Sentences with phrase «of spacecraft»

Effect of Spacecraft Aerodynamics and Heat Shield Characteristics on Optimal Aeroassisted Transfer

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«If we can design a harpoon that can cope with Envisat, then it should be able to cope with all other types of spacecraft including the many rocket upper - stages that remain in orbit,» said project engineer Alastair Wayman.

Up to 10 percent of the space station could survive re-entry, but without details on its construction, Western analysts can't say how much of the spacecraft will remain intact.

The unprecedented number of satellites proposed by SpaceX and the other [non-geostationary orbit fixed - satellite service] systems in this processing round will necessitate a further assessment of the appropriate reliability standards of these spacecraft, as well as the reliability of these systems» methods for deorbiting the spacecraft.

NASA originally hoped to launch InSight in May 2016, but one of the spacecraft's instruments wasn't working.

Im excited to be part of the first couple of people who will probably fly one of these spacecraft so already weve started down the path.

Records have been created by merging data from nine different MSUs, each with peculiarities (e.g., time drift of the spacecraft relative to the local solar time) that must be calculated and removed because they can have substantial impacts on the resulting trend.

In practice, however, all of the spacecraft experienced an east — west drift away from their initial LECT.

The longevity of spacecraft missions examining the Red Planet has enabled detection and examination of changes on multiple time scales.

If I connect these transistors up in this way and feed it these inputs it will tell me the path of this spacecraft around this comet.»

A recent study confirms that the electric sail invented at the Finnish Meteorological Institute is the most effective form of spacecraft propulsion to date.

The lack of buffering is why airless bodies and the skins of spacecraft display much greater temperature variations than the surface of planets like the Earth.

They have a fleet of spacecraft observing the Earth, and plans for more to better understand our environment.

Although satellites usually do not orbit directly in the Van Allen belts, these charged particles have a significant impact on the design of spacecraft and space instrumentation.

I do this as a caution to you — I've seen some of the surprises that have come out of the spacecraft data — and some of them have been BIG surprises.

Shielding of spacecraft and surface laboratories on the Moon and Mars would be a critical component for any such human spaceflight effort.

These sculptures envision another aspect of humanity's future: a fleet of spacecraft designed for human exploration of distant worlds.

Someone was getting out of the spacecraft and walking on the moon!»

Elsewhere, Electronic Arts has bypassed the issue by setting its Battlefront: X-Wing VR mission in the cockpit of a spacecraft, while Ubisoft (which has invested heavily and relatively early in VR experimentation) has discovered that narrowing the player's field of vision in its interesting sim Eagle Flight reduces instances of nausea.

During the adventure, the player takes the journey through visually distinct locations, among which are futuristic interiors of the spacecraft and ancient - like city established by an alien civilization.

I also threw in the maximum number of spacecraft the game engine could handle because I really wanted the player to feel the epic scope of the battle.

The combination of spacecraft and mission types, coupled with a simple but very responsive control system, augers well for enjoyable gameplay.

Wonky Ship Kiz Studios No stranger to a featured spot on Apple's storefront, Wonky Ship delivered a frenetic space puzzler that put the player at the helm of a spacecraft fighting the furious pull of a plasma - fuelled black hole.

Being able to procedurally generate entire universes and turning players loose in cockpits of spacecraft to traverse those worlds is just the start.

The two players (or the single player and an AI) will frantically move in the small interior of the spacecraft they travel in, shooting a gun at a cluster of enemies before re-orienting the shield to gain a moment of respite to then fire the superweapon and get a chance to use the drive to get away.

Fly a variety of spacecraft including the Ansharian Fighter, Bomber and EMP ship across 13 large missions fields.

In 1995, Parallax Software released Descent, a first - person title in which the player takes control of a spacecraft and navigates through various levels.

, a first - person title in which the player takes control of a spacecraft and navigates through various levels.

If you played the Mass Effect games, those games had light space exploration and no piloting of spacecraft.

Other lifeforms will land in ships when you're on a space station or visiting a trading outpost, but while you can buy and sell items with them they'll never step outside of their spacecraft, remaining inside of their protective shells for no other reason than the developers didn't want them to step out.

The official game, titled Iron Sky: Invasion, will apparently put you in the pilot's seat of a spacecraft tasked with defending the Earth from the Nazi moon army hurtling towards you.

A fleet of spacecraft - shaped Supercells silently surrounds us on the horizon.

Discover many of the spacecraft and space missions that help us better understand our solar system.

In this activity students explore resultant forces and Newton's second law of spacecraft and rockets using colourful cards.

The blazing guns, and blowing up of an assortment of spacecraft may be what fans thirst for, but are eye - glazingly same - old for the rest of us.

An enormous swarm of spacecraft attack other ships.

Quill has ALF trading cards on the dashboard of his spacecraft, references all things from the 80's, and if I may be so bold, probably fashioned his legendary outlaw status of Star - Lord after Han Solo, because he would have seen the Star Wars trilogy as a child.

Having to maintain communication while you man different stations of a spacecraft will either make you realise how well you work together or how you aren't star - crossed lovers after all.

There, a human being (Alan Eustace) was launched higher than ever before without the aid of a spacecraft — shattering all records.

Rogue One — which takes its title from the call sign of their spacecraft — recognizes these men as lost souls.

It almost works out for Life, which borrows the fundamentals of its premise from Alien — hostile, shape - changing lifeform let loose in the confines of a spacecraft grows larger and more powerful as it eats its way through the crew — and rides that pony for a good forty - five nerve - jangling minutes before running out of oxygen.

Information on the health and position of the spacecraft is included in a separate data stream.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which will employ private contractors to transport astronauts to the International Space Station, has taken a step closer to crewed flights as the two prime contractors conduct the latest round of tests of their spacecraft parachute systems.

«One key thing about Rosetta is the matching of the orbit of the spacecraft with that of the comet.

Last week Juno began transmitting to and receiving data from Earth, keeping its NASA team updated within ten minutes of the spacecraft's condition.

These missions gathered data on the physical conditions during entry for clues about the performance of the sample return capsule's thermal protection system and about the manner of breakup during controlled re-entries of spacecraft lacking such thermal protection.

«This was determined to be the best way to ensure the safe disposal of the spacecraft, so that there would be no chance of future contamination of Enceladus by any hardy microbes that might have stowed away on board all these years.»

u «Such events were detected, for example, at the crossing points of the spacecraft with the orbit of the martian moon Phobos.»

Bertotti, B., Comoretto, G. & Iess, L. Doppler tracking of spacecraft with multifrequency links.