Sentence examples for sail in formation from inspiring English sources

These averaged rates are used to analytically derive the first-order necessary conditions for a drift-free solar sail formation in Sun-synchronous orbits, assuming a fixed Sun-pointing orientation for each sail in formation.

BEIJING — An armada of Chinese and Russian warships sailed in ceremonial formation in the Sea of Japan, off the port of Vladivostok, on Wednesday in what was the high point of joint naval exercises intended to show the growing unity between two countries with a historically uneasy relationship.

In this paper, solar sail formation flying in Earth-centered slightly inclined orbits is investigated, with each solar sail employing a simple sun-pointing steering law that precesses the orbit apse-line sun-synchronously.

At this point Burgoyne, breaking with rigid military discipline, ordered troops to follow southward as rapidly as possible, instead of remaining in formation, while he sailed southward in pursuit.

The four large ocean liners sailed in line abreast formation and Queen of Bermudas position varied based on the time of day and the situation.

The combined effect of Duncan's orders was to split his fleet into two uneven divisions, each sailing in a loose formation towards the unified Dutch line.

They come to the shoreline to investigate our ship as we sail past, they hop on and off ice floes, flocks of them fly in formation through the water.

The other nine ships remained in formation, circled back closer to Fort Walker, bombarding it as they sailed by.

Solar sail formation flying in the reference orbit is shown to be controllable by making small variations in the reflectivity modulation ratio and two attitude angles.

The objective for this study is to investigate the feasibility of solar sail formation flying in the Earth-centered, Sun-synchronous orbit regime.

"Get in formation!" he said.