altitude
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There will be short, sharp peaks and valleys, but if you can’t stand the rises and falls in altitude, hand over those anxieties to your silent, hardworking virtual self.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
Pilots are prohibited from operating drones above 400 feet altitude unless they have authorization from the FAA.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Parachutes are set to deploy at an altitude of 22,000 feet, and then at 6,000 feet, to slow Orion’s descent to about 20 miles an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
The astronauts flew behind the Moon's far side at an unprecedented altitude of some 4,000 miles, allowing for humans to see with their own eyes lunar regions that previously only robots had captured.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
The same equation we’d used to calculate altitude based on time was the one we needed first; good old S = ½at².
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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