Sentences with phrase «as spacecraft»

Bruce Banerdt, the principal investigator for InSight, watches as the spacecraft is loaded on board.

Nearby is the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Complex where the owner works as a spacecraft engineer.

The spare storyline follows a futuristic father (Will Smith's Cypher) and son (Jaden Smith's Kitai) as their spacecraft crash lands on an Earth that's been long - since abandoned by humanity, with the movie, for the most part, detailing Kitai's perilous efforts at recovering a beacon that will summon help for both himself and his injured pop.

As their spacecraft encounters a rip in spacetime, the family crash land on a forgotten planet.

Then, in 2017, Cassini caught this final view of Earth between Saturn's rings as the spacecraft spiraled in for its Grand Finale at Saturn.

In both campaigns, Kepler faces in the direction of Earth so that observers on the ground can see the same patch of sky as the spacecraft.

The organization's scientists and engineers watched as the spacecraft carried out the maneuver, dubbed Jupiter Orbit Insertion, while many Americans gathered to watch fireworks around the country.

Since Jan. 25, Dawn has been delivering the highest - resolution images of Ceres ever captured, and they will continue to improve in quality as the spacecraft approaches.

As the spacecraft operates in its 53 - day highly elliptical polar orbit of Jupiter, scientists can study the minute amount of acceleration and deceleration Juno experiences as it moves around Jupiter.

As the spacecraft encounters air particles, friction will cause temperatures to rise outside the probe.

As the spacecraft descends, the astronauts marvel at Jupiter's 67 moons — so many that astronomers haven't even named them all.

Junocam is designed to take hundreds of color images of the giant planet, some at resolutions never before seen, as the spacecraft orbits Jupiter, coming within 5000 km of the gas giant's cloudtops.

As the spacecraft investigates, telescopes around the world and in space will be keeping an eye on Jupiter as well.

On November 12 it was Cassini's turn, as the spacecraft zipped around Saturn.

«This search will allow the mission team to avoid any natural satellites that may exist around the asteroid as the spacecraft prepares to collect a sample to return to Earth in 2023 for scientific study.»

The close - up inset image was captured from a range of just 49,000 miles (79,000 km) as the spacecraft passed through the Pluto system at over 8 miles a second.

If that's too ambitious, she suggests either an orbiter or slow flyby probe, so long as the spacecraft goes slow enough not to smush potential microorganisms like bugs on a car windshield.

The images will continue to improve as the spacecraft spirals closer to the surface during its 16 - month study of the dwarf planet.

Toward the end of the movie, the camera frame rotates as the spacecraft reorients to point its large, saucer - shaped antenna in the direction of the spacecraft's motion.

We'll learn about Hubble's other life as a spacecraft next.

This camera, called Junocam, is designed to take hundreds of color images of the giant planet, some at resolutions never before seen, as the spacecraft orbits Jupiter, coming within 5000 km of the gas giant's cloudtops (see Figure 1a and b).

As the spacecraft left the inner Solar System in 1991, its main radio antenna failed to open properly, leaving it useless.

As soon as the spacecraft beamed back its first detailed images, it was clear that Pluto had reinvented itself many times during its 4.6 - billion - year lifetime (SN: 8/8/15, p. 6).

As the spacecraft raced toward this remote outpost at roughly 50,000 kilometers per hour, one thing became abundantly clear: People still love Pluto.

At 9:50 P.M., the maneuver was officially complete as the spacecraft turned its solar arrays back toward the sun.

As the spacecraft pushed into interstellar space, the compass needle moved ever closer to true magnetic north.

As the spacecraft orbited Earth, the geckos started to play.

As the spacecraft edges closer over the summer, different instruments will start to work: cameras and spectrometers at various wavelengths, mass spectrometers, chemical analyzers, and sounding instruments.

A few nerve - wracking hours will follow for scientists and controllers on the ground, as the spacecraft's heaters warm up its systems, its startrackers get a fix, it turns its solar arrays towards the sun, and, finally, points its communications antenna toward Earth.

The material's first applications may be in objects in remote locations that are difficult to repair, such as spacecraft or deep - sea drilling equipment.

Over the last decade, the solar plasma around Voyager 1 has thinned as the spacecraft hurtles toward the edge of the bubble at more than 60,000 kilometers per hour.

But there was nothing disappointing about what the astronauts saw as the spacecraft coasted around from the lunar far side on its fourth orbit: Earth, rising beyond the battered horizon, so tiny that the men could hide it behind an outstretched thumb.

I question Alberto Fairen and Dirk Schulze - Makuch's statement that planetary protection, such as spacecraft sterilisation, prevents missions from going to...

However, the Europa mission is currently being designed as a spacecraft that will pursue a series of flybys.

As the spacecraft sidled up to the comet, it sampled the water streaming from the comet body and found 67P's D / H ratio to be staggeringly high — more than three times that of Earth's oceans (SN: 1/10/15, p. 8).

Next week is make or break time for Galileo as the spacecraft prepares to send a probe down to the giant planet

New technique can reveal previously undetectable bacteria in places where they aren't wanted — such as a spacecraft assembly facility, a neonatal intensive care unit and an abalone rearing center.»

As their spacecraft approached Mir, the targeting system failed.

Earlier this month another interplanetary explorer caught a striking glimpse of Earth, this one captured as the spacecraft, a European probe called Rosetta, approached our planet from deep space.

As the spacecraft swooped 9,000 kilometers above the giant storm, Juno's microwave radiometer peered through the deep layers of cloud, measuring the atmosphere's temperature down hundreds of kilometers.

The signal that Cassini had reached its destination arrived at Earth at 4:54 a.m., and cut out about a minute later as the spacecraft lost its battle with Saturn's atmosphere.

Ugarkovic, a software developer, assembled photos taken through red, green and blue filters for the image, but since Cassini can take only one picture per minute, the positions of the moons changed as the spacecraft sped along.

This solution paved the way for the follow up K2 mission, which is still ongoing as the spacecraft searches for exoplanet transits.

Instead, as the spacecraft spun around, a light sensor scanned the face of Europa, building up this picture line by line at a crude resolution of 100 miles per pixel.

As the spacecraft loops around the planet, it will speed up and slow down in response to subtle changes from one spot to another in Jupiter's gravitational pull.

Juno's arrival in July won't be heralded with new pictures; the instruments will be switched off as the spacecraft whips around the planet and begins its first orbit.

This is Dawn's best image yet of Ceres as the spacecraft makes its way toward this unexplored world.

As the spacecraft zooms closer, to about 3,400 kilometers above the cloud tops, less total area of Jupiter can be seen, but more details emerge.

As the spacecraft plunged through these orbits, a radio telescope in Argentina, run by the European Space Agency, NASA's partner on the mission, listened for tiny Doppler shifts in Cassini's signal.

In normal operating mode, Odyssey keeps the THEMIS camera pointed straight down as the spacecraft orbits Mars.