Sentences with phrase «reaching orbit»

Soon, a competition began between the Army, Air Force and Navy to develop a U.S. satellite and launch vehicle capable of reaching orbit.

The Hubble Space Telescope passed its 20th anniversary of reaching orbit on April 24, an occasion marked with the release of a new image from the venerable observatory, depicting a star - forming region of the Milky Way some 7,500 light - years away called the Carina Nebula.

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

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

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

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

When SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket finally takes off for the first time, a debut now scheduled this fall, there's a good chance the commercial heavy - lifter will falter short of reaching orbit, company founder and chief designer Elon Musk said last week.

SpaceX had figured out how to build rockets, just not rockets that actually worked — it had attempted three launches so far and all three had blown up before reaching orbit.

«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 company has already reached orbit, but with a smaller rocket that is only capable of delivering satellites to space.

«This is the first test carrying customer payloads and we'll be monitoring everything closely as we attempt to reach orbit,» Beck said.

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

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.

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.

A 2008 version of the probe failed to reach orbit

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.

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.

There is, of course, no guarantee that Project Blue will reach orbit, operate as planned or find any planets.

The premise is deceptively simple: the heavier the rocket or its payload, the more fuel it takes to reach orbit.

The re-usable shuttles were the first (and still the only) spacecraft to reach orbit more than once.

When the spacecraft reached orbit, it opened the experiment's door and exposed one group of water bears to the vacuum of space, while shielding them from all radiation.

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.

Now that Electron has reached orbit and deployed satellites, Rocket Lab may be able to begin commercial operations in earnest.

It is a near - copy of a NASA probe that crashed in 2009 before it reached orbit, devastating the scientists who had hoped to use its data to map sources and sinks of the greenhouse gas — both man - made and natural — in unprecedented detail.

During Electron's first flight test in May, the rocket was destroyed when operators lost contact with it and ended the flight before the craft reached orbit.

Every spacecraft deploys valves and other instruments using pyrotechnic mechanisms once they reach orbit, to prepare for further flight operations.

The first shuttle reached orbit on 12 April 1981, the 20th anniversary of Gagarin's flight, and brought the spectacular experience of spaceflight even more into the public eye.

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.

Explorer 1 encountered a major discovery before it even reached its orbit.

The overall mission costs $ 671 million, and if it reaches orbit successfully, it may have enough fuel to continue for almost a decade, said Jakosky.

«We have reached this orbit for the first time through aerobraking and with the heaviest orbiter ever sent to the Red Planet, ready to start searching for signs of life from orbit.»

Hailed as «NASA's first educator astronaut to reach orbit,» Barbara Morgan is the latest distinguished American to join the «Stand Up 4 Public Schools» campaign of the National School Boards Association (NSBA).

Some even modded the chassis and cranked in enough boost to reach orbit, creating bargain supercar - killers.

Not only does it have the thrust to reach orbit but also the looks to impress any advanced civilization.

If you apply for a Rocket Mortgage, you could get a decision in the time it takes a rocket to reach orbit (8 minutes).

Use the planet's hills and valleys to launch yourself into deep space and hurtle through sparkling firefly clouds to reach the orbiting moons and beyond.

«With SpaceX now having reached orbit and about to enter its third year of profitability, I can afford to increase time allocated to Tesla.»

The cost to make progress on these two would be (relatively speaking) peanuts compared to the total currently being spent: $ 600 million for a new «Glory Mission» aerosol satellite to replace the one which did not reach orbit, and an extension of the Argo diving float program to cover deeper oceans (cheaper than the Glory satellite!).

(A fairing failed to separate as it should, and the extra weight was too much for Glory to reach orbit.)

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.

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.

In the eight minutes it takes a space shuttle to reach orbit, Americans will now be able to receive a full mortgage approval online with Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans.

Not exact matches

With Vector and Virgin Orbit also pushing to reach orbital launch this year, these rocket builders are hoping to seize a part of the premium market to launch small satellites.

Then SABRE will flip to rocket power, taking the spacecraft to low Earth orbit and reaching speeds of Mach 25 — more than 19,000 miles per hour.

And when his Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down a few hours later, the first American to orbit the Earth reminded us that with courage and a spirit of discovery there's no limit to the heights we can reach together.

TESS will then use a series of complex maneuvers to head into a never - before - used orbit, reaching about 232,000 miles beyond the Earth, to photograph the skies.

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.

To circle Earth from about 250 miles up, a spacecraft must reach a blistering speed of 17,500 mph, meaning it orbits the planet once every 90 minutes.