Sentences with phrase «into orbit around the planet»

Stewart says the study should help NASA's Juno mission come up with better models of Jupiter's interior layers when the spacecraft goes into orbit around the planet in July 2016.

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

SpaceX is set to launch Wednesday evening from Florida in its latest mission for NASA, launching a new planet - hunting satellite into orbit around the Earth.

NASA's Juno spacecraft capped a five - year journey to Jupiter late Monday with a do - or - die engine burn to sling itself into orbit, setting the stage for a 20 - month dance around the biggest planet in the solar system to learn how and where it formed.

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

Eventually, the sun tames this wild child, drawing the planet into a tight orbit around it.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Akatsuki probe successfully went into orbit around Earth's sister planet at 8:51 a.m. December 7 Japan Standard Time — only five years after its first attempt.

Dwarf planet Ceres continues to puzzle scientists as NASA's Dawn spacecraft gets closer to being captured into orbit around the object.

Two days before plunging into Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft took one last look around the planet it had orbited for more than 13 years.

A commercial effort to get humans into orbit around Mars in the late 2020s now includes a sleek vehicle to send astronauts down to the surface of the Red Planet.

Normally, to maintain a simple circular orbit around an object, a rocket needs to find an exact balance between its tendency to fly outward into space and its inward attraction toward the moon or planet it circles.

In 1993, NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer satellite, presumed to have been disabled by an explosion in a fuel line as the craft tried to slip into orbit around the Red Planet.

After the spacecraft arrives and enters into orbit around the dwarf planet, it will study the intriguing world in great detail.

On March 6, Dawn will enter into orbit around Ceres to capture detailed images and measure variations in light reflected from Ceres, which should reveal the planet's surface composition.

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).

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.

Now, Hippke and Heller show that a combination of the stars» gravity and radiation pressure from their photons can bring the craft into a stable orbit around one of the stars, then around the tantalising planet (Astrophysical Journal Letters, doi.org/bx8t).

Passing bodies that rotate in the same direction as their path around the planet are more easily broken up, and their fragments more efficiently sucked into orbit.

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.

Here's a look at how Cassini's Grand Finale orbits around Saturn will squeeze even more science out of the long - lived mission ahead of the probe's fiery plunge into the ringed planet on Sept. 15, 2017.

But if approved, K2 will be looking at a much more diverse region of sky with a wide range of astronomical and astrophysical phenomena: planets with short orbits around cooler stars (which, if in their star's habitable zone, could still harbor water); young, still - forming proto - stars, which could provide insight into star and planet formation; and supernovae and galaxy clusters.

NASA expects Mariner 9 is orbiting high enough to keep flying around the planet until at least 2022, but at some point the spacecraft will enter the atmosphere and crash into the surface.

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.

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.

So - called circumbinary planets — those planets that orbit around a binary star, like the fictional Tatooine from the Star Wars — can be ejected off into space as a consequence of their stars» evolution, according to a new study to be published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org preprint).

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.

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.

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.

Also nominated for Best Game Audio were Stack & Crack, a 3D puzzle game by Jambav from India; Orbit — Playing With Gravity, a game that has players launching planets and attempting to get them into stable orbits around black holes, by HIGHKEY Games from the United States; and Rumble League, a real - time, action packed strategy game by Lorraine Studio of the United States.

The major one is a 100,000 - year cycle in which the planet's orbit around the sun changes from more or less an annual circle into an ellipse that annually brings it closer or farther from the sun.