Sentence examples for to apogee from inspiring English sources

It is proposed to have a highly elliptic orbit (perigee ~370 km to apogee of ~ 80000 km) going across the upper atmosphere and ionosphere of Mars, which would enable the study of altitudinal variations of several atmospheric constituents during every orbit.

On this day, the ascending pass from perigee to apogee was operated in the TOF mode, while the descending pass from apogee was in the Normal mode, except for the second pass, where the Normal mode was used in conjunction with other space probes.

About 257 seconds into the flight, the second stage cut off, and the rocket entered a coast phase to apogee.

But in this case, the moon is close to apogee — the farthest point from Earth in its elliptical orbit around our planet — so it's a smidge too small in the sky to cover the solar disk completely.

If the moon is also close to apogee,the point that marks its farthest distance from the Earth, it will not completely cover the sun, and we get an annular eclipse.

On August 11 , 2011 UNT announced a deal with Austin-based ResNet provider Apogee for the naming rights to the new stadium, and the name was changed to "Apogee Stadium".

Lawes brought the viol suite to its mannerist apogee — complex harmonies and lustrous textures dangle in the air, contrapuntal lines dart about and disappear.

The event was created for the first modern Games in 1896, and its habit for creating scandal and legend, which was to reach its apogee that warm summer's day in London, had been immediately evident – the third-placed finisher in Athens, Spyridon Belokas, was disqualified for travelling part of the course by carriage.

The new sensor provided data comparable to the conventional sensor up to the apogee of 19 km of that particular balloon flight.

Perhaps more importantly though an entire generation of U.S. political leaders is now poised to define their ascent in stark contrast to the apogee of the climate denial movement.

After him, control of the dynastic fortunes fell largely to his son's widow, Ahalya Bai, who ruled from 1765 to 1794 and brought Holkar power to its apogee.