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  • For satellite operators looking to boost launch competition, it's politically easier to choose SpaceX rather than China's government rocket-launch organization as an alternate partner.

    SpaceX Wins Major Deal to Launch Commercial Satellite Andy Pasztor 2011

  • Still, the intelligence official said Hamas's communications networks, supply lines used to funnel arms and personnel throughout the strip, and rocket-launch capabilities have been so badly degraded that it is becoming difficult for the organization to put up much of a fight.

    Battle Moves Deeper into Gaza City for Third Day 2009

  • The result is an annotated North Korea of rocket-launch sites, prison camps and elite palaces on white-sand beaches.

    Gulags, Nukes and a Water Slide: 2009

  • Instead, the Apaches took out the rocket-launch site and a few of the men around it.

    Up in the Sky, An Unblinking Eye 2008

  • Then a bunch of guys in California or Nevada or someplace will take a warhead and rocket-launch it into a hardened target at fifteen hundred miles an hour.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Then a bunch of guys in California or Nevada or someplace will take a warhead and rocket-launch it into a hardened target at fifteen hundred miles an hour.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Then a bunch of guys in California or Nevada or someplace will take a warhead and rocket-launch it into a hardened target at fifteen hundred miles an hour.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The federal government has signaled it's prepared to approve Lockheed Martin and Boeing's joint rocket-launch ventures.

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: June 2006 Archives 2006

  • "A plan by Lockheed Martin Corp. to merge their rocket-launch work for the U.S. government has received the Defense Department's conditional backing, defense consultant Loren Thompson said on Friday."

    NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: March 2006 Archives 2006

  • The first space elevator is projected to reduce lift costs immediately to $100 per pound, as compared to current launch costs of $10,000-$40,000 per pound, depending upon destination and choice of rocket-launch system.

    Major British Review on Economics of Climate Change « Climate Audit 2005

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