Sentences with phrase «orbit by»

The 10.4 - metre - long (34.1 - foot) Tiangong - 1, or «Heavenly Palace 1», was launched in 2011 to carry out docking and orbit experiments as part of China's ambitious space programme, which aims to place a permanent station in orbit by 2023

A satellite based direction - finding system made up of twenty four satellites was initially placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense.

My question is pretty simple: if I somehow retrieved the Tesla sent into orbit by SpaceX earlier this week, could I keep it?

Large BigLaw firms are too — witness Peerpoint by Allen & Overy, Vario by Pinsent Masons, and most recently Orbit by Corrs Chambers Westgarth, to name some.

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In 1980, John O'Keefe suggested a clever model for a Saturn - like ring around the Earth, composed of the tektites and microtektites that were pulled into orbit by the Earth's gravity.

Steve Hamburg, the fund's chief scientist, hopes to see it in orbit by 2021.

The DSCOVR satellite will help to improve the usefulness of our satellite fleet that is in low Earth orbit by providing a common calibration reference point — which will enhance the synergy among many different orbiting instruments observing and measuring changes in the Earth system.

MODIS TEBs are calibrated on - orbit by a v - grooved blackbody scan - by - scan basis.

The latter has significantly better global coverage, and the former must now correct for a decaying satellite orbit by using a climate model.....

The Shuttle is not powered into orbit by Hydrazine.

The eccentricity cycle presumably depends more exclusively on torques on the orbit by the other planets -LRB-?).

Ideas that commonly surface include perturbations to the earth's orbit by other planets, disruptions of ocean currents, the rise and fall of greenhouse gases, heat reflection by snow, continental drift, comet impacts, Genesis floods, volcanoes, and slow changes in the irradiance of the sun.

Other Half Orbit by Jeremiah Barber with Ingrid Rojas Contreras (which already occurred), and Fathoming a Cave with Hott and musician Laura Steenberge, both explore the edges of perception through investigations into memories and dreams, and sounding and echolocation, respectively.

ORBIT by 4Bit Games has enough particle physics for 10 other games, but the way they use them to indicate trajectories and impact fully redeems it.

SHATTERED HORIZON Developer: Futuremark Games Studios Publisher: To be announced Platforms: PC Release date: To be announced About the game: Shattered Horizon is a multiplayer first - person shooter where players fight in zero gravity surrounded by the broken remains of orbital infrastructure and billions of tons of rocky debris thrown into orbit by a huge explosion on the Moon.

Thrown into fashion orbit by Charlotte Chesnais and Ana Khouri, Spring 2018 earrings have broken free from the lobe to hang weightless from the conch and cartilage.

The project, which hopes to launch a lightweight telescope into Earth orbit by 2019, was announced today (Oct. 11).

Two interesting possibilities are that Sedna might have been tugged into its current orbit by a passing star, or may have been captured from a different solar system.

India could build or buy commercial electric propulsion systems built in France or Russia to significantly improve the cargo payload mass that could be put into a stable Low Lunar Polar Orbit by its possible future Reusable Launch Vehicle or a «HLV» based on the Unified Launch Vehicle.

Given the large orbital eccentricities of these two objects (which move beyond 500 AUs of the Sun), some astronomers have argued that they were likely to have been strongly perturbed by a massive celestial object (which is unlikely to have been Neptune as they do not come close enough to feel its gravitational influence) such as the passing of a rogue planet (perturbed from its primordial orbit by the gas giants of the inner Solar Sylstem) or one or more passing stars, which could have dragged the two objects farther out after initial orbital perturbation by Neptune or as part of a «first - generation» Oort Cloud.

This change was made to combat the charge transfer efficiency (CTE) losses caused by radiation damage that the two WFC CCDs have suffered since being put into orbit by artificially increasing the background in the dark images.

NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars orbit by the 2030s.

Mu Herculis was first discovered to have a dimmer companion in 1781 with a relatively wide orbit by Sir William Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel (1738 - 1822, portrait), who was born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel and who discovered the planet Uranus — which led to his appointment in 1782 as private astronomer to the King of England.

