liftoff

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The SLS generated 8.8 million pounds of thrust at liftoff and, by every measure engineers care about, performed to plan.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

The solid rocket boosters for SLS, made by Northrop Grumman, are 17-story-tall devices that burn more than 11,000 pounds of propellant a second during liftoff.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

This time the FAA gave pilots a heads-up an hour and 40 minutes before liftoff.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026

Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, indefinitely postponed the slated Sunday launch of its New Glenn rocket, citing unfavorable cloud cover at its liftoff site in Florida.

From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025

There's just no way that could have happened before liftoff.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir