueled at the launch pad.
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What awed me the first time was scale: The crawler-transporter that moves the Saturn V rocket to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
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The rocket exploded on its launch pad on Thursday, an Iranian official had told Reuters, although Iranian media did nor report the failed launch.
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VIENNA — President Donald Trump on Friday insisted that the U.S. had nothing to do with the apparent launch pad explosion of an Iranian rocket.
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And despite an explosive failure on the launch pad last April, SpaceX managed to come back and complete its last unmanned test this month.
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"The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades are digging tunnels to defend Gaza and turn it into a launch pad for all of Palestine," he added.
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Another bad possibility would see the rocket explode or crash near the launch pad, releasing the explosive energy equal to four million pounds of TNT.
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Human traffickers increasingly use Tunisia as a launch pad for migrants heading for Europe as Libya's coast guard, aided by armed groups, has tightened controls.
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SpaceX, which is still reeling from the September explosion at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, has been modifying Launch pad 39A for future flights.
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Human traffickers increasingly use Tunisia as a launch pad for migrants heading to Europe as Libya's coast guard, aided by armed groups, has tightened controls.
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Most of the debris remains on the launch pad, which is helpful as it can allow SpaceX to analyze the rocket and collect useful data.
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In recent years, NYCC has become an ideal launch pad for upcoming television programming, and there's quite a bit to look forward to this year.
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And it means new hardware: the launch pad features a black-and-white astronaut walkway, called a crew access arm, which was installed last summer.
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The Silicon Valley funded space company, RocketLab, has fired a battery powered, 3-D printed rocket into space from a launch pad in New Zealand.
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Samsung's glorious Galaxy Note27 mission has just imploded, almost as spectacularly as SpaceX's Facebook satellite-carrying rocket did on the launch pad just hours before.
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He said North Korea was concealing activities on the site - a new cover obscures satellite views of the gantry tower next to the launch pad.
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Just 345 miles north of the equator, the launch pad is owned by the European Space Agency and operated by the French national space agency.
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Such roles are a launch pad for star managers to set up their own firms in the future, establishing the next generation of hedge funds.
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Satellite images seen by 38 North, a Washington-based North Korea project, showed that structures on the launch pad had been rebuilt sometime between Feb.
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For example, in January 1967, the Apollo I crew members, Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, perished in a fire on the launch pad.
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This morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on its launch pad, completely destroying the rocket and its payload two days before the scheduled launch.
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Shotwell noted that the first flight could launch from SpaceX's launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, or it could take off from Cape Canaveral.
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But the company suffered setbacks in 2014, when the company's third resupply mission to the ISS failed after the rocket exploded above the launch pad.
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Some telecoms firms could also use the city-state as a launch pad into a region that is still developing, industry executives and analysts said.
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And late last month, he tweeted out a photo of an Iranian launch pad that appeared to be taken by a classified US spy satellite.
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Diego Garcia has played an important role in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan since 1991, acting as a launch pad for U.S. long-range bombers.
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The long-delayed SpaceX Falcon Heavy finally roared off the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in what appeared to be a perfect launch.
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Satellite images seen by 38 North, a Washington-based North Korea project, showed that structures on the launch pad had been rebuilt sometime between Feb.
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The last time a launch pad sustained heavy damage was in October 2014 when an Orbital Antares rocket exploded seconds after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia.
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On Sunday, Elon Musk's SpaceX made history, successfully completing the first commercial rocket launch from the NASA launch pad that also sent astronauts to the moon.
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Others have advocated the drawing of a red line, telling North Korea explicitly that any intercontinental ballistic missile would be blown up on the launch pad.
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The ambitious plan comes only five months after a SpaceX rocket burst into flames on the launch pad at the company's original launch site in Florida.
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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from historic launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 6, 2018.
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And as with Virgin's service, the sale of tickets does not mean Blue Origin will get off the launch pad with humans on board in 2019.
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The massive rocket is now stuck on the launch pad due to a lack of support personnel from NASA that it needs to perform the test.
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Before SpaceX moved in, the ground systems at the launch pad were made to support the Space Shuttle, which ran on liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
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But unlike regular satellite launches, these won't be shot into space on top of a rocket taking off vertically from a launch pad on the ground.
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E-commerce was again the launch-pad: online shopping platforms developed loan services, and are using their customers' transactions and personal information to create credit scores.
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The mission was originally scheduled to happen last year from a different NASA platform but was rescheduled after a Falcon 9 exploded on the launch pad.
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Tapping on the expand arrow will open up the full set of standard Mac keys, including shortcuts for Expose, Launch Pad, brightness, and music playback controls.
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A few miles up the road, Launch Pad 39B is being modified for the SLS rocket, which NASA hopes will send the first humans to Mars.
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Another SpaceX rocket exploded, this time on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral days before it was scheduled to carry a Spacecom communications satellite into orbit.
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The window officially opened on December 8th in New Zealand, and that's when Rocket Lab rolled out the Electron to the launch pad for final preparations.
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The HelloFresh announcement is a boost for Rocket Internet, which listed in 2014 with a pledge to be a launch pad for floatations of start-ups.
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Orbital's Antares rocket exploded on the launch pad in 2014, and SpaceX's Falcon 9 exploded just a few minutes after launching to the station in 2015.
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But just seconds after launch, the rocket exploded in a spectacular fireball, destroying the vehicle and causing $15 million in damages to the Wallops launch pad.
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If past launch pad accidents are any indication, it'll probably take many months to fix the strongback and make all the necessary repairs to the area.
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The company hadn't launched a single rocket since September 1st, 2016, when a Falcon 9 exploded on a Florida launch pad as it was being fueled.
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That's too risky; if a rocket with a hot nuclear reactor blew up on the launch pad, you could end up with a Chernobyl-scale disaster.
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Rocket Lab was born in New Zealand, and still operates a facility and main launch pad there, but it's increasingly building out its U.S. presence, too.
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Israel also accuses Iran of stationing military bases and personnel in Syria to use the war- torn country as a launch pad for attacks into Israel.
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Satellite images seen by 38 North, a Washington-based North Korea project, showed that structures on the Sohae launch pad had been rebuilt sometime between Feb.
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But using the occasion of him actively working to be a good ally as a launch pad for airing old grievances about "Thrift Shop" is wasted energy.
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The world's oldest film festival is again being viewed as a launch pad for the industry's award season after premiering Academy winners in its last three editions.
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Rocket Lab At 4 pm local time on May 25, Rocket Lab's Electron stood on the company's private launch pad on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand.
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She's too old to use the vice presidency as a launch pad for a future presidential race, and the vice presidency is not itself a powerful office.
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On Friday, the FAA announced it had accepted SpaceX's explanation for what caused one of the company's Falcon 9 rockets to explode on a Florida launch pad.
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The last time a launch pad sustained heavy damage was in October 2014 when an Orbital ATK Antares rocket exploded seconds after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia.
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And now, for the first time ever, founders of early-stage startups across the Middle East and North Africa can take advantage of that awesome launch pad.
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Because the ventilators lasted only half an hour, he would carry out spares to the launch pad, walking behind the smiling, waving astronauts with his head down.
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Commercial satellite images from Wednesday and Thursday show the arrival of tanker trucks at the launch pad, said Washington-based 38 North, a North Korea-monitoring project.
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The SLS is designed to take off from a portable launch pad — what's known as a mobile launch platform — down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Right now, NASA only has one mobile launch platform — a slow-moving structure designed to carry the rocket to the launch pad where it'll then take off.
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The COPVs have been a headache for SpaceX: in September 93, one of these bottles caused a Falcon 29 to explode on a launch pad during fueling.
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The Electron launched from Rocket Lab's launch pad in New Zealand, which it has set up to be the first commercial private launch facility in the world.
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Human traffickers are increasingly using Tunisia as a launch pad for migrants heading to Europe as the Libyan coast guard, aided by armed groups, has tightened controls.
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The Falcon 9 rocket didn't explode during flight, but on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, as it was being fueled for an upcoming engine test.
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Thursday's accident was the first serious launch problem experienced by a manned Soyuz space mission since 1983, when a crew narrowly escaped before a launch pad explosion.
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"Substantial areas of the pad" were damaged SpaceX also gave an update about the state of its launch pad at Launch Complex 40, where the explosion occurred.
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Kang, like Henley needing a win to qualify for the Masters starting on Thursday, never got his final round off the launch pad, battling to a 72.
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After appearing somewhat elusive, Wall Street may finally be on the "launch pad" to a Santa Claus rally, closely followed trader Art Cashin told CNBC on Thursday.
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Since the rocket takes a parabolic arc off the launch pad, it has to perform a lot of adjustments to get back to a fixed landing surface.
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"The microsatellite market is most attractive today and we are interested in the 50 to 500-kilo niche," Aguiar told Reuters at the base's main launch pad.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan said it halted a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday because of a launch pad fire that grounded the rocket.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan said it halted a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday because of a launch pad fire that grounded the rocket.
