Sentences with phrase «into orbit around it»

The satellite went up just a month before SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket, putting a Tesla roadster into an orbit around the Sun.

Earth - resuscitating technologies commonly included in the «Geo - Engineering» category include the use of artillery to shoot heat - reflecting mirrors into orbit around the earth; or, use of rockets to blast up sulfur compounds to accomplish the same, volcano - like heat shunning function.

However, before we go into orbit around the 11C attractor, the two attractors change places, and we now swing towards the 22C attractor and the climate warms.

The selected proposals include turning the gallery into a hotel for small animals, installing artworks on a snowflake or a roller coaster, and launching Richard Serra's sculpture Fulcrum into orbit around Earth among others.

His authored publications include The Last Pictures (New York: Creative Time Books; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), a critical compendium of his Creative Time project to launch an ultra-archival disc, micro-etched with one hundred photographs, into orbit around the Earth for billions of years; Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World (New York: Penguin Publishers, 2009); and I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagons Black World (Brooklyn: Melville House Publishing, 2007).

Whether Mario's leaping into orbit around tiny micro-planets, tumbling through rooms with constantly flip - flopping gravity, or drilling through craggy worlds to emerge on the other side, he'll need new abilities and serious jumping skills to survive the all - new challenges ahead!

Bening is the quietly compelling centre of 20th Century Women, emerging as a woman of such everyday gravity that she practically sends all of the film's major characters into orbit around her.

These turn out to be a pager, a mobile big enough to drag other objects into orbit around it, and a fist - full of batteries for said boulder - sized mobile.

North Korea successfully launched a long - range rocket carrying a satellite into orbit around the Earth on Wednesday.

A European - built orbiter designed to seek out the source of methane on Mars slipped into orbit around the red planet Wednesday after a seven - month interplanetary journey, but mission control lost contact with an experimental landing probe just before touchdown.

On July 14, 2011, NASA announced that its Dawn spacecraft should be captured by Vesta's gravity and into its orbit around 1 AM EDT, on Saturday, July 16, 2011 (10 PM PDT, Friday, July 15th), at a distance of approximately 9,900 miles (16,000 kilometers) from the Solar System's second largest, Main - Belt asteroid.

The NASA team received confirmation of success just a few minutes before midnight Eastern time after a 35 - minute engine burn that slowed Juno down and allowed it to go into orbit around the largest planet in the solar system.

One month after its capture into orbit around Ceres, NASA engineers working on the Dawn mission state that the spacecraft is performing flawlessly and about to start capturing optical navigation images on April 10th.

MAVEN launched on Nov. 18, 2013, and went into orbit around Mars on Sept. 21, 2014.

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft inserted itself into orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011, late in U.S. mainland time zones (more).

Large collisions between celestial objects can generate moons when material is splashed into orbit around the larger object and coalesces into one or more moons under its own gravity.

On October 6, 2008, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft made its second of three flybys around Mercury, to be undertaken before it settles into orbit around the innermost planet in March 2011.

Instead, they will execute a flyby trajectory and go into orbit around the Sun.

If the MarCO probes survive and arrive at Mars on November 26, 2018, they will be able to monitor InSight as it descends, but they will not go into orbit around Mars.

The decreased speed allowed the probe to be captured by Jupiter's gravity and slip into orbit around it.

Lockheed Martin - Built Maven Successfully Placed Into Orbit Around Mars lockheedmartin.com, Sun., Sept. 21, 2014

On October 19, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency, celebrated as their joint satellite ExoMars with its Trace Gas Explorer (TGO) slid into orbit around the red planet.

Europa Clipper would settle into an orbit around Jupiter that allowed it to make multiple flybys of Europa at various distances.

Those collisions knock off ice particles and send them into orbit around Saturn, forming rings.»

The spacecraft came into orbit around Mars in mid-1976.

The trip to Mars takes 10 months, meaning MAVEN will go into orbit around Mars in Sept. 2014.

If conditions are favorable, the probe will shoot into orbit around the planet on Sept. 22, 2014.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, set to go into orbit around Ceres in early 2015, could answer some questions about the water on Ceres.

The MAVEN spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in November 2013 on a Delta booster and went into orbit around Mars a year later.

Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the most sophisticated optical observatory ever placed into orbit around Earth.

The images, which show the cratered and pockmarked surface of the small icy world, were taken by the Cassini probe, which entered into orbit around the planet in 2004.

Over the next several weeks, Dawn will deliver increasingly better and better images of the dwarf planet, leading up to the spacecraft's capture into orbit around Ceres on March 6.

Cassini settled into orbit around Saturn on July 1, 2004.

Those remnants went into orbit around the white dwarf — much like the rings around Saturn, Zuckerman said — before eventually spiraling onto the star itself, bringing with them the building blocks for life.

NASA currently envisions the first two SLS flights, EM - 1 and 2, as part of the agency's Asteroid Initiative mission proposal, which aims to robotically redirect a small Near - Earth Asteroid into orbit around the Moon by the end of the decade, to be later visited by human crews.

It will be captured into orbit around Ceres on March 6.

Dr. Stern: Well, as you know Triton used to be a small planet of its own, orbiting the Sun and was captured into orbit around Neptune long ago.

Similarly, they think that random spins result from black holes that formed separately and later fell into orbit around each other.

Dr. Chapman was also a member of the MSI / NIS (imaging / spectrometer) Team of the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR Shoemaker) mission to Eros, which was launched in February 1996, went into orbit around Eros on Valentine's Day, 2000, and successfully landed on the surface of Eros on Feb. 12, 2001.

To get into orbit around Jupiter, the spacecraft had to use its main engine.

Since slipping into orbit around the solar system's second-most massive asteroid last July, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has confirmed Vesta's status as a body whose arrested growth denied it true planethood.

And then there's Roger Angel, an astronomer and optical scientist at the University of Arizona who, working under a NASA grant, seeks to launch trillions of two - foot - wide disks of transparent film into orbit around Earth, a million miles up.

Messenger, another NASA craft that will settle into orbit around Mercury in March 2011, has been scanning for vulcanoids too.

Now, new research in the journal Nature Geoscience suggests that an ancient collision could have sent a ring of debris containing at least 100 small moons into orbit around the Red Planet, which eventually coalesced into Phobos and Deimos — Mars's two current moons.

Rosetta has traveled 6.2 billion km in an attempt to do something never done before: to catch up with a comet, 67 P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, as it speeds toward the sun and to go into orbit around it.

The latest version of Celestia includes a stunning re-creation of the Cassini mission, from launch to its insertion into orbit around Saturn.

«Debris from any impacts on the smaller satellites will have escaped and been injected into orbit around Pluto,» Weaver says.

The approach has proved a brilliant success, putting three NASA spacecraft into orbit around Mars and three rovers on the planet's surface (Pathfinder, Spirit and Opportunity).

In response to the 1993 failure of the Mars Observer mission — a billion - dollar, decade - in - the - making probe that mysteriously lost contact with ground controllers just before it was scheduled to go into orbit around the planet — NASA administrator Daniel Goldin decided to shift to smaller, less expensive spacecraft and create a sustained exploration campaign by sending one or two probes to Mars at every launch opportunity.

Because the satellites are so small, the debris would fly right off their surfaces and enter into orbit around Pluto.