Scientists said they launched the satellite from midair to save money, compared with an expendable rocket launched from the ground, because it doesn't take as much fuel to break free of the planet's gravity.
The rocket launched without a hitch following a flawless countdown that came three days after a faulty valve on one of the rocket's engines forced a last-second postponement.
Orbital Sciences survived by developing a new rocket launched from a far more reliable platform, a jumbo jet.
SpaceX successfully launched its commercial rocket today marking the first time a private company has sent a spacecraft to the space station.
Shuttle Endeavour, which had been docked with the Mir space station, unhooked on Thursday, about a half hour after the Russian space agency launched a Soyuz rocket with three new crew members for the space station.
It is a rocket, launched in the air, which lands like an aeroplane after falling like a shuttlecock.
The Atlas 5 rocket that launched today stands 191.2 feet (58.3 meters) tall and includes one main booster powered by the RD AMROSS RD-180 engine.
According to official Iranian news reports, the primate was strapped snugly into a Pishgam (or Pioneer) rocket and launched 120 kilometers (75 miles) into the sky on Monday.
The display started at 1815 GMT on Wednesday at Scatcherd Park in the town and when the final rocket was launched the Last Post was played followed by Reveille.
If humans ever do go to asteroids or Mars, the scale of the infrastructure needed to complete a safe round trip could not possibly be launched on a single rocket from Earth.
The manufacturer of the satellite, French company Thales Alenia Space, added to the embarrassment by prematurely issuing a press release stating the rocket had launched successfully, and the satellite was in the right place in orbit.
Fantasy football was played offline for years until the advent of the Internet rocket-launched it in the late 1990s from a niche hobby to a multimillion-dollar industry reaching 30 million online players last year in the United States and Canada.
The New Horizons probe will be launched on the fastest interplanetary rocket ever.
The mission comes a week after a new generation Ariane-5 rocket was successfully launched from Kourou in its third and final qualification flight.
Obama's speech came on the same day that North Korea launched a long-range rocket, which was widely condemned by U.S. and international officials, including U.N.
Phobos-Grunt launched successfully on its Zenit rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and was dropped off into an elliptical orbit with an apogee (farthest point from Earth) of 345km.
Verne's vehicle is not a rocket but a projectile launched into space by a gigantic cannon.
The United States test launched a captured German V 2 rocket from the deck of a ship in 1947.
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At the moment such satellites must either piggyback on the launch of a larger satellite or be launched rather expensively on their own rocket.
UoSat 12, an experimental micro-satellite that observes the Earth and demonstrates advanced communication and position finding technologies, was launched last year by a Russian rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakstan.
The land-based anti-missile rocket is to be launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific in hopes of destroying a modified Minuteman missile fired into space 20 minutes earlier from Vandenberg Air Force Base, 4, 300 miles (6, 880 kms) away in California.
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Eisenhower's voice was carried in a prerecorded message in 1958 carried by the first communications satellite launched on a U.S. rocket.
SpaceX from Southern California, successfully launched and recovered the first private supply rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) in May of this year.
When the economy slowed in the summer of 2010 and the Fed launched QE2, commodity prices took off like a SpaceX rocket.
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In 1967, The first Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
In 1975, India announced it had launched its first satellite, from the Soviet Union atop a Soviet rocket.
The rocket had three of its four thruster pods not working after it launched.
Earlier this year, it fired a rocket into space, the first to be designed, paid for and launched entirely with private money.
An interceptor missile launched over the Pacific Ocean, designed to destroy a dummy warhead, failed to separate from its booster rocket early Saturday.
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