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  Air-Launched
The Rockair technique (research rocket launched from aircraft) was developed by the Office of Naval Research and the University of Maryland.
This USAF version of the Navy Rockair (research rocket launched from aircraft) vehicle consisted of a Deacon rocket launched from an F-86D Sabrejet fighter....
Launch vehicle design by NPO Molniya / TsAGI that would utilize air launch from a giant cargo aircraft capable of lifting 900 tonne payloads.
www.astronautix.com /lvfam/airnched.htm   (1264 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Fresh Crew Heads to Space Station in Tribute to Columbia
Launched into orbit aboard Endeavour last November, Expedition Six commander Ken Bowersox, science officer Don Pettit and Soyuz commander Nikolai Budarin were scheduled to be returned to Earth aboard shuttle Atlantis in March.
Lu told journalists before the launch that it was particularly fitting he stayed in the same room in Baikonur's Cosmonaut Hotel as the crew that participated in the 1975 Apollo Soyuz Test Project.
When shuttle launch operations resume, the first mission will be a resupply flight to the station led by veteran commander Eileen Collins.
space.com /missionlaunches/soyuz_launch_030425.html   (812 words)

  
 Ilkone launches first fully Islamic mobile phone | ILKONE Mobile Telecommunications
Explaining the reasons for the launch ilkone i800, Tellawi said: "The current size of the GCC mobile phone market is five million units a year, set to grow by 40% annually.
The launch of ilkone i800, the smart new Islamic mobile phone, is a perfect example of how mobile wireless technology enhances the power and functionality of a mobile device, tailoring to the specific needs of the Muslim end-user.
The ilkone i800 was launched earlier this year in many markets including Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Sudan, Algeria and the Far East, and will be introduced to the GCC countries and other major Islamic countries by September 2004.
www.ameinfo.com /43982.html   (684 words)

  
 Spaceflight Now | Ariane Launch Report | Rosetta soars on ambitious comet intercept mission
Embarking on its epic voyage to gain new insights into comets and the history of our solar system, the Rosetta spacecraft was successfully launched today to rendezvous with a cosmic snowball and deploy a tiny lander onto its icy heart.
Delaying the launch from 2003 to 2004 caused managers to change targets for the probe, which required extensive studies of Churyumov-Gerasimenko to see if it was suitable to approach with a $1 billion spacecraft and safe to land upon with a tiny robot explorer.
Launch timeline - Chart with times and descriptions of events to occur during the launch.
www.spaceflightnow.com /ariane/v158/040302launch.html   (1853 words)

  
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Fruit flies, mice, hamsters, cats, dogs and rhesus monkeys were flown on several missions to study the effects of the thin atmosphere and radiation.
Physiological data from the mouse was telemetered to the ground 20 minutes of microgravity during launch, flight and reentry.
Skylab was launched into orbit in May 1973 at an altitude of approximately 450 km.
neurolab.jsc.nasa.gov /ustime.htm   (1525 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Boeing Launches Pair of Science Research Satellites for NASA
The ICESat spacecraft is prepared for launch atop a Boeing Delta 2 rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
Launch was delayed one day because of a problem with ground support equipment at the pad.
The launch was the first for the U.S. space program in 2003.
www.space.com /missionlaunches/delta2_launch_030112.html   (909 words)

  
 Gun-launched
This was to prove the feasibility of using large guns for launch of scientific and military payloads on sub-orbital and orbital trajectories.
The ability of a supergun to launch low cost satellites is usually the sole attribute discussed when gun-launched satellites are compared to those orbited by conventional launchers.
However the supergun's real potential is not only low cost, but also the ability to launch a vast numbers of satellites each year in all kinds of weather.
www.astronautix.com /lvfam/gunnched.htm   (1464 words)

