Sentence examples for main spacecraft from inspiring English sources

Together with measurements made from the main spacecraft, this will reveal life's primordial ingredients – it is hoped.

Today, the main spacecraft contributing their data are WIND, 2001 Mars Odyssey, INTEGRAL, RHESSI, Swift, MESSENGER, Suzaku, AGILE, and Fermi.

When the main spacecraft is on the opposite side of 67P from Philae, it will send a burst of radio waves down through the comet.

Once there, the main spacecraft will release a small lander, Schiaparelli, which will test heat shields and parachutes in preparation for future landings on the planet.

Partly for simplicity, partly for fiscal economy, the instruments and antenna are bolted to the main spacecraft body and not on a rotating platform.

At that point, a secondary probe named Philae will detach from the main spacecraft and descend to land on 67P's surface, another first.

The main 1,984-kg 1,984-kg 4,374-pound 4,374-poundtered a circular polar orbit roughly 100 km (60 milespacecraft

The main Hayabusa spacecraft, however, was destroyed on re-entry to the atmosphere.

Photos transmitted from the main Rosetta spacecraft shortly after it detached included a parting shot of Philae heading toward 67P, and another that shows the lander shrinking from view.

This chapter reviews the main challenges in spacecraft systems and microcontrollers verification for future missions.

Example applications include venting and plume flow environments from spacecraft main engines and attitude control thrusters firing in near-vacuum conditions.