Sentences with phrase «circular path around»

Once the electronics were sorted out, the satellite still had to be shot into an elliptical orbit and then somehow moved precisely into a circular path around the equator.

Gigantic coil magnets could be placed at strategic intervals on asteroids to bend and focus a particle beam in a circular path around the sun.

The first step is to reach a tight, circular path around the planet.

Almost all the stars in the Milky Way's disk were thought to orbit in orderly, nearly circular paths around the galaxy's core, but now astronomers find that many of the sun's neighbors have strayed from this course.

Not exact matches

If the satellite's path is circular, the moon takes at least 12 days to loop around the dwarf planet, data suggest.

We added a circular motion path to make the Moon move around the Earth, and then added an extra trigger to make motion path repeat itself.