Rocket Launch Fails.A Sea Launch rocket carrying a $100 million British telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. satellite failed moments after being launched from a floating platform near the equator. It was only the third launch for the Boeing (language) BOEING - An early system on the IBM 1130. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. Co.-led venture based in Long Beach that uses a converted ocean-going oil rig as a launch pad. It successfully launched a dummy Sham; make-believe; pretended; imitation. Person who serves in place of another, or who serves until the proper person is named or available to take his place (e.g., dummy corporate directors; dummy owners of real estate). satellite a year ago and a DirecTV satellite in October. The firm is competing in the growing commercial space business using its floating platform instead of a traditional land-based launch site. The lost satellite was built by Hughes Space and Communications in El Segundo El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and . |
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