They had but one goal in mind: hurl a one pound payload exactly one mile.
Lockheed Martin is the SBIRS prime contractor, with Northrop Grumman as the payload integrator.
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Nasa is hoping the payload inside Endeavour for its final mission will deliver equally astonishing science.
When the CDX-011 antibody attaches to GPNMB-expressing tumor cells, it releases a toxic chemotherapy payload.
In contrast, NASA's SLS is a heavy-lift rocket designed to lift a 130-ton payload into space.
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At exactly the right moment the payload is released and is hurled into space.
It will also allow South Korea to triple the payload from 500kg for missiles over shorter distances.
This rocket will launch a 5 kg experimental payload to as high as 100 km (62 miles).
Saturday saw the firm put up its first satellite payload since emerging from bankruptcy protection last year.
The ATV has two major divisions - a pressurised payload unit, and an avionics and propulsion unit.
Moon Express also intends to provide the delivering and deployment of payload on the moon for clients.
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They envisioned employing a fleet of drones with a two kilogram payload capacity and a six mile flight-range.
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Sasser does not have a malicious payload, meaning it does not destroy or alter information within a computer.
J-1's muscular new engines should allow it to put three times the payload of its predecessor into orbit.
Its payload and array of munitions will permit it to destroy numerous time-sensitive targets in a single sortie.
Or here's another possible payload for Friend's Proteus: A fleet of Gracias' microgrippers.
Some experts believe it could reach the United States with a light payload.
Dragon will be loaded with a payload of 1200 pounds, including supplies for the astronauts, equipment, and scientific experiments.
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Putting their combined payload into one more efficient, larger aircraft plainly makes sense.
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Its payload bay, meanwhile, is designed to take interchangeable modules so that it can hold whatever equipment is required.
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These can be designed to break open only where their payload is needed.
Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, an Israeli Air Force colonel who was Israel's first astronaut, was buried in Israel on Tuesday.
Virgin Galactic recently signed a deal with the Houston company Nanoracks to design and build SS2's payload mounting system.
All the major events such as rocket-stage separation, fairing separation, and the ejection of the dummy payload occurred on cue.
From there, the data go to NASA's Payload Operations Integration Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
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The aircraft will also need to carry a useful payload a miniature video camera and a transmitter to send the signal.
Instead he was flying belowdecks, between payload commander Stephen Robinson and Dr. Chiaki Mukai, the first Japanese woman in space.
Officials constantly monitor the rocket and its payload and if there is the slightest doubt, the flight is stood down.
Britain remains the only nation to have given up the expertise of putting a payload in orbit on an indigenous rocket.
To that end, one of the "passengers" on the flight was VNREDSat-1 - the first fee-paying payload to ride Vega.
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