He and two senior technicians were alone in the Power Room; the remainder of his personnel were aboard the three cutters already closed up and awaiting launch.

Each Spring, First Class Midshipmen in the design class reinitiate the process with a new satellite concept so that new projects are germinating to take the place of those that are coming to completion and awaiting launch.

The tank is virtually a pressure-tested seven-story building, strong enough to hold both the shuttle and solid-fuel rocket boosters as they await launch on Earth.

Other casualties included the daily newspaper, The Washington Star, and the magazine development group, a 50-member bureaucracy that labored for two years and had four market-tested magazines of modest potential awaiting launch, including Grunwald's favorite, Quality.

Following the completion of its construction, CryoSat-2 was placed into storage to await launch.

Other satellites awaiting launch are the microsatellites CubeSat and InnoSat.

Awaiting launch, the shuttle rested, as the Saturns had done, in vertical position; but, unlike the Saturns, it looked like one heavy-bodied small aircraft--.

The satellite is currently awaiting launch.

Cat crews rushed to hook up and launch the fighters; The Veritechs went into a vigilant holding pattern, ready to fend off any attack against the VTs that were still vulnerable, awaiting launch.

The Magellan spacecraft to be sent toward Venus from the space shuttle Atlantis, now awaiting launch, is the first U.S. planetary mission in a decade.