Sentence examples for target satellite from inspiring English sources

In January 2007, the Chinese fired an SC-19 missile at a target satellite orbiting 475 miles overhead.

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Liu Jianchao, said the Chinese government was concerned about the American plan, Xinhua, the state-run news agency, reported late Sunday, noting that the target satellite was loaded with toxic fuel.

This paper presents a six-DOF follow-up tracking scheme for active target satellite tracking.

Cameras will be used to optically identify the target satellite and ion microthrusters will ease the probe right up to it.

The target satellite, called Fengyun-1C, had a mass of 880 kg and was orbiting at an altitude of about 863 km when the collision occurred.

In the proposed scheme, both of the single service vehicle (SSV) and the target satellite (TS) perform the orbital transfer to complete the rendezvous at the service places.

The target satellites were 15 cm × 15 cm × 15 cm in size and 800 g in mass.

The target satellites were completely fragmented in both experiments, although there were some differences in the characteristics of the fragments.

The SSc replenishes fuel from the depot and then extends the lifespan of the target satellites via refueling.

The mixed strategy would perform better than the other strategies only when the target satellites satisfy some conditions.

The objective of the experiments was to investigate the outcome of low- and hyper-velocity impacts on two identical target satellites.