Sentence examples for tumbling spacecraft from inspiring English sources

Such calculations are not easy, because it is impossible to predict exactly how a tumbling spacecraft will break up as it re-enters.

We discuss an angular momentum control of a tumbling spacecraft.

This will ensure the tumbling spacecraft does not interfere with other satellite communications.

Given this solution, a constant state filter is proposed for inertial characteristics estimation and attitude prediction of tumbling spacecraft.

It is concerned with servicing to a tumbling non-cooperative target spacecraft in arbitrary orbit subjected to external disturbances.

One dire possibility is that the spacecraft is tumbling, which would cause the batteries to discharge since the solar panels no longer point toward the sun.

How the spacecraft tumbles through the atmosphere has an influence on how it breaks up.

But the burn aborted and the spacecraft tumbled, causing loss of communication.

During this period, which may partly be in eclipse, there is no attitude control, and the spacecraft tumbles uncontrolled, with power mainly or solely from the battery (a 600 Wh battery fulfills the needs of MAQRO).

Space agencies in the US, Europe and Russia have been tracking the spacecraft, but its tumbling motion, speed and altitude mean there are uncertainties over where and when it will come down.

A Russian spacecraft that is tumbling around the Earth after it malfunctioned en route to the International Space Station (ISS) could remain in orbit for more than a week before crashing down to Earth.