Sentences with phrase «[lunar orbit»

I had no intention of recording a Bowie video when I went into orbit, and it sure had a big impact.

They're dulling us in the process to the real world and real people around us, making us blind to anything outside our own orbits, blind even, say, to something like a young man on a train wielding a 45 - calibre pistol.

The rocket booster and the spaceship take off, load the spaceship into orbit.

In order to re-tank or refill the spaceship in orbit, you have to be able to rendezvous and dock with the spaceship with very high precision, and transfer propellant.

But in tanker form it can definitely get to orbit.

BFR in fully reusable configuration, without any orbital refueling, we expect to have a payload capability of 150 tons to low - Earth orbit, and that compares to about 30 for Falcon Heavy, which is partially reusable.

And then the other two orders of magnitude would come from refilling in orbit, propellant production on Mars, and choosing the right propellant.

And we also improved the capability of the vehicle from 10 tons to about 13 tons to LEO [low - Earth orbit].

The Intercept's Lee Fang last month traced the origins of various sites known for peddling misinformation about U.S. politics to «experienced political operators well within the orbit of Donald Trump's political advisers and consultants.»

We thought, «ok, something around half a ton to orbit,» that could launch a decent - size satellite.

We can actually send something that is almost nine meters in diameter to orbit.

How could he resist pulling a member of NATO into his orbit?

So if we do a high elliptic parking orbit for the ship, and re-tank in high - elliptic orbit, we can go all the way to the moon, and back, with no local propellant production on the moon.

Like, in other words, the payload - to - orbit of the vehicle.

Because in»69 we were able to go to the moon, and the space shuttle could get to low - earth orbit, and then obviously the space shuttle got retired, but that trend line is down to zero.

So I think that really showed we could bring an orbit - class booster back from a very high velocity, all the way to the launch site, and land it safely, and with almost no refurbishment required for re-flight.

Ultimately, I think, upwards of 1,000 or more spaceships waiting in orbit.

Canada's favourite space cadet went into orbit for six months and rediscovered his love for David Bowie

The Tesla is well into space now and is headed towards an orbit that will put it in close proximity to Mars.

However, if you send up tankers and refill in orbit, you could refill the tanks up all the way to the top, and get 150 tons all the way to Mars.

Currently, a little more than 4,000 satellites (active and inactive combined) orbit the Earth.

But that was what we started off with in 2002, and really, I thought maybe we had a 10 % percent chance of doing anything — of even getting a rocket to orbit, let alone getting beyond that and taking Mars seriously.

Day said that there has been at least one report of an effort at Groom Lake to create a fake heat signature for orbiting satellites to see.

But now we think we've got a way to do it, which is to have a smaller vehicle — it's still pretty big — but one that can do everything that's needed in the greater - Earth - orbit activity.

Without refilling in orbit, you would have a half - order of magnitude impact, roughly, on the cost.

So if that's all you're dealing with, the cost of refilling your spaceship on orbit is tiny, and you can get 150 tons all the way to Mars.

These objects continue to orbit Earth at about 17,500 mph — 10 times as fast as a speeding bullet.

Then a couple of years later we did the first launch of Falcon 9, version 1, and that had about a 10 - ton - to - orbit capability, so it was about 20 times the capability of Falcon 1, and also assigned to carry our Dragon spacecraft.

With Vector and Virgin Orbit also pushing to reach orbital launch this year, these rocket builders are hoping to seize a part of the premium market to launch small satellites.

Spire Global raised $ 70 million to put small satellites into orbit for weather forecasting and ship tracking.

For much of the history of space exploration on Earth, the powerful rockets used to propel people and cargo to orbit or beyond typically end up in a watery grave at the bottom of the ocean or eventually burning up in the atmosphere.

By the time the satellite separated from the rocket it was too late, putting Zuma too low in orbit to save, according to the report.

He is asked to play a focal point character; actors like Nicholson, Day - Lewis, and Shannon are free to play the biggest possible version of themselves while orbiting.

Then SABRE will flip to rocket power, taking the spacecraft to low Earth orbit and reaching speeds of Mach 25 — more than 19,000 miles per hour.

By now, it has 48 satellites in orbit, with another 20 preparing to launch soon, Platzer said.

Most ICBMs don't enter Earth's orbit.

But the company is still pursuing an ambitious launch schedule, and Musk even plans to launch his Tesla Roadster into orbit in 2018.

The nuclear - powered spacecraft has orbited Saturn for 13 years, and sent back hundreds of thousands of images.

It's been orbiting the sixth planet from the sun ever since, sending back data of immense scientific value and images of magnificent beauty.

In a series of tweets on December 1, Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who founded SpaceX, said he planned to launch a Tesla electric car to Mars orbit in 2018.

The rocket will carry the EchoStar XXIII communications satellite, which will orbit about 22,000 miles above the Earth's surface and provide broadcast services for Brazil.

The platform would orbit 200 miles above Earth, offering six guests 384 sunrises and sunsets as they race around the planet for 12 days at incredibly high speeds.

This marks the start of its «grand finale» consisting of 22 daring orbits — enabling a new era of science.

Puzzlebox Orbit is a toy helicopter its creator says is controlled by human brainwaves to be marketed to consumers.

It cleared the launch pad without blowing up — a feat Chief Executive Officer Musk said would signal a win — and continued on in an attempt to deliver its test payload into an Earth - Mars elliptical orbit around the sun.

This was successfully done early in the mission when it was first inserted into orbit around Saturn, crossing outside the main rings.

Project: Puzzlebox Orbit: Brain - Controlled Helicopter Creator: Steve Castellotti, San Francisco Funding goal: $ 10,000 ($ 70,537 raised so far, 407 backers, 2 days to go)

«The commercialization of LEO (low Earth orbit) is an exciting prospect, but it will be an exercise in determining what ideas are more real than others,» said Phil Larson, a former space policy adviser to President Barack Obama who worked for Elon Musk's SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corp..

«The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit.»

I remember nervously watching in the middle of the night as Cassini burned its engines for an excruciating 96 minutes to slow the spacecraft into Saturn orbit.