Sentences with phrase «satellite in a stable orbit»

In this area, gravity from the sun and the planet pull equally, keeping the satellite in a stable orbit.

Not exact matches

The Dawn spacecraft is in such a stable orbit around the world, one Dawn mission scientist told the BBC, that it could stay there for a century or more and become «a perpetual satellite.»

From the Clarke Belt, if active station - keeping is disabled (or if the satellites run out of the hydrazine fuel burned by their thrusters), the birds tend to drift to the «low» point in their orbit, a stable resting point over the Indian ocean.

They all stem from the fact that there is not a single satellite which has been operating continuously, in a stable orbit, measuring a constant layer of the atmosphere, at the same local time every day, with no instrumental calibration drifts.