Sentence examples for change orbit from inspiring English sources

The space plane's engines would only be fired in space to change orbit, catch up and dock with the ISS and de-orbit before returning to Earth.

The bang bang charge control with the variable size and polarity of the charge can be used to change orbit's direction and shape.

Stable or not, HD 131399A is fascinating to astronomers in part because it helps fill in gaps in our knowledge of how planets form and change orbit.

Asteroids change orbits easily due to the gravitational pull of larger bodies in the Solar System (mainly Jupiter and Saturn) and through collisions between them.

Tracking is of great importance, these objects can change orbits with ease due to their relative low masses and the gravitational pull of planets, so constant monitoring is of essential importance and the sheer number to be tracked represents a challenge.

The simulation results show that if the payload velocity has only magnitude error, the perigees remain overlapping and the semi-major axes of the changed orbits also continue to coincide after capture; however, the changes in other orbital parameters are approximately proportional to the error.

Another method would involve striking it with missiles or employing a satellite that used gravitational pull to change the orbit.

Such a strategy would involve the use of a nonexplosive projectile sent to strike the object in a particular location at high speed to change its orbit and possibly to fragment it.

As previously stated, neither object show a change in orbit evolution which would indicate an actual collision with Hitomi.

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queen's University Belfast, UK, said: "In 2029, it will pass so close to us that Earth's gravity will change its orbit.

In addition, Krueger, principal investigator for a U.S. sensor that mapped ozone worldwide, says NASA expects to change the orbit of one of its ozone-mapping satellites so it can "take over the role of global [ozone] monitoring".