Sentence examples for finished spacecraft from inspiring English sources

The finished spacecraft carried seven instruments, including a student-built interplanetary dust counter and a sensor to measure the energy of particles escaping from Pluto's atmosphere.

It would accept crushed nickel-rich space rock at one end and churn out finished spacecraft parts at the other.

The finished spacecraft is expected to launch on a Soyuz rocket from the Sinnamary spaceport in French Guiana sometime next year.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft had finished a 44-minute transmission to a 70-meter radio dish outside of Madrid and those data coursed through fiber optic lines, across the Atlantic Ocean, to a server at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

The probe has been in orbit around Mercury since March 2011, and its team announced Feb. 28 that the spacecraft had finished mapping the planet's surface.

On the television screen, Walter Cronkite was waiting for the astronauts to finish checking their spacecraft in preparation for their walk on the moon's surface.

These three flybys, interspersed with deep space maneuvers, finish adjusting the spacecraft motion sufficiently for Mercury orbit injection to follow in March 2011.

The New Horizons spacecraft has nearly finished its 16-month dispatches from Pluto, Nasa scientists said on Tuesday, as they unveiled new hints of clouds and the craft's next destination in the distant ring of the solar system.

But while the spacecraft themselves had finished their mission, the work was just beginning for the scientists back on Earth.

Although the spacecraft passed its review, the crew finished the meeting by presenting Joe Shea with a picture of the three of them seated around a model of the capsule, heads bowed in prayer.

Space tourism company Virgin Galactic and aerospace firm Scaled Composites plan to use it to finish building and testing spacecraft designed to take private travellers on commercial spaceflights.