Competitors have one aim, which is to travel as far as possible from the launch site.
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The launch site is in north-western North Korea, not far from the Chinese border.
For Mrs Lea, the tension began as soon as she made it to the launch site.
That has meant extra safety reviews and extra safety precautions around the Florida launch site.
Even getting anywhere near the remote launch site is normally tricky for foreigners.
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At 6:51am ET this morning, the Soyuz TMA-06M launched from the Russian launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Competitors for the Gordon Bennett Cup have a simple aim - to travel as far as possible from the launch site.
Recent satellite images show that North Korea has been conducting tests at a rocket launch site, says a US academic organisation.
South Korean defence officials say the main body of the rocket has now been moved to the launch site in preparation.
There has been recent activity at the older Tonghae launch site on its northeast coast, although it's unclear to what end.
It also is timed to woo privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, to build its third launch site in Florida.
The night before he left for the launch site in Kazakhstan, he took a break from packing to chat on the phone.
The Bureau of Land Management also gets involved, although there's nary a stick of firewood within 20 miles of the launch site.
That launch - condemned by the UN as a banned test of missile technology - took place at the Sohae launch site.
Last year Mr Hempleman-Adams landed in Worgl, Austria, finishing in fourth place after having travelled 580.9km from the launch site at Gap-Tallard in France.
Russia will need a new rocket to get to Mars, though, and a new launch site to operate manned flights as early as in 2018.
Last year, it fired a long-range missile on April 13 from a launch site in the northwest of the country that disintegrated soon after takeoff.
Musk also confirmed that, while he's in Texas, he's meeting with state lawmakers about the possibility of building a commercial launch site in the state.
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Musk said Texas is the leading candidate for the launch site and that, if things go smoothly, construction could begin as early as next year.
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The procedure involves injecting a clear gel into the vas deferens, the vessel through which sperm is transported to its launch site before leaving the body.
In recent weeks, military and intelligence analysts in the U.S. and South Korea, using satellite photography, have monitored increased activity at a missile-launch site in northeast North Korea.
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It is preparing to activate a second launch site at Vandenberg before the end of the year and is looking to build a third launch pad in a commercial zone.
As a matter of fact, they already launched that aircraft carrier we bought them, along with a Tiangong-1 rocket that lifted the first module of a planned Chinese space station to orbit from a launch site in the Jiuquan, Gansu province.
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On a sunny spring morning students and teachers from all over south Texas made their way to the volunteer fire station that is all of Willow City, Texas where, armed with huge homemade rockets they were given final directions to a secluded launch site in an area more known for rattlesnakes than rockets.
For, even if as has been promised no Soviet personnel are present at the Australian launch site itself, successful integration of payloads and boosters requires an intimate understanding of the characteristics of the device to be orbited (for example, in addition to its weight and dimensions, its power requirements, center of gravity, stress tolerances, etc.).
But Moses had already signed away 80% of the Web site to two strategic partners--John Malone's Liberty Media, which helped launch the site in 1996, and FHC Health Systems, a behavioral health services provider.
On Tuesday, MySpace Music said it will launch a site this month that will help music companies manage their catalogs online.
In addition, consumers can browse any website from their mobile device and, with a single tap on their mobile screen, redirect and launch that site on their Samsung Smart TV.
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Ohanian, who also helped launch travel site Hipmunk and runs Breadpig, a site that gives all proceeds to social causes, said that like some of his other successes, his role was a matter of good timing.
The first and deputy first ministers have been defending the redevelopment of the former Maze prison site at the launch of a plan for the huge site.
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