launch a satellite

基本解释

That is expected to cause widespread hand-wringing, akin to America’s “Sputnik moment,” when the Soviet Union beat it to become the first country to launch a satellite.
这无疑会像美国因苏联发射了第一颗人造卫星而开始卫星竞赛一样在日本国内引发大规模的焦虑情绪。
NASA plans to launch a satellite to study cosmic rays.
美国国家航空航天局计划发射一颗卫星上天，对宇宙射线进行研究。
This year it plans to launch a satellite that will orbit the moon as part of preparations for an eventual lunar landing (after 2020, officials say) by a Chinese citizen.
今年他们还准备发射一颗围绕月球轨道运转的卫星，这颗卫星将为最后的登月计划（2020年以后，有官员说）准备的一部分。

aviation and maritime agencies of plans to launch a satellite early next month.
President Ahmadinejad reportedly called the satellite launch "a message of brotherhood and peace" to the world.
The United States said it would not launch a scientific satellite until a non-military rocket the Vanguard could be completed to carry it into space.

In late August, without warning, the North Koreans fired a rocket over Japan—to launch a satellite, they later claimed.
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