These pellets, usually made of silver iodide, salts or calcium chloride, are physically dropped via plane or shot into the air via rockets.
While scientists have long studied the principles of air-launched rockets Mr. Rutan recalls beginning preliminary work on such a project as long ago as 1991 Stratolaunch Systems Inc.
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Israel said it had carried out an air strike after two rockets were fired from Gaza.
Launch vehicles will be Falcon 9 rockets from SpaceX lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and Kosmotras DNEPR rockets lifting off from Yasny, Russia.
Meanwhile, four Palestinian members of the Popular Resistance Committee, a militant group, were critically injured as a result of an Israeli air force strike after launching rockets at Israeli territory, security forces in Gaza told CNN.
American officers told me that air strikes bombs and rockets are usually restricted to units in which Americans direct the fire.
The Air Force wants to consider using rockets from a nontraditional provider to launch billion-dollar spy satellites because they are cheaper, even though the startup has had three launch failures in seven tries.
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This was accomplished by a heat shield, a parachute and some retro-rockets and, finally, air bags that inflated just before touchdown.
Mr. MALLEY: Well, it certainly sounds like war, and I'm sure that for the people on the ground, whether in Lebanon or in Israel it's feeling very much like war, when you have a naval and sea blockade, when you have air strikes, when you have katyusha rockets fired into Israel.
The ship, Yemen says, contained Iranian-made bomb-making material, suicide belts, explosives, rockets, surface-to-air missiles, grenades and ammunition.
You can mow down an opponent with bullets or rockets while tossing them in the air with a Bucking Bronco vigor.
Ben-GurionInternationalAirportwill be within range of Palestinian rockets and missiles, and thus all civilian air traffic entering and leaving Israel will be exposed to projectile threat.
Unlike conventional rockets that blast off from a pad, air-launched systems similar to the one Mr. Allen wants to put together are designed to deliver a broad range of satellites to space without the constraints of weather or optimal times and locations to try to reach specific orbits.
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About half the rockets suffer some kind of catastrophic failure in the air, usually when a nose cone fails to separate properly or the parachute doesn't deploy.
That is because, unlike the rockets currently used to get into orbit, they are air-breathing.
The company, founded and run by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, currently flies its Falcon rockets from a refurbished and leased pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Commercial space launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida and from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, both of which can accommodate bigger rockets and more diverse payloads than the other sites, are subject to military oversight.
The Israeli military said a total of six rockets and mortars had hit, causing no casualties, and that there had been no Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.
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