  
 Mars Polar Lander Successfully Launched
The spacecraft is scheduled to fire its thrusters in a trajectory correction maneuver January 18.
Mars Polar Lander is the second of two spacecraft launched to the red planet during the December 1998-January 1999 Mars launch opportunity.
Mars Climate Orbiter was launched December 11, and is scheduled to reach Mars next September 23.
mars.jpl.nasa.gov /msp98/news/mpl990103.html   (500 words)

  
 AutoRun Utility User Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
If it should launch either one, it uses the specified window title and class for the installer or run app to see if it is already running.
When you launch a document you can never be sure what application the user has registered on their system to handle that type of document.
ErrorBadAssociation: Error text to append to launch or run failed message when the filename for the application assigned to handle the file type of the document is incomplete or invalid.
www.updatestage.com /xtras/doc/autorun/autorunusr.htm   (8280 words)

  
 China tests ballistic missile submarine - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - December 03, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
China's military has launched the first of a new class of ballistic missile submarines in what defense officials view as a major step forward in Beijing's strategic weapons program.
The new 094-class submarine was launched in late July and when fully operational in the next year or two will be the first submarine to carry the underwater-launched version of China's new DF-31 missile, according to defense officials.
The launching of the new missile submarine appears ahead of schedule.
washingtontimes.com /national/20041202-115302-2338r.htm   (851 words)

  
 Sea Launch Successfully Delivers XM-3 to Orbit
The Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket lifted off at 7:51 pm PST (03:51 GMT, Mar. 1), precisely on schedule, from the Odyssey Launch Platform, positioned at 154 degrees West Longitude.
We are extremely proud to be able to provide another launch for both XM and Boeing and we look forward to continuing our long and mutually beneficial relationships.
Sea Launch Company, LLC, headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., and marketed through Boeing Launch Services (www.boeing.com/launch), is the world’s most reliable heavy-lift commercial launch service.
www.boeing.com /news/releases/2005/q1/nr_050228s.html   (376 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 221   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Launched on December 30th, the website's initiative is to utilise Bangladesh's reservoir of low-cost IT skilled manpower towards outsourcing efforts.
Once properly outsourced, the skilled hands of Bangladesh are expected to pull in a significant amount of foreign currency boosting the national economy.
At present the Bangladesh government is pulling in changes in its ICT expansion policy to promote any growth in the sector, in view of creating an IT-driven nation by the end of the year 2010.
www.thedailystar.net /2005/01/05/d501051602115.htm   (455 words)

  
 John F. Kennedy Space Center - Expendable Launch Vehicles
The Virtual Launch Control Center was deactivated at 2:15 p.m.
Thank you for joining us for live coverage of the successful launch of Gravity Probe B! The launch of NASA's Gravity Probe B spacecraft aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket has been scrubbed for 23 hours.
A hold was called approximately 3 minutes before liftoff after it was determined that there was insufficient time to confirm before launch that the correct wind profile had been loaded aboard the Delta II based on the data from the final weather balloon.
www.ksc.nasa.gov /elvnew/gpb/vlcc.htm   (1116 words)

  
 Shuttle Buran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The first and only orbital launch of the shuttle Buran was at 3:00 GMT on November 15, 1988.
The flight was unmanned, as the life support system had not been checked out and the CRT displays had no software installed.
The vehicle was launched on the powerful Energiya booster into an 247 by 256 km orbit at 51.6 degrees inclination.
liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /rsa/buran.html   (330 words)

  
 UNESCO - Communication and Information Sector - UN Launched Information Technology Venture to Build 'Digital Bridges' ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The United Nations yesterday launched a global task force to help build universal interconnectivity and spread the benefits of the digital revolution to the world's poor.
At a related press conference at UN Headquarters, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Information and Communication Technologies José María Figueres Olsen, the former President of Costa Rica, said that even though the Task Force was global in its conception, it aimed to be regional and specific in terms of country and regional needs.
He said the Task Force had launched four regional nodes to act as "one-stop" ICT information facilities within regions and had six different working groups to look at content issues, such as regulatory frameworks, low-cost connectivities and applications for health and education.
www.unesco.org /webworld/news/2001/011121_bridges.shtml   (362 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Europe launch for Apple's iTunes
The legal market is expected to take off this year as more homes get broadband, more legal sites are launched and the record industry's legal action against "pirates" takes hold.
Singer Alicia Keys, who was the guest star at the launch event, said she supported iTunes.
Major record labels are keen for industry-backed music stores to launch in Europe to stop pirated tracks being swapped over the internet.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3805565.stm   (760 words)

