Sentences with phrase «before reaching the orbit»

SpaceX had figured out how to build rockets, just not rockets that actually worked — it had attempted three launches so far and all three had blown up before reaching orbit.

It is a near - copy of a NASA probe that crashed in 2009 before it reached orbit, devastating the scientists who had hoped to use its data to map sources and sinks of the greenhouse gas — both man - made and natural — in unprecedented detail.

Not exact matches

TESS will then use a series of complex maneuvers to head into a never - before - used orbit, reaching about 232,000 miles beyond the Earth, to photograph the skies.

Gravity from space (Einstein's relativity) operates on mass through space and matter interaction is a natural process like centrifugal force which made its appearance when a body is morning in circle Jean mass is the amount of matter that must be present before gravity becomes effective or felt, once this minimum amount of matter is reached or exceeded, gravity with mass interact with space - time to bring geodesics and gravity begin to control other bodies and then orbit around each other, another aspect of the twin effect of gravity and mass is the necessity to account for energy required to sustain gravitating mass and where does this energy originating from Einstein's field equation says from space but never refer to the origin of gravitation.

Meanwhile, Zinser said, the agency must work to prevent another potential data gap that could occur if the NPP satellite hasn't finished in - orbit quality control checks before its predecessor, known as NOAA - 19, reaches the end of its design life in March 2013.

The MESSENGER data showed an increase in the number of — not electrically charged — neutrons at Mercury's orbit hours before the large number of charged particles reached the spacecraft.

During Electron's first flight test in May, the rocket was destroyed when operators lost contact with it and ended the flight before the craft reached orbit.

Explorer 1 encountered a major discovery before it even reached its orbit.

It was last at that point long before Clyde Tombaugh discovered the dwarf planet in 1930, and Pluto won't reach that most - distant point in its orbit again until the year 2113.

After launching in February 2015, DSCOVR spent months rocketing away from Earth before reaching its final orbit position in June 2015 at Lagrange point 1 (L1), about one million miles away from Earth.

Placing giant mirrors in orbit to reflect sunlight before it reaches Earth and launching millions of tons of sulfur into the stratosphere to simulate the effects of a major volcanic eruption are among the mind - boggling climate...