Sentences with phrase «orbit insertion»
"Orbit insertion" refers to the process of placing a spacecraft or satellite into its desired orbit around a celestial body, such as the Earth. It involves using propulsion systems or engines to adjust the spacecraft's speed and trajectory in order to attain the desired orbit. Full definition
«The team, the flight system, and all ground assets are ready for Mars orbit insertion.»
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But the bigger the velocity change required for orbit insertion, the shorter the flight time needed to get from Earth to the target — so if you want to get to a comet or asteroid faster, you need even stronger materials.
Juno, about the size of a basketball court, successfully entered orbit around Jupiter in a procedure called Jupiter Orbit Insertion (JOI), after completing a 1.76 - billion - mile journey from Earth.
MARCI will recover the objectives of the Mars Climate Orbiter MARCI wide angle camera, which was lost during orbit insertion in September 1999.
Mars Observer, launched in 1992, was just three days from its planned orbit insertion around the Red Planet when NASA lost contact with it on Aug. 21, 1993.
That mission unfortunately failed last year [a solar storm caused a short circuit in one of the subsystems and a loss of telemetry signal, which made the Mars orbit insertion impossible] but many doors of collaboration were opened through that project.
TGO's Mars orbit Insertion burn lasted from 13:05 to 15:24 GMT on 19 October, reducing the spacecraft's speed and direction by more than 1.5 km / s.
«Navigator, prepare for lunar orbit insertion!»
The ESOC teams are trying to confirm contact with the Entry, Descent & Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM), Schiaparelli, which entered the Martian atmosphere some 107 minutes after TGO started its own orbit insertion manoeuvre.
«This is the same instrument that allowed us to support the challenging communications during the landing of the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers as well as the Cassini Saturn Orbit Insertion when the received radio signal was very weak,» said Sami Asmar, the JPL scientist responsible for the data recording.
Following orbit insertion, MAVEN will begin a six - week commissioning phase that includes maneuvering the spacecraft into its final orbit and testing its instruments and science - mapping commands.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned new images captured on approach to its historic orbit insertion at the dwarf planet Ceres.
«I'd like to think that Galileo would have really liked that movie,» Bolton said of the video at a post-Jupiter Orbit Insertion briefing on Monday night.
MGS was launched in 1996 and the MOC was operated by MSSS for 10 years — from calibration and Mars meteorological imaging during the interplanetary cruise phase, through the spacecraft orbit insertion aerobraking period, the MGS primary mission, and multiple extended missions.
The organization's scientists and engineers watched as the spacecraft carried out the maneuver, dubbed Jupiter Orbit Insertion, while many Americans gathered to watch fireworks around the country.
This is the final view taken by the JunoCam instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft before Juno's instruments were powered down in preparation for orbit insertion.
The spacecraft was lost on August 21, 1993, just three days before the planned Mars Orbit Insertion.
At the same time as Schiaparelli's descent, the orbiter was performing a crucial «Mars Orbit Insertion» manoeuvre — which it completed successfully.
We're now just about 12 hours away from Juno's Jupiter orbit insertion.
Since its launch in November 2013 and its orbit insertion in September 2014, MAVEN has been exploring the upper atmosphere of Mars.
«Jupiter orbit insertion was a big step and the most challenging remaining in our mission plan, but there are others that have to occur before we can give the science team the mission they are looking for.»
The Juno team shut off the spacecraft's science instruments for the orbit insertion and won't turn them back on for a couple of days.