Sentences with phrase «first orbit of the earth»

And the ill - fated and controversial space capsule Liberty Bell 7 was raised from its watery grave almost exactly 40 years after it sank in the Atlantic Ocean, having carried the first astronaut, Gus Grissom, in a historic first orbit of the earth.

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And when his Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down a few hours later, the first American to orbit the Earth reminded us that with courage and a spirit of discovery there's no limit to the heights we can reach together.

After serving as a pilot in World War II and the Korean War, he became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962 as a member of the Mercury 7, NASA's first class of astronauts.

But when first proposed, so did the idea of setting a 5 - ton communications satellite in place 25,000 miles above Earth in a geosynchronous orbit.

Pai said after a staff review he was urging approval for SpaceX, saying: «it would be the first approval given to an American - based company to provide broadband services using a new generation of low - Earth orbit satellite technologies.

Musk made his fortune as the co-founder of X.com, one of the companies which would eventually become PayPal, and in June 2002 co-founded SpaceX, which would go on to become the first private company to put a satellite into earth orbit.

Eighty - eight of those small satellites were the property of Planet; with these eyes on the sky, along with the 50 they already had in orbit, the company promises its customers high - resolution images of the Earth for everything from crop yield monitoring to aiding first responders with real - time images of natural disasters.

He illustrated his words with the great examples from Catholic history of priest - scientists whose work was revolutionary in terms of a scientific understanding of the world, such as the 16th - century Pole, Copernicus, whose astronomical observations demonstrated that the earth orbited the sun, and the 20th - century Belgian, Georges Lemaître, who was the first to propose a «Big Bang» startto the universe.

The first tests of the CEV's rocket are scheduled for 2009, with manned flights to low Earth orbit beginning by 2014 (even that hard - charging schedule will leave a gap in America's manned spaceflight program after the planned retirement of the shuttle in 2010).

Discovery of the gamma - ray «bang» from FRB 131104, the first non-radio counterpart to any FRB, was made possible by NASA's Earth - orbiting Swift satellite, which was observing the exact part of the sky where FRB 131104 occurred as the burst was detected by the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in Parkes, Australia.

«The evidence that these new gravitational waves are from merging neutron stars has been captured, for the first time, by observatories on Earth and in orbit that detect electromagnetic radiation, including visible light and other wavelengths,» said Chad Hanna, assistant professor of physics and of astronomy & astrophysics and Freed Early Career Professor at Penn State.

So far not precluding a starshade closely resembles a concerted effort to build one: when NASA first announced the formal start of WFIRST, it also confirmed that the telescope would be launched into an orbit 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, where conditions are tranquil enough for a starshade to function.

The latest such planet, announced here on 6 January at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, sets not just one but three benchmarks: farthest from Earth, tiniest orbit, and the first revealed by a promising new technique.

Unlike Saturn's bright rings, which are made almost entirely of ice particles, Mars's rocky ring will be dark and largely invisible from Earth, although the cloud of orbiting Phobos bits will at first be dense enough to cast a shadow on the Red Planet's surface during some parts of the planet's orbit around the sun, the researchers say.

A SCIENCE - FICTION scene could be playing out for real about 4900 light years from Earth, where astronomers have spotted the first known pair of planets jointly orbiting a binary star system (Science, doi.org/h8h).

By next spring, the planet - hunting space telescope known as Kepler — rejected by NASA three times but then approved after those initial detections of exoplanets in the 1990s — will most likely report the discovery of the first known Earth - like planet in an Earth - like orbit.

Here's a rundown of the top 11 spaceflight stories of 2011, from the last mission of NASA's venerable space shuttle program to China's first - ever docking of two spaceships in Earth orbit

We have been placing satellites in orbit around the Earth at an average rate of one every three days since the Soviets launched the first Sputnik in October 1957.

A team of Israeli researchers suggests that the Moon we see every night is not Earth's first moon, but rather the last in a series of moons that orbited the Earth in the past.

It is the first of a new generation of telescopes designed to find small asteroids and comets whose orbits bring them close to that of the Earth.

In parallel, NASA is developing an Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM)-- a first - ever mission to identify, capture and redirect an asteroid to a safe orbit of Earth's moon for future exploration by astronauts in the 2020s.

