Sentences with phrase «on orbiting»

The first live TV transmission between two continents relied on an orbiting satellite, not much larger than a beach ball, which linked America to Europe for less than twenty minutes before moving out of range.

It picks up on the orbiting wreckage of the U.S.S. Sulaco, the ship left adrift by the marines in the movie, and focuses on a new team of troopers who's mission is to find out what happened.

As it stands, there's that worth - the - admission first half, wherein ex-CIA agent Snow (Pearce) is interrogated about the death of a colleague and a briefcase that goes missing before being sentenced to thirty years in suspended animation (Minority Report) on an orbiting prison station.

«The Cloverfield Paradox» follows a group of astronauts on the orbiting Cloverfield space station who are tasked with making a risky particle accelerator churn out an infinite amount of free energy, in order to save an Earth that has plunged into chaos during a global energy crisis.

This time Blomkamp has Matt Damon playing the unlikely hero in a future where the wealthy citizens of Earth reside on an orbiting space station that can cure any disease.

The energy released supports the stars against the crushing weight of their own gravity and, as a handy byproduct, provides the warmth and light necessary for life on any orbiting planets.

There is a suggestion that K - spectrum stars may potentially increase the chances of life developing on orbiting planets that are within the habitable zone.

In the second research line, he works on the various effects that the high - energy fluxes and particle emissions of stars have on their orbiting planets.

Solar storms have the potential to wreak havoc on orbiting satellites, radio networks, and national power grids.

Spectrometers on orbiting spacecraft and on the MER rovers Spirit and Opportunity have previously seen indications that small quantities of carbonates were present in martian soil, but spectroscopic analysis is often a bit of a guessing game.

Sometimes, however, these ruptures can be inordinately large and have the potential to wreak havoc on orbiting satellites, radio networks, and national power grids.

The European Retrievable Carrier, Eureca, is scheduled to leave the shuttle at an altitude of around 350 kilometres and then propel itself a further 165 kilometres into space where the influence of gravity on the orbiting craft will be one hundred - thousandth (10 - 5) of what it is on Earth.

With the Hubble Space Telescope's sharpest camera no longer working and its repair uncertain, the spotlight falls on the orbiting observatory's successor.

The star has emitted a flare that made it 68 times brighter than usual, and could expose any life on its orbiting Earth - sized planet to fatal levels of ultraviolet radiation.

With the use of high - resolution images and topographic data from cameras on orbiting satellites, B.T. Cardenas and colleagues from the Jackson School of Geosciences identify fluvial deposit stacking patterns and changes in sedimentation styles controlled by a migratory coastline.

A second contracted flight for the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station will be twice as nice for researchers working with investigations on the orbiting laboratory.

It is also tackling some more unusual quandaries, such as when to conduct the five daily Islamic prayers on an orbiting ship where a day lasts only 90 minutes.

The investigation on the orbiting laboratory will allow scientists to better understand the growth and development of these microbes, which, in turn, can help develop treatment for infections both in space and on Earth.

Astronauts on the orbiting laboratory will test the yeast growth on monocytes in an enclosed and controlled facility called the Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA).

International Space Station Commander Randy Bresnik has told Pope Francis his greatest joy working on the orbiting lab is being able to «see God's creation maybe a little bit from his perspective».

So if that's all you're dealing with, the cost of refilling your spaceship on orbit is tiny, and you can get 150 tons all the way to Mars.

But the real kicker for the researchers was the fact that their simulations also predicted that there would be objects in the Kuiper Belt on orbits inclined perpendicularly to the plane of the planets.

You would certainly be taking snapshots if you were spending a couple of weeks in a resort hotel on orbit.

On ISS, whatever year it's going to end, about two years before that people will stop making hardware to fly because it just wouldn't be on orbit long enough to justify investment.

The ISS was a fantastic vehicle for what we wanted it to do — we were trying to get a bunch of nations with a capability on orbit that we shared, but that at the same time could call our own.

How the material itself works is being tested on orbit today, but there's a very big trick in figuring out how you're going to outfit inflatables — where all the plumbing and other systems will go, and how you're going to ensure stale pockets of air don't form inside, since that's something that could asphyxiate a crew.

A nudge from its remaining thrusters put the probe on an orbit that would bring it back to Venus in five years.

SpaceX's historic launch wasn't 100 per cent successful, but there is now a Tesla Roadster floating on an orbit between Mars and Jupiter

This separation is essential for the study of gravity because the effect of gravitational radiation — the steady conversion of orbital velocity to gravitational waves as predicted by Einstein — is incredibly small and would have negligible impact on the orbit of the pulsar.

«You can say, «We think there should be a planet on this orbit, go look for it»,» he says.

Sedna is incredibly far away, and we never would have seen it if it weren't as close as it gets on its orbit.

If these radar telescopes can see an asteroid and track it, definitive data on its orbit and size will quickly follow.

These objects are on orbits that give them a very small probability of hitting Earth in the near future.

For 20 months, Juno will repeatedly skim the cloud tops, looping over the poles on orbits that are almost perpendicular to Jupiter's equator.

To date, 818 asteroids that are at least 1 km wide have been discovered on orbits that could take them close to Earth.

Then, it will «undergo a period of testing to demonstrate its performance on orbit outside the ISS, and we'll develop potential strategies for leak location,» Kowitt added.

To accomplish those goals, the satellite maintains a position on orbit such that the desired path across the ground does not vary by more than 20 km (12 miles) on each side.

Without that detail, astronomers can't tell whether a star's back - and - forth motions come from a huge planet moving in a nearly face - on orbit from our viewpoint, like the minute hand on a clock, or from a smaller planet in an edge - on orbit.

«And if the measurements are precise enough, you should be able to see the impacts on the orbit.»

Scientists are still tracking the asteroid, and additional data on its orbit could cause them to revise their predictions of its path — and reevaluate its danger.

On each orbit around Mars, MAVEN dips into the ionosphere — the layer of ions and electrons extending from about 75 to 300 miles above the surface.

I am fascinated by planets in edge - on orbits, such that the planet periodically passes in front of its star.

After running out of fuel, and with no way to increase its altitude, MESSENGER was finally unable to resist the sun's gravitational pull on its orbit.

Meanwhile, Mars did make a tiny sacrifice according to our friends at SPACE.com — 180 million years from now, the Red Planet will be out of position by about an inch because of Dawn's effect on its orbit.

Musk actually said this evening that Dragon can remain on orbit indefinitely whether or not it is attached to the ISS.

With 14 space telescopes on orbit and several more in development, NASA's budget for starting astrophysics missions was already stretched before the new JWST cost estimates were released.

Measurements of Gl 105A's radial velocity over 12 years show a linear trend and slope which is consistent with these orbital constraints and a nearly face - on orbit.

TESS is expected to launch in 2017 with its primary mission to monitor the 500,000 brightest and nearby stars for the signs of planets on orbits less than 30 days.

Four of them pass through the innermost fringes of Saturn's rings, necessitating that the antenna be used as a shield on those orbits.)

There are plans to increase the number of space stations on orbit — via Bigelow Aerospace's commercial space station.