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After Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005, the Palestinians used the territory as a missile launch pad to fire thousands of rockets aimed at Israeli civilians.
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North Korea has already successfully tested two types of ICBMs on mobile launchers, so it doesn't necessarily need the launch pad to test-fire long-range missiles.
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Schwartz eventually made his way to a job at J. Aron, the Goldman commodities unit that was also the launch pad for Blankfein's career at the bank.
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First, schedule pressure can indeed impact safety — the first example of that is the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts on the launch pad in 85033.
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The accident was the first serious launch problem experienced by a manned Soyuz space mission since 1983, when a crew narrowly escaped before a launch pad explosion.
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Rocket Lab opened its launch pad there officially in December, and will launch its first missions using its Electron vehicle from the site starting later this year.
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Wright also uses the female body as a launch pad for rockets, describing a woman's body as a battleground for today's arguments over science, technology, and war.
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Blue Origin has completed eight test flights of the vertical take-off and landing New Shepard from its launch pad in Texas, but none with passengers aboard.
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The company's 2017 agenda includes the debut launch of a heavy-lift booster, flying its first reused rocket and repairing the Florida launch pad damaged in the explosion.
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This comes after a rocky 2016, during which one of the company's Falcon 9 rockets blew up on a launch pad in Cape Canaveral during a routine test.
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This time around, the Falcon 22018's booster returned to SpaceX's ground-based Landing Zone 93 (LZ-29), located right next to the launch pad at Vandenberg AFB.
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The sprawling festival, with more than 400 films screened, often serves as a launch pad for films and performances for the awards season that culminates with the Oscars.
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Djibouti hosts a U.S. military base that is home to about 4,000 personnel, including special operations forces, and is a launch pad for operations in Yemen and Somalia.
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On Saturday, SpaceX is expected to make history by launching its first Falcon 9 rocket from historic launch pad 93A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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NASA is currently preparing the launch pad at Cape Canaveral to send the first satellite, known as GOES-R, into orbit on November 16 at 4:42 p.m.
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"The main thing is that this launch pad is now working, it has been prepared well by you and it is functioning," Putin told cosmodrome workers on Thursday.
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In an earlier statement, SpaceX said there were no injuries but the "anomaly" on the launch pad destroyed the Falcon 9 rocket and its payload, the Amos-6.
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SpaceX still has not stated how much damage its launch pad incurred, or how last week's disaster will impact its jam-packed manifest of commercial and government launches.
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Facebook wasn't the only one who saw millions of its dollars go up in smoke when a SpaceX rocket exploded on a Cape Canaveral launch pad last Thursday.
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The group is majority-owned by German e-commerce investor Rocket Internet, which listed in 2014 with a pledge to be a launch pad for floating start-ups.
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The TCDT includes activities to familiarize them with the mission, training in emergency exit from the orbiter and launch pad, and a simulated main engine cut-off exercise.
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Only minutes after liftoff, twin sonic booms echoed across Kennedy Space Center as the first two Falcon Heavy boosters landed about nine miles away from the launch pad.
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Groups linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State have used the center and north of the West African nation as a launch pad for attacks across the region.
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ET. About 8 minutes later, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket came in for a beautiful night landing at a launch pad back at the Cape.
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The payload is currently sitting on the launch pad awaiting the go-ahead, having already undergone their final clearance and a dry run of the launch countdown process.
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Some 5,800 migrants had arrived at the center since fighting broke out last month in the coastal city of Sabratha, previously a launch pad for crossings to Italy.
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The desert kingdom, where he is expected to meet dozens of Muslim, Arab and regional leaders, seems an increasingly attractive launch pad for his first ever world tour.
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After the Amos-6 launch pad failure in 2016, the company was flying again less than five months later and has had its most successful run since then.
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"I had to change my camera settings from night-time to daylight ones quickly as I shifted from shooting the launch pad to the flying spacecraft," Shamil says.
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It's a system that Blue Origin has tested out on the launch pad before, but the company has yet to see how well this feature works during flight.
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On September 1st, one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets exploded on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida as the vehicle was being prepared for a routine test.
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It took a year to fully repair NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia when Orbital ATK's Antares rocket exploded on the launch pad in 2014, according to Space.com.
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SpaceX's California launch pad can only be used for certain types of missions to space, and the second Florida pad isn't quite ready to support launches just yet.
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SpaceX hopes to start launching its rockets again in November, a mere three months after the company's Falcon 13 exploded on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl takes off from a runway, so there is no launch pad maintenance and the company is not competing for time slots to schedule missions.
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The Apollo 1 mission burned up on the launch pad during a test in 1967, killing the crew and prompting NASA to halt all attempts at manned flights.
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In 2015, the company performed what is known as a pad abort test, which ignited the SuperDraco engines on a Crew Dragon sitting alone on a launch pad.
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In fact, we've had interest from a number of these rocket companies that want to launch from South Africa, given the fact that we have a launch pad.
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Across the country, there are countless stories like this of people using direct selling as a stepping stone, a launch pad, an educational experience or a life-changer.
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Does this constitute an imminent threat, or do the missiles need to be on the launch pad and pointing in America's direction before a first strike is warranted?
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ULA's video follows the rocket from its rollout to the launch pad to its launch, and the company showed it off here at the Space Symposium using VR goggles.
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An eye-opening moment for Kloos came when he attended another science fiction workshop: the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop, held each year at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.
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SpaceX's fueling procedures were called into question by the panel after one of the company's rockets exploded on a Florida launch pad in September, during a routine fueling procedure.
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Kim Jong Un has agreed to allow Nuclear inspections, subject to final negotiations, and to permanently dismantle a test site and launch pad in the presence of international experts.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully lifted off from a launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying 5,600 pounds of supplies inside a Dragon capsule destined for the International Space Station.
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The explosion occurred as SpaceX was fueling a Falcon 9 rocket on a launch pad in Florida in preparation for a test-firing of the booster's first-stage engines.
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Samsung's clearly got some new handsets raring to go, but the company will likely either use Mobile World Congress or one of its own events as a launch pad.
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Speaking to Fox News on the launch pad, Brian Taliancich, director and general manager of launch operations at ULA, said that "everything is coming together perfectly," for the launch.
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Given these two factors -- ISIS providing a launch pad for jihad, and the huge influx of young Muslim males into Europe -- more major terrorist attacks are a near certainty.
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North Korea was concealing activities on the site through construction of new buildings and a cover that obscures satellite views of the gantry tower next to the launch pad.
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Boeing still needs to do a pad abort test — to demonstrate that the Starliner can carry a crew to safety in case an emergency occurs on the launch pad.
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The recent Falcon 9 rocket explosion badly damaged SpaceX's Florida launch pad at Cape Canaveral, meaning the company's primary launch site is out of commission for the foreseeable future.
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The document also includes graphic layouts, like the one above, showing the placement of water tanks, liquid methane and oxygen storage tanks (Starship's fuels), and other launch pad infrastructure.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - A long-awaited link between the stock exchanges of Shanghai and London got close to the launch pad last week, but there was no blast-off.
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But Iowa, which borders her home state of Minnesota, was supposed to be Klobuchar's launch pad; she was the only major candidate to visit all of its 99 counties.
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A short video he played on stage (gotta hope he has got his renderings guy on retainer) showed passengers boarding a ship and sailing out to a floating launch pad.
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Friction between the tank's aluminum liner and carbon overwrap ignited a towering inferno that engulfed the rocket, the launch pad, and a $200 million satellite owned by Israeli firm Spacecom.
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A cargo-delivery flight to the International Space Station (ISS) broke up in flight in 2015, and a rocket carrying a satellite blew up on the launch pad in 2016.
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The union where Lula, 72, sought refuge was the launch pad for his career in the late 1970s leading nationwide strikes that helped to end Brazil's 1964-85 military dictatorship.
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Sure enough, shortly after the Falcon Heavy roared off into the sky, two of its boosters reappeared, their landings just a stone's throw from the launch pad almost perfectly synchronised.
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Invites were sent to various employees on Oculus' staff, as well as participants from Oculus' "launch pad" program, which is essentially an incubator for virtual reality creators from diverse backgrounds.
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Perched atop the company's Cape Canaveral launch pad, a shiny new Falcon 9 rocket roared to life at 1:50 am Eastern on Sunday morning, lighting up the predawn sky.
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A complete Starship may stand 40 stories tall at a launch pad, ferry dozens of people into orbit at a time, and eventually send crews to the moon and Mars.
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China's National Space Administration recorded a first today as it launched one of its Long March 11 rockets from a launch pad on board a ship in the Yellow Sea.
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Especially because a US attorney is less closely identified, both personally and policy-wise, with the incumbent administration, this can be a great launch pad in an ideologically mismatched state.
