Sentences with phrase «first full orbit»

Earlier this summer, the spacecraft made its first full orbit around the gas giant — the first of 36 planned flybys during the 20 - month mission — flying 2,500 miles above the planet's dense clouds.

Not exact matches

The first line is captured, then the orbit of the spacecraft moves the camera relative to the surface, and then the next line is captured, and so on, as thousands of lines are compiled into a full image.

They use computers to increase dramatically the contrast of the images and change the color balance, for example, to see evidence for material tracing out the full orbits of the tiny moons Anthe and Methone for the first time.

Like many of her colleagues, Spilker first began working on Cassini in the 1980s, some 30 years ago — about the same time as it takes Saturn to make one full orbit around the sun, and time enough to get family - close to colleagues, to raise children, to watch them grow.

The first four orbits will be spaced 90 degrees apart to get a coarse map of the full globe, and subsequent orbits will gradually fill it in.

In March, Scott Kelly will head to the International Space Station on a mission that will make him the first American astronaut to spend a full year in orbit.

Later, however, he noted that the first «full up use» of the Saturn V rocket was the Apollo 8 mission that sent three astronauts to orbit the Moon, so the question is whether to do that again with SLS.

That's maybe the opening 20 minutes of the film; by the time the climax approaches, Tim and Boss Baby are flying first - class to Las Vegas — Boss Baby doesn't do coach — on a plane full of Elvis impersonators, on their way to stop a literal rocket ship full of puppies from being launched into orbit.