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Sending astronauts up to fix the Hubble Space Telescope in Earth orbit was difficult enough.
We credit the idea that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun to the medieval Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
The flight path was designed for the spacecraft to leave Earth and travel to orbit the Lagrange point.
Outside the Soviet orbit Russia had earned great respect and popularity during the war.
The Kuiper belt and Oort cloud are populations of icy planetesimals located beyond the orbit of Neptune.
As the cyclic activity of our solar orbit governs all life on earth, so our cosmic orbit governs all life in the solar system.
The orbit is far back in the skull, behind the teeth, and the postorbital processes are broad.
Binary stars, also called double stars, are composed of two stars that orbit around a common center of mass.
He may have come within the orbit of the literary set of which Jonson had been the leader.
It was almost as though the boom had a crick in its neck after being folded up for so long en-route to, and in orbit around, Mars.
This denser atmosphere means that the frictional force is greater, so its slows down more quickly, so the orbit decays more quickly.
Imagine a perturbation of the Earth's orbit big enough to change the size of the sun in the sky.
This is because Venus and the Earth orbit the Sun at a slight angle to each other.
In October, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first satellite, into orbit, Americans were stunned.
From 1979 until 1999 Pluto was not the outermost planet, its eccentric orbit making Neptune the furthest from the Sun.
Then, the extrasolar planets orbit much closer to their host stars and have a greater orbital eccentricity than the planets in our solar system.
Svalbard Satellite Station specialises in retrieving data from satellites in polar orbit.
Its orbit is the most nearly circular of that of any planet, with an eccentricity of less than 1 per cent.
The downside was that a geocentric orbit placed the spacecraft in a more severe space environment.
The shuttle left the station at the same time that the invisible ship, the Sentinel, left their orbit for the torus.
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Instead, that debris continued to orbit the Sun, most of it between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, a region known as the asteroid belt.
Such orbits, however, are not optimum as staging points for higher geosynchronous orbit or deep space.
Space-based observatories are telescopes located beyond Earth, either in orbit around the planet or in deep space.
The oldest stars, which lie inside globular clusters that orbit our galaxy, are estimated to be at least 12 billion years old.
Cassini will cross the torus of dust in Enceladus' orbit and must turn to a protective attitude.
The dust trails spread out over time as each particle continues to orbit the Sun on a trajectory similar to the path of the parent comet.
The Moon's Nodes are points in space representing the points where the moon's orbit around the earth crosses the ecliptic.
All of the satellites in geostationary orbit are flying 33,000 kilometres out in space.
Having stolen an interstellar rocket and propelled himself into orbit, he is now moments away from asphyxiation as his oxygen runs low.
The firing of the main engine will brake the spacecraft, slowing and curving its trajectory into an egg-shaped orbit around the planet.
Mercury and Venus are the only planets that orbit closer to the Sun than the Earth, so they are the only planets that can transit the Sun.
Galileo will consist of 30 satellites in medium Earth orbit supported by a global network of ground control and monitoring stations.
The spacecraft breaks out of Earth's orbit and establishes a translunar trajectory, or path toward the Moon.
An additional complication is that the Earth's orbit is not quite an exact circle, but an ellipse.
But I could explain the discrepancy if the orbit were an ellipse rather than a circle.
The orbit of the Earth is an ellipse, not a circle, so different quarters of the orbit take different lengths of time to complete.
The Earth's orbit changes from being almost a perfect circle to its elliptical form and then back again.
Its orbit is so eccentric, however, that the discoverers suggested it should be considered a wandering asteroid rather than a true planet.
Just as the Missouri left Earth orbit a top order distress signal came through.
Of course, one must know the direct trajectory to diverge from it, and one must know where the orbit is to be able to go off it.
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It's a satellite base that they plan to put in orbit around Epsilon Draconis.
In 1772, J.L. Lagrange identified a periodic orbit in which three masses are at the corners of an equilateral triangle.
At time II the line of apsides has turned through 90 degrees and we get a symmetric eclipse, indistinguishable from a circular orbit.
Could it be an exoplanet in orbit around that young brown dwarf object at a projected distance of about 8,250 million km?
Fleshy bundles may pass from the front and upper part of the planum of the ethmoid bone across the orbit to the levator.