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Washington (CNN)An Iranian rocket exploded Thursday on the launch pad at the Khomeini Space Center in Iran, according to a US official familiar with an assessment of the incident.
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One of the reasons Rocket Lab opened its new Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) launch pad in Wallops Island, Va., is to better serve customers from the U.S. defense industry.
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Rather than blasting off from a launch pad, Stratolaunch's rockets will drop at high altitude from underneath the company's six-engine, twin-fuselage airplane - the largest ever built by wingspan.
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Pictures of the launch site after the explosion showed the top portion of a launch pad tower, which is used to raise the rocket and support it vertically, had canted over.
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US officials noted that the missile, the Pukguksong-2, used solid rocket fuel, making it harder to detect an imminent launch because it requires less fueling time on the launch pad.
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THIS JUST IN ... We have liftoff SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket -- the most powerful launch vehicle in the world -- took off overnight from a launch pad in Florida carrying 24 experimental satellites.
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Additionally, it would mark the first use of the company's refurbished launch pad on the Cape Canaveral site after last year, when a Falcon 9 exploded, payload and all, reports Wired.
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But the latest launch, originally scheduled for earlier this week, was plagued by unusual hangups on its path to the launch pad, including a rare electrical issue aboard the space station.
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It was originally slated to occur at the end of last year, but the timing was pushed back as a result of SpaceX's launch pad pre-flight rocket explosion last September.
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There had been heavy speculation that the flight would be delayed following the accident, in which a Falcon 9 rocket exploded as it was being fueled on a Florida launch pad.
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This was the company's first-ever dry-ground landing on the West Coast, at a launch pad that had previously been used by the Air Force dating back to the 1960s.
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This past week, as we watched SpaceX launch its absolutely massive Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time, many of us wondered if it would make it off the launch pad.
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An upgraded version of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket lifts off Friday, May 11, 2018 from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center carrying Bangladesh's first communications satellite.
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Shortly afterwards, the escape system's rocket pulled the capsule containing Alexey Ovchinin and Nick Hague free, and the pair landed safely in Kazakhstan, about 400km from the launch pad in Baikonur.
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It's meant to be pilotable by anyone after a 20 hour training session, and can take off from a launch pad as small as 50-50 feet, for instance, your backyard.
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This is in keeping with the new 2017 timing, adjusted from late last year following delays resulting from SpaceX's pre-flight launch pad explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket last September.
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The security argument is compelling, analysts say — the U.S. and Israel see Iranian forces using Syria as a launch pad for attacks on Israel, and the Golan is the front line.
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But here's the rub: Musk is announcing his Mars plans well before he's successfully launched a single human being to space, and immediately in the wake of a launch-pad accident.
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SpaceX has been modifying the launch pad at 39A to get it ready for flights of its Falcon Heavy — a huge heavy-lift rocket that's essentially three Falcon 9s strapped together.
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Outlaw, founder of The Extended Mind, a company that trains VR/AR companies through practical behavioral science insights to improve overall user engagement, met Dorvilias at Oculus Launch Pad in 2017.
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The segment ended with orchestral music over a video montage of missiles shooting from a launch pad, rockets blazing out of their launchers, and soldiers cheering as fighter jets screamed overhead.
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"Kim Jong Un has agreed to allow Nuclear inspections, subject to final negotiations, and to permanently dismantle a test site and launch pad in the presence of international experts," Trump tweeted.
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Rather than blasting off from a launch pad, Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket will drop at about 35,000 feet (10,668 m) from underneath the company's modified 747 jumbo jet nicknamed Cosmic Girl.
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President Donald Trump's decision to tweet out a photo of an Iranian launch pad that he got from a classified intelligence briefing this week has astonished national-security and intelligence veterans.
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New York (CNN)A Boeing spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station shot off a launch pad in New Mexico Monday to test out its emergency abort system.
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"Today's image shows that they attempted to launch a satellite from their smaller launch pad, and that it failed," Dave Schmerler, a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute told CNN.
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The minimalist hotel has 207 rooms and is ideally situated just four blocks from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and serves as a great launch pad for exploring Downtown Los Angeles.
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Long regarded as a cocaine-consuming nation, a market for product manufactured in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, Brazil has turned into a critical launch pad to get it across the ocean.
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By consolidating parts and optimizing them for 23D printing, Ellis says Relativity will be able to go from raw materials to the launch pad in just 23 days—in theory, anyway.
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Many of these startups are supported by a highly effective network of organizations that are set on helping Oklahoma City rise — like StitchCrew, the Oklahoma City Thunder Launch Pad, and i2e.
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The Flores controversy could also overshadow the run-up to Biden's expected presidential announcement that already is a bit of a punch line after a prolonged period on the launch pad.
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The mission will test changes implemented by Space Exploration Technologies Corp, known as SpaceX, after another Falcon 9 exploded on a launch pad in Florida in September during a routine preflight test.
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North Korea already has twice successfully launched a three-stage ballistic missile from a stationary launch pad, both times carrying a rudimentary satellite on the front end that was sent into orbit.
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A high-tech mindset isn't new for Vegas: The city has long played host to the annual CES event, a launch pad for some of the world's most innovative and disruptive technologies.
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Musk won the bidding for Launch Pad 21960A, but a few months later Bezos bought the nearby Launch Complex 0003, from which missions to fly by Mars and Venus had been launched.
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It was not immediately known to what extent SpaceX's launch pad was damaged or what the impact would be on the dozens of NASA and commercial satellite missions on its launch schedule.
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London has become a magnet for tech entrepreneurs looking to do business in the European Union and a global launch pad for firms aiming to compete with U.S. and Asian web giants.
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Lift-off will be from Kennedy Space Center's historic Pad 39A near Cape Canaveral, which is the same launch pad used by the Apollo program for its lunar missions, according to SpaceX.
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Now Mr Ambani seems to want to go further and become an Indian Jeff Bezos or Jack Ma, using Jio as a launch pad—the platform now has a whopping 280m users.
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The shuttle's former digs, Launch Pad 39A, is being renovated by commercial spaceflight company SpaceX for the Falcon Heavy, a beast of a rocket designed to ferry astronauts into orbit and beyond.
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Kickstarter is the launch pad for the watches, but Li told TechCrunch that Mobvoi plans to work with U.S. retailers to sell the products in brick and mortar stores later this year.
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SpaceX has been investigating the early September failure of a Falcon 9 rocket that caught fire and exploded on a Cape Canaveral launch pad just days before it was scheduled to launch.
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The conference is primarily targeted at European consumers, but the late-August/early-September timing means plenty of companies use it as the global launch pad for gadgets aimed at holiday shoppers.
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How it works: Users can crowdfund a project with the Launch Pad widget, create their own tokens via Tokit, and share and sell their content peer-to-peer through the Ethervision portal.
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This is actually the third attempt to send Meteor into space; the first version of the instrument was destroyed when Orbital's Antares rocket exploded on the launch pad in October of 2014.
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Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who took over the supervision of the beleaguered project in 2012, even promised to sacrifice a tooth if the launch pad would not be ready in time.
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The flight was originally scheduled to take place at 10:15AM ET, but was pushed back to 10:36AM ET due to particularly hot weather at the launch pad in West Texas.
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This hasn't been a matter of preference for SpaceX which has been trying to build its own land launch pad in the West Coast, but hasn't gotten clearance yet, The Verge notes.
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The main engines on the vehicle, called the Antares, were ignited for 30 seconds as the rocket was held down on a launch pad at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia.
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If there's an issue with the rocket booster — either during flight or on the launch pad — the motor will fire for about two seconds and carry the capsule a safe distance away.
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Something happened while propellant was being loaded into the Falcon 18, but it's still unclear if the rocket is to blame or if it was a problem with the launch pad equipment.
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The Electron rocket lifted off on Sunday evening from the world's only private orbital launch pad on the Mahia Peninsula, carrying a payload of 10-cm (3.9-inch) cube-shaped research satellites.
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This mission marks the 12th for SpaceX this year, and it comes after a hard 2016, during which one of the company's Falcons exploded on a launch pad before a routine test.
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This launch is also a big milestone for SpaceX because of where the mission is taking off from: the company's launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, SLC-236.
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While the U.S. wants Taliban assurances that Afghanistan will no longer be used as a launch pad for global terror attacks, there appear to be no guarantees of protection for Afghan civilians.
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I decided to start my post-MBA career in consulting, as it is an amazing place to continue learning at a rapid pace and serve as a launch pad for my career.
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Victoria and Emanuele decided to work for free for one year and set a modest $15,000 investment goal to buy inventory, since waiting around for a bigger launch pad would be more difficult.
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Video showed a fiery blast ripping through the upper part of the rocket before the vehicle collapsed in flames on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station just after 29 a.m.
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A SpaceX rocket blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral on Thursday, shaking nearby buildings and spewing smoke into the sky, two days before its planned liftoff with an Israeli satellite.
