Sentences with phrase «lunar orbit using»

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It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon's orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth).

«It can be retargeted to some interesting bodies, using lunar gravity - assist maneuvers,» said Robert Farquhar, a leading U.S. expert on orbital mechanics and author of the new book: «Fifty Years on the Space Frontier: Halo Orbits, Comets, Asteroids, and More.»

CRaTER's seminal measurements now provide quantified, radiation hazard data from lunar orbit and can be used to calculate radiation dosage from deep space down to airline altitudes.

The ESA's Aurora Programme proposes using an enhanced Ariane 5 launcher to ferry a crew to lunar orbit, in the style of the old Saturn V; Mendell says Boeing's Delta IV launcher could also be enhanced to carry humans to the moon.

Co-author Richard Miller mapped the moon's remaining ice by using data from NASA's Lunar Prospector mission, which orbited the moon from 1998 to 1999.

According to Keck, NASA would use an ion - propelled rocket to lasso a resource - rich asteroid about 7 metres wide and tow it into lunar orbit.

It performs a flyby of Earth and continues thrusting with the ion drive to lower its energy with respect to the Earth - moon system, so that when it comes back to Earth a year later, it can use a lunar flyby to reenter high Earth orbit and await its next mission.

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.

Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future missions to the moon.

Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future...

Creating a moonscape at the Moon Bar, an open air garden lounge, silk pendants orbit above the circular bar, designed using lunar - toned materials of sliced stone and black pebbles.

The cost instead 5000 per kg to GEO and $ 8000 per kg to lunar surface, will instead $ 5000 plus rocket fuel cost at lunar orbit [450 per kg] plus the use of a reusable spacecraft.