Sentences with phrase «rocket out of orbit»

The idea is to deploy the sail after the rocket has released its payload to amplify the drag of the last vestiges of the atmosphere, and so force the rocket out of orbit.

Not exact matches

Space X's new rocket called Falcon Heavy is big enough to send cargo or even people out of Earth's orbit to the moon, an asteroid or Mars.

His rocket could also serve as a garbage truck, getting dead satellites and discarded upper - rocket stages out of their dangerous orbits around our planet (a job the larger chemical - fueled rockets can't perform efficiently because they use too much fuel).

The Falcon Heavy rocket from SpaceX propelled the car out toward Mars, but the sun's gravity will bring it swinging in again some months from now in an elliptical orbit, so it will repeatedly cross the orbits of Mars, Earth, and Venus until it sustains a fatal accident.

Because the asteroid's orbit closely resembles the path of the Earth around the sun, says Paul Chodas of JPL, the object may turn out to be a rocket booster discarded from an earlier space flight.

«Yet to this day, it remains remarkable that the troubles afflicting the most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status — and a key hinge in getting Americans to the Moon — were ironed - out within a matter of months, allowing the Saturn V to triumphantly deliver Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders to lunar orbit in December 1968.»

The idea is to sent rockets loaded up with water into space, release it, and create a wall of water that orbiting junk would bump into, slow down, and fall out of orbit.