Sentence examples for spacecraft service from inspiring English sources

Several uncrewed cargo spacecraft service the ISS, they are the Russian Progress spacecraft which has done so since 2000, the European Automated Transfer Vehicle ATVV) since 2008, the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) since 2009, the American Dragon spacecraft since 2012, and the American Cygnus spacecraft since 2013.

Hence there is a need for on-board fault detection and isolation without creating significant degradation in the spacecraft services.

The law that prevents the United States from paying the Russians to make extra spacecraft to service the station is the Iran Nonproliferation Act, signed by President Bill Clinton in March 2000.

ConeXpress is a planned service spacecraft, intended to extend the lifetime of telecommunication spacecraft in the geostationary orbit.

It will be May before the new spacecraft enters full service.

Moreover, by the null-space intersections control reallocation method, the thrust forces of service spacecraft can be redistributed and satisfy some constraints.

Moreover, the control torques of reaction wheels of service spacecraft can be reallocated and satisfy some constraints using the dynamic control allocation method.

Satellite provider Space Systems Loral (SSL) and NASA have completed a key step towards building a spacecraft that can service satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), potentially extending their useful life and making it possible to move forward on building a whole new industry out of deployed satellite service operations.

To support current and future spacecraft, on-orbit servicing (OOS) infrastructures have been proposed, which would provide services such as repair, rescue, refueling, and upgrading of customer spacecraft in order to alleviate the identified space industry trends.

One of the greatest challenges is to ensure the servicing spacecraft safely and reliably docks with the target spacecraft or capture the target to stabilize it for subsequent servicing.

Specifically, the Servicing Spacecraft (SSc) and several debris exist on near-circular near-coplanar LEOs.