Sentence examples for massive spacecraft from inspiring English sources

One strategy is to crash a massive spacecraft into the asteroid and change its trajectory.

Such an irregular pattern might signal the leisurely and unpredictable passage of massive spacecraft in front of the star.

Its plan included the construction of a substantial in-orbit infrastructure, where massive spacecraft for lunar and Mars exploration would be assembled before departing for their final destinations.

Juno is a truly massive spacecraft, about the size of a professional basketball court and shaped something like the radiation-warning trefoil, with a hexagonal cog sitting at the junction of three arms covered in solar panels.

It is shown how, for collisional fragmentations in LEO, due to the highly stochastic evolution of the LEO environment, even the fragmentation of a massive spacecraft might not be able to alter the long term evolution of the LEO population beyond the intrinsic statistical variability associated with the Monte Carlo procedure.

NASA is also seeking ideas for how to dispose of the massive spacecraft safely once it can no longer remain in orbit.

Chinese officials are now looking to internationalize their own program by offering to help finance other countries' missions to Tiangong 2. China's space program also opened its massive fourth spacecraft launch site at Wenchang on China's southernmost island province of Hainan in June.

If the final efforts to contact the European Beagle 2 lander during the next few weeks fail, the question will become why the slimmer probe heading for perhaps the safest spot on the planet should disappear without a trace, while the more massive U.S. spacecraft, Spirit, scored an acrobatic touchdown in high winds.

On June 19 , 2011 I witnessed a massive boomerang-shaped spacecraft covered with 20 to 30 orange lights, the size of a football field, sitting motionless in the sky above a mall, roughly 500 feet in the air.

It just works for me that there's this massive and mysterious spacecraft traveling for millions upon millions of years that's suddenly occupied by dozens of seemingly unqualified personal.

NASA will be tracking the spectacular flyby with a massive fleet of spacecraft and Earth-based telescopes.