AsiaSat - 1, launched atop a Chinese Long March - 3 booster in April 1990, had an interesting back story, for it was originally the Westar VI communications satellite, delivered into an improper orbit by shuttle mission 41B in February 1984 and triumphantly retrieved and returned to Earth by the 51A shuttle crew the following November.

The researchers estimated the distance of the exoplanets from the stars they orbit by calculating the number of days it takes them to complete one orbit (we call that a «year» here on Earth), as well as estimating the mass of the star itself.

And dents on the Japanese Space Flyer Unit, retrieved from orbit by the space shuttle Endeavour in 1996, revealed traces of phosphorus and sulfur.

The first three are expected to launch by 2012; the remaining two are tentatively scheduled to be sent into orbit by 2015, he says.

Chang - Díaz hopes that NASA will use his engine to help boost the International Space Station into orbit by 2006.

It is unhampered by commercial jet traffic and benefits from the same advantages that drew the U.S. Army there: abundant clear weather and a 4,700 - foot elevation, which drops the cost of reaching Earth orbit by up to $ 90 million, compared with launching at sea level.

The House bill would have NASA develop its own spacecraft to fly U.S. astronauts to low — Earth orbit by 2015, in contrast to the Administration's plan to encourage commercial space companies to build such vehicles.

If its next 12 contracted missions go well, the vehicle could start carrying passengers (some employed by SpaceX, others by NASA) into low Earth orbit by 2015.

The patent goes on to give detailed plans for a space module that is launched into near - Earth orbit by rocket, and then blasted into space by onboard solid - propellant engines.

They hunted for runaway stars — objects escaping the cluster at high velocities — that might have been kicked out of orbit by the supernova explosion that formed the magnetar.

«By retire, I mean, if we know they're coming and they pose a threat, we have the technology to deal with it» — options include detonation or disrupting the object's orbit by ramming into it or tugging it off - course with a nearby spacecraft.

Paglen was able to identify and photograph these secret spacecraft due to the work of a diverse international group of amateur astronomers who maintain a catalogue of classified spacecraft in Earth's orbit by producing mathematical descriptions of orbits using simple tools like stopwatches and binoculars.

Friction between the atmosphere and materials passing through it, known as drag force, offers the only natural means for culling detritus left in orbit by space launches.

The Constellation Program had aimed to return astronauts to Earth orbit by 2015 and to the moon's surface by 2020, although independent assessments questioned the feasibility of that timeline.

Farmer's experience with Exxon, which involved a variety of imaging and remote sensing techniques to locate geological structures favorable for the accumulation of petroleum, also served him well in working with NASA mission planners and technologists developing the instruments to be carried into Mars orbit by the next generation spacecraft.

«Instead of being ejected from orbit by Jupiter, as one would expect, the asteroid is in a configuration that assures stability thanks to co-orbital resonance, meaning its motion is synchronized with the planet's, avoiding collisions,» Morais said.

In an emailed statement, Wiley — who will depart for a job at the New School but will remain in the City Hall orbit by chairing the Civilian Complaint Review Board — said the mayor understands that MWBEs are an important part of tackling income inequality and that the city is fighting for tools the state uses to work with MWBEs.

That fundraising prowess — and the ability to build such a large organization so fast — has taken many in the Clinton orbit by surprise.....

SpaceX, for example, has already lowered the cost of mass to orbit by a factor of 10 and is projecting another 40 to 60 percent reduction.

While Georgia is doggedly seeking to spin out of Russia's orbit by seeking NATO membership, Russia is applying pressure by tightening military and economic ties with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the two regions Georgia lost in 2008.

How long did it take humans to believe the world wasnt flat, the center of the universe orbited by the sun even when hard facts (not trillionth of partial scientific theorys but easily observable truths) becuase the teaching of religion contradicted them?

Work at gradually releasing the children into their own orbits by continuing to strengthen intimacy through a variety of experiences as man and wife as well as mother and father.

Newton found they were held in their orbits by gravitation.

In 2017 astronomers discovered it is orbited by at least seven temperate Earth - size planets.

After more than 1500 orbits by the satellite, the MICROSCOPE team — with researchers from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom — found no such signal, they report in an accepted paper at Physical Review Letters.

In our own galaxy we have been able to electromagnetically observe black holes orbited by stars and map their behaviour — notably their rapid spinning.