Sentences with phrase «into orbit around the sun»

SpaceX successfully landed all three boosters that propelled the rocket, but the rocket's second stage, with the Roadster on top, was launched into an orbit around the sun.

On January 22, a satellite designed to test eLISA technology settled into orbit around the sun about 1.5 million kilometers away.

NASA hopes to use Venus as a brake, taking advantage of its gravitational field to keep Messenger from careering past Mercury and into orbit around the sun.

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

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

Not exact matches

It cleared the launch pad without blowing up — a feat Chief Executive Officer Musk said would signal a win — and continued on in an attempt to deliver its test payload into an Earth - Mars elliptical orbit around the sun.

Musk posted the last picture on Wednesday — a crescent - shaped Earth is shown fading into the distance as the car heads out to its elliptical orbit around the sun.

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

While Hamers thinks that the earth will then remain in a stable orbit, this is really only small consolation: around the same time, the sun will grow into a «red giant» and completely engulf the earth.

The spacecraft was sent to a halo orbit around a sun — Earth libration point, L1, which sits nearly a million miles into space on a line from Earth toward the sun.

A major collision can shatter both asteroids into debris that will SLOWLY drift apart to form an asteroid group in separate but similar orbits around the Sun (Science, 23 November 2001, p. 1696).

The other is the length of Earth's orbit around the sun, or year length, which can then be broken into smaller units.

The new look SIRTF will be considerably smaller, and instead of orbiting the Earth it will be fired into a heliocentric orbit — following the Earth in an orbit around the Sun.

The pulse also knocked the electron into a highly elliptical path around the nucleus, rather like a comet that orbits the Sun but spends most of its time far outside the Solar System.

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.

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.

Scientists at Purdue University think that Elon's Musk's Tesla car currently in orbit around the sun was not sterilized before it was launched into space.

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

The comet appears to have undergone visible changes, including the changes in the size and number of surface features such as smooth patches, pits, and craters, and the loss of ice vaporized by the Sun or blasted off its surface by the Solar Wind into its tail as well as failing back on the object like snow, so that it appears to shrink, on average, by 25 to 50 centimeters (9.2 to 19.7 inches) with each orbit around the Sun.

Although the cluster dissolved over the past 4.6 billion years with the dispersal of the Sun's sibling stars into the surrounding the Milky Way, the stars should have remained on a similar orbit around the galactic center.

The satellite has been put into a close orbit around the nucleus, and will now move with it as the nucleus moves inward towards the Sun.»

After ejection, the moon could either have crashed into another Solar System object (like a neighboring gas giant) or been sent into an elongated orbit around the Sun like a comet or into interstellar space (Boué and Laskar, 2009; and Ker Than, New Scientist, December 4, 2009).

Each year as the orbit makes its way around the sun for literally the bajillionth time, many of us go into January with a new goal or mantra.

Centered around two sharply drawn transgender women who find the resilience of their friendship tested and affirmed over the course of one busy Christmas Eve, writer - director Sean Baker's sun - scorched, street - level snapshot is a work of rueful, matter - of - fact insight and unapologetically wild humor that draws a motley collection of funny, sad and desperate individuals into its protagonists» orbit.

It seems almost silly in some ways, and to some Dot Earth readers borderline irresponsible, to spend time focusing on the day when astronomers spot a rock the size of, say, a hockey rink — or if we're less lucky a city block — slinging around the Sun in an orbit and on a timetable that could cause it to smash into Earth.

Around 2005 the Sun entered into its disordered orbit of the SSB which also coincides with the reasonably strong angular momentum perturbation (AMP) that comes along in groups every 172 years, is this a coincidence?

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.

But, the system is not at steady state due to Earth's rotation around its axis, slight eccentricity of its orbit around the sun, greater or lesser cloudiness over time, absorption of energy into oceans or loss of energy from the oceans, and likely a host of other factors not mentioned in this list.