Sentences with phrase «satellite reaches orbit»

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

For example, X-ray astronomy is nearly impossible when done from the Earth, and has reached its current important stand within astronomy only due to orbiting satellites with X-ray telescopes such as the Chandra observatory or XMM - Newton observatory.

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.

The missile need not attain the velocity required to go into orbit; it needs only to reach the altitude of the satellite it is intended to destroy.

Once a satellite reaches the trajectory, few, if any, station - keeping maneuvers are required to keep it there — a particularly attractive option for mass - constrained spacecraft that can't carry propellant to periodically power thrusters to maintain an orbit.

Nobody at that point knew how to reach the finish line, but both the Soviet Union and the US had launched satellites, and Yuri Gagarin had orbited Earth.

(Suborbital means the vehicle can fly only to a lower altitude than is necessary to start orbiting the Earth — it would have to travel higher, and faster, to reach altitudes achieved by orbiting satellites or the International Space Station, for example.)

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.

It has remained largely a mystery, because conventional balloons and planes can not reach this height, and satellites can not orbit Earth at a low enough altitude to perform direct observations.

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

Radio waves bounced to and from that satellite, orbiting at 22,238 miles above Earth, could reach nearly a third of the globe.

Earlier this week, the NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite reached its orbital position, not circling the Earth or Mars but instead orbiting the Sun itself, at a stunning 1 million miles from Earth.

During the infancy of mankind's quest to reach space, Russia was the standard - bearer, being the first country to successfully launch a satellite into orbit.

Do you have even the first notion what is involved in building a launch vehicle that allows a satellite to reach Earth orbit?

After the orbiting satellites were able to measure TSI directly [above the atmosphere], we found out that the Ultraviolet energy reaching the upper atmosphere varied greatly.

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!).

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