  
 CNN.com - Verizon launches first U.S. '3G' network - January 28, 2002
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Verizon became the first company Monday to launch a so-called "third generation" or "3G" wireless telephone network in the United States.
It is an upgraded telecommunications network that makes it possible for subscribers with specially equipped wireless phones to access the Internet and other online services at high connection speeds.
That service is somewhat more advanced than the Verizon version, as its 3G telephones work as stand alone devices and don't have to connect to a computer or PDA.
archives.cnn.com /2002/TECH/ptech/01/28/verizon.3g   (465 words)

  
 ESA Science & Technology: Mars Express en route for the Red Planet
Mars Express, drawing heavily on elements of the Rosetta spacecraft awaiting to be launched to a comet next year, paves the way for other ESA-led planetary missions, with Venus Express planned for 2005 and the BepiColombo mission to Mercury at the end of the decade.
It is a precursor too for continuing Mars mission activity under Aurora, the programme of exploration of our solar system.
Mars Express was successfully launched from Baikonur at 17:45 GMT
sci.esa.int /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=32386   (1235 words)

  
 Dare Obasanjo's WebLog : MSN Spaces Launched
MSN Hotmail recently introduced 250MB inboxes to new consumers in nine markets and launched a photo upload tool for all consumers to make it easier for them to share pictures online.
# re: MSN Spaces Launched @ Wednesday, December 01, 2004 8:33 PM
It should be in English now [or whatever your language of choice is as specified by your Web browser depending as long as it is supported by MSN Spaces].
blogs.msdn.com /dareobasanjo/archive/2004/12/01/273418.aspx   (1806 words)

  
 Spaceflight Now
In preparation for the West Coast launch of Boeing's next-generation Delta 4 rocket, the two-stage vehicle is rolled out of its horizontal hangar and driven to the Space Launch Complex-6 pad for erection.
NASA unveils the agency's blueprint for building the future spacecraft and launch vehicles needed for mankind's return to the lunar surface in the next decade.
California's debut launch of the Boeing Delta 4 rocket is facing an extended delay -- perhaps six weeks -- while engineers try to reconcile differing predictions of sloshing fuel inside the booster during flight.
www.spaceflightnow.com   (1798 words)

  
 BGM-109 Tomahawk - Smart Weapons
After launch, a solid propellant propels the missile until a small turbofan engine takes over for the cruise portion of flight.
On all attack submarines, missiles are launched from torpedo tubes (with stowage in the torpedo room); in addition, some attack submarines have VLS located forward, external to the pressure hull, which will handle both stowage and launch.
The sub launched antiship version (TASM), conventional land attack missile (TLAM/C), and nuclear land attack variant (TLAM/A) were tested from January 1981 to October 1983.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/smart/bgm-109.htm   (3346 words)

  
 Navy Facts: Tomahawk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
After a November 1998 launch and live warhead test, the U.K. declared operational capability.
The first launch of the Block IV Tomahawk® from an operational surface ship equipped with the Tactical Tomahawk™ Weapon Control System took place on 5 April 2003 from USS Stethem (DDG 63) off southern California.
Launched from the Navy's forward-deployed ships and submarines, Tomahawk® Block IV, will provide a greater flexibility to the on-scene commander.
www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/factfile/missiles/wep-toma.html   (574 words)

  
 javadocs.org launched!
We got it working, but never got round to launching it and hosting it.
It has a couple of facilities that you haven't gotten to yet: (a) end-users can register their own sites, (b) if the same package occurs on multiple sites, it will give you a choice, (c) niceties like a package-list file which make the site look like a regular (if huge!) javadoc site.
You can use keywords in safari but it is slower than using a bookmarklet that gets launched with a key combo, i.e.
www.petefreitag.com /item/133.cfm   (1004 words)

