Word: onboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cargo bay. But soon all contact with Westar, built by Hughes Aircraft, was lost. Its transmitters were silent. Ground-based trackers could not tell whether its booster, which was to have propelled it into a geostationary "parking place" 22,300 miles above the equator, had misfired or some onboard electronics had failed. Desperately trying to bring the satellite back to life, if indeed there were still any electronic stirrings in the complex machine, the controllers blindly sent radio signals into space. Later the trackers detected a number of unidentified objects orbiting behind the shuttle. Officials gloomily speculated that they might...
...likely to be weeks before experts of the manufacturer, General Dynamics Corp., determine the cause of the accident. Speculation among technicians centered on possible flaws in the TERCOM onboard computer program, which is designed to keep the missile on track with the preprogrammed terrain features below. It was the fourth such accident since mid-1979 along the ten-mile-wide test-flight path, one that happens to come within ten miles of Ronald Reagan's ranch. But the Pentagon says that the test results, on the whole, are not worrisome: of the 81 Tomahawk flights so far, 61 have...
...return. (If an object is launched high enough to avoid the upper atmosphere's braking effects, it can orbit indefinitely, like the moon.) At times, in order to do closeup snooping, the Soviets let their satellites descend to as low as 100 miles, then boost them up with onboard rockets to prevent any further orbital "decay...
...fire quickly spread through the Sheffield's electrical wiring and its paintwork. The explosion also knocked out the ship's lighting and destroyed the principal water main used for onboard fire fighting. Said Salt: "We couldn't get below decks near the seat of the damage. We knew there were men down there, but we didn't know how many." After hours of unsuccessful fire fighting, Salt made the agonizing decision to abandon ship. Later he returned to his command by helicopter to view the damage. The Sheffield had refused to sink, but it remained...
...developing its image and standing for quality," he says. "That image, over 27 years, has been established in a very positive way." It also has had a salutary effect on Escapade. Before the Playboy partnership, Escapade was available on some 100 cable systems. Now that Hef has come onboard, Maglio is expecting to attract an additional 115 cable outlets by June...