Sentence examples for orbit spacecraft from inspiring English sources

This would be a space-to-space (or planetary orbit to orbit) spacecraft.

The launch on October 27th of SSETI Express, a low-Earth orbit spacecraft carrying a further three minuscule satellites, is the first of any satellite to be designed by a pan-European team of students.

"That was an engineering challenge; this is the first mission where we've piloted into a lunar orbit spacecraft not designed to go there," said Daniel Cosgrove, the UC Berkeley engineer who controls the spacecrafts' trajectories.

The near-range rendezvous problem of two libration point orbit spacecraft in the Earth Moon system is studied using the terminal sliding mode control which enables a time-fixed process with the flight time prescribed a priori.

We have used concurrent data from other Cluster instruments as well as from the POLAR, IMAGE, FAST, GPS, and geostationary orbit spacecraft in order to understand particle injection and transport phenomena throughout this key region of the magnetotail.

The current system described above has a sense of night-side "Region 1" (R1) (Iijima and Potemra 1978), which represents a statistical pattern of the FAC in the high-latitude ionosphere detected by low-Earth orbit spacecraft.

The time required for an orbiting spacecraft to make one complete revolution is called the orbital period.

Finally, the effectiveness of the analytical results is illustrated by an application in low-Earth-orbit spacecraft formation flying.

In 2005, a study of on-orbit spacecraft failures was undertaken which resulted in identifying 156 failures occurring from 1980 to 2005 on civil and military spacecraft.

With the sharp increase of China's in-orbit spacecraft and the constraint TT&C resources, a mathematical model for optimal TT&C resource allocation is proposed, and the TT&C facility remote monitoring function is designed to achieve the multitask operation pattern under the unified management of the network management center.

We are also collaborating with scientists monitoring orbiting spacecraft.