Sentences with phrase «large spacecraft»

It may seem a little crazy, but burning up in the atmosphere is just a part of the natural life cycle of large spacecraft.

But unfortunately all of us are passengers on a very large spacecraft on which we have no option but to fly.

Instead of sending large spacecraft capable of moving asteroids, the startup wants to send a small craft that could land on the asteroid and 3 - D print a propulsion system and guidance mechanisms — essentially turning the asteroid into its own spaceship that would then drive itself to wherever a crew was located.

Down the road, the technology could allow large spacecraft, robotic and manned, to pierce through the Martian atmosphere and land on the Red Planet.

In fact, space agencies try to de-orbit large spacecraft over the Pacific Ocean «graveyard» since it's such a huge and innocuous target.

A third, larger spacecraft in 2020 is to gather samples and then bring them back to Earth, the first haul of moon rocks since a Soviet robotic probe's return in 1976.

Gripper hands could be used to repair or move dead satellites, or help miniature satellites called CubeSats stick to larger spacecraft like barnacles, Parness says.

«It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth,» he says.

The opening sequence has an impossibly large spacecraft, though not doing the exact same thing that the Millennium Falcon did in its first screen appearance, a scene in a cantina where many strata of society and species meet while music fills the air, and a sun (only one) that sets with the same desolate glow on a desert planet that we first saw on Tatooine when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) lived there.

The idea, which received backing from the European Space Agency, mimics the pads of the gecko's feet to allow small robots to climb up the hulls of larger spacecraft to maintain and even repair them.

Ship - Launched Fighters, allowing larger spacecraft to carry their own short - range fighter ships for attack and defense

Lifting off from Earth requires far more thrust and a larger spacecraft than initiating from space, so building the necessary infrastructure outside the atmosphere could have big benefits.

Only the largest spacecraft ever make it here.

Any large spacecraft that dips below an altitude of about 125 miles has just a few days left in orbit, Gossner said — and that's roughly where Tiangong - 1 is drifting.

The larger spacecraft is fast enough to help deliver small satellites into orbit, with the help of a small rocket stage add - on that would sit on top of the vehicle.

Plans for sending a large spacecraft to the outer solar system were put back on hold.

Usually, when a large spacecraft reaches the end of its mission, operators use its thrusters to aim its re-entry so that any pieces that don't vaporise or melt in the atmosphere end up hitting the ocean.

Even if one chose to accept the risk of handling a spacecraft inside a human - occupied sealed vessel, we would face the final problem of how to build a chamber wide enough or a doorway strong enough to get a large spacecraft inside.

A larger spacecraft followed a few minutes later to sniff the vapor cloud and send measurements back to Earth before itself crashing into the lunar surface.

Based on early plans, Europa Clipper will be a larger spacecraft with two 29 - foot solar panels and a main body the size of a school bus.

One alternative is to launch all the parts of a large spacecraft into space and then assemble them in orbit.

Suddenly a beam envelopes him and lifts him into a large spacecraft which takes him to the far reaches of the galaxy.

The invasion is the same as in the original: large spacecrafts have sucked Los Angeles residents up into the sky using a bright blue light that hypnotizes them.

The Aqua satellite is a large spacecraft with sensors designed to follow the cycle of the earth's water in its many forms to determine whether it is being affected by climate change.