Sentence examples for stop the spacecraft from inspiring English sources

When Rosetta has gained its bearings, thrusters will fire to stop the spacecraft from spinning.

The main goal is to obtain the velocity increments required to start or to stop the spacecraft at the Earth and the flight path angle at the meeting point for trajectories that cross the Earth's orbit around the Sun before or after the passage by Jupiter.

As he was unable to stop the spacecraft turning with the main thrusters, Armstrong shut them down and brought the Gemini craft under control using a second set of 16 thrusters that were intended only to control the capsule's re-entry in to the Earth's atmosphere.

After testing the mechanism that controls the craft's position, controllers will attempt to stop the spacecraft's slow spin.

Shaw flees and warns Janek that the Engineer is planning to release the liquid on Earth, convincing him to stop the spacecraft.

But most scientists say that there will certainly come time when human Multiplica tion must stop or the spacecraft to which humanity is clinging— a sphere only 8,000 miles in di ameter shrouded in a thin film of air will run out of living space.

Either way, any relatives or loved ones at the baggage claim area not fitted with the proper anti-Alcubierre bow wave technology would predictably be decimated by a cocktail of light beams and dust which because of the whip, were unable to stop with the spacecraft.

The spacecraft will stop the engine once a week to take its bearings and send routine signals to Earth, they said, and it also will remain off for periods of months in an extended mission when extra energy is not needed as the spacecraft shapes its orbit around the Sun.

NASA stopped operating the spacecraft in 1997, but through the years the plucky probe has kept broadcasting a carrier signal.

NASA launched the $466 million Dawn spacecraft in 2007 and Vesta is only the first stop of the spacecraft's two-asteroid tour.

They stopped communicating with the spacecraft for three days and both STEREO-A and STEREO-B activated the command loss timer reset process.