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Image: ULA/NASAThere was some concern that last week's fire from a SpaceX rocket—which also took place at the Cape Canaveral station, but from a different launch pad—might delay the launch.
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Elon Musk says the SpaceX rocket that blew up into a fireball on a Cape Canaveral launch pad is proving to be the most complex failure the firm has faced in 14 years.
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The eagerly anticipated launch of NASA's Parker Solar Probe was scrubbed early Saturday when delays on the launch pad ate away at the spacecraft's 65-minute window to blast off to the sun.
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The United States uses the base in Djibouti, a tiny country the size of Wales at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, as a launch pad for operations in Yemen and Somalia.
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Here are five must-watch videos from the past week: A new spaceflight start-up fired off a 3-D printed rocket into orbit from a launch pad in New Zealand on Thursday.
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A few hours before dawn in January 2015, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket departed from a launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a mission to the International Space Station.
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Calais has long served as a launch pad for migrants targeting Britain, which lies just 21 miles (34 km) away at the closest point - but across one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
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The main goal of yesterday's hot fire test was to see if these new engines integrated well with the rest of the Antares and if the system operated well on the launch pad.
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Still, SpaceX's launch pad and a second pad, 39B, which NASA is refurbishing for its heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket, withstood the winds and appeared to be in good shape, Cabana said.
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The base also served as a launch pad for the December 1998 bombing of Iraq, code-named Operation Desert Fox, which targeted sites believed to be associated with Iraq's nuclear and missile programs.
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SpaceX has been modifying the launch pad at 39A to get it ready for the company's Falcon Heavy: a huge, heavy-lift rocket that's supposed to make its flight debut later this year.
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In late October 2016, France razed a sprawling migrant camp outside the port of Calais that served as a launch pad for refugees seeking to enter Britain hidden in trucks, trains and ferries.
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The sight of the Saturn V rolling slowly but relentlessly from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad, with men walking around it like ants gathered around an immense machine, is breathtaking.
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An unmanned Soyuz rocket carrying three satellites roared off from the launch pad at Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region near China's border at 0501 Moscow time (0201 GMT), Russian news agencies reported.
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Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, hosts a U.S. military base that is home to about 4,000 personnel, including special operations forces, and is a launch pad for operations in Yemen and Somalia.
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NPR previously reported on Thursday that satellite imagery showed an explosion had occurred on the launch pad at an Iranian rocket facility, though it was unclear if the incident resulted in any casualties.
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The rocket, which Iranians hoped would carry a satellite into space, exploded on its launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in northern Iran, about 200 miles east of Tehran on Thursday.
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A "launch pad" for both U.S. economic and strategic benefit If foreign aid was more directly linked to strategic interests in the private sector, U.S. public resources could be leveraged by private ones.
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This is the second attempt for the launch, after the original try was scrubbed prior to lift-off due to a small fire on the launch pad, which MHI subsequently investigated and corrected.
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A returning SpaceX rocket successfully touched down at a ground-based landing site near the launch pad in December, but three previous attempts to land a returning rocket on an ocean platform failed.
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But by the time the contract would have been awarded, because of the lengthy government contracting process, Relativity Space had grown to 110 employees with a launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
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Fueling the rocket with its explosive, toxic, and corrosive propellant takes a couple days — a period when it's just sitting out there on the launch pad, extremely vulnerable to long-range missile attack.
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People smugglers have taken advantage of a breakdown of order in Libya to use it as a launch pad for their business less than 500 km (310 miles) from the Italian island of Sicily.
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Mr Gray uses this observation as a launch-pad to criticise "New Atheists" such as Richard Dawkins, and to point out that most modern atheists do not follow their reasoning to its logical conclusion.
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SpaceX is aiming to return to flight on January 8th, as the company has officially determined what caused one of its Falcon 9 rockets to explode on a Florida launch pad this past September.
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Red Bull writes: "Sketchy" Andy Lewis and his crew of Moab Monkeys gathered 80 volunteers to rig together the hammock/slackline/BASE launch pad for some seriously good times suspended above the Moab desert.
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Any number of things could go wrong, and if they do so while the spacecraft is still on or near the launch pad a lot of infrastructure could be damaged in the subsequent explosion.
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The pirates involved in Friday's attack are not seeking to hold the ship and its crew for ransom, but rather use the vessel as a "mothership", or launch pad for attacks on bigger ships.
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While I was president of the University of Miami, The Launch Pad set up shop beyond the confines of the business school to incubate ideas and provide student entrepreneurs with resources such as mentorship.
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Even though the stench of failure has barely cleared the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX plans to test its Falcon Heavy—which is essentially three Falcon 9 rockets strapped together—later this year.
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Moon, who was in Pyongyang to attend a summit with Kim, said North Korea will dismantle a missile test site and launch pad in the presence of international observers, according to The Associated Press.
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" At their third summit this week, Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced that North Korea agreed to dismantle a missile test site and launch pad in the presence of "international experts.
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Read more: New documents reveal SpaceX's plans for launching Mars-rocket prototypes from South TexasIf realized, a fully fueled Starship could weigh more than 9 million pounds (4 million kilograms) at the launch pad.
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" Asemani went on to mentor students from his high school, he says, "so that they can learn from my mistakes and use my success as a launch-pad for them to do even better.
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The launch pad, which World View refers to as their "spaceport," could be used for both tourism flights and Stratollite launches, although Stratollite balloons could also be launched in other places around the globe.
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That could provide a launch-pad to national government for a movement that is unique among Europe's raft of anti-establishment parties which have drawn strength from public anger over high unemployment and immigration.
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While he is young and somewhat inexperienced in the professional ranks, Bellator has provided him with a gigantic launch pad by allowing his debut to take place on this weekend's highly anticipated London card.
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The facility consists of a missile assembly building, a launch pad with a gantry and mobile launch platform, fuel and oxidizer storage, a rocket engine test stand and an instrumentation stand, according to NTI.
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Whereas the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rocket boosters return to the launch pad at a nearly 90 degree angle, Starship will essentially belly flop through the atmosphere and right itself just before landing.
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Rocket Lab hopes that, by early next year, it will have improved this rate to once a fortnight—an objective which will be assisted by its construction of a second launch pad in Virginia.
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The CSIS report said commercial satellite images acquired last Wednesday and Friday showed North Korea had continued preparations on the launch pad at its Sohae launch facility and at the engine testing stand there.
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The ultimate goal for NASA goal is to have safe, reliable and cost-effective access for ISS missions, but SpaceX's Dragon system has already caused some controversy before its launch pad disaster in September.
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The books, Erica says, gave the Seattle friends a shorthand for each other and a launch pad for a deeper connection that wouldn't have existed had they not both been reading the same book.
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The video, captured by drones and posted to SpaceX's official YouTube page, shows the rocket gracefully emerging through the clouds — slowing down just in time to gently land in the center of its launch pad.
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Supported by the Oculus Launch Pad program, and with historical backing from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, which provided archival resources, I Am A Man is now available for free on Oculus Rift.
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The return of state authority to the north is meant to fill a power vacuum that has turned northern Mali into a launch pad for jihadi attacks across a vast region on the Sahara Desert.
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Once the Falcon 9 gets into space and separates from the top portion of the vehicle, the rocket must retread both the horizontal and vertical distance to land back on ground near the launch pad.
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Creating a start-up isn't easy but as BuzzGroup's development shows by focusing on the idea, end user, clients and using the available help out there, it is possible to get to the launch pad.
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The Middle East is viewed as a good location for a launch pad as it enjoys mild weather, has open desert spaces and being near the equator, requires less thrust to get missiles into orbit.
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In 2013, their rivalry heated up when SpaceX tried to get exclusive use of a NASA launch pad and Blue Origin (along with SpaceX rival United Launch Alliance) filed a formal protest with the government.
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The National Reconnaissance Office is Rocket Lab's first client of 2020 for a launch, and the mission is set to take off from the company's New Zealand launch pad at the end of this month.
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SpaceX operates two launch sites in Florida, though one remains out of service following a September 2016 accident that destroyed a $62 million rocket, a $200 million communications satellite and heavily damaged the launch pad.
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SpaceX will attempt to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 booster on a launch pad in Florida after sending an uncrewed cargo spacecraft toward the International Space Station for a NASA resupply mission.
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The launch marked the last time the Gagarin's Start, the launch pad where Yuri Gagarin lifted off on April 12, 1961, to become the first human to fly into space, was used before an upgrade.
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His investment firm NRDC Equity Partners acquired Lord & Taylor for $1.2 billion in 6753, when department stores were still thriving, and used it as a launch pad to build a holding company with several retail chains.
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Following a series of delays due a major Atlantic hurricane and a faulty ground support cable, Orbital ATK's upgraded Antares rocket is on its launch pad and ready to rock at Wallops flight facility in Virginia.
