Sentence examples for off the orbiting from inspiring English sources

As sunlight bounced off the orbiting boulders, photons provided a tiny push.

A trade-off on the orbit amplitude, asteroid diameter to be detected, and the constellation size is performed considering current visible sensor telescope technology.

More precisely, we consider two successive orbit segments denoted as u ON and u OFF, during which current is injected ( I app > 0 ) and during which it is not ( I app = 0 ), respectively; the concatenation of the two orbit segments u ON and u OFF gives the orbit segment that characterises the solution of interest.

Robots despatched to Mars deep in the 2020s would then pick up this cache, blast it off the surface into orbit before next routing it back to Earth.

Unfortunately, it seems that its great strength comes from its great density; being the next densest thing after black holes (and CrunchGear Editor John Biggs), the amount it would take to make a desk would probably throw off the Earth's orbit.

Besides education, a main goal of the UNISAT program is testing in orbit commercial off-the-shelf components, which allow to keep the program cost low and compatible with the University research budget.

If the cast-off star remains gravitationally bound to the other two as with Alpha Centauri a wide binary results with the far-off star orbiting the central pair on a highly elliptical path.

The active phase terminates when the trajectory drifts down and off the branch of periodic orbits at the saddle-node of periodic orbits (SNp, at u ≃ − 0.1545 ), and returns to the stable branch of fixed points to repeat the cycle.

We show that the same procedure can be done for satellites on different orbits in the magnetosphere, by taking into account the change of cut-off rigidities along the orbits (for human health, solar batteries, computers, electronics, technology).

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory lifted off on schedule at 1 55 a.m.

In fact, the BBC's Saudi satellite partner in the venture, Orbit, switched off the service without warning in April 1996 Al-Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenged the World by Hugh Miles 438pp, Abacus, £10.99 Since its launch in 1996, the Arabic-language satellite television network al-Jazeera has transformed broadcasting in and on the subject of the Middle East.