Sentences with word «orbiting»

My personal favorite is the asteroid tow - truck, which would bring a space rock into orbit of the moon or Earth.

You have solids in orbit in a disk, and the solids run into each other and stick and build progressively larger and larger bodies.

Gravity holds the planets in orbit around the sun.

The discovery of planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system is coming at a faster rate than ever before, but that makes each new planet found no less thrilling.

If adopted, it would be the first approval given to an American - based company to provide broadband services using a new generation of low - Earth orbit satellite technologies.

This is the first time ion engines have been used to send a spacecraft into orbit around a distant object in the solar system.

The same effect can not, by itself, explain the high speed of stars orbiting in spiral galaxies.

The damage or destruction of such satellites through a collision with orbiting satellites or remains of rockets can cause immense and lasting damage.

Are there other characters who fall into orbit with one another?

There is a suggestion that K - spectrum stars may potentially increase the chances of life developing on orbiting planets that are within the habitable zone.

But he remains confident he'll deliver satellites into orbit by 2003.

Next year he'll be way out of orbit for us.

But since 2008, we have seen planets orbiting at huge angles to this plane.

The current best explanation is that the plasma balls were launched by an unseen companion star in an elliptical orbit around the red giant.

The discovery of planets orbiting other stars has made headlines in the past few years.

You can command up to four units, which orbit around your main character.

That brings you to a view of your ship in orbit within a solar system.

She has seen the reflection of her fair face through the eyes of astronauts and the television cameras of orbiting spacecraft.

Gravity, primarily from unseen dark matter, can hold the ring in a nearly circular orbit around the host galaxy.

Friends and the level editor are located on moons orbiting that globe.

We get it, but what if we told you there were pictures you hadn't seen taken from lunar orbit?

Players can dynamically build offensive and defensive structures anywhere on the battlefield in real time by calling them down from a drop ship orbiting space.

While the differences between orbiting telescopes are a bit complicated, we should be clear that space telescopes in general are going to provide us with a sharper picture than terrestrial ones.

Further studies didn't find the infrared «glow» expected from a large object orbiting close to its star.

Hours later, the mother ship fired its engines and entered orbit around the planet.

A solitary planet in an eccentric orbit around an ancient star may help astronomers understand exactly how such planetary systems are formed.

Such worlds orbit stars in so - called «habitable zones,» regions where planets could hold liquid water that is necessary for life as we know it.

There was also a mock - up of the robotic spacecraft that would be used to capture an asteroid and bring it into a stable orbit near the moon.

Each section of the novel is named for a stage of planetary orbit.

«We changed to a 14 - day orbit primarily because we wanted the science faster,» he said.

The ice coverage has been documented since 1973 by means of passive microwave sensors on polar orbiting satellite.

In a few other cases a candidate planet had been observed near a star but had not been proved to follow a planet - like orbit.

Both stars are in a tight orbit around their common center of mass.

More precise observations should become possible as their 80 - year orbit carries them farther apart.

The primary star has a relatively close partner star, which the planet does not orbit.

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

Now this story will become reality in the future, how to change orbit of asteroid is being researched.

Why not just create our solar system or even why not create the earth with the sun orbiting us?

Name three space launch vehicles that are capable of reaching orbit during an engine out condition?

It's the result of a particular magnetic property of materials — the magnetic moment, a tiny magnetic field produced by electrons orbiting the nucleus of an atom.

It makes a complete orbit around its star in about five days.

Its plot involves a psychologist who is sent to investigate strange going - ons and several deaths at a space station orbiting a distant planet.

Previous studies have suggested that gravitational interactions with other large planets in their solar systems created orbital chaos that drove them inward from a more distant orbit.

Then the retrieval process would additionally require tracking, stabilizing and moving the winning asteroid into a new orbit.

However, the satellites are also orbiting at very high speeds, which means that due to special relativity, their clocks will run slower too.

But the rocket engine intended to boost the spacecraft into a higher orbit failed.