Sentences with phrase «beyond lunar orbit»
Bringing stuff back from beyond lunar orbit is technically challenging.
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Our robotic spacecraft systems will collapse the cost of access to the Moon, introduce a new commercial paradigm for government missions, democratize lunar research and exploration, and blaze the trail for commercial space transportation and exploration beyond Earth's orbit.
«Planetary science will completely change once we get crew beyond low Earth orbit,» says David Kring, a senior staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
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.
It's the country's first probe to venture beyond Earth orbit, allowing India to join a decade of lunar exploration that is due to begin next month with the launch of Europe's SMART 1 probe (Science, 2 May, p. 724).
Beyond low Earth orbit, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Experiment (LADEE) will, among other things, attempt to discover the cause of a faint glow witnessed above the moon's surface by the Apollo astronauts more than 40 years ago.
This European Space Agency (ESA) satellite for direct - pointing and lunar - occultation observation of X-ray sources beyond the solar system was launched into a highly eccentric orbit (apogee 200,000 km, perigee 500 km) almost perpendicular to that of the moon on May 26, 1983.
The pieces in Lunar Mirror explore territory well beyond their primary subject matter — the moon — and illustrate related phenomena, such as the physics of astronomical orbits and a variety of mathematical concepts, with the elegance and economy of a physics equation... read more