Sentence examples for the first orbit of from inspiring English sources

Today's announcement comes on the 55th anniversary of the first orbit of the planet by the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

The first orbit of an electron occurs when the RF field across the gap is in a direction to retard its motion.

Given that they may also be attributed exactly the same spatial wavefunction, as when they are both in the first orbit of an atom, for example, then such particles would seem to violate PII.

He managed to pick up some radio stations from the USA, and heard for the first time about the Apollo 8 astronauts, who had just made the first orbit of the Moon.

It is estimated that a quarter of the people alive at the time saw either live or delayed the Christmas Eve transmission during the ninth orbit of the Moon.

While the first orbit represents a crossing of the quasiparallel shock (angle between the shock normal and the upstream magnetic field 30.5 deg), the second one represents a crossing of the quasi-perpendicular shock (angle 75.7 deg).

In a first stage, the limits for extending the nominal orbit design even after an under-performance of the launcher or a delay of the first orbit correction were studied.

Near the end of the first orbit, trouble with the automatic control system forced Mr. Glenn to take manual control for much of the remaining orbits.

Corman did very nicely, thanks, using much the same approach that in 1958 had him hitting theatres with an opportunistic, no-budget sci-fi potboiler called War of the Satellites - a mere 90 days after Sputnik's first orbit of the Earth.

During the "night phase" of the third orbit he released the six-inch ten-pound sphere of flashing lights, which is meant to settle into a neighbouring orbit in continuous view of the astronaut.

During the second orbit Leonov let himself out of the spacecraft by means of an air lock while about 177 km (110 miles) above the Crimea.