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Oculus has tried to offset that by directly funding developers and filmmakers; among other things, it runs a diversity-focused incubator program called Oculus Launch Pad and a program for new VR developers called Oculus Start.
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This is Orbital's second ISS resupply mission using the Atlas V. Orbital has its own rocket, the Antares, but that vehicle has been grounded ever since one exploded on a Virginia launch pad in October 2014.
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However fine he is on Tuesday, though, he will only be a launch pad for Murray to kick off a campaign in which, even Roger Federer concedes, the Scot and Novak Djokovic are the outstanding favorites.
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SpaceX signed a 20-year lease for Launch Pad 39A in 2014 — it was the famous launch site for many of the Apollo missions (including Apollo 11) and hosted the first and last Space Shuttle launches.
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Analysts say that a large white shipping container photographed on January 4 outside the site's assembly and checkout building was likely used to transport the rocket's first stage prior to its reassembly on the launch pad.
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Among the early states, Harris hopes South Carolina will serve as launch pad to build momentum and dominate the early primaries in the Southeast (along with her home turf of California and neighboring state of Nevada).
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SpaceX has succeeded in launch a Falcon 213 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, its first launch since a Falcon 22 rocket exploded on a launch pad in pre-flight procedures in September 212.
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Djibouti also hosts a U.S. military base used as a launch pad for operations in Yemen and Somalia, but in 2013, China opened its largest overseas military base in the country rivalling Paris and Washington directly.
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Back in the headlines and giddy at that sight of packed grandstands, IndyCar officials, racers and team owners gushed about the 100th race providing a launch pad that would propel the sport into a new orbit.
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But don't feel bad if you missed it: NASA just posted an awe-inspiring, timelapse video of the supermoon rising behind a Russian Soyuz rocket sitting on its launch pad in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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An in-flight explosion of a Falcon 25 in 28—followed by a fuel tank explosion in 393 that destroyed the rocket, a customer satellite, and the launch pad—set the company back months, if not years.
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File photo - Men dressed as vikings stand in front of a 40 foot-long viking longship as it is burned on Calton Hill in Edinburgh as the launch pad for the city's Hogmanay (New Year) celebrations Dec.
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The Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has been trying to get its rockets back into space since September, when one of its Falcon 9 rockets carrying a multimillion dollar satellite exploded on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
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In September, Kim Jong Un also pledged at a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in to close Sohae and allow experts to observe the dismantling of the missile engine-testing site and a launch pad.
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In addition to its contributions to our daily lives on Earth, the discovery of thousands of exoplanets by Kepler and the journey of the most resilient interplanetary rover in history (Opportunity) all started at that launch pad.
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If the launch pad faces lengthy repairs, SpaceX could opt to use a second Florida site, called 39A, which is located a few miles north at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and was used for space shuttle missions.
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Only two strokes from the halfway lead here, Moriya's weekend challenge never really left the launch pad, a closing 73 on Sunday leaving her tied for 20th at three-under 281, 10 strokes behind winner Danielle Kang.
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Kim Jong Un pledged at a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in September to close Sohae and allow international experts to observe the dismantling of the missile engine-testing site and a launch pad.
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At launch pad 39A, which NASA is leasing to tech billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX company, winds reached 135 mph (217 kph) 100 feet (30 meters) off the ground and up 86 mph (138 kph) on the surface.
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The photographers on the roof lazily readjusted their cameras to the right of the launch pad, trying to make out the location of the landing zone at Cape Canaveral Air Force base against the slate grey Atlantic.
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A public safety notice was issued to residents of Boca Chica, a town on the southern tip of Texas with houses within two miles of SpaceX's launch pad for the Starhopper rocket, Business Insider reported on Sunday.
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"I had six remotes, two outside the launch pad safety perimeter and four inside," says Ingalls about the position of the cameras he set up to photograph the rocket launch, according to a written statement from NASA.
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And through its geographic and religious links to the country, Iran saw Iraq as a new launch pad from which it could extend its influence throughout the region, more easily accessing its proxies in Syria and Lebanon.
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A public safety notice was issued to residents of Boca Chica, a town on the southern tip of Texas with houses within two miles of SpaceX's launch pad for the Starhopper rocket, Business Insider reported on Sunday.
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But who cared if somebody who'd christened himself "Mad Mike" went 2,000 or 4,0003 feet high in a homemade rocket that was just as likely to kill him as it was to get off the launch pad?
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At that point, the rocket will be about 19 kilometres (roughly 62,000 feet) above the surface of the Earth, and about four kilometres (2.5 miles) from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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That means conditions on the ocean are pretty much as important as conditions on the launch pad, since recovery crews will be working to retrieve the capsule and NASA and SpaceX want to ensure their safety, too.
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With its launch pad likely facing major repairs, SpaceX said it would use a second Florida site, called 39A, which is located a few miles north at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and was used for space shuttle missions.
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Unlike a liquid-fueled rocket that must be fueled on the launch pad, solid fueled rockets can be moved with the fuel already loaded, reducing launch preparation times and allowing them to launch quickly from mobile launch units.
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"The North has agreed to permanently shut down an engine test site and missile launch pad in Dongchang-ri, in the presence of experts from the countries concerned," South Korean president Moon Jae-in said in a statement.
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The demo video that SpaceX showed of this in action included an animation depicting passengers going aboard a rocket atop a launch pad in the middle of a body of water, ferried by a large futuristic looking boat.
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Musk did not specify what mission would launch next, nor whether SpaceX would fly from a new launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, or from its West Coast site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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At the very least, the company will need to rebuild its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, but SpaceX does have access to one other launch site at the Cape and another in California at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
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Kim Jong Un also pledged at a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in September to close Sohae and allow international experts to observe the dismantling of the missile engine-testing site and a launch pad.
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After a September summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, Kim agreed to "permanently shut down" the Tongchang-ri engine test ground and rocket launch pad with the participation of foreign experts.
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SpaceX hasn't had a launch since one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded on a launch pad during pre-flight checks in September, but it's hoping to resume activities with a December 16 mission for client Iridium Communications.
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Violence by Islamist militants has proliferated in the sparsely-populated Sahel in recent years, with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State using central and Northern Mali as a launch pad for attacks across the largely desert region.
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The Falcon 9 rocket was being filled with fuel at its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch pad for a routine, preflight engine test when a fireball burst out from around the booster's upper-stage liquid oxygen tank.
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Back in 2015, SpaceX completed the lead-up to this, which was a pad abort test that demonstrated the escape process in case the mission needs to be canceled earlier, before the spacecraft has left the launch pad.
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"Based on past practices, these activities could be consistent with preparations for the delivery of a rocket to the launch pad or engine to the test stand; or they could be North Korean coercive bargain tactics," it said.
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In September, its leader Kim Jong Un pledged at a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in to also close Sohae and allow experts to observe the dismantling of the missile engine testing site and a launch pad.
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DJIBOUTI, April 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Djibouti on Sunday to visit an important military base at the southern entrance to the Red Sea used as a launch pad for operations in Yemen and Somalia.
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Mahindra's exit from the UK comes less than a year after it launched the e2o car in a market it considered a launch-pad for selling electric cars in Europe, especially to countries like Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands.
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Residents of the town of Tawergha were expelled by former anti-Gaddafi rebels in 2011 in retaliation for the strongman having used their settlement as a launch pad for attacks on the western city of Misrata during the uprising.
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There's never a bad time to harness the moon's energy but, between the revelatory nature of the solar eclipse and the emotional launch pad that waxing phases can provide, this week the moon is crying out for our attention.
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During his summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in last September, Kim said North Korea would allow experts to watch the closure of its missile engine testing site and launch pad in the northwestern town of Tongchang-ri.
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And so on December 3, if all goes to plan, the Falcon 9 will fire up on the launch pad at Vandenberg and head skyward on a southerly course, traversing open ocean toward Antarctica on its way to orbit.
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The "T2" pumping station is "considered a launch pad for the army and its allies to advance towards the town of Albu Kamal ... which is considered the last remaining stronghold of the Daesh organization in Syria", the report said.
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Quentin Tarantino's only adaptation of a novel to date, he uses the Elmore Leonard book "Rum Punch" as a launch pad to create this perfectly crafted caper starring Pam Grier, Robert Forster, Samuel L. Jackson, and Robert De Niro.
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Moon said North Korea will dismantle a missile test site and launch pad in the presence of international observers, and that Kim had agreed to dismantle a nuclear complex on the condition that the United States takes corresponding steps.
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The FAA, which oversees commercial U.S. space launches, oversaw SpaceX's investigation into why a Falcon 9 rocket burst into flames on a launch pad in Florida as it was being fueled for a routine, prelaunch test on Sept. 1.
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SpaceX has driven down the costs of launching rockets, but has also had some high-profile failures, including an explosion on a launch pad in 2016 that claimed a communications satellite that cost an estimated $300 million to build.
