Sentence examples for orbiter spacecraft from inspiring English sources

Mascons were first identified by the observation of small anomalies in the orbits of Lunar Orbiter spacecraft launched in 1966 67.

Over the past four months, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, which is in a low polar orbit over the Moon, has returned a series of images of Apollo landing sites showing the vessels themselves at rest on the Moon's surface.

Later versions of Agena were able to restart their engine in orbit, carried other national security payloads, sent Ranger and Lunar Orbiter spacecraft to the Moon and Mariner spacecraft to Venus and Mars, and served as the target vehicle for rendezvous by the Gemini two-man spacecraft.

The Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter instrument onboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft collected more than 5 billion measurements in the nominal 50 km orbit over ∼10,000 orbits.

India's orbiter spacecraft captures its first image of Mars.

The findings, published in Nature, come from "before and after" pictures taken by Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, which has been mapping the moon since 2009.

Using high-resolution images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft that orbits the planet, Dickson's group zoomed in on the eastern half of the crater and discovered about 20 winding valleys and a number of deposited materials typically found at the end of rivers.

Early this morning, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, were stunned to discover that the Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) spacecraft, presumably entering orbit for a 2-year mission to study martian weather, had dipped too far into the atmosphere on its arrival and perished.

ESA missions to get the green light are the Solar Orbiter, a spacecraft that will study the sun while orbiting it at close distance; Bepi-Colombo, a Mercury mission; and GAIA, which will determine the positions of stars with unprecedented precision.

In June 2009 the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft was launched to the Moon.

This paper summarizes the current status of the BepiColombo Mercury magnetospheric orbiter (MMO) spacecraft design.