Sentences with phrase «because orbiting spacecraft»

Not exact matches

Because the Earth is sandwiched between Saturn and the sun, we could never get such a view without the aid of the orbiting spacecraft.

The cosmic collision is intentional: Mission engineers need to guide the spacecraft down because they have run out of fuel to keep themselves in lunar orbit.

Because the launch window was only 30 seconds, mission controllers did not have time to analyze the issue and get the United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 (OCO - 2) spacecraft back on track for launch this morning.

«The new gravity map will be helpful for future Mars exploration, because better knowledge of the planet's gravity anomalies helps mission controllers insert spacecraft more precisely into orbit about Mars.

It is suprising that no papers (that I KNOW of, correct me if I'm wrong) came out regarding CME direct hits of Mercury and Venus while spacecraft were in orbit around these planets.I assume this is because neither planet has a magnetic field, and the strength of such CME's can be INFERRED from hypothetically equivalent hitting Earth's magnetic field.

Because the gravity is so low, the spacecraft isn't making neat circles around the comet, but travels in a series of triangular orbits as it nudges closer to the nucleus over the next six weeks.

At this low - altitude mapping orbit, Dawn will begin using a method of pointing control that engineers have dubbed «hybrid» mode because it utilizes a combination of reaction wheels and thrusters to point the spacecraft.