Sentence examples for orbit planning from inspiring English sources

Spatial density models are useful in understanding the long-term likelihood of a collision in a particular region of space and helpful in pre-launch orbit planning.

In particular, we define and discuss problems of motion planning and orbit planning, analysis methods such as the classical Poincaré first-return map and the transverse linearization, and exponentially orbitally stabilizing control designs.

Virgin Orbit plans to start its test flight of Cosmic Girl starting in the first half of 2018, the company says, and will run its inaugural test from California's Mojave Air and Space Port.

Nair, for example, says that the highly elliptical orbit planned for Mangalyaan will take it far from the planet most of the time, and in his opinion the "minuscule 25 kg scientific payload" may not be able to contribute much to the understanding Mars.

Figure 5. Nstar ion thruster (defelice#To overcome this limitation, swarm will utilize a cluster of 4 nstar ion thrusters to provide continuous thrust to the 1000 kg spacecraft for the 600-day orbit planned. These are the same thrusters successfully used by ds-1.

However, the current orbit with a period of 10 days is much more elongated than the original orbit plan (Nakamura et al. 2016).

An observation sequence with n = 32 was prepared for the original orbit plan in which the spacecraft constantly observes Venus except near periapsis in a 31-h elliptical orbit (Nakamura et al. 2007).

These satellites would orbit at the extremely low (for satellites) altitude of around 340 kilometers — even lower than the 550-kilometer orbit it plans to put 1,584 satellites in from the other group.

At the farthest point of its sixth orbit, Mission Control planned the big maneuver: Apogee Motor Firing, or AMF, to kick the satellite thirty miles out and into a round and geosynchronous orbit, keeping it above the Atlantic Ocean.

In the effort to obtain low cost routine space debris observations in low Earth orbit, ESA plans to utilise the radar facilities of the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association.

After Prospector-X flies in Low Earth Orbit, DSI plans to launch their next spacecraft, Prospector-1 on a mission to an asteroid.