Sentences with phrase «orbit for»

To keep a small satellite in very low orbit for any extended period of time, it needs an on - board propulsion system, capable of cancelling out the effect of atmospheric drag.

Intercalibration issues between Jason - 3 and a SWOT altimeter for Jason - 4 would be unavoidable because of the need to change to a different orbit for SWOT.

The 10 - day repeat orbit for Jason - 3 in this scenario would not satisfy Navy requirements.

The orbit for SWOT would have to be changed to a higher inclination and longer repeat period in order to satisfy the sampling requirements for the terrestrial water (lakes and rivers) applications.

To allow for precise intercalibration, the preferred orbit for Jason - 3 is the same as that of TOPEX / Poseidon, Jason, and Jason - 2.

Oh and here's a great one for you... instant read energy absorption from orbit for the oil and gas industry; http://www.ghgsat.com/

In April, Trevor Paglen will launch the world's first space sculpture — a satellite that will orbit for roughly eight weeks before it disintegrates.

Björn brings together sculptors who have been in his orbit for the past few years, and who have influenced his thinking about sculpture (and have likely shared a meal or two!).

Earth from Space depicts the first picture of the earth, taken on December 7, 1972, as the Apollo 17 crew left Earth's orbit for the moon.

His major permanent commissions include Cloud Gate (2004) for the Millennium Park in Chicago and Orbit for the London 2012 Olympic Park.

Once he was down, it was back to orbit for tea and medals, but the strike left a lasting impression on me.

«We will offer full charters to space agencies who are looking to achieve human spaceflight in orbit for a fraction of the cost — and only pay for what they use.

Clare County Library launches Space Hop — this year's Summer Reading Challenge All fifteen branches of Clare County Library are getting ready to launch children into orbit for an intergalactic adventure that will keep them reading throughout the school summer holidays — with the 2010 Summer Reading Challenge.

We are no electrons orbiting around a nucleus, why do we need to resonate to a higher frequency orbit for certain «chemical reactions» to happen?

Our new orbit for T Tau Sa / Sb is in good agreement with other recent results, which indicates that enough of the orbit has been observed for a reliable fit.

A gassy planet will form on the far side of the frost line, orbit for a while, and then gradually move inward, pulled in closer by the star.

Scheduled to launch in 2018 during «Horizons,» Alexander Gerst's second science mission as a European Space Agency astronaut, «Bake in Space» will experiment with a specialty bread dough in a microgravity oven to bake in orbit for the first time ever.

After being in orbit for almost 28 years, the Hubble space telescope might be coming to its end, but does it really have to be?

The spacecraft and second stage coasted in the parking orbit for more than 30 minutes before the Merlin Vacuum engine reignited.

According to NASA, the unique orbit will keep the spacecraft in a safe thermal and radiation environment, and maximize the amount of sky TESS can image, allowing its cameras to monitor their targets continuously from a stable orbit for the duration of the mission.

«We have reached this orbit for the first time through aerobraking and with the heaviest orbiter ever sent to the Red Planet, ready to start searching for signs of life from orbit.»

NASA and the European Space Agency's Hubble Space Telescope has been in low Earth orbit for nearly 28 years, but with several repairs and upgrades over the decades it's still sending back beautiful images.

Building on past observations of the white dwarf called SDSSJ1043 +0855 (the dead core of a star that originally was a few times the mass of the Sun), which has been known to be gobbling up rocky material in its orbit for almost a decade, the team used Keck Observatory's HIRES instrument fitted to the 10 - meter Keck I telescope as well as data from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure and characterize the material being accreted by the star.

If so, then conditions would be more favorable for the existence of stable orbit for an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) centered around 1.12 AU from around 37 Gem — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

Geosynchronous orbit for the Moon can be calculated as being at Earth distance, with the overlap of the Earth's and Moon's gravitational spheres of influence making things messy.

«It's the longest duration stellar eclipse and the longest orbit for an eclipsing binary ever found... by far,» said the paper's first author Vanderbilt doctoral student Joey Rodriguez.

If so, then conditions would be more favorable for the existence of stable orbit for an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) centered around 1.15 AU from around 15 Sge — between the orbital distances of Earth and Mars in the Solar System.

The spacecraft has been in Martian orbit for one year.

«For TESS, we were able to devise a special new «Goldilocks» orbit for the spacecraft — one which is not too close, and not too far, from both the Earth and the moon,» Ricker says.

This is important because the moon is the first target in the Vision for Space Exploration, an initiative seeking how to go out beyond Earth's orbit for purposes of human exploration and scientific discovery.

The craft will continue to orbit Jupiter on a 53 - day orbit for the remainder of the missions.

A complex shape for the asteroid and a bizarre orbit for the moon will be matters of discussion for the scientific community.

If so, then conditions would be more favorable for the existence of stable orbit for an Earth - like planet (with liquid water) centered around 1.5 AU from around Iota Persei — around the orbital distance of Mars in the Solar System.

File photo of a ULA Delta IV rocket standing by to deliver the sixth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS - 6) satellite to geosynchronous orbit for the U.S. Air Force.

After languishing in Earth orbit for more than two months, the 14.5 - ton Phobos - Grunt spacecraft fell at around 12:45 p.m. EST (1745 GMT) Sunday, apparently slamming into the atmosphere over an empty stretch of the Pacific, Russian officials told the Ria Novosti news agency.

Once an initial orbit is determined, the MPC delivers the observational data for NEOs to JPL, which then computes a higher precision orbit for the NEOs based on the observational data.

Similarly, all of the 20 objects that appear to have remained outside the moon's orbit for the past 500,000 years are ruddy — they have not passed close enough to Earth for a resurfacing seismic shake.

«That may tell us something about the orbit for this tiny projectile,» he says.

The vehicle would release a container of rock samples into Martian orbit for collection via spacecraft.

The pattern of clustering indicated a likely orbit for Planet 9.

But then ISS itself serves as a home to six microbe - filled humans who stay in orbit for as long as 6 months each and routinely shed skin cells when they exercise, comb their hair, eat, and do other activities that potentially can contaminate their isolated «built environment.»

Sagittarius's merger with the Milky Way is not a simple collision — the dwarf galaxy has followed a looping, spiraling inward orbit for the past few billion years that has drawn it repeatedly into contact with the Milky Way.

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.

NASA also has its own spacecraft, Orion, being built by Lockheed Martin, which aims to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit for the first time since Apollo astronauts last left for the moon in 1972.

The two researchers claim that their design could get satellites into low Earth orbit for around $ 1,400 per pound.

Once Falcon I establishes a track record, SpaceX plans to cluster five Merlins to propel the first stage of Falcon V, the next launch vehicle, which will be capable of lofting 10,000 - pound payloads into orbit for about $ 15.8 million a shot.

For example, when the lunar orbiter PFS - 2 was released from Apollo 16 in 1972 it was expected to stay in orbit for 18 months, but these perturbations caused it to crash onto the lunar surface after only 34 days.

«So when people tell me, «You haven't got any results,» when we've only been in orbit for a year, I say, «Stop!

• In principle Earth's moon could have natural satellites, but in practice it doesn't — or they don't stay in orbit for long.

RR245 has been on its highly elliptical orbit for at least the last 100 million years.