The company launches rockets that carry satellites and spacecraft to orbit and designs spacecraft to transport cargo.
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The effective mirror size for a virtual telescope made up of spacecraft flying in formation depends on the separation of those spacecraft.
The electricity from the solar panels is used to propel the xenon atoms out the back of the spacecraft, nudging the spacecraft up to speed.
If that happened, the Martian gravity would change the spacecraft's trajectory, hurling it toward Venus, where another gravity assist would return the spacecraft back to Earth.
As command pilot of the March 1966 Gemini 8 mission, the first in which one spacecraft docked with another vehicle in orbit, Armstrong showed cool composure when a malfunctioning thruster caused his two-man spacecraft to tumble end over end.
This would involve launching a spacecraft able to give the asteroid a nudge to change its orbit.
But Christine Yu said the manned spacecraft launch would be a big money-spinner for China.
"GROVER is just like a spacecraft but it has to operate on the ground, " Comberiate said.
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He says that while a lot of people were fearful of Russian spacecraft, he was excited.
But often, rocket and spacecraft malfunctions are much more complex to diagnose and resolve.
He funds aerospace company Blue Origin, which is developing spacecraft in West Texas.
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About nine minutes out, the capsule detached from the spacecraft that had shepherded it from Earth.
Active removal would see new spacecraft launched specifically to take other, redundant satellites out of orbit.
Of the thirty-nine spacecraft sent before Curiosity, less than forty per cent had reached the planet.
But with no traditional aviation launches or announcements scheduled, the main attraction will be a spacecraft.
Today, this quiet corner of England is developing propulsion systems for important spacecraft like Juno.
Planck will be the third spacecraft to investigate the CMB, after Nasa's COBE and WMAP satellites.
The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft delivered Curiosity to its target area on Mars at 10:31:45 p.m.
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All systems appeared to function normally and eight minutes later, the spacecraft had entered orbit.
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But he explained that a spacecraft's orbit lifetime could only be estimated to about 10% accuracy.
The WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo spacecraft will launch commercial spaceflights from the site by 2013.
"This is a spacecraft but it feels like a caravan, " Paul told his fellow astronauts.
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This will be the first spacecraft of its kind since the Apollo command module.
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During Grail's three-month primary mission, the spacecraft orbited at an average altitude of 55km.
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Mars Express hopes to answer that question with two spacecraft that will work in tandem.
Voyager-1 was launched on 5 September 1977, and its sister spacecraft, Voyager-2, on 20 August 1977.
We're talking about a potential commander in chief, not the commander of some spacecraft.
Instead, the New Horizons spacecraft will target them with its cameras when it flies by.
Launched in 2011, the spacecraft spent nearly a year flying in formation, exclusively collecting gravitational data.
It has built a reusable spacecraft and flown it more than 100 times.
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