Below you will find example sentences with "upper stage". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Upper Stage in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: upper
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 29.3 words

Words in this phrase

upper stage

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • upper can mean: At a higher level, rank or position. Frequent word
  • stage can mean: A phase. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

although the upper stage of the 1× american centaur upper stage 1× and the upper stage over the 1× around the upper stage engine 1× engine centaur upper stage and a 1× from the upper stage and drifted 1× from the upper stage and placed 1× km the upper stage experienced an 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a livestream of 1× although the upper 1× another 265 people 1× another sets a 1× but peregrine may 1× europe s new 1×

Common sentence endings:

upper stage engine 2× a higher velocity 1× a single flight 1× centaur upper stage 1× cutting out early 1× earth far below 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

rocket 6× launch 6× engine 5× two 4× first 4× orbit 4× new 4× used 3× centaur 3× flight 3× booster 3× mission 3×

Related phrases

first stage upper deck upper bound debate stage upper secondary upper east upper atmosphere upper body stage two upper egypt

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around upper:

upper bound 16× upper east 10× upper body 9× upper left 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

upper secondary upper portion upper left upper egypt upper east upper deck

Just after it in the phrase index:

urban area urban areas urban development urban growth urban planning urged people

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

upper deck upper bound upper secondary upper east upper atmosphere upper body

Same ending:

first stage debate stage output stage

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "upper stage" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 29.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as although the upper stage of the, american centaur upper stage, rocket, launch and engine stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with first stage, upper deck, upper bound, upper bound, upper east and upper body, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with upper stage

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

A livestream of the launch showed the ignition of the upper stage engine seemingly cutting out early. (17 words)

So, we’ve got 33 engines on the booster, we’ve got six engines on the upper stage of the ship. (21 words)

Another 265 people will be represented on the rocket's upper stage, which will circle the sun once separated from the lander. (22 words)

Longer example sentences

But Peregrine may have followed their footsteps too well as the mission too will fail to soft-land on the Moon due to a propellant leak that sprung shortly after the United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket’s upper stage deployed Peregrine. (43 words)

Starship's upper stage will make a partial orbit of Earth, reenter the atmosphere and splash down in the Indian Ocean a little over an hour later, but this time in the daylight, providing better conditions for visual analysis. (39 words)

Hawker Siddeley Dynamics proposal In 1972, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics (HSD) produced a brochure for a design using Blue Streak as the first stage of a two-stage to orbit rocket, with an American Centaur upper stage. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

Some payloads were launched into higher orbits with either of two different upper stages developed for the STS (single-stage Payload Assist Module or two-stage Inertial Upper Stage ).

Another sets a 1-in-1,000 threshold for the risk of a collision between space objects at least 10 centimeters across and the upper stage over the planned orbital lifetime of the upper stage.

Some of the early Space Shuttle design efforts used similar designs, with one stage using kerosene into the upper atmosphere, where an LH2 powered upper stage would light and go on from there.

Hawker Siddeley Dynamics proposal In 1972, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics (HSD) produced a brochure for a design using Blue Streak as the first stage of a two-stage to orbit rocket, with an American Centaur upper stage.

Now, post-flight data reviews have confirmed that during the first burn of its second stage engine, a liquid oxygen leak developed inside the insulation around the upper stage engine.

The Atlas V rocket that will be used for the launch has a booster stage, dual-engine Centaur upper stage, and a pair of solid rocket boosters.

For one, the new stage weighs considerably less than the older one, which means that the lower stages below it will leave the new upper stage at a higher velocity.

It was agreed the Vinci upper stage would also be used as the second stage of a new Ariane 6, and further commonality would be sought.

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A livestream of the launch showed the ignition of the upper stage engine seemingly cutting out early.

But it said that later in the mission, at an altitude of approximately 180 kilometers (112 miles), "the upper stage experienced an anomaly.

It will more than an hour for the Falcon 9 rocket to deploy the 56 Starlink satellites into their targeted orbit, following two burns by the launch vehicle’s upper stage engine.

Later in the mission, at an altitude of approximately 111 miles (180 km), the upper stage experienced an anomaly which prematurely ended the first burn.

So, we’ve got 33 engines on the booster, we’ve got six engines on the upper stage of the ship.

Although the upper stage of the was not recovered during this flight, the successful capture of the booster showcases the potential for future missions.

Another 265 people will be represented on the rocket's upper stage, which will circle the sun once separated from the lander.

But Peregrine may have followed their footsteps too well as the mission too will fail to soft-land on the Moon due to a propellant leak that sprung shortly after the United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket’s upper stage deployed Peregrine.

Europe’s new heavy lift launch vehicle replaces Ariane 5 and has a re-ignitable upper stage, which will allow it to launch multiple missions on different orbits on a single flight.

Just over an hour after liftoff, the first set of satellites were released from the upper stage and placed into an orbit 373 miles (600 kilometers) above Earth.

Starship's upper stage will make a partial orbit of Earth, reenter the atmosphere and splash down in the Indian Ocean a little over an hour later, but this time in the daylight, providing better conditions for visual analysis.

The lander resembled a stunning six-pointed star jewel — each point a leg — as it successfully separated from the upper stage and drifted off into the black void with the blue Earth far below.

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