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Sentence Examples Orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft is set to release a probe that will travel to one of the planet's moons, Titan. Those objects that pose a threat will have their orbits altered by spacecraft made on the Moon. This will put the spacecraft into an orbit that is less than 200 miles above the surface. The concern is that the gravitational tug of Jupiter could alter the orbit of the spacecraft and cause it to hit Europa or another moon. During 6 of the 16 daily orbits, the Foton spacecraft will be in a suitable orbital position for Kiruna to receive signals from it. Integrating spacecraft is not an easy task, and it is easier to do it on the ground than in orbit. The public has an unprecedented opportunity to suggest places on Mars that should be photographed from a spacecraft orbiting that planet. If successful, the van-sized spacecraft will orbit the planet 640 km over our heads. In 1994, the SDI-NASA Clementine spacecraft orbited the Moon and mapped its surface. Probes that orbit the planet have studied Mars and some spacecraft have even landed on it. Prior to the final touch down, the spacecraft shuts down the propulsion engine and enters into a free fall descent. Because most meteors in a shower are tiny, there is little threat to spacecraft, and virtually none to people on the ground. The International Space Station requires far more specialized modular construction than any previous spacecraft. The firing of the main engine will brake the spacecraft, slowing and curving its trajectory into an egg-shaped orbit around the planet. The launch of the spacecraft was aborted yesterday just 20 seconds before blast-off. They conducted all operational and scientific activities aboard the spacecraft. Modern interplanetary spacecraft explore their target planets and moons with the aid of robots, and these robots are also becoming very small. Electromagnetic propulsion could take us to the heliopause at a speed unachievable by conventional spacecraft. Sharipov undocked the spacecraft manually as a precautionary measure to conserve energy. The spacecraft went into a sleep mode and was later reawakened by ground controllers as a final test of its on-board software. Show More Sentences Most NASA spacecraft rely on some form of chemical propellant to push themselves through space. In the first scenario, personal spaceflight will use lower-cost versions of classic boosters and spacecraft. The next spacecraft heading to Mars will not have the necessary equipment to do the follow-up methane studies, Mumma said. Astronauts sealed in a spacecraft or space station need a continuous supply of oxygen. The cornerstone mission for Prometheus is a spacecraft descriptively, if unpoetically, called Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter. It also allows unmanned spacecraft to handle unpredicted events in real time, without waiting for ground control to tell them what to do. Throughout all the fuss and bother, the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has been quietly going about its work of photographing the entire planet. In an unshielded spacecraft, both types of radiation would result in significant health problems, or death, to the crew. The smaller telescope has a wider viewing angle, and will be more useful for navigating the spacecraft to its destination. As the ribbon begins to unspool, the spacecraft, which acts like a counterweight, is moved outward. Until the task is taken seriously, Pluto will remain the only planet unvisited by a spacecraft. The Voyager spacecraft carried a laser disc of Bulgarian folk music to show aliens what life is like on earth. The United States is also planning on launching a lunar spacecraft a few years later. Its engineers warned that ice from the shuttle or the launch platform could fall and damage the spacecraft. Saturn is to be visited by the Cassini spacecraft in the middle of this year, so keep your eye on it. Galileo is the first spacecraft to fly by an asteroid and the first to discover a moon of an asteroid. It is rare to have an opportunity to study a small body up close without sending a spacecraft to it. The spacecraft then will be ready to serve the scientific community for years to come. If all goes well, Messenger will be the first spacecraft to orbit that planet. The experiment will be performed on board the Soyuz spacecraft by the Italian astronaut. Show More Sentences A spacecraft would also have to be designed form scratch and built in under a year. The operations team came up with a plan to roll the spacecraft and warm the hinges with the Sun. In 1993, Nasa's Observer spacecraft vanished three days before it was due to enter orbit. The spacecraft may tell us more about comets and their place in the solar system. Once it is safely in orbit around the ringed planet, the spacecraft can begin to do its real work. The first extreme condition a spacecraft has to deal with is that of launch. During the first 30 years of space flight, few operators disposed of their spacecraft in a controlled way. This