Sentences with phrase «orbiting at»

The company hasn't revealed how the station will be taken 200 miles above Earth (ISS is orbiting at 250 miles) but they already clarified accommodation details.

In 2005, we launched the weekly LifeTips Radio Show to reach listeners and fans orbiting at high speeds.

Mosaic of photos taken of the far side of the moon by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, orbiting at an altitude of just 30 miles (50 km).

Orbiting at an average distance within its host star's habitable zone, candidate g has at least 7.1 Earth - masses and so may have a thick atmosphere more like Neptune in the Solar System (Joanna Carver, New Scientist, November 8, 2012); BBC News, November 8, 2012; and Tuomi et al, 2012).

Orbiting at an average distance within its host star's habitable zone, candidate g has at least 7.1 Earth - masses and may have a thick atmosphere more like Neptune in the Solar System (BBC News, November 8, 2012; and Tuomi et al, 2012).

Under one scenario, a large planet with around 10 Earth - masses orbiting at around 250 AUs from the Sun, could have perturbed both the orbits of of VP113 and Sedna within the inner Oort Cloud, (more).

As the search continues for Earth - size planets orbiting at just the right distance from their star, a region termed the habitable zone, the number of potentially life - supporting planets grows.

According to Vogt, we wind up with a planet with minimum mass of 2.2 times that of Earth orbiting at 0.13 AU, «solidly in the star's classical liquid water Habitable Zone.»

So far the direct detection has only been able to show giant exoplanets, several times larger than Jupiter and orbiting at great distances from their stars.

In order to produce the 69 - year interval between eclipses, the astronomers calculate that they must be orbiting at an extremely large distance, about 20 astronomical units, which is approximately the distance between the Sun and Uranus.

Ceres, a dwarf planet or giant asteroid (depending on the definition used), is the largest object in the asteroid belt, orbiting at 2.8 astronomical units (the distance from Earth to the sun).

In late 2003, astronomers announced that the latest computer models indicate that the structure of a faint dust disk observed around Vega can be best explained by the presence of Neptune - sized and Jupiter - sized planets orbiting at distances roughly similar to those held by their apparent «cousins» in the Solar System (more discussion below — ROE press release).

Radio waves bounced to and from that satellite, orbiting at 22,238 miles above Earth, could reach nearly a third of the globe.

«For HR 8799, the infrared excess was consistent with dust orbiting at around 80 astronomical units,» or roughly 80 times the distance from the Earth to the sun (7.4 billion miles, or 11.9 billion kilometers), Marois says.

In a space shuttle orbiting at five miles per second, for example, the period between sunset and the time any vulcanoids would dip below the rim of the Earth can be measured in seconds.

HOW common are alien Earths — small, rocky planets orbiting at the right distance to be not so hot that water boils and not so cold that it stays frozen?

20 Floating like a tin can: The International Space Station orbits amid 11,000 pieces of man - made space junk orbiting at 18,000 miles per hour.

But the 1992 discovery of Kuiper Belt Objects, a collection of nearly planet - sized ice chunks orbiting at the fringes of the solar system, suggested to many astronomers that the inventory was incomplete.

The collaboration was inspired by the recently proposed ninth planet, possibly orbiting at the fringes of our solar system beyond Pluto.

Detecting the wobble caused by an Earth - size planet orbiting at a more temperate distance from its sun is out of the question for a ground - based telescope.

Atoms can be thought of as miniature solar systems, with a nucleus at the centre and electrons orbiting at certain specific distances from it.

Cassini, by contrast, will become a resident, orbiting at least 76 times around Saturn.

Orbiting at 100 kilometers above the lunar surface, KAYUGA transmits laser pulses to the moon with its laser altimeter (LALT).

Protecting craft orbiting at such vastly different altitudes will require different strategies.

In July astronomer Mike Brown of Caltech announced the discovery of UB313, a body larger than Pluto, orbiting at about three times Pluto's distance from the sun.

SpaceX is also planning an additional constellation of 7,518 V band satellites, situated in a «very low» Earth orbit at just over 200 miles.

Topher, You appear to be presuming that all comets started their near sun orbits at the begining of th solar system.

If you think there's plutonium in the balls that's causing them to fly into orbit at an alarming rate — and that's just an if — Houston has a marginal advantage.

Based on these analyses, A / 2017 U1 came from the direction of the constellation Lyra, swooping in from high above the ecliptic plane in which the sun's planets orbit at a breathtaking 25 kilometers per second.

Technically, Cassini began its Grand Finale orbits at this time, but since the excitement of the finale begins in earnest on April 26 with the first ultra-close dive past Saturn, the mission is celebrating the latter milestone as the formal beginning of the finale.

(For comparison, Jupiter orbits at a distance of 480 million miles and takes nearly 12 years to complete one circuit.)

In the old view, the planets formed in an orderly manner, born from a swirling disk of gas and dust, known as the solar nebula, into stable orbits at their present locations from the sun.

Over the following 18 months, Rosetta will orbit at a safe distance as the comet gets closer to the sun and begins to boil, bubble, and blow off gas and dust.

That's scarcely enough to sustain a typical wireless router's antenna, but sufficient in ideal circumstances to transmit data down from low - Earth orbit at a rate akin to that of a fax machine.

Habitable zone planets like Earth orbit at a distance from a star where water vapor can stay liquid on the surface.

The crew would take advantage of the planets» fortuitously close orbits at that time to take a 501 - day journey around Mars and back home, without landing on the Red Planet's surface.

As New Scientist went to press, the launch on Tuesday from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands appeared to have gone without a hitch, inserting the RazakSAT spacecraft into a near - equatorial orbit at an altitude of 695 kilometres.

In orbit at Earth's second Lagrange point (L2), far from the help of a terrestrial doctor, Webb will use its near - infrared camera (NIRCam) instrument to help align its primary mirror segments about 40 days after launch, once they have unfolded from their unaligned stowed position and cooled to their operating temperatures.

So this month's occurrence becomes a historical footnote, a sheer - enjoyment opportunity to watch the clockwork motion of the solar system and to see our nearest planetary neighbor speeding along in its orbit at the point where it comes closest to Earth.

Since Dawn arrived in orbit at Ceres in March 2015, scientists have located more than 300 bright areas on Ceres.

The smaller of the new planets, dubbed Gliese 581 c, orbits at one fourteenth the distance between Earth and the sun.

Looking further to the future, we could create a free - flyer mission and put it into a polar orbit at an altitude near 800 kilometers, where the greatest concentration of debris is found.»

And much further out, a hefty fourth world 62 times Earth's mass orbits at a distance of 2.1 astronomical units (200 million miles) with a «year» of 1,190 days.

Ideally, they would look for the planet to pass in front of the star, but that would work only if the planet orbits at just the right angle, he says.

The shuttle fleet will make 16 rather than 28 trips to the space station before retiring in 2010, and from then until the CEV debuts, the country will have no capability to launch astronauts into orbit at all.

Its moon (if it is indeed one) orbits at a distance between 17.2 to 21.2 times the planetary radius, or 747,000 to 922,000 miles.

This object has at least four fifths the mass of Jupiter and orbits at a distance of about 25 million kilometers.

The hunt is on for planets about the size of Earth that orbit at just the right distance from their star — in a region termed the habitable zone.

For instance, NASA has also expressed interest in putting astronauts on an outpost parked in orbit at the Earth - moon Lagrange point 2.

But the newly discovered worlds add an extra twist: all orbit in the opposite direction from all of the other objects in their solar system (a so - called retrograde orbit), and all orbit at severe angles.