Sentences with phrase «flight around the planet»

This mode enables rapid flight around the planet, and once you get close enough you'll automatically switch again to a surface flight model that includes gravity and other factors.

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Nesvold and her colleague Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., presented the findings Thursday during the «In the Spirit of Lyot 2015» conference in Montreal, which focuses on the direct detection of planets and disks around distant stars.

Adding to the recent spate of planetary finds, astronomers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and San Diego State University (SDSU) announced yesterday they've discovery the largest - known planet to orbit two stars, confirming theories about large planets around binary systems.

Gravity and other factors affect flight when around a planet and these are sometimes hazardous especially for new pilots.

chart maps the flight path and orbit around every planet, moon, comet, and asteroid of the many instruments illustrated, including every orbiter, rover, flyby, and impactor that has successfully left Earth's gravitational field.

The Cosmic Exploration chart maps the flight path and orbit around every planet, moon, comet, and asteroid of the many instruments illustrated, including every orbiter, rover, flyby, and impactor that has successfully left Earth's gravitational field.