Sentence examples for a lunar trajectory from inspiring English sources
In the method ultimately employed, a powerful launch vehicle (Saturn V rocket) placed a 50-ton spacecraft in a lunar trajectory.
Apollo 8 carried out the first step of manned lunar exploration; from Earth orbit it was injected into a lunar trajectory, completed lunar orbit, and returned safely to Earth.
When a flight time of less than half of a month is desired, a trajectory from the north celestial pole should be selected as a lunar approach trajectory for CHANG'E-3.
The design of a lunar landing trajectory which satisfies certain constraints is considered and discussed.
We identified the stable trajectories, and the escape and capture trajectories through the L1 and L2 in plots of the eccentricity versus the semi-major axis as a function of the time that the energy of the osculating lunar trajectory in the two-body Moon particle problem remains negative.
As Orion jets toward to the moon, it will deploy 13 CubeSats somewhere in trans-lunar trajectory so that what they collect is new and unique.
Potential impact trajectories for a lunar CubeSat impactor mission are designed and analyzed under the condition that only a small delta-V from the mechanical separation mechanism from the mother-ship is available.
Based on the normal trajectory and satellite state at the end of the CHANG'E-5T1 mission, a lunar return and a flight in the lunar libration orbit were determined to be the flight goals of the extended mission.
Seven distinct options are identified, and lead to placing the spacecraft into the final disposal orbit, which is either (a) a lunar capture orbit, (b) a lunar impact trajectory, (c) a stable lunar periodic orbit, or (d) an outer orbit, never approaching the Earth or the Moon.
After a discussion of the characteristics of lunar flight trajectory, a method of designing standard flight trajectory is suggested that satisfies the constraints.
This paper focuses primarily on the trajectory design and orbital launch window generation for a lunar probe that are consistent with the constraints imposed by third phase of lunar exploration.
