He says this is a launch that the international community has been trying to stop.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

Clinton was not specific about diplomatic action that might be taken in the event of a launch, other than to say it would not go unnoticed and would have consequences.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Japan,along with the United States and South Korea, have stated that North Korea appears set to carry out a long-range ballistic missile test that would violate a United Nations Security Council resolution approved in 2006 barring Pyongyang from such a launch.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

The Philippine Department of Agriculture and the International Rice Research Institute plan to launch a free service next month.

VOA: special.2010.08.17

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the launch to a crowd in Semnan province, his birthplace and a base for missile launches.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Western nations are concerned that Iran could use the missile technology to launch a nuclear weapon, which Iran is suspected of building.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Next year, the Chinese plan to launch a small space laboratory to practice docking of spacecraft in orbit.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

On Earth Day, the artist and building designer Maya Lin will launch a Web site about the Earth's endangered plants and animals.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

They rested for a while. Then they began to prepare to launch the lander for the return flight to the orbiting command module.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Soon after the launch, Cooper and Conrad noted a problem that almost ended their flight early.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

President Ahmadinejad reportedly called the satellite launch "a message of brotherhood and peace" to the world.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

The United States said it would not launch a scientific satellite until a non-military rocket the Vanguard could be completed to carry it into space.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

It would use one of several dependable military rockets to launch a small, one-man spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

There was what seemed to be a minor problem during the ground tests before launch.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

That tiny part sent a signal to computers that the launch had taken place.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

They provided one and a half billion dollars to launch the pneumococcal vaccine project.

VOA: special.2010.03.29

The agency carried out a test flight of its next-generation launch vehicle for astronauts.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

A common sound in the nineteen sixties. But this was not just another launch.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

By November,nineteen sixty-seven, the moon launch rocket,Saturn Five, was ready for a test flight.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

One of its Falcon rockets has a test launch planned for next month.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

With a roar, it began to rise slowly from the launch pad.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

The launch took place without a problem on March twenty-third,nineteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.06.24