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downrange

[ adjective doun-reynj; adverb doun-reynj ]

adjective

Rocketry.
  1. being in the designated path from a launch pad to the point on a course generally taken as the target:

    The signal was picked up by a downrange radar station.



downrange

/ ˈ»å²¹ÊŠ²Ôˈ°ù±ðɪ²Ô»åÏô /

adjective

  1. in the direction of the intended flight path of a rocket or missile
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of downrange1

First recorded in 1950–55; down 1 + range
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This was the 17th launch of the first stage booster, and SpaceX made a recovery landing downrange on the Just Read the Instructions droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Noting that the drugs are illegal, Davids has told his force that any number above zero is unacceptable, whether during training or downrange when sailors are deployed.

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The first, the “rough braking†phase, began when the spacecraft was 30 kilometers above the moon in its orbit and about 750 km downrange from its landing site.

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The first-stage booster made its fifth flight, with SpaceX once again recovering it downrange on its droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic.

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“My children were downrange of many guns, and they screamed through the whole process. The committee should know they were traumatized,†Mr. Houck told the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government.

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