Sentences with phrase «to reach orbit»

Name three space launch vehicles that are capable of reaching orbit during an engine out condition?

With the additional weight of the cone, the rocket couldn't reach orbit.

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

Explorer 1 encountered a major discovery before it even reached its orbit.

This mission suffered a launch vehicle failure and never reached orbit.

Hubble's renown is certainly well - deserved, but the spacecraft is aging — it will mark its 20th anniversary of reaching orbit in April.

The rocket builder's Electron vehicle reached orbit for the first time, deploying a payload of micro-satellites after launching from the company's complex on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula.

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.

The Hubble Space Telescope passed its 20th anniversary of reaching orbit on April 24, an occasion marked with the release of a new image from the venerable observatory, depicting a star - forming region of the Milky Way some 7,500 light - years away called the Carina Nebula.

The ill - fated Cosmos 1, a solar sail experiment from 2005, would've been the first to fly in space, had it actually reached orbit.

After 17 months of continuous acceleration, the probe reached an orbit so high that it overcame Earth's gravity and was captured by that of the moon.

The re-usable shuttles were the first (and still the only) spacecraft to reach orbit more than once.

When the spacecraft reached orbit, it opened the experiment's door and exposed one group of water bears to the vacuum of space, while shielding them from all radiation.

Today, all rockets are single - use and discarded once their payload reaches orbit.

During Electron's first flight test in May, the rocket was destroyed when operators lost contact with it and ended the flight before the craft reached orbit.

The main difficulty lies in designing and building a vehicle light enough and powerful enough to reach orbit with a viable payload, explains Alan Bond, one of the more persistent of the latter - day grail questers.

The first shuttle reached orbit on 12 April 1981, the 20th anniversary of Gagarin's flight, and brought the spectacular experience of spaceflight even more into the public eye.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which reached orbit around the moon last month, passed over the Sea of Tranquility on Sunday and spied the Apollo 11 lunar module descent stage, still resting on the surface.

China has disclosed the cause of the failure of the Long March 5 heavy - lift rocket last July, revealing that a turbopump exhaust issue prevented the rocket reaching orbit.

Use the planet's hills and valleys to launch yourself into deep space and hurtle through sparkling firefly clouds to reach the orbiting moons and beyond.

Falcon Heavy is due to launch its first test flight this summer and, once successful, will be the most powerful vehicle to reach orbit after the Saturn V Moon rocket.

After reaching its orbit in about two months, the telescope will start scanning nearby stars telltale dips in light that signal a passing planet.

● Responsible for any consequence if something goes wrong, including critical consequences such as people deaths (even if Ariane 5 launcher is not a manned launcher, any anomaly occurring during ascent phase, before reaching the orbit, may have critical effect in case the launcher falls down over inhabited areas) or critical impacts.

With the price split among multiple CubeSats, each experiment can reach orbit for just a few hundreds of thousands of dollars, about the same as a current piggybacking arrangement.

NOAA says it has enough money to launch the first JPSS satellite in October — but it is likely that the second JPSS probe won't reach orbit before its predecessor stops functioning.

Made of a carbon composite and tightly folded to fit into a rocket's payload bay, the wings will unfold to their full span of 33 feet once the satellite reaches its orbit 1,125 miles above Earth.

When SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket finally takes off for the first time, a debut now scheduled this fall, there's a good chance the commercial heavy - lifter will falter short of reaching orbit, company founder and chief designer Elon Musk said last week.

Based in the U.K., the firm is developing an engine to operate as a jet at take - off before transitioning to rocket power to reach orbit.

The Dream Chaser is designed to fly without a pilot during its first real flights, reach orbit some 250 miles above Earth, and help resupply the International Space Station for NASA.

«There should be absolutely zero question that SpaceX will prevail in reaching orbit and demonstrating reliable space transport,» Musk told employees after the third unsuccessful launch of Falcon 1 in 2008.

«This is the first test carrying customer payloads and we'll be monitoring everything closely as we attempt to reach orbit,» Beck said.

In May, the first Electron vehicle failed to reach orbit.

The engines shut down prematurely and the rocket fails to reach orbit.

The SpaceX Falcon 1 was the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach orbit.

A 2008 version of the probe failed to reach orbit

The telescope will launch in an Ariane 5 rocket to reach its orbit 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.

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.

There is, of course, no guarantee that Project Blue will reach orbit, operate as planned or find any planets.

But reaching orbit will require megawatt lasers; so far, the best commercial lasers used in experiments have less than one - tenth that power.

The premise is deceptively simple: the heavier the rocket or its payload, the more fuel it takes to reach orbit.

Scientists had hoped GRACE would operate until its successor, the $ 550 million GRACE Follow - on (GRACE - FO) mission, reached orbit.

It outdistanced the moon in nine hours, reached the orbit of Mars in 11 weeks and swung around Jupiter in February 2007.

On Wednesday, a Soyuz rocket failed to reach orbit, causing the Progress cargo ship it was carrying to crash in Russia's Altai region.

When it reaches an orbit that will extend almost as far as the moon, the RadioAstron mission will sync up with radio antennas on the ground, effectively forming the biggest telescope yet built, with a «dish» spanning almost 30 times the Earth's diameter.

Once OCO - 2 reaches orbit, its spectrometer will sample a column of air extending from the upper atmosphere down to Earth's surface, taking hundreds of thousands of measurements each day and covering the entire globe every 16 days.

It is a near - copy of a NASA probe that crashed in 2009 before it reached orbit, devastating the scientists who had hoped to use its data to map sources and sinks of the greenhouse gas — both man - made and natural — in unprecedented detail.

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

Every spacecraft deploys valves and other instruments using pyrotechnic mechanisms once they reach orbit, to prepare for further flight operations.