Sentences with phrase «spacecraft separated»

The two spacecraft separated soon after launch and operated independently.

Ion propulsion provided the additional velocity needed to reach Vesta once the spacecraft separated from the Delta II Rockt.

About an hour later, the spacecraft separated completely from its launcher as planned, detaching from the rocket's third stage.

After liftoff, the company's Dragon spacecraft separated from its Falcon 9 rocket and attached to the space station on Apr. 4.

Not exact matches

On April 26, the Cassini spacecraft flew closer to Saturn than ever before — between the gap that separates the planet from its rings.

It took 10 years for the Rosetta spacecraft to reach a position near the comet so that its robot module, Philae, could then separate and make the seven - hour journey to the comet's surface.

It found spectral evidence for water in ultraviolet and infrared light measured by two separate instruments on the spacecraft.

Ideally, the Kepler team waits until the spacecraft has recorded three identical dips in brightness separated by equal intervals before concluding that they have probably found a planet.

«It will deploy from the rocket after the Orion spacecraft is separated from the upper stage.»

Essam Marouf, a planetary scientist at San José State University in California, reported on the first results from a separate radar experiment that sent radar reflections to Earth instead of back to the spacecraft.

The engineering solution may be for NeMO to use solar - electric propulsion to turn around and fly back to Earth hauling an entire separate spacecraft that carries the goods from Mars, he says, or it could tote a special - purpose entry vehicle that's topped off with Mars regolith and rock for drop - off here at home.

Others have suggested that returning Mars samples would require an entirely separate spacecraft, or series of spacecraft, on the order of a «flagship mission» costing around $ 2 billion.

Three separate spacecraft, flying millions of kilometers apart from each other at the vertices of a giant triangle, would precisely measure their mutual separations using sensitive lasers, and thus be capable of detecting low - frequency ripples in spacetime.

Applause burst out in the ESA control room upon receiving confirmation that Philae had indeed separated from the Rosetta spacecraft.

The Dragon spacecraft, making the company's third operational cargo mission to the station, separated from its Falcon 9 second stage as planned and deployed its twin solar arrays on time.

Three hours earlier, the capsule, which should contain the samples from the asteroid Itokawa, had separated from the spacecraft to begin its slower descent to the surface.

In a new type of collaborative study, scientists combined data from 16 separate NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) spacecraft to understand how a particle phenomenon in the magnetic environment around Earth occurs.

The pyrotechnic devices designed to separate it from Mars Express could fail, in which case the spacecraft itself would be too heavy to achieve its intended orbit, and the whole mission would fail.

The spacecraft found another surprising feature: Pluto's atmosphere is separated into about 20 distinct haze layers.

The Beagle 2 lander, which has not yet been attached to the spacecraft, is a big worry because if it fails to separate from the orbiter as the package approaches Mars, both will be lost.

Protective covers and the explosive bolts used to separate them from uncrewed spacecraft have also been left to float away, along with a few lens caps for good measure.

At the moment, Kaiser says, the trailing STEREO orbiter sees areas of the sun that will be visible from Earth in about three days, but in two years» time the twin spacecraft will be separated by 180 degrees, allowing simultaneous observation of the entire sun for the first time.

Three scientific spacecraft hurtling away from the Earth on separate missions are being used as a gigantic detector that spans a large part of the Solar System.

In that case we need enough plutonium to power two spacecraft, and one has to either increase the planned production rate (which costs more), or separate the launches by several years

Of course, from a scientific point of view, it doesn't matter if the two spacecraft are launched together on a single vehicle or launched a few years apart on separate boosters, so one can let cost and programmatic considerations decide whether or not to use SLS.

The spacecraft will be outfitted with 34 separate telescopes and cameras, which will observe up to a million stars.

That includes the cost of developing two new launch vehicles from scratch (Falcon 1 and Falcon 9), developing the Dragon spacecraft, conducting seven launches, including an orbital test flight of Dragon, and building out the infrastructure for two separate launch sites.

The spacecraft would then be maneuvered 180 degrees and separated from the rocket's third stage.

Over at The Planetary Society, Emily Lakdawalla highlighted an image taken by the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn separate from its rings.

Now, using two separate sets of data sent back by the Cluster spacecraft, an international team of scientists has been able to probe this turbulence in more detail and at smaller scales than ever before observed.

Information on the health and position of the spacecraft is included in a separate data stream.

SIM and TIM could be on separate spacecraft from ERBS since they are Sun pointing.