Sentences with phrase «reaching orbit on»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Juno reached perijove (the point at which an orbit comes closest to Jupiter's center) on July 10 at 6:55 p.m. PDT (9:55 p.m. EDT).

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.

The comet will reach its closest distance to the Sun on 13 August 2015 at about 185 million km, roughly between the orbits of Earth and Mars.

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.

When the time reached 1800, however, things had started to get tense: the mission cost $ 1 billion, the first ever sent to orbit or land on a comet.

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.

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.

(Officially, an orbit starts when the spacecraft reaches its farthest distance, or «apojove,» which it does for the first time on July 27.

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.

Launched on 5 August 2011, Juno reached Jupiter and began its first orbit on 4 July last year.

One idea would be to reduce the crew size from four to the three of the Apollo days, with the idea that on the Outpost - type fortnight - or - more span expeditions, we'll be able to send the whole crew down to the surface, leaving the Orion (or whichever) orbiter craft, untended in low lunar orbit, to be reached by the crew later.

But these effects will come in reach through precisely measuring the orbits of stars with GRAVITY, a second - generation instrument on the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), which is an adaptive - optics assisted optical interferometer.

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.

Yuri Gagarin entered the history books on April 12, 1961 when his Vostok I capsule reached space, orbited the Earth and returned safely.

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

Since then, NPP reached its final orbit at an altitude of 512 miles (824 kilometers), powered on all instruments and is traveling around the Earth at 16,640 miles an hour (eight kilometers per second).

The planets may have a spin - orbit coupling effect on the Sun which affects its rotation rate, which would then affect the solar dynamo and sunspot production, and therefore the build up of magnetic flux at the poles, and the length of a solar cycle: if the solar cycle is weaker with less sunspots, it'll take longer for the build up of opposing flux to reach the point when it flips the poles.

Elaborating on the 1842 suggestion of the French mathematician Joseph A. Adhémar, Milutin Milankovitch proposed during World War I that the sunlight reaching the higher latitudes controlled the ice ages (he did his laborious calculations as a prisoner of war), and that slow changes in the earth's orbit were important.

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!).

Building on the work of other scientists who had observed that the Earth's orbit around the Sun was irregular in three particular aspects, Milankovitch created a model to show how the amount of sunlight (solar radiation) reaching the Earth varied according to the interaction of the cycles of these three irregularities, which are described below: