Sentences with phrase «shooting space debris»

Not exact matches

Engineers tested how well a prototype shield for spacecraft would stand up to space debris by shooting it with a solid aluminum pellet.

The story of two astronauts (George Clooney and Sandra Bullock) struggling to return to Earth after debris cripples their space shuttle is the first film shot in 3D by Cuarón's frequent collaborator, Emmanuel Lubezki (Tree of Life).

Just after that, there's a quick shot of a TIE fighter flying through a field of space debris.

Whatever the real reason for the dramatic missile shot, the good news, I guess, is that the Pentagon didn't destroy the satellite in high orbit, as China did with another such move last year, generating an expanding cloud of orbiting debris — the one kind of pollution that, in space, may someday greatly limit the ability to deploy more satellites, for good or ill.