means that nuclear spaceships could travel twice as fast as our current chemical spacecraft. The space station is now the most complex and powerful spacecraft ever built. To test the spacecraft and our spacesuits, we spent two days in Baikonur with a large group of engineers, trainers and officials. Fourteen spacecraft have visited the International Space Station in the past 12 months, including four different types of space vehicles. Venus Express will be the first spacecraft to perform a global investigation of the Venusian atmosphere. It had dinged and dented spacecraft from day one, a maintenance headache, but not seen as a real threat. In 1986, ESA's Giotto spacecraft performed the closest comet fly-by ever achieved by any spacecraft. The Galileo unmanned spacecraft is about to conclude a 14-year voyage of exploration to Jupiter and its moons. Nuclear energy remains an attractive potential means of propulsion for future spacecraft. The Cassini spacecraft stands more than 6.7 metres high and is more than 4 metres wide. Congress, in its collective ham-fisted oafishness, dictated that the government place restrictions on access to spacecraft tracking information. This controversy continued until the 1960s when spacecraft exploration of the planet showed no evidence of the canals. Solar sails will use the sun's energy to propel spacecraft across the cosmos. Show More Sentences This mission is well beyond the capability of conventional chemically powered spacecraft. After 398 million km, the spacecraft fired its engines and slowed down enough to be captured by the Martian gravity. The most distinctive feature of the spacecraft is a large, highly reflective, heat-resistant sunshade attached to the front on a titanium frame. These compounds are used to make high-speed tools, military aircraft and spacecraft, heat shields, and specialized heat-resistant fibers. The orbiter spacecraft will send Beagle 2 spinning towards the planet on a precise trajectory. In other instances, an orbiter or a spacecraft on a flyby mission may have already taken photographs of a moon or planet. In a small side article, she notes that NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has passed the heliopause, the outermost edge of our solar system. There are only a few people who can say that they originated the idea to send a European spacecraft to Mars. Pioneer 10 and 11 were the first spacecraft to venture beyond the asteroid belt into the realm of the outer planets. What kinds of unusual economic trade-offs will future suborbital and orbital spacecraft create? A key element of the mission would be the hi-tech electric propulsion system used to power the spacecraft, said Dr Walker. This will be the first time lunar swingbys have been used to manipulate orbits of more than one spacecraft. For example, synchrotrons, cyclotrons, linear accelerators and interplanetary spacecraft all cost too much for single investigators. Many believe nuclear-powered spacecraft can and should be built, but first many technical problems and other hurdles must be overcome. I've restricted it to spacecraft carrying useful payloads that actually flew. The Deep Impact flyby spacecraft will have a ringside seat at the creation of an impact crater on a comet. Dozens of comets are discovered each year as well, many by automated telescopes and spacecraft. When the targets were favorably located under the orbit, the spacecraft was reoriented. An orbiter allows for a longer, more complete look at a planet but requires an engine and fuel to slow the spacecraft and insert it into orbit. For example, consider the task of inserting a spacecraft into orbit around a planet. Show More Sentences He is an expert in spacecraft instrumentation, and environmental sensors, and has published more than 150 papers. A future mission should treat a Mars lander as an integral part of the whole spacecraft rather than one of its instruments, the report said. It might well be that the first genuinely emotional computers are games consoles rather than spacecraft. Much like a ship in international waters, spacecraft can go anywhere at any time, but space has no shores to impede travel. Its principal responsibilities are to support interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations. Rutan said the spacecraft would be safer than early commercial airline travel, and flights would not be limited to the young and superfit. Cassini was on a flight path that took the spacecraft away from the planet and farther south, so that the rings appear to tilt upward. The flight path was designed for the spacecraft to leave Earth and travel to orbit the Lagrange point. The idea is that there are huge derelict spacecraft floating about that are infested with nasty aliens. The energetic particles floating in the space around Earth also can damage spacecraft without causing immediate catastrophic failures. Soyuz vehicles will launch both spacecraft from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Today the crew of each launched spacecraft is composed of astronauts or cosmonauts drawn from these categories. The first