Sentences with phrase «equatorial orbit»

Perhaps we could just live in space in an equatorial orbit, but my point was that we should learn to construct self contained biospheres that could be used in a adapted to a variety of scenarios.

If we can learn to build self contained biospheres, then we could live underwater, on the surface, underground, in equatorial orbit (lower radiation), and so on.

Launched in May, Akatsuki was supposed to operate at least two years from a looping near - equatorial orbit that ranged from 300 to 80,000 km above the planet.

The findings from Akatsuki, in an equatorial orbit, were expected to complement data coming from the European Space Agency's Venus Express, which has been in a polar orbit around the planet since April 2006.

As New Scientist went to press, the launch on Tuesday from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands appeared to have gone without a hitch, inserting the RazakSAT spacecraft into a near - equatorial orbit at an altitude of 695 kilometres.

And even then, they provide access to a limited number of places above our planet: either the ISS's 400 - kilometer - high, equatorial orbit, or wherever the larger satellite happens to be headed.

If you want a more equatorial orbit, you want to be farther south.

The bulk of the solar system's regular satellites — those moons that stick close to their planets in roughly equatorial orbits — formed this way, rather than taking shape simultaneously with the planets as a direct result of planet formation, French astrophysicists have concluded.

Due to their small size and irregular shape, they strongly resembled asteroids, but no one understood how Mars could have» captured» them and made them into satellites with almost circular and equatorial orbits.

If Harold Rosen's team hadn't figured out how to send satellites to circle Earth in controlled, equatorial orbits, today we'd have no live transmission of the Olympic Games, no satellite phones in Iraq, no faxing to Hong Kong.

Not exact matches

«Equatorial countries declare that the geostationary synchronous orbit... must not be considered part of the outer space.»

For instance, some equatorial countries asserted they own geostationary orbits above them.

In 2013, the Kepler spacecraft found two with orbits that are aligned with each other but tilted at about 45 degrees to the equatorial plane of their star, Kepler - 56.

But a space station in equatorial low - Earth orbit (ELEO) would sit inside Earth's magnetic field.

The Juno spacecraft has been in orbit around Jupiter since July 2016, passing within 3,000 miles of the equatorial cloudtops.

In an orbit that was more equatorial, where you could maximize your fuel savings by launching from there.

The question is whether the bodies were asteroids captured intact by Mars gravity or whether the tiny satellites formed from an equatorial disk of debris, as is most consistent with their nearly circular and co-planar orbits.

If a geosynchronous orbit is circular and equatorial then it is also a geostationary orbit, and will maintain the same position relative to the Earth's surface.

The current generation of satellites was built by Rockwell International and Lockheed Martin, and each one orbits the planet in about 12 hours, cutting across the equatorial plane at an angle of roughly 55 degrees.

They still orbit in the equatorial plane of the fallen giant, a path you wouldn't expect if a cosmic interloper had struck only the planet.

Geosynchronous orbit is in time with the parent body, but in the case of the Earth (geo), unless aligned with the equatorial plane, will seem to bob up and down in the sky.

Recent models of this process predict that the orbit of the newly formed Moon should be in, or very near [less than 1 °], the Earth's equatorial plane.

Table 21 contains a listing of 40 moons whose orbits lie within two degrees of its planets equatorial plane and are remarkably circular.

Having a moon's orbit lie in its planet's equatorial plane (which Earth's moon does not) also demands a physical explanation for how that happened.

This is because, while the Aqua satellite equatorial crossing time is kept very near 1:30 am and pm with periodic orbit maneuvers, the rest of the channels come from the NOAA - 15 satellite whose equatorial crossing time has now drifted from its original 7:30 am / pm value in late 1998 to about 4:30 am / pm now.»

The Aqua orbit is controlled to maintain an ascending node equatorial crossing time of 13:30 local time.