Sentences with phrase «higher orbit»

(Block - five will help the company launch heavier payloads into higher orbits around Earth while being able to land and reuse its boosters, which are the most expensive part of a rocket.)

Crisis is guaranteed and the only chance for survival is to be creative and decisive in the face of disaster Habitat is a space - themed strategy game that places you in high orbit around a ravaged Earth far in the future.

Once it reached its transfer orbit, peaking at 22,000 miles above Earth, the craft unfolded a small pair of solar panels, and its engine began producing a dim blue glow, gently lifting Smart - 1 into higher and higher orbits around Earth.

It» s harder to get into as high an orbit as L5.

«It would allow CubeSats to enter higher orbits or achieve multiple orbital planes in a single mission, and extend mission lifetimes.

I can see how planets could migrate inward from aerodynamic drag in the early solar system, but where did all the large planets receive the energy to boost them into much higher orbits?

If and when nuclear explosives are less threatening to us on the ground, there might be reasons to establish an Orion - based Deep Space Force — a small fleet of unmanned vehicles, stationed in high orbit under international control, on standby to deflect meteors or other objects that threaten Earth.

Empires might prefer the construction of hidden Observation Posts in high orbit over primitive worlds.

They teach us to value and respect nature, to look for the common ground across religious, sovereign and ethnic divides and to help boost our collective efforts to protect the earth from environmental threats into higher orbits.

Viasat CEO Mark Dankberg believes that it's unlikely that the kinds of smaller satellites that companies like SpaceX or rival OneWeb are looking to deploy in low orbit will be able to offer Internet speeds that are as fast as the bigger satellites in higher orbit.

Dawn will spend the first half of 2012 in a snug, 120 - mile - high orbit around Vesta, taking detailed images and examining the asteroid's composition.

Now it is firing its thrusters to get into a higher orbit.

All light comes from the same physical process: An electron circling the nucleus of an atom in its customary orbit is energized — often by heat — and moves into a higher orbit.

In incandescent light, the trigger to push electrons into a higher orbit is heat provided by electricity passing through a carbon filament in a vacuum; in bioluminescence, the electrons are pushed up by two chemicals working together.

One, known as a luciferase, stimulates another, called a luciferin, causing it to oxidize, moving electrons up into higher orbits that decay and produce a glow.

Since then, Chandra has been in the hands of its controllers at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass.; they are guiding it into a high orbit away from the interference of Earth's electromagnetic field.

We have a three - step process: LightSail - 1 will prove solar sailing, LightSail - 2 should be able to use the sail to increase orbital energy, getting away from Earth into higher orbit to do scientific measurements.

While enhancing existing systems would strengthen the current U.S. capability to reach satellites orbiting at relatively low altitudes, creating the first space - based missile defense system could also threaten satellites in higher orbits, Grego said.

It was no coincidence that shortly after the May 2013 test, the US declassified details of its secret Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP), a planned set of four satellites capable of monitoring the Earth's high orbits and even rendezvousing with other satellites to inspect them up - close.

In high orbit, there is no cloud cover, no twilight, no wan winter sun.

It needs enough velocity so that it doesn't fall into the gravity well, but not so much velocity that it switches to a higher orbit or breaks the gravitational bonds entirely and zooms off, free.

Dawn is now spiraling down toward a 210 - kilometer - high orbit, from which it will map Vesta in high resolution.

But the rocket engine intended to boost the spacecraft into a higher orbit failed.

If Venus Express survives the ordeal, the plan is to take the probe back into a higher orbit and continue observations until its fuel runs out.

Measurements had already been done in the higher orbits, which were already highly accurate, but the new measurements will be even better.

It will enter a high orbit around jupiter after a 4 year journey there, and once there, it will complete 45 flybys.

What's less often taught in class is that those tidal bulges push energy back at the Moon, moving it ever so slightly into a higher orbit.