privately funded spacecraft lifts off from an airstrip in the Mojave Desert. Flight controllers also tested a new maneuvering technique called aerobraking, which uses a planet's atmosphere to slow a spacecraft. If the planet has an atmosphere, it can be used for aerobraking to slow down the spacecraft, and this has been done at Mars. During that flight, Leonov performed the first space walk, leaving the spacecraft through an inflatable airlock for several minutes. Since January, eight spacecraft were deployed on seven expendable launch vehicles. But the main purpose of this spacecraft will be to carry astronauts beyond our orbit to other worlds. Because a spacecraft is unable to carry much fuel and cannot refuel in-flight, other routes to autonomy have had to be explored. One third accepted lucky numbers and 30 percent felt that some UFOs were alien spacecraft. Show More Sentences As stated above, he claims that there is a tunnel on the Moon through which alien spacecraft can pass. Darryl said he wouldn't be surprised if they also found an alien spacecraft in that cave. As the parachute shot out from the top of the spacecraft, the aerobrake was released to fall freely to the surface of Mars. Each one was part of a lunar landing mission during which two American astronauts landed a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. In there, you have to pay close attention to how you simulate landing a Soyuz spacecraft. This set includes toy models of Sojourner, the Pathfinder spacecraft, and a lander. This smart software can be used on all kinds of spacecraft, including orbiters, landers and rovers. A traditional chemical rocket would launch the spacecraft out of Earth orbit. This was followed by a simulated separation of the spacecraft from the launcher. Rocketry engineers will design launchers and spacecraft aimed at making space travel inexpensive and routine. Unreliable launchers and passenger carrier spacecraft are more likely to be lost. The first launch of any new rocket is risky and few companies will want to put their very expensive new spacecraft on an untried launch vehicle. However, launch vehicle and spacecraft representatives will be available afterward to informally answer questions from the media. The launch vehicle pushes the spacecraft onto a heading that pushes it in the direction of a final destination. Both proposals are for complete missions, including launch vehicle, spacecraft and science instrument payload. They take his body aboard their spacecraft and proceed to try to resuscitate him, completely unaware of who he is. Some sensors for recording the temperatures in the hydraulic systems on the left-hand side of the spacecraft go offline. To this day, Russian spacecraft tend to use separate antennas for each communications function. This creates increased atmospheric drag on spacecraft in low orbits, shortening their orbital lifetime. No other robotic spacecraft has ever collected extraterrestrial material and returned it to Earth. Show More Sentences Further, would not the lack of sunshine or the outdoors make one antsy when confined aboard a cramped spacecraft? The spacecraft began its journey to the ringed world nearly seven years ago. To reach Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the spacecraft needs to go out into deep space as far out from the Sun as Jupiter. These spacecraft scooped up mush and dirt and analysed it for biological activity. Mir, their last, was modular and had space for up to six cosmonauts and six ports for docking spacecraft or other modules. The launching rockets were mainly used to place government spacecraft into Earth orbit or towards the Moon or other planets. Then 50 minutes after takeoff, the spacecraft separated from White Knight and rocketed into the stratosphere. This allows the spacecraft to pass over different regions of Earth at the same local time. Activists are up in arms over a Bush proposal to allow nuclear reactors in spacecraft. It will be the second time American astronauts return to Earth in a Soyuz spacecraft. We can picture exactly what he meant because we have now seen film of astronauts orbiting the Earth in spacecraft. How much food do we need to have on the spacecraft for the astronauts to go to Mars? It was also the first time that US astronauts had returned from space in a Soyuz spacecraft. The active breathing environment in a spacecraft cabin contains ten times more carbon dioxide than the atmosphere on Earth. So far, studies of relativity have yielded atomic clocks, guidance systems for spacecraft, and the Global Positioning System. It is important to fully understand the effect a liquid's movement can have on the attitude control of these spacecraft. However, the production of radioactive waste would pose a problem for sending manned missions on nuclear spacecraft rather than robotic probes. In 2004 a probe from the Cassini spacecraft will be dropped into Titan's chilly clouds for the first close-up glimpse of this oddball moon. A number of experimental methods of spacecraft propulsion are based on magnetohydrodynamic principles. These voltages