Word: payloads
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...ignited the rockets and vanished in a plume of smoke, never to be heard from again. With technology having improved significantly since then, the Chinese are on the verge of sending a Long March 2F rocket hurtling into space from a secret launch facility near the Gobi Desert. The payload: Shenzhou (divine vessel), a capsule carrying China's first astronaut. The mission: enter a low Earth orbit, circle the globe 14 times, then parachute to a landing zone on the Mongolian steppe. The goal: elevate China into the exclusive ranks of spacefaring nations...
...countdown has begun. this fall, china will send a Long March 2F rocket hurtling into space from a remote launch facility near the Gobi Desert. The payload: Shenzhou, or "Divine Vessel," a capsule carrying China's first astronauts. The mission: enter a low Earth orbit for up to a week, then parachute back to a landing zone on the Mongolian steppe. The goal: elevate China into the exclusive ranks of spacefaring nations...
...Outside of playing on an Xbox in my family room, I had never piloted an airplane. And the B-1 is no ordinary plane, given its $300 million price tag and its unparalleled capabilities: Supersonic speed and a payload of 24 two-thousand-lb guided weapons in its three separate bomb bays. The bomber dropped a third of the powerful JDAMs used in the most recent Gulf War even though it flew only about one percent of the sorties. Quite a machine for my maiden flight...
...overrun Iraqi positions quickly, thus limiting the potential for large casualties. The Iraqis may instead try to target less protected U.S. bases and Israeli cities with longer-range missiles, but that may not work any better. Military experts say Iraq's warheads are not advanced enough to disseminate their payload before impact, which destroys much of their lethal contents. Allied planners are tracking Iraq's efforts to convert training jets into "drones of death" carrying tanks of liquid anthrax that could be sprayed over Israel. Military experts are confident the U.S. and its allies could shoot down such slow-moving...
...detonated by remote control from a mobile phone, exploded near the U.S. consulate in Bali in the city of Denpasar, not far from Kuta. Ten minutes later, a second bomb, also packed with TNT, went off beside Rimbawa as he worked in Paddy's. Minutes later the payload bomb, its exact makeup still to be confirmed, erupted on the crowded street outside the Sari Club. (Investigators believe that both of those bombs were also detonated by remote control.) "There is no doubt that this was a sophisticated attack," said an Australian Federal Police investigator. High-level police sources tell TIME...