Exophthalmos is caused by an increase in the bulk of the tissue behind the orbit that forces the eyeball forward.
These systems would send tens or hundreds of kilograms instead of tons into orbit per launch.
But the orbit is elliptical, and when the Moon is near perigee, it moves along its orbit more swiftly than it does when it is near apogee.
He gave mental orders to his staff aboard the command ship in orbit beyond the third moon.
In a sense, this early orbit is a pan-India orbit, although the sources are silent on many of its components.
There are hundreds of satellites in orbit right now, doing everything from relaying communication signals to monitoring weather patterns.
By the present time, the covariances of the determined orbit and attitude have not been enoughly evaluated and not obtained.
The frontal forms a complex interdigitate joint with the postorbital from the dorsal rim of the orbit to the supratemporal fenestra.
When we got to our ship, they weren't ready for us to land, so we had to orbit a mile aft of the ship while they got set up.
They dive through the sun's corona at one point, and aerobrake into orbit around Jupiter.
Odyssey used the same dips into the atmosphere, known as aerobraking, to shape its orbit during the initial months after it reached Mars.
It's been 33 years since humans have set foot on the moon or journeyed beyond the close orbit of the Earth.
The ship will not go fast enough to get into orbit, but the pilot will be weightless for three minutes.
We will continue to do what we have been doing for the last 12 years, which is watching for missiles and tracking objects in orbit.
The project included work on the Earth, Sun and Moon, and investigating the solar system, the phases of the moon and different types of orbit.
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A Hubble rescue mission would have to be prepared for a different orbit, different abort modes, and a different payload.
I was over at a friend's house the other day and on his computer he showed me his own house as viewed by a satellite in Earth's orbit.
Literally rocketing down through orbit to land on the surface of a planet in one seamless move is impressive enough.
Some white dwarfs are in binary systems, that means they are in orbit around another star.
Over just a few months they could actually detect the orbit of the binary system precessing, slowly dragging around.
In binary systems both stellar bodies orbit around a common center of mass.
The launching rockets were mainly used to place government spacecraft into Earth orbit or towards the Moon or other planets.
However, when Russia sent Sputnik into orbit in October 1957, he changed tack and put his efforts into America's space exploration programme.
These are the Trojan asteroids, each one locked in its solar orbit by the gravity of Jupiter and the Sun.
An apsidal motion with a period of 80.7 years was confirmed and a third body in an eccentric orbit with a period of 85.4 years was found.
Thousands of galaxies revolve about its center, moving in every possible orbit like bees circling a beehive.
Another possibility is that the shuttle came back into earth's orbit at an improper angle.
The comet is now revolving around the Sun every 6.6 years on an elliptical orbit with a low inclination compared to that of the Earth.
They are restricted to orbit given atoms, and they can only move from one to the other by quantum tunneling.
If he told you that the world revolved around the sun in orbit, you'd have to think about if for a while before you agreed.
There was the subtle twist of a planetary orbit here, the tiny bending of a beam of starlight there.
Essentially, rings are just thousands of tiny moonlets that orbit a planet and don't clump back into larger objects.
The orbit of Mercury, a planet positioned about 36 million miles from the Sun, slowly revolves in the plane of the solar system.
It stayed in orbit around the Moon for 20 hours, and made ten revolutions of our only satellite.
The Earth's tides are mainly created by the force of the Moon's orbit, along with the Earth's own revolution and gravitational pull from the Sun.
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Its slightly elongated orbit takes it around the star in about 13 years, comparable to Jupiter's orbital period of 11.86 years.
This nearly polar orbit is designed such that the spacecraft's orbital path moves at the same apparent rate as the Sun.
The crash was recorded by the US Space Command, which tracks around 8000 artificial satellites in Earth orbit.
It could use the threat of revolutions to keep the countries that remain in its orbit on a leash, but that would not be effective, he said.
The first of his laws of planetary motion asserts that planets orbit the Sun in ellipses.
Its orbit takes it almost a third of the way to the Moon, so that astronomers can enjoy long, uninterrupted views of celestial objects.
Thus, if at an apse the direction of velocity is reversed, it will trace a symmetrical orbit on the other side of the apsidal distance.
