Sentence examples for secondary payloads from inspiring English sources

Both SUNSAT and Ørsted were NASA-sponsored secondary payloads accompanying the USA Air Force Argos satellite.

The spacecraft were secondary payloads on the flight; its main purpose was to launch a Russian meteorological satellite, Meteor-M2.

However, significant uncertainty in the deployment conditions for secondary payloads impacts both the availability and geometry of transfers that deliver the spacecraft to the lunar vicinity.

These low-cost, small satellites are generally launched as secondary payloads and jettisoned into orbits that can enable them to remain aloft for many years, well beyond the internationally recognized period of deorbiting the satellite within 25 years of retirement.

Recently a study team from JPL was tasked to consider potential high-value lunar surface science and exploration missions that could be performed with small, low cost landed assets, with particular emphasis on missions that could be flown as secondary payloads on evolved expendable launch vehicle (EELV) launches.

Instead, they can hitch a ride as a secondary payload on a rocket already making the trip.

It was the secondary payload, Aolong 1 (Roaming Dragon), on that launch that raised eyebrows, and stoked fears in some quarters that the civilian space programme is just a front for more covert operations.

But although the Dragon was unaffected, the engine problem left a small communications satellite that was along for the ride as a secondary payload unable to reach its proper orbit.SpaceX is not the only firm in the private-cargo business.

That mishap did not prevent the cargo from reaching the station, but it did make it impossible to place a secondary payload, a prototype communications satellite, into the proper orbit.

The SLES would be launched on a rocket (possibly as a secondary payload alongside an alternative, primary mission), make its way to its helpless target, dock with it, and use its own engines to restore the satellite's ability to control its orbit.

Started from late June 2004, the secondary payload was turned on.