Sentence examples for orbiter that from inspiring English sources

The KAGUYA is a lunar orbiter that is placed in a polar orbit with an inclination of 90° and a nominal altitude of 100 km from the lunar surface.

The French Space Agency CNES is the largest international partner and will provide for the joint NASA/CNES 2005 Mission the Ariane 5 launch and the Earth Return Mars Orbiter that will capture the sample canisters from the Mars parking orbits the MAVs place them in.

There are also excellent space sims like Kerbal Space Program and Orbiter that teach children about the basics of aeronautics.

The mission's first launch, of an orbiter that will sample the Martian atmosphere, is scheduled for next year.

In a month, India is to launch a Mars orbiter that also has a methane-measuring instrument to look for the gas from orbit.

Not long before his death, he was working with scientists on plans for an orbiter that would investigate Europa's ocean more closely.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), U.S. satellite that orbited Mars and studied its geology and climate.

Currently, NASA and ESA are designing two orbiters that would explore the Jovian system and then each would settle into orbit around one of Jupiter's icy satellites, Europa and Ganymede.

It was taken from Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966, the first of several orbiters that helped gather data for the first moon landing in 1969.

On deep-space exploration, the paper said China planned to launch orbiters that would make soft lunar landings and do roving and surveying.

What is more, when the team examined the infrared reflectance of the Mururoan lavas, they found the signal to be very similar to the observational data obtained by the Mars orbiters that have mapped the Red Planet's clay deposits.