exploratory

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Exploratory spacecraft can take 10 years or more to develop and require the assemblage of teams of trained engineers, designers, and other professionals.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

Exploratory types easily cover 200 meters within 20 minutes in the tent, hopping from one tray to the next.

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2024

Exploratory drilling is expensive and uncertain, and industry leaders say government backing is required to make that initial phase manageable for companies.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2023

Indeed, the agency even supports some funding mechanisms that are specially designed to encourage research that is high-risk and high-reward, the most prominent being the Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research program, or EAGER.

From Salon • May 3, 2022

Members of the Atlantic Union Committee could certainly be forgiven if by now they had decided that the Resolution for an Atlantic Exploratory Convention would never pass both Houses of Congress.

From The Invisible Government by Smoot, Dan