Sentences with phrase «how future spacecraft»

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Kepler's bureaucratic history was even more tortured than Corot's, but the spacecraft is headed for launch on April 10, 2009, and astronomers are counting on it to settle the question of just how common Earths are — a result that will guide the whole future search for life in the universe.

Satellite engineers use this number, updated daily, to predict how the sun's future activity will affect their spacecraft.

Data from this first dive will help engineers understand if and how they will need to protect the spacecraft on its future ring - plane crossings.