Sentences with phrase «post-jupiter orbit insertion»

That mission unfortunately failed last year [a solar storm caused a short circuit in one of the subsystems and a loss of telemetry signal, which made the Mars orbit insertion impossible] but many doors of collaboration were opened through that project.

At the same time as Schiaparelli's descent, the orbiter was performing a crucial «Mars Orbit Insertion» manoeuvre — which it completed successfully.

«Navigator, prepare for lunar orbit insertion!»

TGO's Mars orbit Insertion burn lasted from 13:05 to 15:24 GMT on 19 October, reducing the spacecraft's speed and direction by more than 1.5 km / s.

Mars Observer, launched in 1992, was just three days from its planned orbit insertion around the Red Planet when NASA lost contact with it on Aug. 21, 1993.

MARCI will recover the objectives of the Mars Climate Orbiter MARCI wide angle camera, which was lost during orbit insertion in September 1999.

The spacecraft was lost on August 21, 1993, just three days before the planned Mars Orbit Insertion.

We're now just about 12 hours away from Juno's Jupiter orbit insertion.

CU - Boulder to host free event Sept. 21 to watch orbit insertion of Mars spacecraft colorado.edu, Wed., Sept. 10, 2014

«This is the same instrument that allowed us to support the challenging communications during the landing of the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers as well as the Cassini Saturn Orbit Insertion when the received radio signal was very weak,» said Sami Asmar, the JPL scientist responsible for the data recording.

Juno, about the size of a basketball court, successfully entered orbit around Jupiter in a procedure called Jupiter Orbit Insertion (JOI), after completing a 1.76 - billion - mile journey from Earth.

Following orbit insertion, MAVEN will begin a six - week commissioning phase that includes maneuvering the spacecraft into its final orbit and testing its instruments and science - mapping commands.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned new images captured on approach to its historic orbit insertion at the dwarf planet Ceres.

«The team, the flight system, and all ground assets are ready for Mars orbit insertion.»

The organization's scientists and engineers watched as the spacecraft carried out the maneuver, dubbed Jupiter Orbit Insertion, while many Americans gathered to watch fireworks around the country.

«I'd like to think that Galileo would have really liked that movie,» Bolton said of the video at a post-Jupiter Orbit Insertion briefing on Monday night.

MGS was launched in 1996 and the MOC was operated by MSSS for 10 years — from calibration and Mars meteorological imaging during the interplanetary cruise phase, through the spacecraft orbit insertion aerobraking period, the MGS primary mission, and multiple extended missions.

Not exact matches

It is the reverse of the orbit - insertion maneuvers that robotic space probes routinely undertake.

The latest version of Celestia includes a stunning re-creation of the Cassini mission, from launch to its insertion into orbit around Saturn.

A Google translation of press - conference comments suggests that the spacecraft experienced a sudden, unexpected rotation 2.5 minutes after the orbit - insertion manoeuvre began, apparently due to errant thruster firings.

But project manager Masato Nakamura thinks enough fuel remains on board to close that gap by changing course and to attempt another orbit - insertion manoeuvre.

The orbit - insertion maneuver will begin with the brief firing of six small thruster engines to steady the spacecraft.