Sentences with phrase «flight path around»

Carolyn Porco, head of the Cassini imaging team at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo., and her team examined Cassini's planned flight path around Saturn, looking for the correct time when Earth would not be obstructed by Saturn or its rings.

By factoring out all known causes of the probe's motion (everything from its flight path around Mars to the movement of the crust on which the tracking station on Earth rests), engineers can isolate the perturbations caused by the cycling of Martian snow or smog.

Not exact matches

They include: sophisticated GPS that tracks the location of other drones in real - time; a reliable Internet connection; online flight planning to communicate the drone's path; communications equipment; and sensor - based sense - and - avoid equipment to fly around other drones and obstacles.

Inspired by the migratory patterns and flight paths of indigenous Monarch butterflies from around the globe, cocktails at The Monarch echo the regional flight paths from which the spirits, modifiers and ingredients of each drink derive.

But the steady, gentle thrust of Dawn's ion engines allowed flight engineers to program a trajectory for the probe that gradually matched Vesta's path around the sun.

Because the asteroid's orbit closely resembles the path of the Earth around the sun, says Paul Chodas of JPL, the object may turn out to be a rocket booster discarded from an earlier space flight.

I believe the reason for this is that I have a clear end point, so my planning for learning is shaped more around a flight path model as opposed to a middle up / down approach.

This can shift flight paths and result in different communities around airports experiencing greater aviation noise, even if it is not considered to be significant by current FAA policy.

A combination of bond - buying programs by central banks, negative - and zero - interest - rate policies, and continued fears that a new global crisis may be around the corner (a hard path to Brexit being the latest source of such concern) have held the pedal down on the flight to safety.

While the illusion is diminished in replay with the same precarious flight paths shown to players, the game does deliver a magnificently visceral recreation of aerial warfare the first time around.

You'll need to weave around other aircraft and often make quick flight path changes to save yourself from crashing, but sometimes your number's up and you don't stand a chance.

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.

The art world is a realm of productive fictions, flights of fantasy, and all - around legerdemain, where value springs from belief and profound truths are often found via circuitous paths.

What changes are the PERTURBATIONS (consisting of spiral windings around the elliptic flight path, which are not represented in the ellipticity change graph).

To the Earth's orbit: The mechanism can be detected by looking at the true trajectory of the Earth's flight path: What escaped the present attention is that this path is not a straight elliptical line around the Sun, but the real trajectory is a WINDING SPIRAL, winding around the mean progressive path.

The Safety Board investigation did not deeply investigate the exact place from which the missile was fired; it did say that the area from which the flight path of the missile could have commenced measures around 320 square kilometres in the East of Ukraine.

Methodology: The data of U.S. travelers» booking intent to purchase flights around Christmas was gathered by analyzing the number of customers that went through the online booking process of airfare and package paths for partners offering Allianz Global Assistance travel insurance to generate itineraries for travel around Christmas (12/20/2016 — 12/28/2016).

Ehang sees luxury rides for rich folks as the first phase of this new market, with autonomous aircraft becoming more widely available at lower prices after fleets and flight paths have become well established, and, of course, once the cost of having a human pilot around is eliminated.