Sentence examples for precisely pointed from inspiring English sources
In May the planet-hunting Kepler probe suffered the loss of a second of its four reaction wheels, three of which are needed to keep it precisely pointed at a particular region of the sky.
But he and others said that if engineers could not restore the wheel or find some other way to keep the spacecraft's telescope precisely pointed, the failure could end one of the most romantic and successful of NASA's missions: the search for Earth-like planets in habitable orbits around other stars.
But making ones that can survive the rigors of a rocket launching and then spin for a long time to keep a spacecraft properly oriented — in Kepler's case, to keep its telescope precisely pointed at the same field of stars — is difficult.
In the science mode operations, the twin satellites are kept precisely pointed with their KBR antennas towards each other.
The spacecraft wasn't holding fine point on its science target [staying precisely pointed at the target] because that wheel had stopped spinning.
That's because engineers have been unable to revive the functionality of two of the spacecraft's four reaction wheels, which are necessary to keep it precisely pointed at target stars.
Or this one, even more pointed: It is precisely because Dr. King was a man of flesh and blood and not a figure of stone that he inspires us so.
3) The extent of the propagation of the supertwisted conformation from a cofilin cluster to the neighboring bare zone at the pointed end should be precisely described.
Point to its pointed teeth.
The story is so gleeful in the telling, so clever in the fit of its parts, so straightforwardly personal in its emotional underpinnings — and so pointed in its identification of precisely the kind of frustrated loner who can't bear the very existence of this film — that its bland and mechanical realization is all the more disheartening.
