Sentences with phrase «from orbiting spacecraft»

Janssen, M.A., M.D. Hofstadter, S. Gulkis, A.P. Ingersoll, M. Allison, S.J. Bolton, S.M. Levin, and L.A. Kamp, 2005: Microwave remote sensing of Jupiter's atmosphere from an orbiting spacecraft.

Life could be visible from orbiting spacecraft, however, if it made a home in cracks in Europa's shell that connect the surface to the interior, Dyson said.

Not exact matches

While his company became the first privatized space company to return a spacecraft to Earth from low orbit; it had some bumps in the road.

Launched from Florida nearly five years ago, Juno needed to be precisely positioned, ignite its main engine at exactly the right time and keep it firing for 35 minutes to become only the second spacecraft to orbit Jupiter.

To circle Earth from about 250 miles up, a spacecraft must reach a blistering speed of 17,500 mph, meaning it orbits the planet once every 90 minutes.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.

There's a growing volume of debris in orbit around the earth, commonly called space junk, that ranges from old spacecraft down to tiny flecks of paint.

In 2010, SpaceX became the first commercial company to successfully recover a spacecraft from Earth orbit with its Dragon spacecraft.

With help from the public, members of NASA's Cassini mission have chosen to call the spacecraft's final orbits the «Cassini Grand Finale.»

The Venus Express spacecraft, which orbited Venus from 2006 until earlier this year, detected flashes of infrared light coming from the planet's surface.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting since 6 March, took the sharpest images yet of the cratered surface, from a distance of 13,600 kilometres.

The new view was obtained on July 10, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. PDT (1:30 p.m. EDT, 5:30 UTC), when the spacecraft was 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers) from Jupiter on the outbound leg of its initial 53.5 - day capture orbit.

This artist's impression is based on a detailed map of the surface compiled from images taken from NASA's Dawn spacecraft in orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres.

From Earth orbit, each featherweight spacecraft would be boosted toward Alpha Centauri at 20 percent light - speed by a minutes - long pulse from a ground - based, 100 - gigawatt laser arFrom Earth orbit, each featherweight spacecraft would be boosted toward Alpha Centauri at 20 percent light - speed by a minutes - long pulse from a ground - based, 100 - gigawatt laser arfrom a ground - based, 100 - gigawatt laser array.

For over 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft has orbited Saturn, beaming back dazzling images from the ringed planet and its diverse moons.

In the past few decades, Wu says, China has built the capacity to place satellites and astronauts in orbit and send spacecraft to the Moon, but it has not done much significant research from its increasingly lofty vantage point.

Evidence for Jovian seas comes from the Galileo spacecraft, which has orbited Jupiter since 1995 and periodically swoops near its moons.

«The spacecraft will be going straight from the moon's shadow to Earth's shadow while it orbits during the eclipse,» Petro said.

The dazzling belts of ice continue to keep their age a secret, but researchers hope to get answers from a spacecraft orbiting the ringed planet.

Data from the Cassini spacecraft, in orbit since 2004, may help resolve a decades - long debate over the age of...

A Japanese spacecraft orbiting the moon recently made a surprising find: oxygen that came from Earth.

These images from «Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes» by Trevor Paglen, track the progress of various classified spacecraft in Earth's orbit.

These hints came from Dawn, a NASA spacecraft orbiting Ceres since March 2015.

Now, new results from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting Ceres since March, hint that the body may have much more in common with its diminutive dwarf - planet cousin Pluto than once thought.

The European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft took off from Kourou, French Guiana at 01:04 local time on 3 December, one day later than planned due to a technical issue with the Vega rocket that carried it into orbit.

Engineers also will have to decide whether to focus on protecting today's operational spacecraft over the next decade or two or protecting craft that may orbit a century from now.

Late last year his company, SpaceX, became the first private firm to successfully recover a spacecraft from Earth orbit, another big advance in its long - term bid to be the first company to carry astronauts to the ISS.

