Sentence examples for transit spacecraft from inspiring English sources

Some space vehicle types, e.g., US Transit spacecraft and former Soviet Vostok orbital stages, demonstrate a propensity for debris generation, while other satellite designs appear less vulnerable.

In this communication, we propose the use of metabolic control technologies to reversibly depress the metabolic rates of experimental animals while in transit aboard the spacecraft.

At the 2004 transit, a NASA spacecraft that we had helped program surprised us by revealing Venus's atmosphere in an arc around the planet's trailing side when half of the planet had entered the solar disk.

Kepler spacecraft transit data is consistent with the RV surveys and also revealed that smaller planets tend to have less eccentric orbits.

Last month, after many years of planning and a decade in transit, the European Space Agency's spacecraft Rosetta reached Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, surveyed landing sites, and deployed its probe, Philae, to execute the first-ever soft landing on a comet's surface (see the News story, p. 1442).

Kepler-4b, initially known as KOI 7.01, is an extrasolar planet first detected as a transit by the Kepler spacecraft.

The boost in the station's orbit, which was done by utilizing the engines of the Progress M1-1 and M1-2 spacecraft, made transit between Mir and the International Space Station impossible, as desired by NASA.

Dr. Batalha said that if the Gliese planet were in Kepler's patch of sky and did transit its star, the Kepler spacecraft would have seen it.

In February NASA will decide whether to pay for a new planet-hunting spacecraft called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

Kepler-40 was first noted as home to a possible transiting object by the Kepler spacecraft; the data on the system was released to the public.

And it would take spacecraft observations of a transit of Mercury in 1999 before the black-drop effect mystery was solved.