Sentence examples for station components from inspiring English sources

NASA's three shuttles — Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavour — are the only spacecraft large enough to carry major station components.

Today's activities were the culmination of a two-week orbital ballet in which Zvezda slowly worked its way up to the two previously launched space station components.

During its tour, the crew will also play host to three shuttle missions bringing up new station components and at least one unmanned Progress flight.

Within hours of Zvezda's launch, they were asking for more "tangible" (ie, financial) support from NASA to pay for the construction of subsequent station components.

But according to some analysts, the rocket failures were a blessing, giving both the United States and Russia more time to test space station components on the ground instead of rushing them into orbit.

Russia opposes United States plans to station components of the controversial anti-ballistic missle (ABM) shield in Eastern Europe, which Moscow argues would upset the strategic nuclear balance in Europe.

As can be seen from Table 2, the worst-case memory consumption of the type system for any SPOT component in our application composition is 12 bytes for the weather station component, about 0.40 % of the total component size.

But plans for Russian scientific experiments have been grounded by the country's recent decision to sell NASA thousands of hours of station time earmarked for research by Russian cosmonauts for $60 million needed to complete a key station component (Science, 9 October, p. 206).

There is also a danger that Britain will become over-reliant on France for its nuclear capacity, although today's deal with Rolls-Royce for power-station components potentially worth £400m offsets this somewhat.

But problems with the Proton rocket delayed its launch still more, forcing NASA to scramble a space shuttle to boost the orbits of the two space-station components already in space.

The normalization was performed by dividing the spectra by their average value computed for all components and frequencies at all available stations (taken over all stations, components and frequencies).