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Indeed, he says, if all goes as planned, Orbital will be analyzing not just satellite but drone imagery, as well as geospatial data from connected cars and IoT before too long.

Fig. 5 Comparison of minimum detection time (global, non-imaging) of XRF in 0.5 2 keV (depending on the optical/IR filtering scheme, mirror reflectivity and other optics onfiguration) as a function of distance to the target for NEAR-Shoemaker (green), Hayabusa (red) and MiXO (blue) with planned orbital profiles (OSIRIS-REx, yellow).

A denser than expected upper atmosphere of Titan has led to the requirement to modify the planned orbital tour about Saturn to increase the flyby altitudes for about 20 of the Titan flybys to values above the originally planned 950 km level in order to avoid the risk of atmospherically induced torques causing the spacecraft to be unable to maintain its commanded attitude.

The mission team has so far been unable to find a suitable Kuiper belt object (KBO) for follow-up study, but needs to as soon as possible so that it can plan orbital adjustments with its limited supply of fuel.

Dr. Solomon said the Venus passes would be used to test Messenger's instruments and, he hoped, gather new scientific information, while the Mercury flybys would be used to map the previously un-imaged parts of the planet and gather other data critical to planning the orbital phase of the mission.

As planned, the jettisoned orbital and service modules burned up in the atmosphere, leaving the crew capsule to continue its fiery descent.

They then work in groups to plan missions to take place twenty years from now and design orbital space planes in which to carry out the missions.

When NASA announced yesterday that they planned to use their orbital tracking equipment to plot Santa's movements on Christmas Eve, they usurped a role traditionally fulfilled by NORAD, the military agency charged with defending North America from air attack.

MA-6 was planned as the first orbital flight, with John Glenn as the primary crew and Scott Carpenter as his backup.

Alongside his colleague Wei Pu, Shen planned to map the orbital paths of the Moon and the planets in an intensive five-year project involving daily observations, yet this was thwarted by political opponents at court.

In the initial plan before the 2010 failure, such synchronization was planned considering a 30-h orbital period; however, the present actual orbital period is around 10 Earth-days.