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Unfortunately, its first test of the engines that power this rocket with the spacecraft assembled resulted in a fire on the launch pad, which will mean an investigation to figure out how not to do that in the future.
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After a setback last week due to a fire on the launch pad, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is ready to take another shot at its HTV-8 mission to deliver supplies and other payloads to the International Space Station.
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"The North has agreed to permanently shut down its Tongchang-ri missile engine testing facility and missile launch pad under the participation of experts from related countries," Moon said in a joint press conference with Kim after the summit.
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In a nutshell, here's how LAS works: in event of an emergency on the launch pad or during the ascent, the system will separate the Orion crew module from the rocket using a solid rocket-powered launch abort motor (AM).
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Right now, SpaceX is targeting a launch at the end of the summer from Launch Pad 39A, a historic site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, that was used to send the first people to the Moon.
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The details: Relativity Space aims to begin launching payloads into low-Earth orbit as soon as 93 from launch pad LC-16 at Cape Canaveral, the site of Titan rocket launches in the past along with Gemini and Apollo mission activities.
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SpaceX has been repairing SLC-40 while launching all of its Florida missions from another launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A, which was once used to launch the Apollo missions to the Moon and Space Shuttle missions.
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The sudden advance by fighters from western Syria into a military complex in southwest Aleppo on Saturday opened a corridor into the city, breaking the weeks-long siege and providing a launch pad for fresh attacks into government-held territory.
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SpaceX, which was founded by Elon Musk in 2002, beat Boeing to the launch pad by sending Crew Dragon on an uncrewed test flight in March, during which the capsule docked with the ISS for a few days before returning home.
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"Telegram will serve as a launch pad for TON, ensuring its technological superiority and widespread adoption on the initial stages, but the future of TON is in the hands of the global open-source community," the company wrote in the whitepaper.
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Although Lobov was adamant that he didn't care about the launch pad the event could provide him with in the lead up to the event, he will certainly acknowledge the value of a win in Ireland after his hand was raised.
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If SpaceX can land a rocket back on a launch pad and put another payload atop it almost immediately, it would help reduce the cost of spaceflight even more by recycling hardware that would usually be obsolete after one use.
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North Korea's mobile missile launcher, carrying a ballistic missile, has been seen moving near the east coast and activity has also been seen at a long-range rocket launch pad on the west coast, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said on Thursday.
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It's built the Terragraph Wi-Fi nodes, Project ARIES antenna, Aquila solar-powered drone and its own connectivity-beaming satellite from its internet access initiative — though that blew up on the launch pad when the SpaceX vehicle carrying it exploded.
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NASA has to renovate one of the launch sites at Kennedy Space Center so that it can support SLS launches, as well as build new structures such as a mobile launch platform that can transport the rocket to the launch pad.
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Even destroying their missiles on the launch pad has become much harder, because the North has developed mobile launchers and solid-fuel missiles, which can be rolled out and fired with far less advance notice than older liquid-fuel missiles.
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U.S. aid and presence counter China's "debt diplomacy," secure the backyards of our major allies, prevent the region's use as a launch pad for Chinese operations in the central Pacific, and build on historic ties between the U.S. and the islands.
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If something were to go wrong on the launch pad, when future astronaut crews are preparing to blast off on a rocket, this EES, the Emergency Egress System, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, could help them get away in a fun way.
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"I had the Emmy, but instead of being able to use that as a launch pad for the rest of my career, it became an anchor because I felt I had to answer to speculative stories in the press," she said.
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North Korea will allow experts from "concerned countries" to watch the closure of its missile engine testing site and launch pad at Tongchang-ri, Moon said at a joint news conference with Kim after their meeting in the North Korean capital.
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Although forecasters initially predicted a 90% chance of favorable mission conditions, from the launch pad out to the ocean where Crew Dragon is supposed to splash down, SpaceX said Friday night that the morning hours are starting to look less favorable.
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LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - Panama has imported its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo to commission the newly built $1 billion Costa Norte facility and power plant at Colon, expected to be a launch-pad for LNG trade across Central America.
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In addition, the Orion crew vehicle that will ride atop SLS has a Launch Abort System that will be heavily tested to further reduce risks to crew while on the launch pad and during the potentially dangerous early stages of ascent.
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The company will also have to clear several regulatory and practical hurdles — including the existence of a hamlet called Boca Chica Village within 1.5 miles of its launch pad — before it can launch any prototypes to orbit from South Texas.
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It's a brisk December morning at Spaceport Tucson, America's premiere (only?) dedicated launch pad for stratospheric balloons, and a small army of technicians in reflective vests is milling around on the concrete and thawing out after a long, cold night.
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Friday's dinner marks one of the final Iowa cattle calls for all the 2020 presidential candidates before February's caucuses, and the event is seen by campaigns as a potential launch pad for a successful result in a little over three months.
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SpaceX's September Falcon 9 launch pad explosion is continuing to have knock-on effects for the company's future launch scheduling, with NASA now confirming that the first crewed test flight of SpaceX's Dragon vehicle has been delayed until May 2018.
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And as a general rule of thumb, anyone whose launch pad sits between the free-throw line and dotted circle is awesome: When conducting a pick-and-roll, Mitchell combines Kemba Walker's slipperiness with the swift strength of a boxer.
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Per the Verge, the Falcon Heavy was originally supposed to be ready by 2013 or 2014, and SpaceX has a long history of experimental rockets exploding on the launch pad, mid-air, or touching back down—pretty much every stage of the process.
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"This is a transformative deal for Ocado as not only will it expose the firm to a large chunk of the French market, it could also be the launch pad for many more international partnerships," said Neil Wilson, market analyst at ETX Capital.
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SpaceX currently has nine NASA missions on its planned launch manifest for upcoming contracts, but it still hasn't provided a definite date for resuming launches following the explosion of a SpaceX rocket during pre-flight checks on a launch pad in September.
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"What Kennedy said helped us so much in our preparation for the first lunar landing," Collins told Cabana, seen on a livestream from the launch pad, which has been refurbished by Elon Musk's SpaceX for future crewed missions under NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
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The same steelworkers union in Sao Paulo's industrial suburbs where 72-year-old Lula sought refuge served as the launch pad for his political career nearly four decades ago, when he led nationwide strikes that helped to end Brazil's 1964-85 military government.
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The company has the option of launching from two other launch pads: one at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and another launch pad at Launch Complex 39A in Cape Canaveral, which will be ready to support Falcon 9 flights in November.
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The media events leading up to SpaceX's cargo resupply mission (CRS-13) began two days before the scheduled launch from launch pad 21-A, one of three pads that on the sprawling 29,215 acres of Florida coast occupied by Kennedy Space Center.
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Notably, the company also says it will commit $10 million to new diversity programs and "continue our investment in programs like Launch Pad, VR for Good, Amplified New Voices, and new programs like the Diverse Filmmakers Project," with that last one launching today.
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Pyongyang's insistence on a peace treaty will come with sweeteners; for example, decommissioning an old rocket launch pad, agreeing to inter-Korean events such as family meetings while exhorting the South to make more concessions, and returning some remains of U.S. soldiers.
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The US would only have minutes to determine if a missile is actually carrying a live warhead and to decide whether to attack it on the launch pad, or wait to try to shoot it down during the initial boost phase of flight.
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NASA NAMES NINE &aposAMERICAN HERO&apos ASTRONAUTS FOR SPACEX, BOEING MISSIONS ULA has also built an escape system that employs a sophisticated zipline-type technology, enabling astronauts and launch pad personnel to quickly evacuate the tower in the event of an accident.
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The rocket made it to space, but it didn't make it all the way to orbit, which was the goal, given Rocket Lab's plan is to be able to offer commercial orbital launches to customers using its rockets and its private launch pad.
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Kim does however appear to be following through on his promise to dismantle the Sohae Satellite Launching Station, but analysts believe this is a purely symbolic effort and that the launch pad could be reassembled in secret in a matter of months.
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And it previously conducted a ground test of its emergency abort system, which saw Crew Dragon blast itself off a launch pad to simulate how it could fly crew away from a malfunctioning rocket if something goes wrong in the minutes before takeoff.
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The new one will be located in New Zealand on the Mahia peninsula, right next to its first launch pad at the company's original launch facility — which is already the first and only privately owned and operated rocket launch facility on Earth.
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NASA spokesman Michael Curie said in an email that the site could be used for commercial and government flights, and SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell in a May conference said one customer, SES SA of Luxembourg, had expressed interest in flying from the historic launch pad.
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All of those organizations were likely watching as the very first Electron heaved itself from the launch pad, jumped up an energy level, and became not just a little rocket that could but one that understood what they needed and gave it to them.
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Starship and Super Heavy will launch from Florida, with the current plan to build a second launch mount at its current LC-39A launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, which it leases from NASA and currently uses for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches.
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From the looks of it, the "Big Fucking Rocket" or "Raptor"—it's been called both—will launch a lander into Earth orbit, come back to the launch pad, load up a fuel pod, and then return to orbit to become an orbital gas station.
