Sentence examples for nominal lifetimes from inspiring English sources

This would allow the agency to expand its activities in a number of areas, including in Earth observation where some missions have been allowed to run past their nominal lifetimes without replacements being ordered up in time to prevent data gaps.

"If you assume the satellite up there now survives only its nominal lifetime, then, yes, we probably are looking at a data gap," Dr. English said.

Mars Pathfinder was designed for a nominal lifetime of 1 month and was well into its extended mission phase.

While OCO will have a nominal lifetime of only 2 years, it will serve as a pathfinder for future long-term CO2 monitoring missions.

Oscillating between 40 and 60 km altitude, the BEV is designed to collect atmospheric data over a nominal lifetime of weeks as well as image the surface.

One such mission is ESA's 3-satellite SWARM mission, launched in November 2013 and with a nominal lifetime of 4 years, initially at altitudes of 460 and 530 km.

The maximum possible separation of 6 hrs (for two satellites or groups of satellites) is expected to be reached in mid-2017, a few months before the end of Swarm's current nominal lifetime.

In order to enable a safe disposal of the spacecraft after the end of science operations and shortening the drift time, we can either use part of the mission lifetime and the corresponding fuel, or we can add some extra amount of fuel for a disposal after the nominal lifetime scheduled.

Note that the proposed mechanism predicts that the nominal lifetime of nascent branches is the same whether we select all nascent branches or only those that terminate in diVCA release and subsequently form branches.

The nominal mission lifetime is four months.

STEP is planned to be launched by 2004, with nominal mission lifetime of 6 months.