In contrast, NASA's SLS is a heavy-lift rocket designed to lift a 130-ton payload into space.
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Obama attempted to cancel the government-designed Ares 1 and Ares V super-heavy-lift rocket programs.
The 12-year-old Ocean Atlas is one of a very small number of U.S.-flagged heavy-lift vessels.
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Thinking about project and heavy-lift cargo, I would not make the distinction that only heavy pieces are project cargo.
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Industry officials said in recent weeks plans to use a heavy-lift rocket and space capsule supplied by SpaceX, imploded.
Two more cutters capable of providing heavy-lift capability were en route, he said.
It was the fourth outing for an Ariane 5 in what has been a difficult year for Europe's heavy-lift rocket.
Boeing was chosen as the preferred vendor for the heavy-lift helicopter contract after its bid was found to be lowest of two competing companies.
It is also fixing the costly botched procurement of eight heavy-lift Chinook helicopters, grounded in 2001 because they could not be certified as safe.
The Air Force has just seen its contractors begin shutting down the Free World's only production line for highly capable, heavy-lift transport aircraft, the C-17.
The company also expects the Indian government to shortly invite bids for six heavy-lift transport helicopters, for which it will pitch the Chinook helicopter, Mr. Lall said.
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Following completion of the current Ares V super-heavy-lift rocket program, the Space Launch System, I believe that the government should commercialize all future launch vehicle development and operations.
The new mega-rocket, called the Space Launch System, passed a series of reviews that laid out the technical, performance, cost and schedule requirements for the heavy-lift booster.
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The company is developing a heavy-lift rocket with twice the cargo capability of the space shuttle, and also dreams of building a spacecraft that could carry a crew to Mars.
At the same time, the agency is working with its industry contractors to develop a heavy-lift rocket and space capsule to take Americans beyond Earth orbit to an asteroid and ultimately Mars.
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Vega will take its place alongside its "big brother" at Kourou - the Ariane 5 heavy-lift rocket, and the new medium-lift "Europeanised" Soyuz rocket that has only recently started launching from the spaceport.
The USS Carl Vinson arrived off the coast Friday, carrying 19 heavy-lift helicopters, 51 hospital beds, three operating rooms, and the ability to produce hundreds of thousands of gallons of drinkable water per day.
Joanne Maguire, overall head of the company's space programs, said in an interview that the Orion capsule is slated to blast off on top of a heavy-lift version of the U.S. military's Delta IV rocket.
Senate Appropriates Committee conferees, who today secured funding for 10 additional C-17 airlifters, are to be commended for recognizing the inadvisability of terminating the production line of the Nation's only highly capable, heavy-lift transport aircraft.
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While NASA works with U.S. industry partners to develop these capabilities, the agency also is developing the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS), a crew capsule and heavy-lift rocket to provide an entirely new capability for human exploration.
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The architecture calls for two new rockets: the Ares 1 to launch crew, and a new heavy-lift rocket known as Ares 5 that could put into orbit the equipment needed by an Orion capsule to travel to the Moon and beyond.
At least some of the incoming Republican panel chairmen and other senior GOP lawmakers, these officials said, may view the proposed test flight as circumventing congressional language to quickly develop a new heavy-lift NASA rocket able to transport astronauts past low-earth orbit.
"This new heavy-lift launch vehicle will make it possible for explorers to reach beyond our current limits, to nearby asteroids, Mars and its moons, and to destinations even farther across our solar system, " William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.
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So, as part of the project multi-purpose heavy lift cocktail, they are a vital ingredient today.
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Wind blade equipment today, probably constitutes roughly 20% of ocean-borne multi-purpose heavy lift cargo today.
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They are semi-submersible heavy lift ships, which is to say that the ships are designed to be ballasted down so that their main decks go underwater, allowing their cargo to be floated aboard.
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We trade with both Foreign-flagged and US-flagged assets and have a high concentration of heavy lift vessels between 400 and 800-ton lifting capacity.
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There are many ships that have 150-ton lifting capacity in the modern fleet, and where as years ago we traditionally called things over 150-ton as heavy lift cargo, that story is different today.
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Equity was available from private investors who got tax deductions, these funds were created and promoted by the financial community, and this really led to a boom in building of multi-purpose, heavy lift, and container vessels as well.
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Heart trouble bothered him, and he once found the little paint-pot almost too heavy to lift, but he never considered stopping.
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