| The orbiter spacecraft will send Beagle 2 spinning towards the planet on a precise trajectory. |
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| The camera will be turned on fifteen minutes prior to launch and will show the orbiter and solid rocket boosters on the launch pad. |
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| The descent profile provides the important link between measurements made by instruments on the Huygens probe and the Cassini orbiter. |
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| It comprises a large orbiter, which is designed to operate for a decade at large distances from the Sun, and a small lander. |
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| In other instances, an orbiter or a spacecraft on a flyby mission may have already taken photographs of a moon or planet. |
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| The orbiter will separate and become a satellite after the command module returns to earth. |
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| The orbiter has been swooping above and below the plane of Saturn's rings to study their fine structure up close. |
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| The orbiter spent eight years scrutinising the whole Jovian system and making multiple fly-bys of the four main moons. |
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| The tiny lander has not been heard from since it was ejected from a European Space Agency orbiter in mid-December. |
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| An orbiter allows for a longer, more complete look at a planet but requires an engine and fuel to slow the spacecraft and insert it into orbit. |
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| The new millennium begins with the launch of a new orbiter and a lander, ideally with a rover payload. |
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| Ross is a veteran of six shuttle missions and has extensive spacewalking experience, having been outside the orbiter on seven occasions. |
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| Cassini has begun to transmit data from the Huygens transmitters aboard the orbiter! |
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| But, once again, the orbiter failed to pick up a signal from the lander, ESA officials announced. |
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| The plan will also position the Cassini orbiter farther away during that descent. |
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| The ground crews will also be monitoring the performance of the orbiter, solid rocket boosters and ground system while the tank is filled with the ultra-cold liquids. |
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| The surface of each orbiter is covered by the Thermal Protection System, an outer layer primarily consisting of more than 24,000 heat-resistant ceramic tiles. |
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| This would eventually allow the orbiter to remain docked at the station for an additional 3 or 4 days. |
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| They receive intensive scientific training as well as basic training in the operation of orbiter systems. |
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| The fifth section of the orbiter is the engine area located at the rear of the orbiter. |
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| Rosetta, along with the successful Mars Express orbiter, is among the key missions now pushing Europe to the forefront of space exploration. |
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| If all goes ahead as planned, the orbiter will remain above Mars, once its work is done in 2004, to act as a communications satellite for future missions. |
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| A U.S. contribution to the French-led NetLander mission will add unique capabilities to each of the four landers and the orbiter which comprise the mission. |
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| However, the probe stayed in contact with the Rosetta orbiter and has already sent back some photos. |
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| This capability will serve both to relay detailed findings of the instruments on the orbiter and enable data relay from other landers on the Martian surface to Earth. |
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| It is planned that the carrier would not launch a rocket but an expandable, re-usable orbiter. |
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| This was to find out whether the sensation of holding onto a chair or the simulated weight sensation of wearing the belt eliminates any sensation that the orbiter is moving. |
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| Indeed, the Earth orbiter had originally been intended as the first SSETI mission, but the complex design of some of its subsystems made the work take longer than expected. |
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| Since ice is more transparent to radar than water is, the orbiter will be able to bounce radar waves off the top of the ocean, and thus work out how thick the ice is. |
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| Galileo's orbiter remained in the system for nearly eight years, through two extensions of its mission, and conducted the most extensive surveys of the Galilean moons to date. |
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| Work is also underway on a new orbiter using the SVS that will breathe new life into Space probes like the Hubble Telescope by replacing their batteries. |
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| The orbiter has been able to confirm the presence of a magnetosphere around Mars and still today is sending back valuable data that allow scientists to better define the composition of the Martian atmosphere. |
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| This experiment explored in greater detail the gaseous reactions caused by the orbiter thrusters through the post-flight analysis of the thruster-induced glow spectrum. |
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| The control system also provides a continuous display of joint rates and speeds, which are displayed on monitors located on the flight deck in the orbiter. |
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| The Canadarm2 operators will grapple the orbiter boom, and the two spacewalkers will assemble an umbilical designed to keep the boom safe while it is stored in the harsh space environment. |
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| Vibrations caused by on-board activity and by the operation of pumps, thrusters, fans and cameras in the orbiter also can impact the quality of the research. |
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| The Canadarm is depicted in a crucial phase of the mission, when Major Hadfield attaches a Mir Docking Module to a docking port in the payload bay of the orbiter, permitting the two ships to join. |
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| The reason for the scrub is that the orbiter was hit by lightning yesterday afternoon and the technical teams did not have time to perform all the re-testing necessary to clear the vehicle for launch. |
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| Updates to this second edition include new results from the Mars Express orbiter, the Spirit rover, and the Wilkinson Microwave Anistropy Probe on cosmic background radiation. |
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| With its emphasis on accurate space flight simulation and orbital mechanics, Orbiter is not all things to all space and astronomy enthusiasts. |
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| The cornerstone mission for Prometheus is a spacecraft descriptively, if unpoetically, called Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter. |
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| By the end of the fourth mission, Lunar Orbiter probes had surveyed 99 percent of the front and 80 percent of the backside of the Moon. |
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| The first mission, Mars Climate Orbiter, didn't stop fast enough and crashed into Mars because engineers didn't convert between metric and imperial units properly. |
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| Plasma is a superheated gas surrounding the Orbiter during re-entry. |
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| Mars Orbiter Spacecraft is now circling the Red Planet in an orbit with a periareion of 311 km and an apoareion of 71,311 km. |
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| David Copplestone is happy to introduce his Orbiter Classic Grand Slam ring toss game, the game that he hopes will help make his creative island dream come true. |
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| Using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Scanlon found pillow lava formations, similar to those that form on Earth when lava erupts at the bottom of an ocean. |
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