Sentence examples for afternoon orbit from inspiring English sources

OLR generated from CrIS on the afternoon orbit could provide a backup in the event of ERBS's failure.

The U.S. military DMSP program covers the so-called morning orbit, DMSP and European crafts share coverage of the midday orbit, and NPP and JPSS-1 cover the afternoon orbit.

EPS, as the European contribution to the US/European Initial Joint Polar System (IJPS), will deliver imagery and soundings from the morning orbit, while the NOAA Polar-orbiting OPOES and Defense Meteorological Satellite Programense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) systems will continue to cover the afternoon orbit.

For the areal-average, a coefficient of correlation (R) of ∼0.61 and ∼0.72 for the morning and afternoon orbits, respectively, and a centered root mean square difference (cRMSD) of ∼0.04 m3 m−3 for both orbits was obtained.

The satellite circles the Earth four times in six hours, but none of the Friday afternoon orbits pass over North America.

Its re-entry module is scheduled to return to Earth at a desert in Inner Mongolia on Sunday afternoon after orbiting the planet 13 times.

On the other hand, when k is greater than one, the range of allowed angles increases, corresponding to an attractive force (green, cyan and blue curves on left in Figure 7); the orbit of the particle can even wrap around the center several times.

After roaming the solar system for 4 years in pursuit of the asteroid Eros, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft this morning slipped into orbit around the largest of the near-Earth asteroids.

The first flight of a privately developed rocket that may eventually carry NASA astronauts to space took off Friday afternoon and reached orbit in what appeared to be a nearly flawless trip.

And as I drove, I began to think about the morning star's orbit around the sun.

Then a 26-minute firing on Wednesday night lowered the orbit to 155 miles and let engineers fine-tune their projections for the spacecraft's terminal dive into the atmosphere.