The angular momentum lost by the Earth's axial rotation appears in the lunar orbit, the total angular momentum being conserved.
To make a calendar a better measure of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, leap year rules were created and have since been modified.
Early this morning an Ariane 4 launcher successfully placed into orbit another satellite for Eutelsat.
On board is an Intelsat satellite, the 19th to be placed in orbit for the company by an Ariane launcher.
Io's orbit cuts across Jupiter's powerful magnetic lines of force, turning Io into a giant electricity generator.
The orbit is a socket for the eyeball, muscles, nerves, and vessels that are necessary for proper functioning of the eye.
The net mass stayed the same, of course, the orbit didn't alter, of course we didn't notice.
Some asteroids orbit at a solar distance where their year is matched to Jupiter's year.
The encounter also shortened the comet's solar orbit time from about 40 years to less than seven.
Among the natural satellites that orbit the planets in the solar system, the moon is without doubt one of a kind.
Envisat, with its mass of 8 tonnes, will be the heaviest satellite ever to be put into orbit by an Ariane launcher.
The Soviets may have put the first satellite in orbit but the U.S. was the first to put a man on the moon.
Electrons produce a small magnetic field as they spin and orbit the nucleus of an atom.
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Here, is the Sun, the planet, the geometric center of the orbit, the equant, and the line of apsides.
If all goes well, Messenger will be the first spacecraft to orbit that planet.
Once it is safely in orbit around the ringed planet, the spacecraft can begin to do its real work.
They replaced a camera on the Hubble telescope while working in an orbit littered with space junk.
The International Space Station is planning to change its orbit after narrowly avoiding two pieces of space junk last month.
Hubble and Atlantis are flying in a 350-mile high orbit littered with space junk.
The rocket was later modified to boost two astronauts in Gemini capsules into orbit during the space race.
Two days later, the craft will match the orbit of the international space station, enabling it to dock safely.
A traditional chemical rocket would launch the spacecraft out of Earth orbit.
The Russians had the space station Mir in orbit and American astronauts were on board for lengthy visits.
It's already spent 241 days in orbit and racked up an incredible 158 million kilometres of space travel.
Once in orbit, multiple independent warheads separated from the missile bodies and angled toward the surface.
Rosetta will reach the comet in 2014, enter into orbit and deliver a lander, Philae, onto the surface.
Rosetta is the first probe ever designed to enter orbit around a comet's nucleus and release a lander onto its surface.
The orbit has to have some inclination to it for the apoapsis to get into the magnetotail.
This will be the first time that an Ariane 5 launcher places a satellite in sun-synchronous orbit.
Sitting in high orbit over New Edinburgh in the Tau Ceti system, watching the rings of the planet slowly spin beneath me was breath-taking.
Superficially, White would appear to have the upper hand, leading the ladylike Lynn away from tradition and into his raucous orbit.
The mission would fail if any of the four engine burns needed to reach the Moon and get into lunar orbit underperformed.
For example, he held that fire rises in order to reach its natural place, a spherical shell just inside the orbit of the moon.
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We see portions of the illuminated half from various viewpoints as both Earth and Venus orbit the Sun.
In fact, all the planets orbit the sun close to such a fixed orbital plane.
So X-ray astronomy came of age as a branch of science only when suitable detectors were placed in orbit around the Earth.
The Saturn S-IVB third stages were not designed to carry fuel in orbit for more than six hours and would require extensive modification.
With respect to orbit altitude, four of six planned ascent burns have been completed.
If it doesn't, well he can always nuke the site from orbit and claim there was a nuclear accident.
When Sputnik had first gone into orbit a schoolteacher asked her second-graders to write some verse on the subject.
Second, it is the only planet currently known to orbit a binary star system.
The lacrimal bone is a small and fragile bone at the inner orbit of the eye through which the lacrimal duct runs.
Finally, the octahedron inscribed in the Venus-orbit sphere has itself an inscribed sphere, on which the orbit of Mercury lies.
Some patients may manifest oculomotor disturbance when the orbit and optic nerve are compressed.
And a trio of roughly Earth-sized planets was found in 2002 to orbit a dense stellar corpse known as a neutron star.
Our star system is chock full of asteroids and comets, in every conceivable orbit and location.
