Sentences with phrase «reach orbit after»

Should it work, Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful rocket in the world by a factor of two and highest payload launch vehicle to reach orbit after the Saturn V moon rocket.

Falcon Heavy is due to launch its first test flight this summer and, once successful, will be the most powerful vehicle to reach orbit after the Saturn V Moon rocket.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), NASA's satellite to track CO2 emissions on Earth, failed to reach orbit after blasting off early this morning, crashing in the waters off of Antarctica and dashing hopes for the $ 278 - million mission.

Falcon Heavy is due to launch its first test flight this summer and, once successful, will be the most powerful vehicle to reach orbit after the Saturn V Moon rocket.

Not exact matches

«There should be absolutely zero question that SpaceX will prevail in reaching orbit and demonstrating reliable space transport,» Musk told employees after the third unsuccessful launch of Falcon 1 in 2008.

The rocket builder's Electron vehicle reached orbit for the first time, deploying a payload of micro-satellites after launching from the company's complex on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula.

After reaching its orbit in about two months, the telescope will start scanning nearby stars telltale dips in light that signal a passing planet.

Shortly after 7:30 am Eastern time this morning, a seven - year space voyage at last reached its final destination: NASA's Dawn mission entered orbit around Ceres, a small, icy world orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.

Shortly after the two settled into Earth orbit, Young reached into a spacesuit pocket and grinned at Grissom.

After 13 years revolutionizing our understanding of the solar system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft melted this morning during its final, fatal partial orbit into the upper reaches of Saturn.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has reached its final resting place after two years in orbit around comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko

The Sept. 22 encounter occurred between the orbital paths of Earth and Mars, just days after Borrelly reached the point in its 6.9 - year orbit closest to the sun.

If everything else goes well — including a lunar flyby in May researchers will start getting results from the planet - hunting telescope in a few months, after it reaches its final orbit in June.

NASA's orbiting probes were in no danger of colliding with the comet, but with it traveling at a speed of approximately 125,000 mph (56 km / sec), the dust from its tail that reached Mars 100 minutes after the encounter posed a threat like a blast of shrapnel.

TESS will reach its final orbit about 60 days after launch.

The Trace Gas Orbiter has reached its final orbit after a year of «aerobraking» that ended in February.This exciting operation saw the craft skimming through the very top of the upper atmosphere, using drag on its solar wings to transform its initial highly elliptical four - day orbit of about 200 x 98 000 km into the final, much lower and near - circular path at about 400 km.

The game and digital comic pick up after the GALCOM counter-offensive reaches a stalemate in orbit and on the planet.

After the orbiting satellites were able to measure TSI directly [above the atmosphere], we found out that the Ultraviolet energy reaching the upper atmosphere varied greatly.

After launching in February 2015, DSCOVR spent months rocketing away from Earth before reaching its final orbit position in June 2015 at Lagrange point 1 (L1), about one million miles away from Earth.

After the GOES - S satellite is launched into space, it will take 17 days to reach orbit, and at that point, it will be renamed GOES - 17.