Sentence examples for atmospheric descent from inspiring English sources

January 2005 the atmospheric descent probe Huygens successfully on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

The simulation of the aerothermal environment that a space vehicle experiences during the atmospheric descent is mandatory for the design of thermal shields of re-entry vehicles.

Huygens descended onto the surface of Titan on 14 January 2005, sending a flood of data during the atmospheric descent and after the landing.

For the NDP his death could signal an atmospheric descent from the historic gains of 2011 especially in regards to their leadership, which is basically going to be occupied by rookie Members of Parliament and lunatics like Thomas Mulcair who think Osama's assassination was a hoax and some girl who spent her campaign time on a Vegas vacay.

As a key technology, Mars lander guidance system is intended to serve atmospheric entry, descent and landing (EDL) phases.

Attitude dynamics data from planetary missions are reviewed to obtain a zeroth-order expectation on the tilts and angular rates to be expected on atmospheric probes during descent: these rates are a strong driver on descent imager design.

Huygens and ExoMars constitute major European milestones in the field of atmospheric entry and descent.

This paper presents a numerical simulation of the Huygens atmospheric entry and descent trajectory and the Cassini flyby trajectory during the probe mission.

We adopted only two components for Mars EDL process: a "membrane aeroshell" for the Mars atmospheric entry and descent sequence and one additional mechanism for the landing sequence.

Aerodynamic accelerations were measured during descent and atmospheric density, pressure and temperature profiles have been calculated from this data.

When monitoring for entries involving a descent into atmospheres that may be stratified, the atmospheric envelope should be tested a distance of approximately 4 feet (1.22 m) in the direction of travel and to each side.