Sentences with phrase «orbiter arrived»

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrived to circle the Red Planet in March 2006, taking high - resolution photos of many areas on the world's surface.

Launched on June 2, 2003 atop a Soyuz - FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the orbiter arrived at Mars on December 25 of that year.

Juno is only the second space mission dedicated to the King of Planets, after the Galileo orbiter arrived in 1995 and spent eight years there.

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NASA's Cassini orbiter first spotted spectacular plumes at Enceladus's south pole in 2005, shortly after arriving at Saturn.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scheduled to arrive in 2006, will send back a flood of visual information.

Meanwhile, the gutted shells of the shuttle orbiters will begin arriving at museums later this month — with the exception of Atlantis, which is to remain at Kennedy.

The first results have arrived from the Mars Express orbiter, and European Space Agency (ESA) scientists are jubilant.

India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), which launched on 5 November, should also arrive at Mars in late 2014.

After MAVEN, the next potential relay to launch will be the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, which won't arrive at the Red Planet until late 2016.

The last major hardware component of Boeing's second CST - 100 Starliner — the truncated cone of the upper dome — recently arrived at the repurposed Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), joining the lower dome and docking hatch, both of which arrived in May.

The Trace Gas Orbiter, or TGO, a joint endeavour between ESA and Roscosmos, arrived at Mars on 19 October.

One, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and is scheduled to arrive at its destination on September 24.

Scheduled to arrive at the planet Mars this October, this first part of the ExoMars program, consisting of an orbiter and lander, will search for gases in the Martian atmosphere that could indicate signatures of active biological or geological processes, while also testing key entry, descent and landing technologies to support future ESA missions to Mars.

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, a Russian - launched, European - built spacecraft that arrived at Mars in October, is starting to dip into the upper reaches of the red planet's atmosphere in a year - long «aerobraking» campaign place the observatory in the right position to hunt for methane, an indicator of potential biological activity.

The Mars orbiter and lander arrived on Dec. 3, 1971.

Officials working on India's Mars orbiter project are finalizing plans for a six - month science campaign after the spacecraft arrived in orbit last week, an achievement that has already satisfied the mission's primary objectives, the head of India's space agency said Monday.

While Curiosity will not be able to see MAVEN as it arrives at Mars, the rover welcomes the orbiter's discoveries.

The Mars Express orbiter is still going strong today, more than 11 years after arriving at the Red Planet.