The government is more focused on preventing new debris from forming than taking the trash out of orbit.
政府更关注的是防止新的碎片形成，而不是把垃圾带离轨道。
Having your personal satellite launched into orbit might sound like an idea straight out of science fiction.
把你的个人卫星发射到轨道上，可能听起来像是科幻小说里的情节。
If they had failed to find the gumdrop, the two men in spider would have been stranded in the orbit to die when their oxygen supply ran out.
要是他们没找到橡皮糖，在支架里的两个人，等他们的氧供应用完了，便在轨道里窒息而死了。
Far from the sun, in the outer solar system, beyond Jupiter's orbit, temperatures are low enough to permit ices to form out of water and out of gases like methane and carbon dioxide.
在远离太阳的外太阳系，在木星轨道之外，温度低到足以使冰从水以及甲烷和二氧化碳等气体中形成。
The size of the planet and its orbit can be worked out by measuring the frequency and size of these 'blinks'.
星球的大小和它的轨道是可以通过测量它的频率和闪现的大小算出来的。
And out of this information you get the radius, the velocity and the period, assuming that you are on Earth in the plane of the orbit of the stars.
除了这个，还能得到半径的大小，速度以及周期，假设你在地球上，和这些恒星环绕的，轨道同处一个平面。
Using an ion drive, it will gently nudge these useless scraps out of orbit.
通过使用电离驱动，太空舱将把那些无用的废弃物轻轻推出轨道。
The new model, which tracks thousands of tiny particles beyond the orbit of Neptune, could help astronomers work out the properties of planets in other stars' dust disks.
这个新模型追踪了海王星轨道外数无数个微小物体的运行轨迹，它可以帮助天文学家计算出其他星系尘埃盘中行星的特性。
For all its flaws, it was a bold idea: to replace the throw-away rockets that began the space age with a truck that could go in and out of orbit routinely.
鉴于它的所有缺点，这是个大胆的构想：以能够例行进出轨道的运载工具取代一次性的火箭而开启太空时代。
They used a giant armlike device to yank the Hubble out of its orbit and place it in the Atlantis’ cargo bay.
他们用一台巨大的臂形装置,用力将哈勃拔出其所在的轨道,并将其放入“亚特兰蒂斯号”的货舱之中。
While that won't be enough to knock it out of orbit, it could be sufficient to avoid a collision with a space station or satellite.
尽管这并不足以使太空垃圾偏离轨道，但已足够防止它们和人造卫星或者太空站相撞。
At the moment it is still working, but when its fuel runs out, sometime between 2016 and 2018, it will become a giant piece of junk-one that will remain in a crowded orbit for 150 years. Or not.
尽管它目前仍在工作，但其燃料会2016年至2018的某个时刻耗尽，届时它成为一块巨大的太空垃圾且将在拥挤的轨道上存续150年，甚至不止150年。
A new report by the National Research Council warns that the problem of space junk in earth's orbit is on the verge of getting out of control.
一份由国家研究委员会作出的新报告警告称，地球轨道上太空垃圾的问题濒临失控的边缘。
And in the case of a star like the sun, it could do so all the way out to the orbit of Saturn.
如果有像太阳那样的一颗恒星，这完全可以在土星的轨道上行得通。
The ISV’s antimatter engines BLAZE to life and it accelerates out of orbit.
随着反物质引擎的点火，太空船加速飞离轨道。
At the moment it is still working, but when its fuel runs out, sometime between 2016 and 2018, it will become a giant piece of junk-one that will remain in a crowded orbit for 150 years.
尽管它目前仍在工作，但其燃料会2016年至2018的某个时刻耗尽，届时它成为一块巨大的太空垃圾且将在拥挤的轨道上存续150年。
"You're putting energy into the moon's orbit and taking it out of the Earth's spin," says James Williams, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
资深科学家詹姆斯·威廉姆斯说：“这样的情况就相当于在月球沿着其轨道运行的时候对它施加能量，使其摆脱对地球的公转。”他就职于加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳市的美国国家航空航天局喷气推进实验室。
On first blush, you might think not: the planet where the comet or comets came to grief is farther out than Mars, in an orbit where water would be permanently frozen.
一开始你可能不会这样认为，因为太阳系里和彗星发生过碰撞的行星都比火星还远，在那样的轨道上水永远是以冰的形式存在。
This fact did not prevent the making of the 1961 film "the Day the Earth Caught Fire," in which nuclear testing knocks the Earth out of its orbit and towards the sun.
可是这个事实并不能阻挡1961年电影《地球起火的那一天》的拍摄，在这部电影里核试验把地球冲出它的运行轨道而走向太阳。
These are only 18 feet on a side and designed to increase atmospheric drag and thus help satellites out of orbit.
这是一个只有18英尺的小型太阳帆，旨在增加大气阻力以帮助卫星脱离轨道。
With the next set of images, JPL’s Steve Chesley forecast a more precise orbit, and he ruled out an impact.
根据接下来的一组照片，喷气推进实验室的史蒂夫·切斯利预测出更精确的轨道，他排除了撞击的可能。
With the next set of images, JPL's Steve Chesley forecast a more precise orbit, and he ruled out an impact.
根据接下来的一组照片，喷气推进实验室的史蒂夫·切斯利预测出更精确的轨道，他排除了撞击的可能。
A mission to Mars could involve swinging a spacecraft out of the Earth's orbit and into that of Mars before slowly making a descent.
执行火星任务可能涉及到如何摆脱地球的轨道，成为火星的卫星，然后才慢慢地降落。
Considering these can clearly be seen from orbit the formations are raising some eyebrows with geeks trying to figure out what exactly they are for.
考虑到这些东西可以清楚的从地球轨道上用肉眼看到，因此有必要猜猜它们是用来干什么的。
Discovery had enough power and supplies to stay in orbit until Wednesday, but NASA was holding out that option only if a technical problem arose that needed time to be resolved.
“发现”号有足够的能量和供给维持飞行到周三，但只有当需费时解决的技术问题出现时，NASA才会考虑这种选择。
The ability to rendezvous in orbit could be used to help clear out space junk or inspect or fix satellites.
轨道相会技术可以被用作清理太空垃圾或是卫星修理。
Keeping the X-37 in orbit will provide us with additional experimentation opportunities and allow us to extract the maximum value out of the mission.
在轨x - 37空天飞机将为我们提供更多的试验机会，让我们在任务中获取最大价值。
Out of that pops its velocity in orbit and out of it pops its radius.
然后是轨道上的速度,然后是半径。
If Earth circled the sun in Uranus' orbit, it wouldn't be able to clean out its neighborhood and would thus not qualify as a planet, Stern said.
如果地球在天王星的轨道环绕太阳，它就无法将附近区域彻底清空，那它也就没资格被看作行星了。Stern说。
But if your surgeon doesn't know how to do it and you tell them to start taking the fat out from above the orbit, that can lead to complications.
但如果你的手术医生不知道该如何做，而你告诉他们应该从去除眼眶上的脂肪组织开始，就有发生并发症的可能。
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