Sentence examples for orbiter concepts from inspiring English sources

This paper presents the moon tours for the lander and orbiter concepts.

The 65-cm diameter, 20-kW NEXIS ion thruster developed in support of the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter mission concept is particularly well suited for application to a high-power IBD system.

One possibility, now discarded, was to send Cassini on from Saturn to Uranus in an extended mission; another is the Uranus orbiter and probe concept, evaluated around 2010.

Jovian Europa Orbiter was an ESA Cosmic Vision concept study from 2007.

There are no active plans at present to return to study the moon in more detail, although various concepts such as a Uranus orbiter and probe are proposed from time to time.

Artist's concept of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on the Martian landscape.

Several years back, the agency drew up an ambitious mission concept called the Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO), which would have made detailed studies of Europa and the incredibly volcanic Jupiter moon Io.

In response, NASA commissioned Europa lander concept studies in 2011, along with concepts for a Europa flyby (Europa Clipper), and a Europa orbiter.

The mission concept employs the Space Launch System to deliver a 1700 kg orbiter to Uranus using a ballistic Saturn-Uranus trajectory with a time-of-flight of 11.5 years.

Second-decade mission concepts will introduce new communications challenges; the provision of relay payloads on science orbiters provides a cost-effective means to sustain and evolve the Mars relay network.

We discuss the basic concept and consider the instrument design requirements from the perspective of a NASA Outer Planet Orbiter Mission.