Sentences with phrase «to get into orbit»

All of this suggests that getting into orbit around a star, preferably while a grad student or postdoc, is an increasingly important career - building strategy.

That he made it a point to seek out a crew he knew he could trust to help get him into orbit.

It contained a piece of spiritual advice that I have never forgotten: «Aim high, dear friend, while you are young or you are bound to re-enter the earth's atmosphere and break up later; get into orbit now»

Comet Hitchhiker requires a tether made from a material that can withstand the enormous tension and heat generated by a rapid decrease in speed for getting into orbit and landing.

«Dawn got into orbit shortly before 10 p.m. local time on a Friday.

With that combination, you can use faster trajectories and still get into orbit, and one could get to Uranus within five years.

There's a very, very long line of «the next» in this book's future but there's a nasty surprise in store for those who aren't aware of how this book actually gets into orbit.

They found the most mass - efficient path involves launching a crew from Earth with just enough fuel to get into orbit around Earth.

«Aha» moment: Stackpole — whose first love is telerobotics («any device you can use to see a faraway place without physically having to be there»)-- realized while at NASA that «you need a huge amount of money, if not a government, to get into orbit.»

Within a few seconds, Delta 2 was an orange glow in the sky, carrying the satellite at 16,850 mph, fast enough to escape Earth's gravity and get into orbit.

The sensor currently sits at the Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California, where researchers are trying to find a way to get it into orbit.

A concept called Comet Hitchhiker, developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, puts forth a new way to get into orbit and land on comets and asteroids, using the kinetic energy — the energy of motion — of these small bodies.

In missions that use conventional propellant, spacecraft use a lot of fuel just to accelerate enough to get into orbit.

The crew had gotten into orbit, and Voss was busy going through his prepared routine.

In deeply divided 1950s America, how did Katherine Johnson become the one person astronauts would trust to get them into orbit?

Unlike a rocket, a scramjet does not need to carry tanks of liquid oxygen, making it potentially a much cheaper way to get into orbit.

To get into orbit around Jupiter, the spacecraft had to use its main engine.

He was the backbone of the RSC for years before he got into orbit with Star Trek.