explosion
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But Blue Origin just saw its plans go up in flames during a ground test explosion of its flagship New Glenn rocket, which damaged their launch platform and heralded delays.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
It took more than a year for SpaceX to resume flights from a launchpad at Cape Canaveral after a preflight explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket in 2016.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
A properly designed coal mine is "fully capable of preventing an explosion through systematic safeguards," explains Hong Chen, a professor at Jiangnan University's Institute for National Security and Green Development.
From BBC • May 31, 2026
More elegantly, in a climactic moment, he finally plays the piano — a possession and an exorcism at the same time and an explosion of raw talent that says everything he cannot.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
But the explosion was actually in an entirely unexpected place: the unit 4 building.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Vocabulary lists containing explosion
Unit 6, Week 4
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