Sentences with phrase «high lunar orbit»

«The gateway could move to support robotic or partner missions to the surface of the moon, or to a high lunar orbit to support missions departing from the gateway to other destinations in the solar system,» Gerstenmaier added.

Option B would allow ARM to retrieve and deliver something as large as a 4 - meter - wide boulder to high lunar orbit, Lightfoot added.

In the 2020s, NASA's human spaceflight program will revolve around sending astronauts to high lunar orbit to study a small boulder robotically plucked from the surface of a large asteroid, agency officials announced yesterday.

The agency's controversial Asteroid Redirect Mission no longer calls for redirecting an asteroid into high lunar orbit

Not exact matches

The spacecraft, which entered lunar orbit last November, can no longer orient itself with high precision.

The new probe will provide much higher resolution images than Chang «e-1 because it «will orbit 100 kilometers closer to the moon and carry a higher resolution camera,» says Jiang Jingshan, deputy chief designer of the Chinese Lunar Orbiting Exploration program and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

It performs a flyby of Earth and continues thrusting with the ion drive to lower its energy with respect to the Earth - moon system, so that when it comes back to Earth a year later, it can use a lunar flyby to reenter high Earth orbit and await its next mission.

An artist's illustration for the high - tech laser communications system on NASA's LADEE moon dust probe now in lunar orbit.

To build the International Moon Village and mine the Moon's resources, we need super efficient small, medium, large, and super large 4,100 (and higher) Isp electric rocket propulsion system powered reusable upper stages and space tugs for efficiently hauling cargo from LEO to a stable Low Lunar Polar Orbit.