Sentences with phrase «lunar orbit with»

Astronauts will travel aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, launched on the Space Launch System rocket, to rendezvous in lunar orbit with the captured asteroid.

Not exact matches

That smaller module would then rendezvous with the main spacecraft, the Command / Service Module, in lunar orbit and the crew would return home.

Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft launched on the Space Launch System (SLS) would rendezvous with the captured asteroid mass in lunar orbit and collect samples for return to Earth.

This concept images shows ARM robotic capture Option B, in which the robotic vehicle ascends from the surface of a large asteroid, on its way to a lunar distant retrograde orbit with a smaller asteroid mass in its clutches.

Orbiting at 100 kilometers above the lunar surface, KAYUGA transmits laser pulses to the moon with its laser altimeter (LALT).

Once there, the plane could dock with a lunar lander placed in orbit before it arrived.

«What you can't do with it is slow down fast enough to transfer onto a lunar orbit.»

The spacecraft, which entered lunar orbit last November, can no longer orient itself with high precision.

Specifically, the paper reported that at lunar - resonant orbits, perturbations from the gravitational tug - and - pull exerted on spacecraft by the Moon and Earth are roughly zero, especially if the spacecraft's apogee is about 90 degrees with respect to the Moon.

It's the country's first probe to venture beyond Earth orbit, allowing India to join a decade of lunar exploration that is due to begin next month with the launch of Europe's SMART 1 probe (Science, 2 May, p. 724).

Along with rumours of a hovering lunar base, there are reports that the agency is considering a proposal to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit.

India, Japan, China and the European Space Agency have added to the traffic in lunar orbit, with most of these missions carrying scientific instruments from other countries.

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.

If that had happened, its orbit would line up exactly with the sun and Earth twice every month, treating us to regular solar and lunar eclipses.

* Anchored atop the departure stage is a composite shroud protecting the lunar surface access module, which includes the descent stage that will carry explorers to the moon's surface and the ascent stage that will return them to lunar orbit to rendezvous with the Orion Spacecraft (Crew Exploration Vehicle) for their return home.

One idea would be to reduce the crew size from four to the three of the Apollo days, with the idea that on the Outpost - type fortnight - or - more span expeditions, we'll be able to send the whole crew down to the surface, leaving the Orion (or whichever) orbiter craft, untended in low lunar orbit, to be reached by the crew later.

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

«Having global access with modern imaging spectrometers from lunar orbit is the next best thing to having a geologist with a rock hammer doing the field work across the surface.»

Particularly outstanding examples of illogic were the administration's decisions to cancel the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) while proceeding with a lunar - orbiting space station dubbed Deep Space Gateway.

The Moon orbits around the entire planet, Lunar cycles are too intricate, they would be damn near impossible to replicate without any sort of occasional mishap, even with the advanced technology.

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 engineering challenge of sending humans to orbit or to the lunar surface is largely dealing with the problem of lack of available rocket fuel in space.

The second period is the time required for the syzgies of the Earth / Moon / Sun (i.e. the Lunar Synodic month) to realign with the line of nodes of the Lunar orbit.

Only the position of the Earth in its orbit and geographic location need be specified along with lunar phase.