Sentences with phrase «orbiters while»

CuriousMars: 2013 to Debut U. S. and Indian Mars Atmospheric Orbiters while Challenging China In Asian Space Race spaceref.com, Fri., Jan. 4, 2013

Shortly before docking, astronaut John Phillips and cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev photographed the underside of the orbiter while it performed a back - flip about 180 metres below the station.

Immediately after launch, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi took video of the external tank as it separated from the orbiter while fellow astronaut Andy Thomas snapped digital photographs.

Not exact matches

Lunar Orbiter 1 took this photo while scouting for places astronauts might land on the moon.

While we humans have only set foot on the planet we sprang from and one solitary moon, we've constructed probes, orbiters, and rovers to saunter out into space and send back their reports.

While space agencies are planning to send more orbiters to study Jupiter and its moons in the next decade, probes remain impractical because the gas planet has no solid surface to land on.

The shuttle fleet had been grounded since the Columbia orbiter disintegrated while re-entering Earth's atmosphere on 1 February 2003, killing all seven astronauts.

While all at Kennedy Space Center cheered Discovery through her climb to space, NASA officials are holding off on the official celebrations until the orbiter is back on solid ground.

Talk about failure to communicate: In 1999, the $ 125 million Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in Martian orbit because navigation software used metric units while the thrusters were programmed to follow English measurements.

The NASA probe would also make close flybys of another Jovian moon, Io, while the ESA orbiter, dubbed Laplace (named for the French mathematician and astronomer), would investigate Callisto as well as Ganymede.

Also, a European Space Agency (ESA) orbiter, launched separately, would focus on the planet's largest moon Ganymede, while a Japanese probe would monitor Jupiter's magnetosphere.

«Atlantis departing for the last time,» station astronaut said while ringing a bell as the orbiter backed away.

11 The $ 125 million Mars Climate Orbiter crashed on the Red Planet because the Jet Propulsion Laboratory used metric units, while engineers at Lockheed Martin used feet and pounds.

«ExoMars orbiter reaches Mars orbit while lander situation under assessment.»

After a three - week gap while Jupiter passes behind the Sun and out of contact, the orbiter will relay the rest of the data from its main memory in January.

After several hours of silence while the Rosetta orbiter was circling Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko and out of signal reach of its lander, named Philae, the two finally made contact.

Also while a student in Los Angeles, she served as a team member working on NASA's Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, an instrument that flies aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future missions to the moon.

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.

Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future...

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