Sentence examples for spacecraft managed from inspiring English sources
The spacecraft managed to beam back evidence of the carbon and hydrogen containing chemicals shortly before it entered hibernation mode to conserve falling power supplies.
They discovered that the radiation fields near the planet were much stronger than expected, but both spacecraft managed to survive in that environment.
Still, the spacecraft did manage to transmit some eye-popping findings, described in today's issue of Science: Gravitational measurements taken with Hayabusa's instruments indicate Itokawa is up to 40% empty space.
President Barack Obama's 2014 budget request to Congress is some $12 billion over the sequestration depressed amount allocated this year and represents a 1.3% boost over 2012 levels, and NASA announced that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may have spotted Soviet Mars 3 lander, which became the first spacecraft to manage a soft landing on Mars.
The cover showed the Phoenix spacecraft, which had recently managed, after several failed attempts, to shake some dirt collected on the northern plains of Mars into an onboard oven, for chemical analysis.
The MESSENGER spacecraft operations team manages the overall handling of these files through interaction with both the flight and ground systems.
Flight controllers managed to keep the spacecraft going a few extra weeks by using helium gas not originally intended as fuel.
As of 2012, much of the detailed knowledge of Ariel derives from a single flyby of Uranus performed by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986, which managed to image around 35% of the moon's surface.
Despite an endless series of delays to its spacecraft, Virgin Galactic has over the years managed to maintain some very optimistic public relations and positive media coverage.
Although the spacecraft was moving at over 30,000 mph, it managed to capture images and data that revolutionized our understanding of Pluto and Kuiper Belt objects in general.
