How To Use Liftoff In A Sentence
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It began descending at full throttle and crashed one mile from the point of its liftoff.
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In the weak, graying sky, Maia saw the blinking lights of aircraft in liftoff.
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The rather good-looking Australian in charge of the fireworks was on target for a nine p. m. liftoff and there were only ten minutes to go.
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`One-One, Gadfly liftoff ," Furness reported on the AWACS network.
CHAINS OF COMMAND
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Shortly after liftoff, the number three Wright radial experienced a momentary surge in power but then stabilized.
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`One-One, Gadfly liftoff ," Furness reported on the AWACS network.
CHAINS OF COMMAND
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After liftoff, at nearly 100 percent of rated thrust, the engine throttles back momentarily.
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A cursorial bipedal animal would have its arms free to do with them as it pleased while running, and its running speed would allow it to achieve the minimum speed necessary for liftoff.
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For example, after the shuttle has entered orbit, the cargo bay doors open to help release much of the pent-up heat created during liftoff and ascent.
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Footage also shows the fuel tank's nose cone hit a bird just seconds after liftoff yesterday.
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Metal fatigue is one concern, damage incurred during liftoff is another.
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The current lunar ascent stage configuration is a perfect match to this contingency assuming you have refueled and re-ignited the descent stage for lunar liftoff.
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During its two-minute burn at liftoff, each motor generates an average thrust of 2.6 million pounds.
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The earliest the shuttle could be ready for liftoff is June 17, however there is a conflict on that date with the scheduled launch of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter/Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.
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A cursorial bipedal animal would have its arms free to do with them as it pleased while running, and its running speed would allow it to achieve the minimum speed necessary for liftoff.
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When all of these steps have been completed, a complete dress rehearsal of the final days of the countdown and liftoff is conducted.
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The rather good-looking Australian in charge of the fireworks was on target for a nine p. m. liftoff and there were only ten minutes to go.
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An autonomous telemetry system transmitted data on the payload environment during all the flight phases, from liftoff to in-orbit injection.
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She was distracted from her ranting by a staticky voice over the comm informing them they were cleared for liftoff.
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“It looks like something just kind of chattered its way down along that edge,” deputy shuttle program manager LeRoy Cain said at a briefing, showing a picture of unidentified debris that hit the ship 104 seconds after liftoff.
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Ann Kellan there in Atlanta on the Titan 4 liftoff from a short time ago.
CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2001
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Separation of the boosters took place 2 m 30 s after liftoff, shortly followed by first stage burnout, separation and the ignition of the launcher's second stage.
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The extra propellant provides an additional 50 tonnes of thrust in the first 20 seconds following liftoff.
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That is seen as a strong indicator liftoff is on track to proceed between April 4th and 8th, as the North has announced.
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The shifts are not only quick, but require very little throttle liftoff to change gears.
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The shuttle Endeavour's launch was scrubbed last Friday only hours before liftoff.
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The tank will no longer have thick foam insulation on the spot where it tore off Columbia at liftoff.
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The rollback is the first big event in the cycle leading up to launch, so it means liftoff is not far away!
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As long as Ares I-X doesn't do a 180 at liftoff and auger into the pad, Constellation can declare victory.
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Twenty-plus years of covering the space program and I come to learn that it's not the awe-striking power of the explosion hopefully controlled known as the liftoff that poses the chief danger to shuttle astronauts -
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NASA officials say they don't think a piece of tile that hit Discovery's belly during liftoff is a serious matter.
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But, consider this, the first time an ascent stage fails after liftoff from the lunar surface is the last trip to the moon for quite some time.
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Four minutes and 45 seconds after liftoff the capsule will begin decelerating by extending a set of speed brakes located near the nose of the capsule.
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After liftoff, at nearly 100 percent of rated thrust, the engine throttles back momentarily.
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Ariane 44L carries four large liquid strap-on boosters to augment the launcher's thrust at liftoff and during the initial ascent.
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Look at it as you would an aircraft taxiing onto the runway and adding power for takeoff, where the really hard part is overcoming inertia and gaining enough speed for liftoff.
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Friday's scrubbing came dramatically close to liftoff on what appeared to be a near-flawless launch day: With a helicopter overhead and a SWAT vehicle in chase, the space shuttle crew had left NASA's operations center in an airstream trailer for the 10-minute trip to the launch pad when word came: Launch of Endeavour is scrubbed.
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In the current lunar lander ascent configuration, if your primary ascent stage fails after liftoff from the lunar surface but before you make it safely to lunar orbit, then landing the aborted vehicle with the engines failed or something else gone haywire so a pre-positioned unmanned vehicle can come to your rescue, is fatal 100% of the time since the landing of a crewed vehicle requires a working non-aborted system.
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The tail of the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle was engulfed seconds before the planned liftoff, disappointing hundreds, including space scientists.
