Sentences with phrase «of reaching orbit»

Soon, a competition began between the Army, Air Force and Navy to develop a U.S. satellite and launch vehicle capable of reaching orbit.

The Hubble Space Telescope passed its 20th anniversary of reaching orbit on April 24, an occasion marked with the release of a new image from the venerable observatory, depicting a star - forming region of the Milky Way some 7,500 light - years away called the Carina Nebula.

Hubble's renown is certainly well - deserved, but the spacecraft is aging — it will mark its 20th anniversary of reaching orbit in April.

Name three space launch vehicles that are capable of reaching orbit during an engine out condition?

When SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket finally takes off for the first time, a debut now scheduled this fall, there's a good chance the commercial heavy - lifter will falter short of reaching orbit, company founder and chief designer Elon Musk said last week.

Not exact matches

With Vector and Virgin Orbit also pushing to reach orbital launch this year, these rocket builders are hoping to seize a part of the premium market to launch small satellites.

Then SABRE will flip to rocket power, taking the spacecraft to low Earth orbit and reaching speeds of Mach 25 — more than 19,000 miles per hour.

And when his Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down a few hours later, the first American to orbit the Earth reminded us that with courage and a spirit of discovery there's no limit to the heights we can reach together.

TESS will then use a series of complex maneuvers to head into a never - before - used orbit, reaching about 232,000 miles beyond the Earth, to photograph the skies.

The company has already reached orbit, but with a smaller rocket that is only capable of delivering satellites to space.

«There should be absolutely zero question that SpaceX will prevail in reaching orbit and demonstrating reliable space transport,» Musk told employees after the third unsuccessful launch of Falcon 1 in 2008.

The rocket builder's Electron vehicle reached orbit for the first time, deploying a payload of micro-satellites after launching from the company's complex on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula.

To circle Earth from about 250 miles up, a spacecraft must reach a blistering speed of 17,500 mph, meaning it orbits the planet once every 90 minutes.

SpaceX's web of satellites would wrap around Earth in low orbit, handing off Internet signals to one another to make connections more reliable and to reach more areas.

Our MX family of flexible, scalable robotic explorers are capable of reaching the Moon and other solar system destinations from Earth 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.

Gravity from space (Einstein's relativity) operates on mass through space and matter interaction is a natural process like centrifugal force which made its appearance when a body is morning in circle Jean mass is the amount of matter that must be present before gravity becomes effective or felt, once this minimum amount of matter is reached or exceeded, gravity with mass interact with space - time to bring geodesics and gravity begin to control other bodies and then orbit around each other, another aspect of the twin effect of gravity and mass is the necessity to account for energy required to sustain gravitating mass and where does this energy originating from Einstein's field equation says from space but never refer to the origin of gravitation.

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.

Astronomers this month announced a similar discovery for an even larger gas giant, reporting that the Juno spacecraft, which is orbiting Jupiter, had found that the planet's rotating cloud belts reach roughly 3,000 kilometers below the top of the atmosphere.

That bulk would make them behave a bit like heavy pebbles outpacing fine silt to the watery bottom of a well, jostling through the lighter surrounding stars to reach stable orbits very close to the Milky Way's core.

The robotic spacecraft would be capable of approaching the asteroid, characterising it, capturing it, and then redirecting it to a final stable orbit that would be closer to Earth and thus easier for astronauts to reach.

A 2008 version of the probe failed to reach orbit

Some estimates have put the cost of each shuttle mission at as much as $ 1.5 billion — NASA itself reckons $ 450 million — and NASA has been drawing up wish lists of technologies it would like to use the spare cash to create, such as nuclear - powered rockets for trips to Mars and vehicles able to reach Earth orbit using power from ground - based lasers.

Most of the comets that astronomers study have made previous journeys into the torrid inner reaches of the solar system, often multiple times, as they orbit the sun.

But the distribution of colors reaching planets orbiting other suns could be different.

Tiny Pandora orbits just beyond the reach of Saturn's rings, on the far right side of the image, while Pan is barely visible, tucked into a gap in the rings on the left side of the image.

A new book from Viking Studio, Voices From the Moon by Andrew Chaikin and Victoria Kohl, tells the story of the Apollo program's bold ambitions through quotes from the 24 men who have reached the moon's orbit.

Reaching the necessary level of precision requires correcting the data for small perturbations in Earth's orbit owing to the other planets in our solar system.

After 13 years revolutionizing our understanding of the solar system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft melted this morning during its final, fatal partial orbit into the upper reaches of Saturn.

For years Chakrabarti and his colleagues have been pursuing a middle way between the laboratory and orbit, using NASA funding to conduct low - cost test flights of these advanced optics technologies with small suborbital rockets and high - altitude balloons that reach the edge of outer space.

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.

When it safely reached its unusual orbit, trailing Earth in its path around the sun, astronomers, many of whom had staked 23 years of their careers on the project, breathed a sigh of relief.

There is, of course, no guarantee that Project Blue will reach orbit, operate as planned or find any planets.

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.

Reaching for the Stars The enterprise got a boost on Aug. 24 when astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile announced the discovery of an Earth - like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, one of three stars in the Alpha Centauri system.

Once it reached its transfer orbit, peaking at 22,000 miles above Earth, the craft unfolded a small pair of solar panels, and its engine began producing a dim blue glow, gently lifting Smart - 1 into higher and higher orbits around Earth.

Webb, however, will be stationed in deep space, past the orbit of the moon, out of reach of easy servicing.

The comet will reach its closest distance to the Sun on 13 August 2015 at about 185 million km, roughly between the orbits of Earth and Mars.

But if a craft was accelerated to an orbit in which it could catch a comet, surely it could follow this same orbit to the far reaches of the solar system, independently of the comet?

Others think that the towering mountains, which may reach more than twice the height of Mount Everest, could be remnants of rings that once orbited the moon.

In a bit of one - upmanship, NASA's Langley Research Center in turn began developing the HL - 20, a craft that could take off and land horizontally and reach low Earth orbit.

It was going so slowly that Vesta was able to gently reach out and tenderly take hold of the spacecraft with its gravity and draw it into orbit.

When Stern and the Pluto Underground were sitting down to dinner in 1989, the planet had reached its near point to the sun at about 2.7 billion miles and had begun receding toward the far end of its orbit, about 4.5 billion miles out.

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.

Since then, astronomers have cataloged more than 1,000 sizable objects in that same zone, orbiting in the dim outer reaches of the solar system.

Several teams are racing to spot Planet Nine, a hypothetical giant planet in the outer reaches of the solar system, based on the way it may have shepherded six objects into clustered orbits.

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.