Sentence examples for tracking station on from inspiring English sources
In a radio occultation experiment conducted with an orbiter, the spacecraft transmits radio waves toward a tracking station on the earth and sequentially goes behind the planet's ionosphere, neutral atmosphere, and solid planet as seen from the tracking station, and reemerges in the reverse sequence.
In 1960, NASA was given permission to build a tracking station on Cooper's Island.
In the Leeward Islands, the approach of Faith caused the tracking station on Antigua – which was monitoring an unmanned rocket launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASAA) – to shut down 45 minutes after the rocket lifted off.
The Robinsons have been able to afford this largely through partnerships with the U.S. Navy, which operates tracking stations on the island for aircraft and missile testing offshore.
One day, driving back with him to his house from lunch in Bayville, we were listening to the Deep Tracks station on Sirius.
The United States used the atoll as a tracking station for antiballistic missiles beginning in 1970; the tracking station is no longer on the island.
When Kiribati, another country of sun-baked atolls and lagoons just to the south, had links with Beijing, it allowed the Chinese to build a satellite-tracking station on the island of Tarawa.
"In fact, many countries offered and provided critical components of the program, from alternate emergency landing sites, to unique technology and personnel with equally as unique specialty capabilities, to tracking stations, and on and on," Robinson said.
The numerical results show that the SPDOP value can be used to evaluate the contribution of the tracking stations distribution on the BDS IGSO and MEO satellites orbit determination.
On the return to Earth, a bearing at the Guam tracking station failed, potentially preventing communication on the last segment of the Earth return.
Finally, an improved scheme for the tracking station distribution was designed based on the original scheme.
