orbiter in English

noun
1
a spacecraft designed to go into orbit, especially one not intended to land.
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1. The radar is on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

2. The external tank is connected to the orbiter at three places.

3. "Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO): Leading NASA's Way Back to the Moon" (PDF).

4. Friday's ascent would be the 135th and last in the 30-year orbiter programme.

5. Note that on the early flights the external tank was painted to match the orbiter.

6. And most recently, from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we see fresh craters being created.

7. The orbiter is the part of the shuttle that looks like an airplane.

8. The Aeronautics Orbiter UAS are operated by military, government and commercial operators worldwide

9. The crane supports the orbiter while it is bolted to the external tank.

10. ISRO is planning the launch of the ‘Mars Orbiter Mission’ during October-November 2013.

11. Between 29 September and 2 October, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) detected Comet ISON.

12. NASA's JPL built and manage the rovers and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Directorate, Washington.

13. But the orbiter results will likely settle the fascinating question of whether Europa has an ocean.

14. The Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS), or Canadarm (Canadarm 1), was a mechanical arm used on a space shuttle it was used to maneuver a payload from the payload bay of the orbiter to its deployment position and then release it.It can also grapple a free-flying payload, maneuver it to the payload bay of the orbiter and berth it in the orbiter

15. An Abort during ascent that would result in the orbiter returning to a runway or to a lower than planned orbit was called an "intact Abort", while an Abort in which the orbiter would be

16. It's name is based on the Canadarm, a Canadian-developed robotic arm used on NASA's Orbiter spacecraft

17. The first Japanese interplanetary mission was the Mars Orbiter Nozomi (PLANET-B), which was launched in 1998.

18. 29 NASA's JPL built and manage the rovers and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Directorate, Washington.

19. Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Odyssey, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) all successfully performed Aerobraking maneuvers around Mars2,3,4

20. During the descent and landing, the shuttle Orbiter acts as a glider and makes a completely unpowered landing.

21. Aerobraking has previously been used to reduce the propellant required to deliver an orbiter to its desired final orbit

22. It is the same date as the arrival of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to Mars in 2006.

23. Perhaps, the ROK can think in terms of participating in experiments on our next Moon orbiter Chandrayaan II.

24. Aerobraking is "science friction"--that is, using the friction of the thin martian atmosphere to slow the orbiter

25. Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has used its Diviner instrument to probe the insides of permanently shadowed craters on Earth's satellite.

26. The actual path taken by the orbiter is complex and designed to minimize the effect of air resistance on the craft.

27. These tests verified the flight characteristics of the orbiter design and were carried out under several aerodynamic and weight configurations.

28. For most of the mission the orbiter will circle the Earth with the payload bay open and facing down towards the ground.

29. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will use 556 Aerobraking passes to gradually shave its orbit into a circular shape that reaches …

30. Apogee (plural Apogees) The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is furthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter

31. The far side of the moon looks Craggier than the Earth-facing side in a composite mosaic created using imagery from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

32. On the launchpad, the orbiter is fastened to the mammoth 15-story-high external fuel tank, which holds 800 tons of liquefied oxygen and hydrogen.

33. In mid-1976 the orbiter was used for ground vibration tests, allowing engineers to compare data from an actual flight vehicle with theoretical models.

34. The orbiter has now been bolted to its external fuel tank and is set to go on its 39th and final mission to the International Space Station on 1 November.

35. 15 NASA's eagle-eyed Mars orbiter is back in business, scanning the Red Planet's surface after entering safe mode last week, the space agency said Tuesday.

36. Dissociation and ionization of air bring on lower drag coefficients of the orbiter than that obtained from perfect gas model, while the location of pressure center moves forward.

37. In June, NASA launched two new spacecraft to the moon, the $504 million Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the $79 million Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or Lcross.

38. Space shuttle orbiter Challenger, shortly after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 28, 1986, which claimed the lives of seven astronauts, including Christa McAuliffe, who had won a national …

39. An infrared map prepared by the Venus Express orbiter shows that the rocks on the Alpha Regio plateau are lighter in colour and look old compared to the majority of the planet.

40. Anaglyph of the Basal Scarp of Olympus Mons Volcano Full Resolution: TIFF (1.487 MB) JPEG (61.58 kB) 2007-01-17: Mars: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) HiRISE: 638x1000x3: PIA09567: Anaglyph of East Mareotis Tholus Full

41. Inscription: Typewritten paper label, verso TC: "Lunar Orbiter III – 24 inch Lens [underlined] // High Resolution Photograph of S-21.5 (KI-3091) [underlined] // This photograph of the backside of the moon was taken at // Apolune (about 1850 kilometers)

42. OSIRIS-REx - Sample Return Mission to Asteroid Bennu (2016) Hayabusa2 - JAXA Sample Return Mission to Asteroid Ryugu (2014) PROCYON - JAXA Small Satellite Asteroid Flyby Mission (2014) Dawn - NASA Orbiter of Asteroids Ceres and Vesta (2007) Rosetta - ESA Comet Mission, flew by Asteroids Steins

43. The NOMAD instrument, developed at the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy and currently in orbit around Mars on board ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, has detected a unique green glow of oxygen in the atmosphere surrounding the red planet (around 80 km altitude)

44. The Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS) or Canadarm was a joint venture between the governments of the United States and Canada to supply the NASA Space Shuttle program with a robotic arm for the deployment/retrieval of space hardware from the payload bay of the orbiter.

45. Impact Cratering is a pervasive geologic process that continually modifies the martian surface. Meters to tens-of-meters scale craters have been observed to form during the lifetimes of the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missions providing direct observations of the present-day martian impact rate on a decadal timescale.

46. The Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS), also known as Canadarm (or retroactively Canadarm 1), is a series of robotic arms that were used on the Space Shuttle orbiters to deploy, maneuver and capture payloads.After the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the Canadarm was always paired with the Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS), …

47. The existence of a giant far side basin was suspected as early as 1962 based on early probe images (namely Luna 3 and Zond 3), but it was not until the acquisition of global photography by the Lunar Orbiter program in the mid-1960s that geologists recognized its true size.