would also explain the radio emission from energetic electrons observed near Jupiter by the Ulysses spacecraft. Show More Sentences The Huygens probe has travelled 789 million miles to the Saturnian system tethered to the Cassini spacecraft. It is another spacecraft, an interstellar explorer that charted the Tau Ceti and Epsilon Indi systems in the mid-twenty-second century. Since there are no fuel tanks, the systems allow designers to get around the need to put complex tank venting systems on their spacecraft. Ninety minutes after the launch a second burn will send the spacecraft on its way to Mars. Since orbit insertion, the spacecraft has been spinning at the slow rate of 1 revolution every 3 minutes. Were it not for the engine burn, the spacecraft would have accelerated far more and continued on to the outer reaches of the Solar System. There, the rockets will link up, creating an 80-ton spacecraft that will ascend to 22,000 miles and lock into geosynchronous orbit. During a space mission, astronauts and their spacecraft are exposed to temperature extremes on both ends of the scale. The spacecraft drifted about 200 meters away from the stage before starting a series of maneuvers. This was done first through telescopic measurements and early spacecraft fly-bys. Those on board the spacecraft were doing research work for the benefit of mankind. Leaders in Beijing have ordered that the safety of astronauts be ensured first when launching a manned spacecraft, the newspaper said. Developing a new manned spacecraft in addition to larger launch vehicles becomes an expensive proposition. In addition, they will also have to operate a manned spacecraft for at least a week. By early 1966 the Soviets had not launched a single manned spacecraft in a year. Yet his latest journey was uniquely significant, because he was on his way to see his colleagues send China's first manned spacecraft into orbit. One way is to travel to the planets, either with remotely operated probes or with manned spacecraft. The downside was that a geocentric orbit placed the spacecraft in a more severe space environment. For example, spacecraft, aircraft, and submarines have sealed pressure vessels that operate in hazardous environments. Every customer will be helping the development of a new generation of spacecraft. Show More Sentences The rumbling of a crashing spacecraft was heard and the deafening noise stopped the argument. In practice, the spacecraft deviated significantly even from predicted orbits that took into account the gravitational forces of the mascons. The new design is an improvement over current thermoelectric devices used for the generation of electricity aboard spacecraft. All in the name of testing new materials for things like planes and spacecraft. The spacecraft, now in a prelaunch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, California, remains true to the original concept. Ion propulsion is a method of propulsion that uses electrical rather than chemical forces to generate thrust for a spacecraft. These thrusters allowed the spacecraft to modify their orbits with less propellant than is the case with chemical engines. Using small thrusters, the spacecraft will rotate so that the solar panels are oriented perpendicular to the Sun. The Busek Company will provide a set of miniature ion thrusters capable of controlling spacecraft position with extremely fine precision. The long-lived spacecraft keeps itself pointed correctly by firing small thrusters fueled by hydrazine gas. After that, the main thruster will give the spacecraft a push in the new direction. Other features, such as a telescope and finely tuned thrusters, enable the spacecraft to stay exactly oriented on a distant star. Another application is analysis of plume impingement, the effects of firing of thrusters by one spacecraft on another spacecraft nearby. They has previously used nuclear energy to power spacecraft but never in a propulsion system. The spacecraft will blast off on 26 October on a journey that will take it approximately five months. It will investigate fluid physics in microgravity to understand how propellant-tank sloshing affects spacecraft control. At first no one thought the spacecraft had even touched down and that's what was reported globally. What remains of the balloon after burst is dragged earthward by the descending near spacecraft. Its algorithms could mine spacecraft data sets after a mission is over to seek out additional interesting observations. The spacecraft breaks out of Earth's orbit and establishes a translunar trajectory, or path toward the Moon. Show More Sentences From Earth a signal with a very precise frequency is transmitted to the spacecraft, and a transponder aboard the spacecraft sends it back. All spacecraft carry a radio transmitter, used for transmitting both data about the spacecraft itself and about the scientific measurements. New satellites and spacecraft would carry transponders similar to the devices carried by modern aircraft. By the way, a spacecraft orbiting Earth is in free fall as are all objects inside the craft. Yoder's group