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The ultimate goal—which has eluded corporate and government rocket scientists for decades—is to build a reliable and flexible aircraft-based launch option capable of hurling satellites as heavy as a pickup truck into low-earth orbit.
Paul Allen, Supersizing Space Flight Andy Pasztor 2011
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"The committee recommends that NASA increase its investment in proven programs such as sounding rocket launches, aircraft-based research, and high-altitude balloon campaigns, which provide ample opportunities for hands-on flight development experience at a relatively low cost of failure."
Lack of Discipline = Slaughter of the Innocents - NASA Watch 2008
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Another project terminated is the airborne laser (ABL), an aircraft-based high energy laser that could be flown near potential enemy ballistic-missile hotspots.
Hillary's Right About the 'Defense Umbrella' Ilan Berman And Clifford D. May 2009
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Other nonvisual capabilities can be provided by aircraft-based sensors, which include ground-penetrating radar and highly sensitive detectors that can sense electromagnetic activity, radioactivity or traces of chemicals, military experts said.
Transfer of Military Tech To Police. Welcome to the Police State. 2007
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The obvious question is: how can one compare these satellite- and aircraft-based storms, which left no ship or shore evidence, with pre-1945 records which were based solely on ship and shore observations?
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The research group has been heavily involved in a series of regional and global experiments, often since 1988 as participants in comprehensive aircraft-based atmospheric field research.
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The plane was an aircraft-based dive bomber designed to carry 1,000-pound bombs.
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The plane was an aircraft-based dive bomber designed to carry 1,000-pound bombs.
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The plane was an aircraft-based dive bomber designed to carry 1,000-pound bombs.
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The plane was an aircraft-based dive bomber designed to carry 1,000-pound bombs.
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