Sentences with phrase «n't reach orbit»

The cost to make progress on these two would be (relatively speaking) peanuts compared to the total currently being spent: $ 600 million for a new «Glory Mission» aerosol satellite to replace the one which did not reach orbit, and an extension of the Argo diving float program to cover deeper oceans (cheaper than the Glory satellite!).

Not exact matches

SpaceX had figured out how to build rockets, just not rockets that actually worked — it had attempted three launches so far and all three had blown up before reaching orbit.

Oh, so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION stars each, with most of those stars now thought to have multiple planets orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?

The centers are not to be just central repositories of professional skills, waiting passively for patients to appear, but will reach out to identify illness in all its psychic and social variants and bring it within the centers» therapeutic orbit through consultative, educational, and preventive efforts.

The point of this is that the entire orbit of the utterance is the creation of the gospel; what can be experientially confirmed does not reach the dimension of the ecology of the faith.

Cabana has watched with amazement as the Bullet Club, with Nick and Matt Jackson of the Young Bucks particularly resonating with fans, has reached a whole new orbit of popularity in a wrestling universe not directly aligned with industry - leader WWE.

Meanwhile, Zinser said, the agency must work to prevent another potential data gap that could occur if the NPP satellite hasn't finished in - orbit quality control checks before its predecessor, known as NOAA - 19, reaches the end of its design life in March 2013.

The missile need not attain the velocity required to go into orbit; it needs only to reach the altitude of the satellite it is intended to destroy.

He's the man who recently stirred up a hornet's nest by finding lots of new objects orbiting in the outer reaches of the solar system, one of which — Eris — is around 1,400 miles wide, about the same size as Pluto.

Once a satellite reaches the trajectory, few, if any, station - keeping maneuvers are required to keep it there — a particularly attractive option for mass - constrained spacecraft that can't carry propellant to periodically power thrusters to maintain an orbit.

The MESSENGER data showed an increase in the number of — not electrically charged — neutrons at Mercury's orbit hours before the large number of charged particles reached the spacecraft.

It has remained largely a mystery, because conventional balloons and planes can not reach this height, and satellites can not orbit Earth at a low enough altitude to perform direct observations.

This meant the second stage did not achieve full orbital velocity and therefore did not reach its intended orbit.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft hasn't reached optimum orbit around Ceres but the data it's returning has already got scientists excited.

With a perihelion of 76 AU (more than twice that of Neptune), Sedna is well beyond the reach of the gas giants and unlike other Kuiper Belt Objects, could not be scattered into its highly eccentric orbit from gravitational interactions with Neptune alone.

It was last at that point long before Clyde Tombaugh discovered the dwarf planet in 1930, and Pluto won't reach that most - distant point in its orbit again until the year 2113.

Earlier this week, the NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite reached its orbital position, not circling the Earth or Mars but instead orbiting the Sun itself, at a stunning 1 million miles from Earth.

Not only does it have the thrust to reach orbit but also the looks to impress any advanced civilization.

Variations of ± 4 % in the distance due to the elliptical orbit of the Earth The solar constant does not entirely reach the Earth's surface due to: Reflection of radiation Latitude, angle of incident Average between day & night.