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Longtime NASA photographer Bill Ingalls wanted to shoot the launch of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on, or GRACE-FO, at Vandenberg Air Force Base last Tuesday and set up six cameras around the launch pad, the agency wrote in a blog post Friday .
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"Wonderful feeling to be back at launch pad 163A," Collins, the command module pilot for Apollo 11, said in an interview on the pad with Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, himself a veteran of four space shuttle launches and a former shuttle commander.
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Vimeo has begun to position itself as the "minor leagues" of Netflix, HBO, and Hulu (a place where filmmakers are free to toy around with unconventional ideas), which could make it an important launch pad for women struggling to find a place in Hollywood.
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The accident is not connected to last year's Falcon 9 explosion, according to SpaceX On September 393st, one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets exploded on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida as the vehicle was being fueled in preparation for a static fire test.
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"I had the Emmy, but instead of being able to use that as a launch pad for the rest of my career, it became an anchor because I felt I had to answer to speculative stories in the press," Deadline reports she told The Information.
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Read more: A rocket SpaceX was testing exploded on a launch pad in FloridaNo injuries were reported in the 273 blast, but it did result in "the loss of the vehicle and its payload," the SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted shortly after the incident.
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Hopelessness, her sixth album, embraces this definition of art more literally than most, using palatial, club-inspired production from Hudson Mohawke and Oneohtrix Point Never as a launch pad for some of the most disarmingly direct social commentary our generation has heard from an artist.
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Then, in 2015, a Malian peace pact was signed that was supposed to draw a line under the conflict pitting nomadic Tuaregs in the desert north against a government seated in the south that had turned Mali into a launch pad for global jihad.
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After these two launches, SpaceX will have completed 15 missions this year, nearly twice as many as the company did in 2016; SpaceX's launches last year were cut short after one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded on a launch pad during a routine fueling procedure.
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Space Exploration Technologies, better known as SpaceX, plans to launch its Falcon 9 rockets every two to three weeks, its fastest rate since starting launches in 2010, once a new launch pad is put into service in Florida next week, the company's president told Reuters on Monday.
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"We are fulfilling what you would expect to see, which is a break from the head and shoulders pattern," said Gordon, who added that the floor formed off of the two most recent highs will serve as a launch pad for SLV prices heading into May.
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Contrast that with years past, where the event (and its predecessor, the D: All Things Digital conference) regularly served as a product launch pad, such as... The world got its first look at Bing and Windows 8 here, along with some classic flops like the Palm Folio.
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The New York Times cataloged on Tuesday the 282 times that the paper claims Trump has used Twitter as a launch pad for insult comedy and offensive behavior, but Fortune 500 companies should come away from this election year with a different take on Trump and tweeting.
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On Saturday, Aldrin and Armstrong's son, Rick, traveled with Vice President Mike Pence to Florida to visit the Apollo 11 launch pad and the building where the astronauts suited up for liftoff on July 16, 383, now known as the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building.
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The company is not public, and it has not disclosed what insurance it had for the rocket or to cover launch pad damages beyond what they were required to buy by the Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees commercial U.S. launches, for liability and damage to government property.
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SpaceX's Falcon 22017 rocket, meant to launch a satellite this weekend, exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida around 22018:183AM ET. The explosion occurred during the preparation for the static fire test of the rocket's engines, and no one was injured, according to SpaceX.
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"Based on past practices, these activities could be consistent with preparations for the delivery of a rocket to the launch pad or engine to the test stand; or, they could be North Korean coercive bargaining tactics after the failed Hanoi summit," the Washington-based think tank wrote.
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Richard Fry, a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center, says this demographic difference is a big factor in the high number of millennials living at home: it's not as much a failure to launch as a lack of resources keeping them away from the launch pad.
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Read More: This Hubble Video Shoots You to the Center of the Galaxy After that, the JWST will be transported to a launch pad in French Guiana to embark on its final journey: on an Ariane 5 rocket, to a point in space that's far, far away.
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SEOUL, South Korea — President Moon Jae-in of South Korea returned from Pyongyang this week bearing fresh messages of good will from Kim Jong-un, North Korea's leader: promises to permanently dismantle a test site and a missile-launch pad and to shutter a major nuclear facility.
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During the downtime, Orbital bought rides for two Cygnus cargo ships aboard Atlas rockets, built and flown by United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co. Orbital conducted a 30-second engine test firing of the Antares at the Virginia launch pad on May 31.
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The company Planet, which launches satellites into the Earth's orbit in order to take photographs of the planet, pointed one of its Dove satellite constellations — which is several satellites operating in a cluster — at a launch pad in Kazakhstan, capturing one of its rockets launching into the sky.
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As the Dragon cargo ship began its two-day journey to the station, the main section of the Falcon 9 booster rocket separated and flew itself back to the ground, touching down a few miles south of its seaside launch pad, accompanied by a pair of sonic booms.
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In a Holmesian twist to the investigation of the sudden fireball that eviscerated a Falcon 9 rocket, a $95 million internet satellite, and a chunk of Cape Canaveral's launch pad 40, a SpaceX employee recently requested rooftop access to a building owned by competing rocket consortium United Launch Alliance.
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He lived just long enough to know that neither of his two ICBMs had left its launch pad and three Musudan intermediate-range missiles, aimed at Tokyo and the American base at Okinawa, had been shot down by Patriot batteries in Japan before they could reach their targets.
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The rocket launched from pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center, famous for being the launch pad for the Apollo moon missions and the setting was fitting, considering that the Falcon Heavy is the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V that carried the first astronauts to the Moon.
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N). Rocket explodes on launch pad in blow to Elon Musk's SpaceX Wal-Mart to cut 7,000 U.S. store back-office jobs HPE has received offers for the software unit of as much as $7.5 billion in a sale process managed by investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.
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The Starliner will undergo a crucial and necessary launch pad abort test, wherein if all goes will it'll show exactly how it can use its on board engines to quickly move the spacecraft away from the launch vehicle prior to lift-off in the unlikely chance of an emergency.
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Europe's largest internet firm, which has helped create a buzzing tech scene in Berlin, seeks to be a launch pad for stock market listings of start-ups ranging from online fashion to food delivery, but has seen its stock slide as plans to float its bigger investments have stalled.
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Created by Adam Woodworth, who was previously responsible for building a flying Return of the Jedi Speeder Bike replica, this Falcon 9 doesn't carry any rocket fuel or other explosives on board, so there's zero chance it will explode while touching down on its floating foam launch pad.
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Between that and its New Zealand-based Mission Control, this should help it manage the increased volume it should ramp up to when launching from both LC-1 in New Zealand and LC-2 at Wallops — and eventually, a second launch pad at its Mahia Peninsula, NZ complex.
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Teams of hackers connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security had penetrated HPE's cloud computing service and used it as a launch pad to attack customers, plundering reams of corporate and government secrets for years in what U.S. prosecutors say was an effort to boost Chinese economic interests.
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The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft - which will shuttle three astronauts to space from the same launch pad that sent Apollo 11's three-man crew to the moon in 1969 - will make its debut flight atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 7.
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"Kim Jong Un has agreed to allow nuclear inspections, subject to final negotiations, and to permanently dismantle a test site and launch pad in the presence of international experts," Trump said on Twitter, referring to agreements the North Korean leader made in talks with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in.
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This marks an even dozen launches for SpaceX for the year, which is remarkable given that just last September the company suffered a significant setback when one of its rockets exploded during pre-launch operations on the launch pad ahead of a mission to put a Facebook-operated satellite into orbit.
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It kicked off when the company's towering Falcon 9 rocket blazed toward the sky from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:30 pm ET. Around 11:30 pm ET, the second stage of the rocket deployed what's called a payload stack — holding all 60 satellites.
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South Korean intelligence and respected analysts this week revealed commercial satellite imagery that shows that North Koreans have been rebuilding an engine test stand and launch pad at a space launch facility at Sohae since at least February 16, and that it's likely now back at a normal operating level.
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While North Korea has developed potential longer-range rockets, such as its 30-metre (98 ft) Unha-3, a home-grown three-stage rocket based on 1950s Soviet Scud missile technology, it needs to be fueled from a fixed launch pad making it easy to detect and impractical as a weapon.
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"Tal Afar air base has strategic importance for us considering that it's on the Iraq-Syrian border, so it will be a general base for all factions of the Hashid Shaabi and it will be the launch pad for these forces to protect the Syrian-Iraqi borders," he told Reuters.
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At a total cost of $304 million—a figure that includes the cost of the first rocket launch and promotional expenses—the launch pad is slated to deliver commercial satellites to low Earth orbit aboard Ukrainian-built rockets on a due south trajectory, and at a cost of $60 million per launch.