made the bulge measurements by monitoring the motion of the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft as it orbited the planet over the past 3 years. A more sophisticated argument pits robots against manned spacecraft. The inner workings of alien spacecraft are at last revealed! Some believe that the crop designs are messages from alien spacecraft. Its last assignment was to find the heliopause, where the solar wind is offset by the galactic wind, but in April 1997 it was passed by a younger, faster Voyager spacecraft. Jess spent the weekend acting like an abductee in an alien spacecraft. A psychologist offers an overview of humans in space, covering such topics as motives for leaving Earth, group dynamics, and habitability of spacecraft. In free fall everything is falling at the same rate and is in a weightless state, so the air is of equal density everywhere on board the spacecraft. It will rotate gradually by about 180 degrees, over 10 minutes, so that the thrusters are pointed in the same direction that the spacecraft is moving. Flight has a background in aeronautics and astronautics and a good knowledge of all the spacecraft systems and the extensive and complex objectives of the mission. They belong to the Kreutz family of sun-grazing comets, often seen by the SOHO spacecraft while diving towards their final rendezvous with the Sun. Moreover, while China has discussed developing a rudimentary space station, there is no evidence of the development of spacecraft, like landers, needed for lunar missions. The current controversy concerning Cassini's upcoming Earth swingby centers on the risk of the spacecraft accidentally re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. Under the right conditions, these charged particles in the vicinity of the spacecraft have caused massive electrical short circuits in spacecraft hardware. Two antennas will allow the spacecraft to communicate with Earth in any configuration, always having the side hosting delicate instruments away from the Sun. The PAD Project is a pathfinder for integrating a crew escape capability into spacecraft design, something that has not been done since the Apollo program. Show More Sentences One U.S. team propelled a spacecraft to 68,000 feet, or about 13 miles. These clamps are extra attachments that ensure the lander stays perfectly fixed to the spacecraft during the launch and is not affected by launch vibrations. Instead, we need to develop a new generation of launch systems where the launcher remains on the ground so the spacecraft is almost all payload, not propellant. Of particular interest to me was his discussion of the chaotic motion of the planetary orbits and of the slingshot effect that can give spacecraft a planetary boost. The signals were picked up late yesterday after an all-day search for the spacecraft, which had suddenly stopped communicating after its launch, the US scientists had said. By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy. The spacecraft becomes fully automated after injection into orbit. Spacecraft orbiting Earth can be found in several different types of orbits based on their altitude and orientation. It will be the first spacecraft to orbit a comet's nucleus, allowing its instruments to follow the development of the active areas that eject the meteoritic dust into space. Vowing to get the little pisher back, they resort to exploiting Cartman's recent rendezvous with a spacecraft to contact the creatures and save Kyle's sibling. The spacecraft also examined the properties of the Venusian atmosphere in ultra-violet light and measured how radio beams are deflected by the clouds. The discoveries may eventually lead to microscopic computers and ultra-precise gyroscopes that could dramatically improve aircraft guidance and spacecraft navigation. When the spacecraft Deep Space 1 flew past the asteroid Braille in July 1999, it was too far away from earth for ground control to direct all its movements. In a matter of hours or days it is possible to travel from one star system to another by creating a warp field that allows a spacecraft to slip into subspace. Orion was originally designed as an interplanetary spacecraft for missions to the Moon or Mars, but the design was adapted for interstellar travel. Some are impacts from micrometeorites coming from the birth of the Solar System, and some can be attributed to paint flakes from spacecraft or other space debris. Generally a spacecraft is first placed in an Earth parking orbit, and from there is given another boost to give it the appropriate interplanetary trajectory. Mankind has never built a spacecraft of this shape, and I am moved anew when I realize that this very shape foreruns the form of future sample return spacecrafts. I can only assume, based on our limited understanding of space and time, that the intense gravity of the black hole caused the spacecraft to be thrust back in time. Spacecraft that visit Jupiter must be designed to remain unaffected by this powerful magnetic field. Show More Sentences Scientists suspect that the final rocket burn sent the spacecraft slightly