Sentences with phrase «entered lunar orbit»

Sponsored by the two organizations, the HDTV - equipped spacecraft Kaguya entered lunar orbit last month and went on to shoot a combined eight minutes of crisp video (available here) from a distance of around 60 miles (100 kilometers), offering a panoramic view of the moon's northern topography.

The craft — named Ebb and Flow in a NASA - sponsored contest won by schoolchildren in Montana — have been measuring subtle variations in the moon's gravitational field in unprecedented detail since soon after they entered lunar orbit a little less than a year ago.

The spacecraft, which entered lunar orbit last November, can no longer orient itself with high precision.

Not exact matches

After the lunar shove, TESS will enter a highly elliptical orbit around the Earth, circling our planet every 13.7 days.