  
 WHO | The President of Chile and the WHO Director-General launch global Commission to tackle the "causes behind the ...
The President of Chile and the WHO Director-General launch global Commission to tackle the "causes behind the causes of ill-health"
This commission will assist countries, no matter how rich or poor, to implement strategies that will help people who are poor and marginalized live longer, healthier lives," said Dr Lee at the official launch in Santiago, Chile.
The President of Chile and the WHO Director-General launch global Commission to tackle the "causes behind the causes of ill-health": 1,2,3
www.who.int /mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr13/en   (1003 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Education / Higher education / Tenets of academic rigor spread to computer games
Next year, the university will launch a four-year undergraduate program in computer game design, aimed at giving students the technical and creative skills to compete in an industry that's become almost as lucrative as the movie business, and nearly as competitive.
It will be the first major of its kind in the United States to combine training in both computer science and the humanities.
A number of major universities and technical schools have launched game design programs.
www.boston.com /news/education/higher/articles/2004/12/21/tenets_of_academic_rigor_spread_to_computer_games_1103605828   (576 words)

  
 Chronology of Space Exploration
Lunar Prospector was launched on January 6, 1998 and arrived at the Moon on January 11, 1998.
It is designed for a low polar orbit investigation of the Moon, including the mapping of surface composition and possible ice deposits, the measuring of magnetic and gravity fields, and the study of lunar outgassing events.
It was originally scheduled for launch around 2001 and to arrive at Pluto around 2013.
www.solarviews.com /eng/craft2.htm   (8205 words)

  
 Nick Denton: Gawker Media Contract Publications
Gawker Media today launches a contract publishing service for advertisers, Gawker Media Contract Publications.
The first project is a weblog sponsored by Nike.
Dr Pepper/Seven Up seemed cynical in its exploitation of the weblog format when it launched ragingcow.com, a site devoted to a new milk drink.
www.nickdenton.org /001997.html   (371 words)

  
 World of Warcraft launches - PC News at GameSpot
The massively multiplayer online role-playing game will also launch in Korea and Europe, but at a later date.
However, as is to be expected with an undertaking of World of Warcraft's size, there were a few hiccups.
Microsoft exec dishes the details on Xbox 360 launch, DVD format, Revolution controller, and more.
www.gamespot.com /news/2004/11/23/news_6113914.html   (512 words)

  
 And so Xbox is ‘launched’ | The Register
It will hardly come as news to many of you that Bill Gates officially launched Microsoft's gaming console, the Xbox, in Las Vegas on Saturday.
And as befitting such an occasion and a place, glitzy faked-up razamatazz was the order the day.
As with the modern approach to launches, little was actually launched.
www.theregister.co.uk /2001/01/08/and_so_xbox_is_launched   (591 words)

  
 Apple Launches iTunes Music Store in the UK, France & Germany
LONDON—June 15, 2004—Apple® today launched its revolutionary iTunes® Music Store in the UK, France and Germany giving music fans there the same large online catalogue, a la carte pricing, free previews, one-click purchasing and downloading, and groundbreaking personal use rights that have made iTunes the number one online music service in the world.
With Apple’s legendary ease of use, pioneering features such as iMix playlist sharing, and breakthrough pricing of just €0.99 and £0.79, the iTunes Music Store is the best way for Mac® and PC users in the UK, France and Germany to legally discover, purchase and download music online.
Apple also today announced that it will launch a European Union version of the iTunes Music Store in October of this year.
www.apple.com /pr/library/2004/jun/15itunes.html   (814 words)

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