Sentences with phrase «into lunar orbit»

The bridge mission could be anything from NASA's ambitious plan to capture an asteroid and bring it into lunar orbit where astronauts could explore it, to a small and temporary station where astronauts can learn a little more about fending for themselves while in space.

The combined vehicles would have carried two cosmonauts into lunar orbit, and one would have descended to the lunar surface.

The privately funded Space Studies Institute, which he ran in Princeton, built working models of «mass drivers», electromagnetic launchers for putting payloads into lunar orbit, and commissioned investigations into the most efficient chemical reactions for extracting oxygen and other useful elements from the Moon.

According to Keck, NASA would use an ion - propelled rocket to lasso a resource - rich asteroid about 7 metres wide and tow it into lunar orbit.

And the retro - rockets must fire at exactly the right moment to put the spacecraft into lunar orbit.

«Astronauts to bring asteroid back into lunar orbit: Plans to develop a robotic solar - powered spacecraft capable of displacing a near - Earth asteroid towards lunar orbit for ease of study proposed.»

Ballistic capture, a low - energy method that has coasted spacecraft into lunar orbit, could help humanity visit the Red Planet much more often

Not exact matches

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

Along with rumours of a hovering lunar base, there are reports that the agency is considering a proposal to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit.

The Apollo program fit into a sweeping vision of human space exploration — sometimes called the «von Braun paradigm» after rocket scientist Wernher von Braun — that included not just lunar expeditions but winged spaceships, orbiting space stations and piloted missions to Mars.

Some of the savings from defunding the ISS would feed into NASA's return to the moon, chiefly a new lunar robotic exploration program as well as a «Deep Space Gateway» in lunar orbit that would serve as a staging ground for operations on the surface.

Perhaps the critical economic issue is what payload mass the Super Heavy Soyuz - 5 could put into a stable Low Lunar Polar Orbit.

India could build or buy commercial electric propulsion systems built in France or Russia to significantly improve the cargo payload mass that could be put into a stable Low Lunar Polar Orbit by its possible future Reusable Launch Vehicle or a «HLV» based on the Unified Launch Vehicle.

This European Space Agency (ESA) satellite for direct - pointing and lunar - occultation observation of X-ray sources beyond the solar system was launched into a highly eccentric orbit (apogee 200,000 km, perigee 500 km) almost perpendicular to that of the moon on May 26, 1983.