The period of greatest risk to orbiting spacecraft will start about 90 minutes after the closest approach of the comet's nucleus and will last about 20 minutes, when Mars will come closest to the center of the widening trail of dust flying from the nucleus.

Cheers greeted the video from Dragon as the second stage pushed itself away from the orbit - bound spacecraft and a pair of solar array «wings» unfolded to recharge the Dragon's batteries.

The spacecraft was sent to a halo orbit around a sun — Earth libration point, L1, which sits nearly a million miles into space on a line from Earth toward the sun.

Proposed by Caltech geochemist Don Burnett, the idea was to put a spacecraft in orbit between the sun and Earth to collect particles of solar wind — electrically charged atoms from the sun's atmosphere blown outward through the solar system.

Once the families were identified using the chemical DNA, their evolution was studied with the help of their ages and kinematical properties obtained from the space mission Hipparcos, the precursor of Gaia, the spacecraft orbiting Earth that was launched by the European Space Agency and is almost halfway through a 5 - year project to map the sky.

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.

«Detecting small motions from the victim's heartbeat and breathing from a distance uses the same kind of signal processing as detecting the small changes in motion of spacecraft like Cassini as it orbits Saturn,» said James Lux, task manager for FINDER at JPL.

The chemical fingerprints of a long - vanished ocean on Mars may have been found in data from the orbiting Mars Odyssey spacecraft, boosting hopes that the planet could once have supported life.

For the first time two spacecraft will soon make up - close studies of objects from the solar system's Kuiper Belt, a mysterious region beyond Neptune's orbit.

Each NASA rover has delivered a wealth of information about the history and composition of the Red Planet, but a rover's vision is limited by the view of onboard cameras, and images from spacecraft orbiting Mars are the only other clues to where to drive it.

The spacecraft's ion engines will bring it to a capture orbit around this 590 mile diameter dwarf planet on March 6th, 2015 — at a distance some 2.5 times further from the Sun than the Earth.

Data from the probes have already led to several significant discoveries, some made just days after the special twin spacecraft soared into orbit.

Now researchers studying data from the Galileo spacecraft orbiting Jupiter have found a miscreant moon.

His text begins at the centre of the Earth and travels to the most distant Galaxy, and his timescale stretches from the all - creating big bang to the present day, with its large powerful telescopes and orbiting spacecraft.

That's the latest result from Juno, a NASA spacecraft in orbit around the gas giant since 2016.

> A propulsion module consisting of four stages, each with four Vulcain 2 rocket engines (now being readied for an upgrade of ESA's Ariane 5 rocket), to propel the spacecraft from low Earth orbit to Mars.

Communication and navigation for most spacecraft in low - Earth orbit is relatively straightforward, said Human Spaceflight Network Director Mark Severance, who manages the communications services from all networks during human spaceflight missions.

Images from the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, revealed a cracked and chaotic surface dominated by dark ridges and faults.

And while material spewing from the icy visitor probably won't trigger the colossal meteor showers on the Red Planet that some scientists predicted, dust and water vapor may still slam into Mars, briefly heating up its atmosphere and threatening orbiting spacecraft.

Venkat has found bugs in the spacecraft - assembly facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida; on hardware and in drinking water from the International Space Station; in circuit boards destined for an upcoming mission to Europa; and on the metal surface of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars since October 2001.

Although the spacecraft was lifted into Earth orbit faultlessly, it then failed to respond to commands from the ground and did not ignite its booster rockets which would set it on course for Phobos.

Simon Kattenhorn, a geologist previously at the University of Idaho in Moscow, and Louise Prockter, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, made the finding after combing through pictures from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.

But there was nothing disappointing about what the astronauts saw as the spacecraft coasted around from the lunar far side on its fourth orbit: Earth, rising beyond the battered horizon, so tiny that the men could hide it behind an outstretched thumb.