Over the last two weeks, the flight dynamics and operations teams at ESA have been making a detailed analysis
of flight trajectories and timings for Rosetta to deliver the lander at the earliest possible opportunity.
Not exact matches
The screen will be peppered with stats and graphics, showing
trajectory of the ball
flight with tracer technology, listing TrackMan data during shots, and other stats for the week running down the side and bottom
of the frame.
At extreme velocities at or above the speed
of sound, the rocket paneling could flutter, potentially destabilizing the
flight trajectory.
«The existing methods for biology rely on vision - based motion capture systems that utilize high speed imaging sensors to record the
trajectory of joints and limbs during bat
flight.
But the steady, gentle thrust
of Dawn's ion engines allowed
flight engineers to program a
trajectory for the probe that gradually matched Vesta's path around the sun.
«DSM - 1 was our first major
trajectory change and first use
of the main engines, so it's good to have that under our belts and be on a safe
trajectory to Bennu,» said Arlin Bartels, deputy project manager at NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
He's apparently designed software to plot the
trajectory of a successful
flight to Mars and says he's proud that the plot is «science - lead».
It's indeed a space shooter where you shoot larger asteroids and break them into smaller asteroids, where you (eventually) face down more sophisticated enemies, but if you want to follow the original source material, you're going to need the «tank» style turn controls, with the added benefit
of forward and reverse thrusters to fine tune your fancy
flight and
trajectory.
To the Earth's orbit: The mechanism can be detected by looking at the true
trajectory of the Earth's
flight path: What escaped the present attention is that this path is not a straight elliptical line around the Sun, but the real
trajectory is a WINDING SPIRAL, winding around the mean progressive path.