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A bipartisan group of 24 members of Congress has written a letter praising the role NASA, the FAA and the Air Force are taking in the investigation of a massive fire on a Cape Canaveral launch pad in early September that claimed both a SpaceX rocket and a nearly $300 million satellite.
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Blue Origin crew capsule touching down in West Texas / Screenshot of Blue Origin live feed Blue Origin crew capsule touching down in West Texas / Screenshot of Blue Origin live feed A little over 3 minutes after the crew capsule touched down, the booster successfully stabilized itself and returned to a launch pad.
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Video footage from the scene showed the drone lifting off from a miniature launch pad bearing Russian Post's blue and white logo, buzzing through the air for several seconds before losing height and crashing into a three-storey residential building in front of a small crowd of spectators who were heard uttering expletives.
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Photo: NASA (AP)One of SpaceX's Crew Dragon crew capsules suffered an "anomaly" on the launch pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station while testing its engines on Saturday, with Florida Today posting an image of "orange plumes" rising from the launchpad and noting "unconfirmed reports" that the capsule was destroyed.
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Abe had been hoping, experts said, to use a G7 agreement on the need to bolster the world economy with fiscal steps as a launch pad for a domestic package including the probable postponement of a planned sales tax rise, replaying a strategy he used successfully before a 2014 snap lower house election.
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The spacecraft is set for liftoff from the same launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida used by the Saturn 5 that carried Apollo 11's three-man crew on their historic 1969 mission, which culminated in Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's first human steps on the lunar surface.
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Featured areas include Look Book, a portfoliolike presentation of North American designers producing upscale custom works; Launch Pad with Design Milk, for emerging designers; and a special exhibition featuring the work of Arielle Assouline-Lichten, the founder of Slash Objects, who received this year's American Design Honors, sponsored by WantedDesign and Bernhardt Design.
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As industry officials who spoke on condition of anonymity told the Washington Post, SpaceX was following up on "something suspicious" it had seen while reviewing video footage of the rocket explosion—a weird shadow and a white spot on the roof of the ULA building, which sits about a mile from the launch pad.
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An indication of the speed with which they are learning is that the latest missile was launched with less warning than previous ones, suggesting that the lengthy process of fuelling it may have been carried out before it was transported to its launch pad, thus shortening the time of its vulnerability to pre-emptive attack.
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NASA's commercial crew partner Boeing has achieved a key milestone on the way to actually flying astronauts aboard its CST-100 Starliner: Demonstrating that its launch pad abort system works as designed, which is a key safety system that NASA requires to be in place before the aerospace company can put astronauts inside the Starliner.
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Finally, there's a quick look at LC-2, the second launch pad that Rocket Lab is currently building in Wallops Island, Va. This will be the company's first U.S.-based launch site, which will unlock key launch capabilities for U.S. agency customers, and it's set to host its first Electron launch sometime early next year.
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After they registered the rocket for flight with BALLS officials, most of the team hung around the campsite while Allen and a few other members trucked the rocket to the away cell, a launch pad a few miles off from the spectator area that is reserved for the most powerful rockets at the event.
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Already, the company intends its LC-1 to be the locus of its rapid response and high-volume business, while its new launch pad on Wallops Island in Virginia is primarily designed to unlock access to clients who require U.S.-based launch operations from American providers (Rocket Lab is now officially headquartered in LA).
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Eventually, SpaceX hopes to also be able to build a landing zone within the existing confines of its LC-39A launch pad area, with the intent of landing Starship back much closer to where it launches — this will require more study to determine its viability and impact, however, so SpaceX has left that consideration for future investigation for now.
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This vehicle, which is the sequel to the original Astrovan that brought America's astronauts to the launch pad in the days of the Shuttle Program, features modern updates, and is heading straight from being on display at the International Astronautical Congress in Washington to Cape Canaveral to get ready for Boeing's first CST-100 Starliner crew launch next year.
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Late Sunday night, SpaceX plans to launch a communications satellite into orbit from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, within a four-hour launch window that begins at 11:28 PM ET. The company will also attempt to land the rocket's first stage on one of its drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean.
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"The four subtypes that we have identified represent a reclassification of the disease and as such should provide a basis to offer new insights into personalized therapeutic options for individual patients and a launch pad to investigate new treatments," Biankin, who is the university's Regius Chair of Surgery and director of the Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre, said.
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During the downtime, Orbital bought rides for two Cygnus cargo ships aboard Atlas rockets, built and flown by United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co. Orbital conducted a 30-second engine test firing of the Antares at the Virginia launch pad on May 31, but had never flown the refurbished rocket before Monday.
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Entrepreneurship score:84.59Startup density:11.2%Percentage of firms receiving venture capital investment:0.5%Percentage of self-employed workers:14.5%Reason for starting business isn't lack of work:72.1%Miami is home to several organizations helping startups, including a branch of the Silicon Valley-based accelerator 500 Startups and the University of Miami's accelerator, the Launch Pad.
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"Iran will definitely use the missiles it handed over to Iraqi militia it supports to send a strong message to its foes in the region and the United States that it has the ability to use Iraqi territories as a launch pad for its missiles to strike anywhere and anytime it decides," the Iraqi official said.
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"Iran will definitely use the missiles it handed over to Iraqi militia it supports to send a strong message to its foes in the region and the United States that it has the ability to use Iraqi territories as a launch pad for its missiles to strike anywhere and anytime it decides," the Iraqi official said.
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Beginning with the shots of a crawler-transporter hauling the Saturn V rocket to the Cape Canaveral launch pad, and Walter Cronkite's newscast oratory providing the only overt narrative setup the movie will avail itself of, "Apollo 11" dispassionately lays out just how many things needed to go exactly right for this mission to be accomplished.
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Primarily because it marked Kennedy Space Center's return to being an active spaceport after nearly six years of no launches following the end of space shuttle program in 2011, but also because it marked SpaceX's first return to the ISS after it had a Falcon 213 explode on the launch pad during a pre-launch test last September.
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Uber has discussed its Elevate proposal in detail in a white paper previously, but the company is now outlining some of the steps it'll take to make its far-flung vision into something more tangible — and it's setting a timeline for results, too, targeting the 2020 World Expo in Dubai as a launch pad for the first Uber Elevate Network demonstration.
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A spacecraft fire is one of the biggest concerns for NASA and the international space exploration community "Ever since the 1967 loss of the Apollo 1 crew to a fire on the launch pad, NASA has been keenly aware of the danger that fire presents to the safety of its astronauts," Robert Pearlman, a space historian and editor of the website collectSPACE.
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A MINUS Pere Ubu: 20 Years in a Montana Missile Silo (Cherryred) As the nuclear Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight than it's been since 1953, David Thomas and a sizable contingent of old allies hunker down in a launch pad turned fallout shelter and bash out the most songful and physically powerful Pere Ubu album of our fraught century.
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The New York–based author came to mainstream prominence in 2006 with the release of his book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, which used indigenous prophecies as a launch pad for exploring fringe phenomenon including crop circles, shamanic practices, ayahuasca, and aliens with an open-minded approach as aided by loads of psychedelic experiences and a few treks to Burning Man.
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"November has been a hotbed for blockbusters and is as important to any given year as even the hottest summer months and has been the launch pad for some of the biggest franchises in box office history including 'Harry Potter,' 'The Hunger Games' and 'Twilight,' not to mention the traditional home for James Bond," noted Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst with comScore.
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You press a button on your phone when you're close to the GPS coordinates for the missile launch system and then your phone's camera is activated and a silly looking missile launch pad hovers over the image coming from your phone's camera—sort of like that Pikachu that hovers in the street when you try to catch it in Pokemon Go.It's also the goofiest feature.
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For the first time since the absolutely insane-looking anomaly (technically, SpaceX still won't call it an explosion) that incinerated a rocket and maybe a good chunk of that rocket's launch pad on September 1st, Elon Musk took to twitter to vent about his very, very bad day:Today's tweets are the first new information we've had on the explosion since a statement issued by SpaceX last Friday.
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It was still a huge cultural phenomenon, but there was plenty of opportunity to revive the franchise for a new generation, broaden the universe with TV shows and spin-off films, sell toys and video games, and, ultimately, use Star Wars as a launch pad for Disney's streaming services, as Disney is doing now by making "The Mandalorian" the first original series to hit Disney Plus.
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Rocket Lab, one of the few launch startups that's actually flying payloads to space, has officially opened its second launch pad — this one in the U.S. The company's original launch site, which will continue to fly missions, is in New Zealand, but its new launch facility on Wallops Island in Virginia will open the doors for a key new customer, the U.S. Air Force.
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Start-Up Chile, for example, offers entrepreneurs up to US$80,000 to launch their businesses in Chile as a launch pad to reach the rest of the world; Parallel18 in Puerto Rico offers entrepreneurs up to US$75,000 to do the same thing; and the Peruvian government plans to announce a similar program to help startups soft launch in Peru with up to US$40,000 at the upcoming Peru Venture Capital Conference.
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