Sentence examples for exploratory flight from inspiring English sources

It's revealed to be a space-ship simulator, and Leo is training the primate, Pericles, for an exploratory flight.

This paper discusses the application of computer-assisted design systems to development of low thrust spacecraft intended to take an exploratory flight to potentially hazardous asteroids.

The results of the paper consist of a detailed three-dimensional model of the low thrust spacecraft, heliocentric trajectory of the spacecraft, the values of flight duration and propellant consumption during exploratory flight.

After participating in several air races, he made an exploratory flight to extreme altitude during which he experienced frozen flight controls, and then wrote a story about the adventure for Popular Science.

Young condors are known for their exploratory flights.

Honeybees, Apis mellifera, perform exploratory orientation flights before they start foraging in order to become familiar with the terrain.

CFD moved from an exploratory tool to a full flight physics production capability.

To reveal the structure of consecutive orientation flights and hence gain insight into exploratory behaviour, we monitored individual bees from their first flight onwards using harmonic radar technology for flight tracking.

The time to definite treatment may vary between hours as in orbital space flight, days for remote exploratory camp, weeks for polar bases and months to years for interplanetary exploration.

Because, ever since the Cold War began, the Russians send military flights up to do exploratory missions that come very close to -- and indeed even at times invade -- the airspace of the United States, over Alaskan skies.

That the fish also move during high current velocities could be viewed as exploratory behaviour, as has been seen in migratory flights in birds [8].