Snap would orbit a three-mirror, 2-meter reflecting telescope in a high orbit over Earth's poles, circling the globe every week or 14 days.
Rutan's spaceship may not yet be able to hoist loads into orbit, but it will give the ultimate ride to would-be astronauts.
But the main purpose of this spacecraft will be to carry astronauts beyond our orbit to other worlds.
In this application, a laser stationed on a satellite can orbit Earth and direct a sequence of short optical pulses onto the surface.
Just 220 km in diameter, Phoebe is in a very peculiar, retrograde orbit, and is very dark.
A satellite in Earth orbit charted his progress on a full-color street grid displayed on the screen of his cell phone.
Similarly, Kepler's discovery of the elliptical orbit of the planets did not sit well with the religious establishment.
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Schwabe had been looking at the Sun to discover a planet inside the orbit of Mercury.
This will put the spacecraft into an orbit that is less than 200 miles above the surface.
Will they build up into still broader disarray and eventually move our planet out of its orbit around the sun?
The concern is that the gravitational tug of Jupiter could alter the orbit of the spacecraft and cause it to hit Europa or another moon.
This paper investigates the least maneuver velocity through the tolerable apolune and other lunar orbit elements.
One was spotted by the Europeans and is so close to its parent star that it completes an orbit in just four days.
The object will probably complete six orbits around Earth before returning to a solar orbit next summer, Chodas says.
The craft itself remained in orbit for nearly six months, and completed 1400 orbits of the Earth.
It completes its tight orbit in less than 10 days, compared to the 365 required for our year.
The vessel made a small orbit round the moon before launching itself into space at reasonable speeds.
The further a planet lies from its star, the longer it takes to complete an orbit and the longer astronomers have to observe to detect it.
The capsule is expected to remain in orbit for 14 orbits and 21 hours before re-entry and a parachute landing in inner Mongolia.
Jupiter takes about 12 years to complete its orbit but Zu was able to give a much more accurate value than that.
Titan's position in orbit meant that it disappeared five minutes before its ringed parent.
The satellite will thus be altering its speed at different times in its orbit and will have a maximum speed at perigee and minimum at apogee.
The Hubble space telescope has been in orbit for 15 years, during which time it has taken over 750,000 images of the universe.
To help us understand these events, we compare data from Odyssey to data from similar instruments in orbit around Earth.
A vehicle in orbit is less provocative than one flying through territorial airspace.
Human-made space debris in orbit around Earth is commonly called orbital debris.
Cassini, however, remains in orbit around Saturn and is designed to function for another four years.
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Its seven scientific instruments will collect data for a full year in orbit around Mercury, an average 58 million kilometres from the sun.
Cassini is safely in orbit around Saturn, and the pictures and data are flooding in.
It will spend four years in orbit around the gas giant, exploring the planet and its rings and moons.
Galileo has operated in orbit more than three times longer than its originally planned mission.
Remember Cassini, the multibillion dollar spaceship we put in orbit around Saturn back in July?
However, a propellant-free way of moving objects around in orbit very slowly is under development.
Third, the size of the hydrogen atom's first electron orbit is accurately predicted.
Each electron orbit of the same size or energy could only hold so many electrons.
It should not be concluded from this that Norman and Plantagenet kings were reluctant to see the orbit of their influence enlarged.
The difficulty is in making the concept both concrete and yet expansive enough to include everyone who ought to fall within our orbit of concern.
The best known Marxist economists outside the orbit of official Communism found it all but impossible to come to terms with what was happening.
In a different orbit altogether are forthcoming books by two authors also associated with the pop business.
In the 1980s and 90s, the emergence of centers within the orbit of the seminary has accented new mission challenges.
Most of the known asteroids orbit the sun in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Nunney is within commuting distance of Bath and Bristol and within the orbit of Londoners seeking weekend retreats.
The book opens with cosmopolitan collecting activities of noble families in the orbit of the Russian court.
I do not think there is one person within his orbit who was not the beneficiary of his wisdom, encouragement, and generosity.
Since orbit insertion, the spacecraft has been spinning at the slow rate of 1 revolution every 3 minutes.
The southern parts are within the orbit of London and discharge commuters into Euston, St Pancras, King's Cross, and Liverpool Street.
