Sentences with phrase «lunar orbit as»

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By 1964, it was selected for NASA's Apollo Program as the rocket that would conduct a lunar - orbit rendezvous.

The satellite, now in lunar orbit, carried Indian instruments as well as those from the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA and Bulgaria — an arrangement far removed from the nationalist striving of the U.S. — Soviet space race.

In lunar orbit, it occurred to me that, here we are, all the way up there at the moon, and we're studying this thing, and it's really the Earth as seen from the moon that's the most interesting aspect of this flight.»

Neal says it is apparent that China has major space ambitions, as indicated by its development of capabilities for low - Earth orbit, the lunar surface, and Mars.

But there was nothing disappointing about what the astronauts saw as the spacecraft coasted around from the lunar far side on its fourth orbit: Earth, rising beyond the battered horizon, so tiny that the men could hide it behind an outstretched thumb.

Just as important, the team concluded that once TESS reached its P / 2 orbit — through a series of maneuvers also involving a lunar flyby to gain momentum from the Moon's gravity — it would remain stably in that orbit for several decades.

Option B would allow ARM to retrieve and deliver something as large as a 4 - meter - wide boulder to high lunar orbit, Lightfoot added.

A new study based on more than two billion laser readings taken as LRO cruised through its orbit has provided what may be the most complete accounting of lunar craters yet.

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Today, there is again a glimmer of optimism, as the International Space Station takes shape in orbit and the discovery of water on the moon by unmanned spacecraft affirms the feasibility of lunar colonization.

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.

The lunar - orbiting outpost, called the Deep Space Gateway, has replaced the Obama administration's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) as an interim step in NASAs long - term goal to send astronauts to Mars.

So build that craft, net that rock, put it in lunar orbit, and hand it over to PRI and DSI as a playground to.test their business models.

Having successfully demonstrated that radar can be used to detect and track spacecraft in lunar orbit, the researchers now intend to use these arrays as a hazard assessment tool in future manned and unmanned missions to the moon.

From orbit this site appeared as a smooth, sparsely cratered plain somewhat like a lunar mare with occasional wrinkled ridges.

In the coming weeks, TESS will conduct a set of engine burns as it travels on a series of phasing loops out toward the Moon's orbital path, culminating in a lunar flyby and gravitational assist that will place the spacecraft on a lunar transfer orbit that will be inclined 37 degrees from the Moon's orbital plain.

Although the total lunar eclipse (when the Moon passes through earth's shadow) and the Super Moon (time it is the closest to earth in it's orbit and therefore looks bigger) happened this morning at around 7:30, there is another notable lunar phenomenon happening tonight as well.

The pieces in Lunar Mirror explore territory well beyond their primary subject matter — the moon — and illustrate related phenomena, such as the physics of astronomical orbits and a variety of mathematical concepts, with the elegance and economy of a physics equation... read more

The 9.1 year cycle appears to be linked to a Soli / Lunar tidal cycles, as I also show in the paper, while the other three cycles appear to be solar / planetary cycles ultimately related to the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn.