pathfinder

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Recent Examples of pathfinder The pathfinder won't leave the second stage for NG-1, but will test out communication and telemetry. Richard Tribou Orlando Sentinel (tns), arkansasonline.com, 13 Jan. 2025 The test flight will launch a pathfinder version of Blue Ring, a new spacecraft platform the company has built. Mike Wall, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025 The rocket is carrying a Blue Ring pathfinder, a demonstrator of the company's in-space vehicle that will provide power and last-mile services to future payloads. Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2025 That shift was not a huge surprise; Relativity Space had stressed that the Terran 1 was a pathfinder for the more powerful Terran R. The Terran R will feature a reusable first stage, like SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9. Mike Wall, Space.com, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pathfinder
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Noun
  • Related article These ocean explorers have seen the damage done by industrial fishing.
    Nell Lewis, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
  • Longevity researcher shares secrets of the world’s ‘blue zones’ Dan Buettner, an American author, explorer and longevity researcher who first coined the term 'blue zone,' embarked on a mission to find out how people are living to 100 in certain parts of the world.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • The Oscar-winning artist last trod the boards 10 years ago, portraying DNA pioneer scientist Rosalind Franklin in Anna Ziegler’s play Photograph 51, directed by Michael Grandage.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 19 May 2025
  • One of the pioneers of the English-only movement was Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, a naturalized American who was born in Canada, to Japanese parents, in 1906.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, New Yorker, 19 May 2025

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“Pathfinder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pathfinder. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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