A new find from NASA's Kepler orbiting observatory is the first Earth - sized planet to be detected in the habitable zone of a star

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).

That will create a new problem: If the pace of NEO detections grows but precision tracking of orbits lags behind, observers will start to find more rocks — perhaps a few per year — that seem, at first, to have a significant chance of hitting Earth, say panel members.

First, they would need to build a base tower approximately 50 kilometers tall, out of the wind for stability and near the equator for alignment with the geostationary Earth orbit (GEO).

To predict when astronomers might find the first planet similar in size to Earth that also orbits far enough from its star to boast liquid water, the team scoured the discovery records of 370 exoplanets.

«I think the first option should be to fund the plan that we have, but if we can't do that, I don't think we're ready... to cede the opportunity to go outside of low - Earth orbit,» he added.

Observations verify that at least two planets with Earth - like masses — the first confirmed beyond our solar system — orbit a whirling neutron star that spits out fierce pulses of radiation, according to a report here 29 May at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

The first Earth - sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star has been confirmed by observations with both the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory.

Last year, NASA's Earth - orbiting Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite provided the first real view of this tail and its surprising shape.

So state media loudly trumpeted the launch of Shenzhou 10 in 2013, ten years after the first Chinese man traveled to Earth orbit.

The same set of observations indicated that another of Gliese 581's planets — this one seven times the mass of Earth — orbits at the right distance for liquid water, making it the first alien world that could plausibly support life.

NASA currently envisions the first two SLS flights, EM - 1 and 2, as part of the agency's Asteroid Initiative mission proposal, which aims to robotically redirect a small Near - Earth Asteroid into orbit around the Moon by the end of the decade, to be later visited by human crews.

NASA has already acquired satellite data from the first year of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 Satellite, which was designed to measure CO2 from the top of the Earth's atmosphere to the surface.

This is the smallest planet found by Kepler to be orbiting in or near habitable zone of a Sun - like star and represents an important step on the path to finding the first true Earth analog.

The agency presented the discovery of the first planet roughly the size of Earth orbiting a G2 - type star, which is similar to our sun.

The artist's concept depicts Kepler - 186f, the first validated Earth - size planet orbiting a distant star in the habitable zone — a range of distances from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program will deliver U.S. astronauts into low - Earth orbit, from U.S. soil, and aboard a U.S. spacecraft, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era.

This is important because the moon is the first target in the Vision for Space Exploration, an initiative seeking how to go out beyond Earth's orbit for purposes of human exploration and scientific discovery.

From its orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, Webb will study some of the most distant objects in the universe — but first it has to get there.

NASA said Thursday that Kepler - 452 is the first near - Earth - size planet to orbit in the habitable zone of a star that's similar in size and temperature to our sun.

«This first light from the Keck Interferometer marks a dramatic step forward and will help us accomplish the ultimate goal of the Origins Program — to search for signs of life beyond by examining the light from «Earths» orbiting nearby stars,» said Dr. Charles Beichman, the Origins chief scientist at JPL.

Project Blue is a new science initiative to capture the first photograph of a potential Earth - like planet orbiting another Sun - like star.

Sometimes increased insulation due to a periodic shifting of the earth's orbit towards the sun will raise the temperature first and the carbon dioxide will follow — with higher temperatures reducing the amount of carbon dioxide which the ocean will have the capacity to hold — and the amount of carbon dioxide which plants are able to absorb given droughts.

«Soyuz - 5 Super Heavy Its first stage could be used as the boosters (and even core) of a super heavy rocket capable of launching 73 t (80 tons) to low Earth orbit from Baikonur or Vostochny.

Over the past several years, however, thousands of planets have been discovered orbiting stars beyond our sun, allowing us to study our own Earth in the context of other worlds for the first time in history.

The first panel shows the orbits of the inner planets, including Earth, and the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter.

These probes orbited the Sun at a distance similar to that of the Earth's orbit, and made the first detailed measurements of the solar wind and the solar magnetic field.

«It's only a matter of time before more Kepler observations lead to smaller planets with longer period orbits, coming closer and closer to the discovery of the first Earth analog.»

Paradox pretty much spells out the rest of it in its first half hour, as we join a team of scientists in a space station orbiting Earth.