Sentences with phrase «reaching its orbit in»

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

Garver said that Obama is giving NASA another shot at the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, an Earth - observing satellite designed to measure and track carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that failed to reach orbit in 2009.

Hubble's renown is certainly well - deserved, but the spacecraft is aging — it will mark its 20th anniversary of reaching orbit in April.

Not exact matches

NASA launched the Juno spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems (lmt), in August 2011, and it finally reached Jupiter's orbit in July 2016.

«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.

In May, the first Electron vehicle failed to reach orbit.

SpaceX's web of satellites would wrap around Earth in low orbit, handing off Internet signals to one another to make connections more reliable and to reach more areas.

It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon's orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth).

Oh, so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION stars each, with most of those stars now thought to have multiple planets orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?

The centers are not to be just central repositories of professional skills, waiting passively for patients to appear, but will reach out to identify illness in all its psychic and social variants and bring it within the centers» therapeutic orbit through consultative, educational, and preventive efforts.

Gravity from space (Einstein's relativity) operates on mass through space and matter interaction is a natural process like centrifugal force which made its appearance when a body is morning in circle Jean mass is the amount of matter that must be present before gravity becomes effective or felt, once this minimum amount of matter is reached or exceeded, gravity with mass interact with space - time to bring geodesics and gravity begin to control other bodies and then orbit around each other, another aspect of the twin effect of gravity and mass is the necessity to account for energy required to sustain gravitating mass and where does this energy originating from Einstein's field equation says from space but never refer to the origin of gravitation.

Faith — amazing faith that we can conquer space, put men in orbit, reach the moon, perhaps reach Mars and Venus.

Cabana has watched with amazement as the Bullet Club, with Nick and Matt Jackson of the Young Bucks particularly resonating with fans, has reached a whole new orbit of popularity in a wrestling universe not directly aligned with industry - leader WWE.

If converted into a ballistic missile, the rocket used to place the satellite in orbit could reach the whole US continental territory.

It takes only a bit more effort to spot Saturn, which stands out this month in part because on May 10 it reaches opposition, the point in its orbit where a planet lies opposite the sun in our sky.

The asteroid — named 1I /» Oumuamua, which means «to reach out from afar» in Hawaiian — sped through our solar system, steeply entering from above the plane on which the planets orbit the sun.

Tiny Pandora orbits just beyond the reach of Saturn's rings, on the far right side of the image, while Pan is barely visible, tucked into a gap in the rings on the left side of the image.

On January 4, Earth reaches perihelion, the point in its orbit where it comes closest to the sun.

It was expected to reach its closest and permanent orbit, 230 miles above the surface, in December.

Reaching the necessary level of precision requires correcting the data for small perturbations in Earth's orbit owing to the other planets in our solar system.

NOAA believes the data gap will begin in late 2016 and last anywhere from 12 to 18 months, depending on how long it takes the agency to complete quality - control checks on the data transmitted from JPSS - 1 once the satellite reaches orbit.

Meanwhile, Zinser said, the agency must work to prevent another potential data gap that could occur if the NPP satellite hasn't finished in - orbit quality control checks before its predecessor, known as NOAA - 19, reaches the end of its design life in March 2013.

When it safely reached its unusual orbit, trailing Earth in its path around the sun, astronomers, many of whom had staked 23 years of their careers on the project, breathed a sigh of relief.

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

He's the man who recently stirred up a hornet's nest by finding lots of new objects orbiting in the outer reaches of the solar system, one of which — Eris — is around 1,400 miles wide, about the same size as Pluto.

Reaching for the Stars The enterprise got a boost on Aug. 24 when astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile announced the discovery of an Earth - like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, one of three stars in the Alpha Centauri system.

The asteroid — now named 1I / ʻOumuamua, which means «to reach out from afar» in Hawaiian — sped through our solar system, steeply entering from above the plane on which planets orbit the sun.

Webb, however, will be stationed in deep space, past the orbit of the moon, out of reach of easy servicing.

But reaching orbit will require megawatt lasers; so far, the best commercial lasers used in experiments have less than one - tenth that power.

But if a craft was accelerated to an orbit in which it could catch a comet, surely it could follow this same orbit to the far reaches of the solar system, independently of the comet?

In a bit of one - upmanship, NASA's Langley Research Center in turn began developing the HL - 20, a craft that could take off and land horizontally and reach low Earth orbiIn a bit of one - upmanship, NASA's Langley Research Center in turn began developing the HL - 20, a craft that could take off and land horizontally and reach low Earth orbiin turn began developing the HL - 20, a craft that could take off and land horizontally and reach low Earth orbit.

When Stern and the Pluto Underground were sitting down to dinner in 1989, the planet had reached its near point to the sun at about 2.7 billion miles and had begun receding toward the far end of its orbit, about 4.5 billion miles out.

Just as important, the team concluded that once TESS reached its P / 2 orbit — through a series of maneuvers also involving a lunar flyby to gain momentum from the Moon's gravity — it would remain stably in that orbit for several decades.

Since then, astronomers have cataloged more than 1,000 sizable objects in that same zone, orbiting in the dim outer reaches of the solar system.

These gamma rays must overcome significant obstacles to escape Cygnus X-3 and reach telescopes in orbit around Earth.

Several teams are racing to spot Planet Nine, a hypothetical giant planet in the outer reaches of the solar system, based on the way it may have shepherded six objects into clustered orbits.

The MESSENGER data showed an increase in the number of — not electrically charged — neutrons at Mercury's orbit hours before the large number of charged particles reached the spacecraft.

India was the first nation to successfully reach the Red Planet on its first attempt when the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also known as Mangalyaan, entered orbit in 2014.

By 2062, the year the animated show was set, advances in artificial intelligence, sensor networks and robotics promise to make the Jetsons's home in Skypad Apartments, and indeed in all of Orbit City, seem quaint by comparison (although flying cars may remain out of reach — especially ones that beat parking problems by folding into a suitcase).

The Perseid shower reaches its peak once a year, in mid-August, when Earth's orbit carries the planet through the debris stream left behind by Comet Swift - Tuttle, a 26 - kilometer body that sheds ice and dust as it orbits the sun.

When it reaches Mars in September 2014, the spacecraft will enter a highly elliptical orbit that will let it dip directly into the Red Planet's atmosphere.

«Much like someone doing a cannonball in a swimming pool, the planet drove huge changes in the debris disk once it reached its present orbit.»

When it reaches Mars in August, the spacecraft will first enter a highly elliptical orbit.

Over several months, the spacecraft will slowly circularize its orbit, dipping in and out of the atmosphere, and using that friction to reach a circular orbit 400 kilometers above the surface.

Previous spacecraft launched under New Frontiers include New Horizons, which surveyed Pluto and is now due to visit MU69, an icy object in the farthest reaches of the solar system; Juno, now in orbit around Jupiter; and OSIRIS - REx, launched last year, which will collect samples from an asteroid and return them to Earth.

The completed ribbon and counterweight can support a steady stream of climbers, each capable of hoisting 13 tons of cargo and / or people at 125 miles per hour and reaching geosynchronous orbit in seven days.

It outdistanced the moon in nine hours, reached the orbit of Mars in 11 weeks and swung around Jupiter in February 2007.

On Wednesday, a Soyuz rocket failed to reach orbit, causing the Progress cargo ship it was carrying to crash in Russia's Altai region.

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.

Spacecraft instruments will gather continuous data on the interplanetary environment where the planetary system orbits, including measurements of the high - energy particles streaming from the sun and dust - particle concentrations in the inner reaches of the Kuiper Belt.