... On-orbit dry mass: 540.00 kg. (1,188 lb.) ... The Luna 10 spacecraft was launched towards the Moon from an Earth orbiting platform ... The spacecraft entered lunar orbit on April 4, 1966. ...
... Caliban (S/1997 U 1) orbits about 7.2 million km from Uranus and is about 60 km in ... Sycorax (S/1997 U 2) orbits about 12.2 million km from Uranus and is about 120 km in ... The orbits are retrograde and highly inclined. ...
... first step: getting off the ground into some stable orbit above the dense atmosphere ... The initial orbit is generally the lowest one possible, the one requiring the ... But the final goal could be a higher orbit, the Moon, a planet or comet, or even ...
... Earth's orbit at point (1), Earth must be--at the start of the return flight from Mars --255.14 0 behind point "1" in its orbit ... The rotation velocity of Mars is 1 orbit per 1.8822 years, i.e. 1/1.8822 = 0.531293 orbits per year. ...
... The ExoMars Orbiter will be inserted into an elliptical orbit around Mars and then sweep through the atmosphere to finally settle into a circular, ~ 400-km altitude orbit ready to conduct its scientific mission. ...
... The Moon orbits around the Earth. ... its distance stays about the same, and hence its orbit must be close to a circle ... her motion perhaps retain her in her orbit, whereupon he fell a-calculating what ...
... Spacecraft . Orbiter . Payload of the Orbiter . Scientific goals of . ... Orbiter . Payload of the Orbiter . Scientific goals of . the experiments . ... We have inherited a basic orbiter module developed earlier for the PHOBOS Mission as ...