Sentences with phrase «orbit so»

Elon Musk's SpaceX is gearing up for its next mission: sending satellites into orbit so they can beam down internet access...

In subsequent discussion, breakout participants considered having CrIS / ATMS restored to the early morning orbit so that the diurnal cycle would be measured adequately.

The resulting abundance of resources is such a problem that the prospective asteroid mining operations actually have plans to keep the resources in orbit so as not to saturate demand.

We signed a deal with Little Orbit so we can deliver a full Single player campaign, and publish boxes, as well as be on both consoles.

It's a handy skill set that allows him to propose a jaunt into Earth's orbit so he can ride out a cosmic storm headed for the blue planet.

But when you orbit so close to a red dwarf, a planet starts to succumb to some tidal difficulties.

To maintain Mercury's tight inner orbit around the Sun, the planet must move much faster than Earth needs to in its more distant Solar orbit so that a spacecraft must gain about 65,000 miles per hour (105,000 km per hour) to «catch» it.

There is also a class of «hot Jupiters» that orbit so close to their star that their atmospheres are slowly blown away in a comet - like tail: the Chthonian planets.

She found that moving Saturn's orbit 10 per cent closer to the sun or tilting it by 20 to 30 per cent would stretch Earth's orbit so that it would spend part of the year outside the habitable zone, where liquid water can be sustained — or boot it from the solar system entirely (International Journal of Astrobiology, doi.org/w9g).

Meanwhile, ESA reports that the Trace Gas Orbiter — the main scientific rationale for the ExoMars 2016 mission — is in good health, and is set to begin slowly lowering the altitude of its orbit so that it can begin looking for methane and other gases that could signal life on Mars.

Each of the 72 NEXT satellites placed in orbit beginning in 2015 will be built with the capacity to carry sensors from NOAA and other groups into orbit so as to provide real - time, two - way communication.

The rubble then went into orbit so close to Saturn that the planet's gravity prevented the particles from pulling back together, and they became rings.

Stars at the edges of most galaxies orbit so quickly that they should be flung away.

It takes observations on at least three different nights to calculate an approximate orbit, but to really nail down an orbit so that the asteroid's position can be predicted accurately for years in advance requires dozens of observations conducted over several years.

Half of binary stars orbit so close that gravitational interaction significantly affects their evolution and demise.

The premise of a ballistic capture: Instead of shooting for the location Mars will be in its orbit where the spacecraft will meet it, as is conventionally done with Hohmann transfers, a spacecraft is casually lobbed into a Mars - like orbit so that it flies ahead of the planet.

Close encounters with Saturn's largest moon, Titan, have allowed navigators to use the moon's gravity to reorient the probe's orbit so that it could swing over Saturn's poles.

A group of stars orbits so close to the Milky Way's black hole that they could have never formed there.

The exoplanet, discovered last year by ground - based observatories, orbits so close to its star that it completes a loop in just 2.2 days — making it a very hot Jupiter.

The Van Allen Probes are a great mission, and part of that credit goes to the late Gene Heyler [who passed away in March 2013], who designed the orbits so that the satellites lap each other several times per year, which has been a key to the science results the mission can achieve.

The world is a gas giant like Jupiter that orbits so close to its star that it sizzles at thousands of degrees.

A bit more than half of the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way travel in pairs, nearly all of them orbiting so close that they can't be distinguished individually except by powerful telescopes.

Leslie Sage, an authority on exoplanets (planets outside our Solar System), was perplexed when he learned about hot Jupiters — Jupiter - size planets orbiting so close to their stars that they complete an orbit every few days.

Many of these are much larger than Earth — ranging from large planets with thick atmospheres, like Neptune, to gas giants like Jupiter — or in orbits so close to their stars that they are roasted.

Although radiation may not be a problem, orbiting so close to a red dwarf star presents a unique situation for habitable zone exoplanets like Ross 128 b.

Perhaps this planet orbits so close to the star that only one half of it ever faces the light.

In 2005, MOST was responsible for another surprising discovery: it observed a giant planet that orbits so close to its host star that the star was forced to synchronize its rotation with that of the planet.

Reaching Mercury from Earth poses significant technical challenges, since the planet orbits so much closer to the Sun than does the Earth.

Obviously, these fast binary stars did not evolve from larger stars, because larger stars orbiting so closely would collide.

And the planet orbits so closely that bursts of radiation from the star might have wiped out any chance of life.

With a semi-major axis of 0.066 AUs, it orbits so close to its host star that its orbital period lasts only 8.78 days, and so the planet must be very hot at around 450 ° Kelvin, 351 ° F, or 177 ° C (Forveille et al 2008).

Not exact matches

So if we do a high elliptic parking orbit for the ship, and re-tank in high - elliptic orbit, we can go all the way to the moon, and back, with no local propellant production on the moon.

So I think that really showed we could bring an orbit - class booster back from a very high velocity, all the way to the launch site, and land it safely, and with almost no refurbishment required for re-flight.

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.

Then a couple of years later we did the first launch of Falcon 9, version 1, and that had about a 10 - ton - to - orbit capability, so it was about 20 times the capability of Falcon 1, and also assigned to carry our Dragon spacecraft.

Project: Puzzlebox Orbit: Brain - Controlled Helicopter Creator: Steve Castellotti, San Francisco Funding goal: $ 10,000 ($ 70,537 raised so far, 407 backers, 2 days to go)

They're both giant planets, and they both orbit extremely close to their host stars — so close that it only takes them about five days to complete a full orbit.

Translation: It's a space craft that can orbit for hundreds of days and then glide back to Earth so that it can be relaunched to save money.

So far this year, the company has successfully completed four launches, including a resupply mission to the International Space Station in February, as well as placing satellites into orbit on behalf of two commercial customers.

But when first proposed, so did the idea of setting a 5 - ton communications satellite in place 25,000 miles above Earth in a geosynchronous orbit.

Juno is expected to continue its highly elliptical orbit around Jupiter for months, swooping close every 53 days to map the planet's interior so scientists can learn more about how and where Jupiter formed.

This is why NASA does not permit astronauts to spend more than a year or so in orbit.

In terms of visibility, your goal is to be in a kind of celestial sweet spot where you are orbiting not too far away from the big planets or the smaller ones (so you can keep an eye on both), but not so close that you get pulled by gravity into them (and crash).

«That makes it practical to refuel them in space and use them for other purposes, or simply use them as a shuttle to run down and grab a spacecraft that you might be so heavy you could only get it to [low - Earth orbit], and then take it literally anywhere else in the solar system,» Bruno added.

It's going near Mars,» Plait wrote, specifically in what's called a Hohmann transfer orbit: an elliptical path that goes out to the orbit of Mars and back to Earth orbit on a near - endless loop (hence the «billion years or so» detail from Musk).

If a vessel isn't sped up every so often to correct its orbit, it will eventually slow down and fall from the sky.

SpaceX had figured out how to build rockets, just not rockets that actually worked — it had attempted three launches so far and all three had blown up before reaching orbit.

He says the money Xiaomi stands to make doesn't interest him in and of itself; those in his orbit say it's more what the money represents — the company joining the ranks of China's so - called national champions, the likes of Jack Ma's Alibaba, Pony Ma's Tencent Holdings Ltd., and Robin Li's Baidu Inc. «I wanted to lead a Chinese company,» the 48 - year - old says, «to become No. 1 in the world.»

Topher, 1) we know that orbits are not perfectly stable and can be changed after long periods of semi-stability and 2) we have the example of «new» short tern comets originating from the Kupier belt, so «new» long term comets is not much of a stretch.

Oh, so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION stars each, with most of those stars now thought to have multiple planets orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?