Sentence examples for satellites off from inspiring English sources

This technology, which can see through clouds and in the dark, involves bouncing radio waves from orbiting satellites off the surface of the sea.

In June 2013, the French Space Agency announced it would switch the satellite off and let it burn up as it re-enters the atmosphere – the usual fate of our mechanical helpers in space.

MOSCOW — An unmanned rocket carrying Russian satellites veered off course and crashed a few seconds after liftoff early Tuesday, sending a cloud of highly toxic orange fumes toward the Kazakh city of Baikonur only 50 miles away.

The Ariane 5 rocket carrying the Smart 1 Moon exploration probe and two commercial satellites lifted off from the European Space Agency launching center at here on the northeast coast of South America.

Earlier this year, ESA's first Vega rocket, which is smaller than the Ariane 5 and is built to loft small satellites, blasted off from the space center.

"The Night of the Satellite" takes off from that initial incident on the road to examine some of the same issues.

Early-language programs caught on once Sputnik, the Soviet Union's first artificial satellite, flew off into space in October 1957, catching the United States off guard.

An H-2A rocket carrying the satellite lifted off from a base on the southern island of Tanegashima at 1 41 p.m., the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said.

Five years after its original launch date, a new observation satellite lifted off on Friday in California with a new generation of observation tools critical to weather forecasters and climate scientists alike.

"Coming to [French Guiana] and seeing our satellite lifting off brings me huge emotion.

Also called the IPTV backbone, it collects television content from television networks, such as satellites and off-air distributions.