It places any criticism of government policy in the orbit of illegal activity.
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It may be moving closer to the orbit of Western Europe, but there are still enormous obstacles to overcome.
Because the orbit is made of bone it cannot expand to accommodate the protruding eyeball.
Like planets, comets orbit the Sun, but their path is usually long and narrow.
If successful, the van-sized spacecraft will orbit the planet 640 km over our heads.
Probes that orbit the planet have studied Mars and some spacecraft have even landed on it.
We're actually going to orbit around Saturn for a period of about four and a half years and we'll be taking data during that entire time.
For example, the probe had to travel a billion miles to get from Earth to orbit around Saturn.
On Galileo, we did our probe insertion and our orbit insertion all within a 4-hour period.
It will orbit at about 803 kilometres above the Earth's surface and will circle the planet every 100 minutes.
Every orbit of the space shuttle treats the astronauts to stunning scenery.
The plan required him to orbit at a safe distance while I would head to the target area.
If the Soviets could orbit Sputnik, who was to say that they were not proceeding to develop the capability for a space-based missile attack?
We just about went into orbit when they came up with a better figure than ours.
The Mars Observer launched in 1992 was lost the following year during orbit insertion.
Fundamentally, a satellite in orbit moves in an elliptical path created by the gravitational force of a celestial body such as a planet.
The Moon's orbit about the common center of gravity between Earth and the Moon is not quite a perfect circle.
Comets originate in the Oort Cloud, which lies beyond the orbit of the outermost planet.
And the good news is the European Space Agency's Mars Express appears to have gone into orbit around Mars without a hitch.
Meteors are usually pieces of asteroids which orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
This is nonsense, because time is a man-made convention based on the movement of the earth about its axis and orbit around the sun.
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In 1705 Halley showed that the comet, which is now called after him, moved in an elliptical orbit round the sun.
Astronomers are now finding compelling evidence that smaller and smaller planets orbit distant suns.
Any planet with a stable orbit in that zone might be able to support life long enough for intelligence to evolve.
The Earth was born in the Sun's plasma and was put by the Sun into the circumsolar orbit more than 4 billon years ago.
This one after the separation of the second stage should go in circular circumterrestrial orbit using its principal engine.
Clearly this satirical tale of the beautiful people who orbit an enigmatic film producer has its avant-garde checklist down pat.
At an eccentricity of exactly one you have a parabola, and for eccentricities greater than one the orbit traces a hyperbola.
For the first time, Europe will now be able to place into geostationary orbit a payload weighing more than 10 tonnes.
Whereas the synodic period is 29.53 days, it takes 27.5 days for the moon to move in its elliptical orbit from perigee to perigee.
Its low perigee meant that the orbit would degrade rapidly due to atmospheric friction.
Remus, in close orbit to Romulus, is locked in an odd rotation around its sun, causing half the planet to be in perpetual darkness.
Did you know that pressure from sunlight alone is sufficient to perturb the orbit of a satellite travelling in the solar system?
An inclination of 0 degrees would mean the orbit is perfectly aligned with Earth's orbital plane.
The orbit plane inclination is from 55 to 60 degrees, which gives good coverage of latitudes up to 75 degrees north.
Similarly, the postfrontal is damaged ventrally between the orbit and the infraorbital fenestra.
The method was applied to find the orbit of Swift's comet of 1880 and involved less computation than Gauss's method.
A reconnaissance satellite, placed into orbit years ago, captures the entire scene in its computer memory.
Its orbit and atmosphere were that of Earth but most importantly it was abundant with the life-giving source of water.
For example, consider the task of inserting a spacecraft into orbit around a planet.
Without a low-cost way to get into orbit this problem will continue to bedevil the space industry and its supporters.
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This study will determine if the complex mesh of the orbit could be assimilated to a meshed cone or not.
I must confine my writing to the inside, enclose it within a perimeter, which forms a circular line, an orbit around the text.
Animals were pithed through the right orbit to the spinal column with a round copper rod of 1.5 mm in diameter.
There are brilliant people out there who search the very heavens and map the orbit of the stars and planets.
Kepler showed that a planet moves round the Sun in an elliptical orbit which has the Sun in one of its two foci.
If the candidate planet does orbit the brown dwarf, then the pair will move across the sky together.
