liftoff
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now one major step closer to liftoff.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
SpaceX stock looked to have finally achieved liftoff after a rocky start, but then investors got spooked by some otherworldly AI spending plans announced alongside its generally good results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
His film is likable as heck but never quite achieves liftoff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Wagner is confident that geothermal energy has now achieved liftoff, and will only get better and cheaper over time.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
In 1986, the Shuttle Challenger was destroyed about a minute after liftoff, when a hole burned through the side of a solid rocket booster, causing a gigantic explosion.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
In recent years, North Korea has been pushing to develop more weapons with built-in solid propellants, which make launches harder to detect than liquid-propellant missiles that must be fueled before liftoffs and cannot last long.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
Security Council resolutions ban North Korea from performing any launches using ballistic technology, such as satellite liftoffs and missile tests.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
It was a thing of teeth-rattling liftoffs and bone-thumping landings and a dependence on fire—fire!, the fuel of the primitives—to get anywhere at all.
From Time ● Feb. 27, 2015
The engaging Gomez’s liftoffs occur courtesy of ZFX’s flying effects.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2014
Yet that audience dwindled quickly after the first flight in 1981 as the missions turned routine, or at least seemed that way to the television executives who decided to stop showing live liftoffs.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2011
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