Sentence examples for spacecraft it from inspiring English sources

The shuttle was the first reusable spacecraft: it was launched into space vertically like a conventional rocket and then orbited the Earth while scientific tasks were performed.

The Russian company wants to take a backup spacecraft it built for the Zarya control module and convert it into a commercial vehicle.

They found the Agena and docked successfully, but when they tried a pre-arranged manoeuvre of the combined spacecraft it went into a spin.

Unlike other spacecraft, it can act as an antigravity machine, using solar pressure to balance the Sun's gravity and thus hover anyplace in space.

Instead of just one glowing spacecraft it looked as if there were smaller glowing pieces moving off and away from it.

But by combining images collected by different spacecraft it should be possible to cancel out the star's light a technique known as nulling interferometry and thus take pictures of planets the size of Earth.And not just pictures.

For such a kind of spacecrafts it is in fact mandatory that mechanical design and guidance navigation and control (GNC) design are developed within a common framework.

In order to analyze the propagation of shocks due to hypervelocity impact of micrometeoroids and space debris on spacecrafts, it was necessary to analyze the high-frequency shock-propagation-dynamic on complex structures representative of real spacecraft structure.

As with other geostationary spacecraft, its height makes it immune to the drag of the atmosphere.

It oversees the development of spacecraft, and it has its own technological laboratories and extensive facilities for testing spacecraft and components under simulated launch and in-space conditions.

Now that the agency is sending its first spacecraft there, it is still taking its time.