off course, so that although it made it into orbit, it is not in the orbit they expected. Side A starts out with sputters and belches and general electronic fuzz, like a spacecraft trying to turn over, but ultimately stalled in space's void. If successful, Stardust will become only the third spacecraft to capture such a close view of the dark heart of a comet, normally obscured by a bright veil of dust and gas. Yes, the spacecraft returned and he was given information concerning the alien planet with its exceptionally high level of scientific and technical achievement. The fly-by spacecraft will observe the effects of the collision. The newly designed system now enables the spacecraft to turn away from the Earth, using precision sun sensors and gyroscopes to navigate its way to geostationary orbit. These radiation belts surround the Earth with a stormy environment of energetic particles that could affect the electronic systems and computers on board the spacecraft. High-resolution pictures from the Mars Express spacecraft also suggested the Olympus Mons volcano on the planet's equator may have an icecap made of water. Note that the rest of the Galileo spacecraft was completely destroyed when it recently crashed into Jupiter's atmosphere because it lacked a heat shield. During its life a total of forty-six missions were made by the United States and Russia to Mir, including the missions to bring more modules to the spacecraft. Possible applications are envisaged as a means to return equipment and experiments from the International Space Station, or to accommodate probes on spacecraft to Mars. The HST images were obtained during a campaign by the Cassini spacecraft to measure the solar wind approaching Saturn and the Saturn kilometric emissions. In the demo, you are placed behind the controls of two different spacecraft, a light and nimble fighter and a large, cumbersome but powerful gunship. Spacecraft have flown by every major planet, and most of their important moons, in the solar system. After its initial rendezvous, the spacecraft will spend five months near the asteroid named after the late rocketeer Hideo Itokawa, father of Japan's space program. Either the eyewitness saw an alien spacecraft or he's a liar. The engineers will be working for the next few months to analyze the performance of the heat shield that protected the spacecraft as it slammed into Mars' atmosphere. It is logical to assume that understanding the solar system environment is just as important to the vision as building the next generation of manned spacecraft. The spacecraft had hopped aboard the interplanetary superhighway, a network of tubes criss-crossing through the solar system. The ATV would form the basis of a propulsion unit for NASA's new manned spacecraft. Show More Sentences The TROY spacecraft will consist of an unmanned Precursor mission, which will consist of an Earth Departure Stage, and a Mars Transfer Stage. There are also ferry vehicles designed to transfer crew members to and from the base to the orbiting manned spacecraft. There will be three Precursor spacecraft to Mars to set up three bases on the planet to enable maximum exploration of the planet's surface. The Manned spacecraft will consist of 3 habitation modules, 3 docking ports, and two ferry vehicles. The spacecraft will rotate along the centerline to provide artificial gravity. The crew will return to Martian orbit with the ferry vehicle and rendezvous and dock with the orbiting Manned spacecraft. After a detailed inspection of the vehicle, the spacecraft will leave Mars for Earth on the Earth Return Stage. Construction of the spacecraft will take place at the Orbital Base Station inside the cylindrical structure. Because the spacecraft is of highly modular design, the components will be brought up by the Skylon spacecraft. It has the ability to dock with orbiting spacecraft and move payload in orbit. For instance, spacecraft use a variation of the Euler method to approximate curved courses within zero gravity environments. Another moon, discovered in 1985 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, has been named Puck. Lockheed Martin's Orion spacecraft will use a glass cockpit derived from Honeywell International's 787 flight deck systems. In 1967, McDonnell and Douglas merged and jointly developed jet aircraft, missiles and spacecraft. Apart from the slightly high temperature, all the readings from the spacecraft are nominal. The NASA Kepler spacecraft data revealed a large number of multimode nonradially pulsating gamma Dor and delta Sct variable star candidates. It is a heat source in radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which are used to power some spacecraft. The twin Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977, each containing a 500 watt plutonium power source. Over 30 years later, each source is still producing about 300 watts which allows limited operation of each spacecraft. