Sentences with phrase «achieved earth orbit»
Humans landed on the Moon less than ten years after we first achieved Earth orbit.
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PAYPAL founder Elon Musk's civilian spaceflight company, SpaceX, achieved its first commercial success this week after its homegrown Falcon 1 rocket lofted a Malaysian Earth - imaging satellite into orbit.
(Suborbital means the vehicle can fly only to a lower altitude than is necessary to start orbiting the Earth — it would have to travel higher, and faster, to reach altitudes achieved by orbiting satellites or the International Space Station, for example.)
Highly temperature and pressure stabilized spectrographs allow us to better calibrate out instrumental drifts, thereby helping in distinguishing instrumental noise from astrophysical stel... ▽ More Insufficient instrument thermo - mechanical stability is one of the many roadblocks for achieving 10cm / s Doppler radial velocity (RV) precision, the precision needed to detect Earth - twins orbiting Solar - type stars.