Sentences with phrase «orbiter around»

This will be followed by the first part of the ESA / Roscosmos ExoMars mission, which will put an orbiter around the planet and a lander down on the surface, to examine the atmosphere and the planet's electric fields, all in preparation for a 2018 followup mission.

If all goes well, earthbound scientists will have an orbiter around the inside planet by July 2009.

This global map of the gravity or Mars is the best one yet made and was created from 16 years» worth of data from three NASA orbiters around the Red Planet.

The paths of the orbiters around Mars are shown, in addition to the location of Curiosity within Gale Crater.

Not exact matches

The comet orbiter touched down on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko at 7:19 a.m. Eastern and immediately shut down, bringing to an end a nearly 26 - month mission in orbit around the comet.

Around the south pole of Enceladus — a 500 - kilometer - wide runt of a moon many expected to be rather inert and uninteresting — the orbiter saw tantalizing signs of activity — plumes of water vapor venting into space from fissures in the icy surface.

The facility monitors signals being beamed from the space program's star performers, including the Mars rover Curiosity, the Cassini orbiter exploring Saturn and its neighborhood, and the Spitzer Space Telescope, which follows Earth around the sun, collecting information on stars and galaxies.

Gathering that data is the mission of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, a 4,800 - pound probe now in elliptical orbit around the Red Planet.

As the comet hurtles through the inner Solar System at around 100,000 km / h, the relative speed between orbiter and comet will remain equivalent to walking pace.

The overall plan, currently known as the Europa Jupiter System Mission, or EJSM, includes a NASA spacecraft dubbed the Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO), which would settle into orbit around Europa after conducting a broader tour of the Jovian environs.

The daily image downloads from the Mars rover Opportunity — yes, it's still driving around the Red Planet after more than seven years — and the Saturn orbiter Cassini have been so warmly welcomed that missions with less open policies, such as NASA's current Mercury and Vesta orbiters, let alone the European Space Agency's Venus and Mars orbiters, are often subject to harsh criticism.

Its Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), the first prong of a multipart ExoMars mission, appears to have been captured into its planned orbit around Mars and is working normally.

Moreover, at that elevation, the orbiter has better confidence in its precise position around the comet.

That's why advocates have pushed for a «Europa Clipper» concept that would spin around the moon in multiple flybys, rather than calling for an orbiter — a more difficult and expensive mission that would subject the spacecraft to much greater doses of radiation from Jupiter.

«A future orbiter hopping around Saturn's moons could test this prediction.»

Galileo passed its second major test on arrival day when the orbiter fired its engines to slow itself into the planned orbit around Jupiter.

As it zoomed toward the ringed planet Wednesday and Thursday (Sept. 13 and 14), the orbiter took a series of photos, a handful of which Cassini team members processed and released as a sort of tribute, and as a service to space fans around the world.

It's still floating around the Red Planet onboard the now - defunct orbiter.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter or MRO, currently flying around Mars, captured images which reveal something strange.

The ESA issued a «call for missions» around these aims in 2007 and three medium - class missions were subsequently considered, of which the Solar Orbiter and Euclid missions are the first to be selected.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter will launch in 2018, and by 2021 will be in operational orbit around the sun.

«The news is that the community is forming around the concept of going back to Pluto with an orbiter mission that would stay and study the planet for years, and do it in ways that we could not have in a simple flyby like New Horizons.

A European - built orbiter designed to seek out the source of methane on Mars slipped into orbit around the red planet Wednesday after a seven - month interplanetary journey, but mission control lost contact with an experimental landing probe just before touchdown.

chart maps the flight path and orbit around every planet, moon, comet, and asteroid of the many instruments illustrated, including every orbiter, rover, flyby, and impactor that has successfully left Earth's gravitational field.

The Cosmic Exploration chart maps the flight path and orbit around every planet, moon, comet, and asteroid of the many instruments illustrated, including every orbiter, rover, flyby, and impactor that has successfully left Earth's gravitational field.

The panel will share data from these results, as well as from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), to present a picture of ISON's trip around the sun, which appears to have led to its demise.