The planets all orbit the Sun in the same direction, with orbital planes inclined slightly to the ecliptic.
The problem is, you have to do these measurements for at least one full orbit of any planets that might be there.
Over the next few months, the ion engine fires to raise the highest point of its orbit to match the orbit of the Moon.
Once the trailing satellite has nearly caught up, it fires its engines away from the leading satellite to achieve the same orbit again.
This brought more Poles into the Soviet orbit including civilian refugees, military internees, and pre-war Polish residents of Lithuania.
The shuttle was everyone's competitor, from small low Earth orbit payloads to big interplanetary missions.
If a CME travels on a path that intersects the Earth's orbit around the Sun, the results can be spectacular and sometimes hazardous.
They are all in orbits that intersect the Earth's orbit and they are all large enough to cause widespread damage in an Earth impact.
The explosion of a small artificial moon in low orbit sends a meteoric rain onto the Ewok sanctuary, on a scale unmatched since Endor formed.
It took old-fashioned rocket science to put the contraption into orbit on September 27 last year.
No need for rockets, ramjets, or other propulsive technologies, and the ascent to orbit can be made in a far more benign, safe environment than within a rocket.
The Delta IV can carry a larger payload into low earth orbit than the atlas V, 60,779 lbs.
Many stars are in binary systems, locked in mutual orbit with another star.
The electromagnetic force holds electrons in orbit around atomic nuclei and is thus responsible for holding together all material with which we are familiar.
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The crew scouted landing sites from lunar orbit and rendezvoused the lunar module and command module in a full dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 landing two months later.
In our Solar System, only smaller, rocky planets orbit within the habitable zone.
The lowest point of each elliptically shaped orbit curved below the planet's ionosphere, allowing the magnetometer to obtain better-than-planned regional measurements of Mars.
To say that the Earth rotates on its axis once per day and completes one orbit of the Sun each year is to encapsulate but also to simplify the situation.
Scientists suspect that the final rocket burn sent the spacecraft slightly off course, so that although it made it into orbit, it is not in the orbit they expected.
The course was plotted with near perfection and brought them close to the first planet in Sol, Mercury, its orbit drastically altered due to the need for terraforming.
In general he eschewed complicated effects of pulsating or flashing lights, preferring a bare and simple presentation that brought him within the orbit of Minimal art.
If there is only one thing I had to pick out, I think the most rewarding thing for me so far was watching those ring pictures come back after Saturn orbit insertion.
It will be the first spacecraft to orbit a comet's nucleus, allowing its instruments to follow the development of the active areas that eject the meteoritic dust into space.
Unfortunately because the orbit of Venus is inclined to the earth's orbit by about three and a half degrees, these transits of Venus don't take place very often.
If the parking orbit's plane is not the same as the moon's, the translunar trajectory will be inclined to the moon's orbit but this is no problem.
By detecting how far apart the partners are and how rapidly they orbit each other, scientists can determine the mass, volume, and composition of the binary asteroids.
That means most of these planets orbit closer than mercury does to the Sun.
All of these instruments orbit Earth, beyond the atmosphere that blocks X-rays and most ultraviolet light.
Further, distance-dependent or spatially correlated errors due to ionospheric, tropospheric or satellite orbit effects can be more accurately modelled in a network approach.
He said he considered himself honored to have worked in the orbit of the late Nelson Mandela and considered him a mentor.
Once in orbit around the Moon, AMIE will survey the lunar terrain using visible and near-infrared light, providing clues about its chemical composition and geological history.
When Sputnik 1 was launched into orbit on October 4, 1957, the space age was born and the fields of science, engineering and technology were changed forever.
During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes.
This is because the nodes of the orbit of Venus pass across the Sun in early June at the descending node, and early December at the ascending node.
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Lunar eclipses occur at the time of a Full Moon, and when the Moon is near one of the nodes of intersection between its orbit and the ecliptic plane.
If the lunar orbit were fixed in space, such that the nodes occurred always in the same locations, then the Sun would pass through those nodes once per solar year.
Since injection into orbit the spacecraft's behaviour has been nominal.
He says the ironies, the paradoxes, of the normalization of the Mars orbit and the other orbits, show that we have an elliptical orbit, with constantly non-uniform action.
