Sentences with phrase «spacecraft runs out of fuel»

The team plans to observe Juling crater once more before the Dawn spacecraft runs out of fuel, which is expected to happen this year.

In this scenario, when the spacecraft ran out of fuel, it would forever remain in a holding orbit around Saturn as a new artificial satellite itself.

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After almost 11 years in space and four years of orbiting Mercury, NASA's Messenger spacecraft (which stands for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) has run out of fuel...

On April 30, if all goes well, after running out of fuel to fight off orbital decay NASA's long - running MESSENGER spacecraft will end its mission to Mercury by crashing into the planet's surface at nearly 4 kilometers per second.

The cosmic collision is intentional: Mission engineers need to guide the spacecraft down because they have run out of fuel to keep themselves in lunar orbit.

The mission team decided to sacrifice the spacecraft when it ran out of fuel, rather than risk a collision with one of those potentially habitable moons and contaminating it with any still - lingering earthly microbes.

But Cassini is running out of fuel, and mission team members want to dispose of the spacecraft responsibly before it escapes their control.

TESS will take the baton from NASA's other planet - hunting spacecraft, Kepler, which is running out of fuel after almost a decade in space.