Sentence examples for lunar space from inspiring English sources
A lunar space lift, by contrast, would have only the moon's weak gravity to contend with.
Especially in view of China's achievements, the lunar space station should be an international program.
It provided the tethers supporting NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers as they dropped by parachute to the plains of Mars.At the conference, a group called LiftPort announced it is planning a pilot study of a lunar space lift.
The simplest technically realizable architecture for the first generation of the LORD instrument, disposed on a standard lunar space platform designed by Lavochkin association, is elaborated.
Korea is planning a series of lunar space programs in 2020 starting with a lunar orbiter and a lander with a rover.
For the moment, Chinas space program seems to be an effort to get a technological leg up on nations like Japan, which launched a lunar space probe last year, and India, which plans to do the same thing soon.
IN THE past year commercial space start-ups have proposed everything from asteroid mining and lunar space-elevators to home-made satellites and private moonshots.
The mission will serve as a technology demonstrator not only for autonomous tele-operations in cis-lunar space but also for key enabling technologies for future human surface missions.
This contribution deals with the conceptual design of cis-lunar space missions and presents results based on analytic analysis as well as numerical trajectory computation taking gravitational perturbations of multiple celestial bodies into account.
This paper details a conceptual end-to-end architecture for an exploration mission in cis-lunar space with a focus on human-robot interactions, called Human Assisted Robotic Vehicle Studies (HARVeSt).
"The best way for NASA to reach both its asteroid goal and to launch humans into trans-lunar space -- beyond the moon -- is to use a robot spacecraft to retrieve and return to a safe lunar orbit a small, 500-ton asteroid," former astronaut Tom Jones, author of the upcoming book "Mission: Asteroid," told Space .com