Within nine minutes, he was in orbit and the various stages of the rocket had peeled off, prompting a round of applause among the engineers and technicians on hand to watch.
All the planets in the solar system orbit the Sun in roughly the same plane, but each is a different distance away from the Sun and moves at its own pace.
Some small moons orbiting Jupiter, as well as Phobos and Deimos, may have originally been asteroids captured into orbit by the gravity of Mars and Jupiter.
No, they did find one recently that had a Jupiter-like planet in a Jupiter-like orbit around a Sun-like star, that's the closest they've come so far.
Jupiter takes 12 years to complete one orbit around the Sun.
As Kepler had pointed out, objects in low orbits will complete an orbit around the earth faster than those in high orbits, even though their linear velocity is lower.
The Moon crosses the plane of Earth's orbit twice in each complete orbit.
What the high court has done, however, is to at least bring the torturers within the orbit of the law, subject to some form of accountability and judicial restraint.
Commenting on the polls is not within the orbit of this bill.
We continued to orbit until our two remaining wingmen joined.
In truth, Bohr's atom, in which electrons orbit around a dense nucleus like planets around the sun, had already been largely envisaged by Rutherford.
The noise had sent the stadium into orbit and Dublin just needed another score or two to fix Tyrone with a stare and make them think that losing was a possibility.
In fact, all the stars are moving, in orbit around the galactic center and also shifting relative to each other with their own peculiar velocity components.
The orbit injection by the Ariane rocket used to launch Rosetta was so accurate that only a small amount of fuel was needed to make some tiny corrections.
An inner planet that did manage to stay in orbit would have its path elongated by the interaction, subjecting the body to huge temperature swings.
Holst's figurant represents humanity exposed to the occult powers of the unfixed stars as they orbit through the twelve astrological houses of the zodiac.
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Long-term changes in the Earth's orbit are believed to cause a redistribution of insolation across both hemispheres, and these changes, in turn, lead to changes in climate.
If a CME erupts on the side of the Sun facing Earth, and if our orbit intersects the path of that cloud, the results can be spectacular and sometimes hazardous.
The particles in a low earth orbit may be numerous, but mainly they consist of parts that burnt and broke up upon re-entry, and are thus just small particles and flakes.
Incredible temperatures would have occurred as the sun, the nine known planets, and the thousands of other bodies that orbit the sun gradually formed.
During the encounter, one is thrown into the eccentric orbit and remains in the Solar System while the other is ejected into interstellar space where it wanders forever.
He was also able to give greatly improved data for the orbit of Venus, finding better values for the radius of the orbit, its eccentricity and inclination to the ecliptic.
Three special satellites located in geostationary orbit above Europe transmit a GPS-like signal that improves the GPS accuracy down to 1 to 2 metres.
The comet made no reappearance and again Lexell correctly deduced that Jupiter had changed the orbit so much that it was thrown far away from the Sun.
When it is revived at the end of the eighteenth-century by the English Della Cruscan poets, the tradition gains a new life in the orbit of the romantic movement.
Although it poses no danger at all to the Earth at the moment, that could change if its orbit around the sun is deflected by the gravitational pull of a nearby planet.
It was time to expand beyond the gravitational orbit of New York.
When small-amplitude surface gravity waves progress in deep water, all the fluid particles are observed to orbit in circles within the depth of wave influence.
When the jet was stable, we began a wide, right-hand turn toward land and set up an orbit about 20 miles northeast of Oceana to adjust gross weight.
The first law states that the orbit of a satellite is an ellipse, and that one of the foci of the ellipse must be located at the centre of the Earth.
The left orbit was medially compressed, and exophthalmos had occurred.
Described in the same coordinate system as the earth's orbit, the moon would appear to be swinging around the earth on an orbit still bent towards the sun in every point.
Apparently, the solid-on period for slaving just prior to retrofire brought the gyros back up to orbit attitude, because they corrected very nicely during that period.
During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.
Carlisle writes that the Air Force would want a crew ratio of 10 to one for each drone orbit during normal everyday operations.
Astronomers using telescopes on Mauna Kea have found an extremely rare quartet of stars that orbit each other within a region smaller than Jupiter's orbit round the Sun.

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