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain. Show More Sentences The spacecraft broadcast ionospheric model parameters, but some errors remain. At the end of the show, Rory showed that his black cab had been mounted on a plinth beside the Buran spacecraft at the cosmodrome. However, in the case of large changes of momentum, such as a spacecraft being launched into orbit, the effect becomes significant. The NASA Paresev Rogallo flexible wing was originally developed to investigate alternative methods of recovering spacecraft. Lifting bodies were a major area of research in the 1960s and 1970s as a means to build a small and lightweight manned spacecraft. The most advanced examples perform routinely on spacecraft and aircraft in demanding environments. It is widely used in solar panel substrates, antenna reflectors and yokes of spacecraft. Ukraine produces nearly all types of transportation vehicles and spacecraft. Between 1991 and 2007, Ukraine has launched six self made satellites and 101 launch vehicles, and continues to design spacecraft. A variation on terrestrial celestial navigation was used to help orient the Apollo spacecraft en route to and from the Moon. To this day, space missions, such as the Mars Exploration Rover use star trackers to determine the attitude of the spacecraft. The name of the Space Shuttle Endeavour has a u in it as the spacecraft was named after Captain James Cook's ship, HMS Endeavour. The relative strengths of the various torques will depend on both the spacecraft environment and the form and structure of the spacecraft itself. Radio silence between Earth and the spacecraft began last night as the vessel will now be too busy utilising its only chance to gather data. The DSCOVR spacecraft orbits around the L1 Lagrange point directly between Earth and the sun. In 1977 cosmonauts on the Russian spacecraft Salyut 6 broke the endurance record set by which American spacecraft? Many monpropellant and bipropellant systems are also provided by Aerojet for rockets, satellites and other spacecraft. After a record 84 days in orbit, the crew of the spacecraft Skylab 4 return to Earth. The 18,000-pound mockup is a full-sized replica of the Orion spacecraft currently being built at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. In an earlier solar cycle, she said, small rocket thrusters on one satellite suddenly started firing, sending a spacecraft out of position. Show More Sentences Other options that have been proposed include using clouds of tiny spacecraft, or solar sails that would tug an asteroid out of harm's way. For Ellipso 2G, MCHI plans to launch and operate 26 non-geostationary spacecraft arrayed in five orbital planes in two subconstellations. But the impenetrable barrier seen by the twin Van Allen belt spacecraft stops the electrons before they get that far, said Baker. Upon separation from the Atlas booster, Centaur will carry the spacecraft to a 19,409-nmi geosynchronous transfer orbit. The radar was obtained using NASA's 70 meters Goldstone antenna, the same antenna used for communicating with spacecraft in deep space. The picture was made by rolling the entire spacecraft, adjusting its rotation rate to match the ground speed under the camera. Last November, Russia launched the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft to explore Phobos, one of Mars's two moons. The spacecraft also made the first detection of magnesium in Mercury's thin atmosphere, known as an exosphere. Unlike most spacecraft, which use thrusters to adjust their orbits, it has a highly efficient propulsion system called an ion engine. So-called killer electrons, which are charged particles revved up to energies greater than 1 million electronvolts, punch through the skin of spacecraft. Events this year include commanding the spacecraft out of hibernation mode, a complete system health checkout, and an Earth flyby for a gravity assist to Comet Boethin. The Van Allen belts can pose a severe danger to satellites and spacecraft, with hazards ranging from minor anomalies to the complete failure of critical satellites. A 10-minute drive away is the Cosmosphere, a brilliant interactive space museum with one of the largest collections of artefacts and spacecraft in the world. Chapter 7 reviews the many important and critical contributions of Ary Stemfeld to spacecraft trajectories and maneuvers, a major area of modern cosmonautics. The spacecraft will make a comprehensive study of the solar wind, utilizing dual lunar swingby orbits to sample regions close to and farther away from the Earth. By 1960, NASA had sketched the outline for a decadelong effort toward unmanned and then manned lunar explorations, as well as sending spacecraft to Venus and Mars. The IMBU shall be implemented as a flexible system that can be easily reconfigured for testing the ground station to spacecraft communications interfacing at different levels. A recent Nasa paper suggested that the spacecraft was still in a transition zone between the sun's sphere of influence and the rest of the Milky Way. The primary mission of all human space flight is getting the crew back alive, and so we burden the spacecraft with life-support equipment and we limit where it can go. 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