Sentences with phrase «way out of orbit»

Next year he'll be way out of orbit for us.

Not exact matches

Axiom's mix of very talented folks and our pool of capabilities put us in a unique position to help countries identify what is needed to become spacefaring, and to train their astronauts for two years or even a bit more, then fly them to orbit for extended periods of time — maybe 60 days just starting out when our module is attached to ISS all the way up to 180 days when we separate and form our own station.

Speed was vital as «Oumuamua was rapidly fading as it headed away from the Sun and past the Earth's orbit, on its way out of the Solar System.

XMM - Newton is on a distended orbit that takes it one - third of the way to the moon; this keeps it out of Earth's shadow long enough to stay pointed at — and collecting photons from — the same faint object for more than a day.

How do you figure out what powers solar flares — the intense bursts of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots — when you must rely on observing only the light and particles that make their way to near - Earth's orbit?

Crawley's subcommittee also came out strongly in favour of creating fuel depots in space as a way to facilitate exploration beyond low - Earth orbit.

After running out of fuel, and with no way to increase its altitude, MESSENGER was finally unable to resist the sun's gravitational pull on its orbit.

«However, the tenuous outer atmosphere of the sun extends a long way beyond its visible surface, and it turns out the Earth would actually be orbiting within these very low density outer layers.»

It turns out that using the Earth's orbit as a baseline is enough to determine the distance of any object in the Milky Way - even objects on the far side of the galaxy.

Since Neptune has an average orbit of 2.8 billion miles from the Sun, that is a long way out indeed; it would take this planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to complete just one orbit.

So now it would be possible, instead of landing there and building some exotic drill and declaring the whole mission way too expensive to ever do, you would build a much more modest spacecraft that would have to go the extraordinary distance out to Jupiter and get an orbit out there around Europa, but, you would have it fly through the geysers, actually the orbit would be around Jupiter, have it fly through the geysers, and like looking at bugs on the windshield.

Astronomers have traced the orbit through our Milky Way Galaxy of a voracious neutron star and a companion star it is cannibalizing, and conclude that the pair joined more than 30 million years ago and probably were catapulted out of a cluster of stars far from the Galaxy's center.

Pluto's languid 248 - year - long path tilts way out of the flattened plane in which the other planets orbit the sun.

planet A celestrial object that orbits a star, is big enough for gravity to have squashed it into a roundish ball and it must have cleared other objects out of the way in its orbital neighborhood.

Those «clouds» Magellan and his crew saw turned out to be separate «island universes,» composed of millions of stars, which orbit our own Milky Way galaxy.

Kepler was launched back in March 2009 with the prime objective of seeking out Earth - like planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way.

Shaviv, the astrophysicist, was asked by someone (a student, I think) what effect supernovas had on our planet, so as an exercise he started on it, working out the orbit of our solar system around the Milky Way center of mass, in and out of the spiral arms.

Since these can come screaming in from way out there far beyond the asteroid belt with very long orbit times, we have some chance of having short notice before a collision with a comet which has not been seen before (days, weeks, months).

The EDDE could then either fling the garbage back to Earth to land in the oceans, or push the objects into a closer orbit, which would keep them out of the way of current satellites until they decay and fall back to Earth.

Some have been way out there, such as shooting water at the debris to knock it out of orbit.

We set alarms for the morning to wake up and it proved a much more pleasant way to rise than obnoxious phone ringing — plus it served as a reminder to take the Orbit out of sleep mode.