Dozens of sub-orbital flights have been made, and orbital deployment is the next test.
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The last part of Kepler's model is the relationship between orbital period and orbital distance.
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Image: Orbital ATK/NASANumber of seconds after launch that Orbital ATK's Antares rocket will become visible.
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The accident prompted Orbital to refurbish the Antares rocket That accident prompted Orbital to refurbish the Antares rocket.
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The first commercial resupply contracts were awarded seven years ago to SpaceX and Orbital Sciences (now Orbital ATK).
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Orbital Atk Inc: * DARPA SELECTS ORBITAL ATK FOR HYPERSONIC ENGINE RESEARCH PROJECT Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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But such orbital launches aren't that frequent: the US conducted just 23 orbital launches in 20173, according to Space News.
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Orbital has spent nearly two years redesigning the Antares Since the accident, Orbital has spent nearly two years redesigning the Antares.
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The company has already done sub-orbital proving flights of its launch system, and the first orbital launch is scheduled for December.
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And now, proposals have surfaced for a variety of orbital garbage trucks that might pick up space debris and clear the orbital lanes.
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The latest evidence of this orbital entropy has been observed by NASA's HiRISE camera snapping orbital shots from onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
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Naiad and Thalassa's strange salsa — a type of repeating orbital pattern known as an orbital resonance — was likely set up in the distant astronomical past.
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Artist rendition of Blue Origin orbital rocket facility / Image courtesy of Blue Origin Artist rendition of Blue Origin orbital rocket facility / Image courtesy of Blue Origin Power To Go Orbital New Glenn will make use of seven BE-4 engines burning liquefied natural gas and liquid oxygen.
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In an announcement Friday, Orbital Marine Power said it planned to deploy its Orbital O2 2MW turbine at the European Marine Energy Centre, in Orkney, in 2020.
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The acquisition offers a boost to the defense giant's rocket business, with Orbital ATK's orbital vehicles and missile defense systems helping to make Northrop's offerings more robust.
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Musk said that the next Starship test flight after the sub-orbital trip for Mk1 might be an orbital launch with the full Super Heavy booster and Mk20193.
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Those initial test will be sub-orbital flights, Musk said on Friday, with orbital tests to follow some "2 to 3 months" after those first test flights 2 to 3 months from today – so, that puts the earliest orbital test flights for Starship at just 4 to 6 months from now.
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In an announcement Tuesday, Orbital Marine Power said the award of the multi-million-pound contract marked the start of "major construction" on the Orbital O2 tidal stream turbine.
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Parker Solar Probe completed its first orbital journey around the Sun, reaching its aphelion point, that is, it's farthest orbital distance from our star, on January 19, 2019, reported NASA.
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Right now, Orbital produces analysis about retail, agricultural yield forecasting, and competitive intelligence for the U.S. government (though Crawford says he's not allowed to say which agencies Orbital works with).
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Mission controllers will conduct a series of orbital maneuvers "to demonstrate the performance of the propellant during attitude control maneuvers, changes in orbital inclination and orbit lowering," according to NASA.
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"We want to change Apollo 8 from an Earth orbital to a lunar orbital flight," Slayton said, according to Frank Poole in his book Earthrise: How Man first saw the Earth.
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The Orbital Reflector presented an opportunity to ''get messy . . .
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Artist's conception of the Orbital ReflectorIllustration: Orbital ReflectorAs if there isn't already enough junk in space, an artist is planning to launch a reflective, inflatable sculpture to low Earth orbit in October.
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Correction 5/3/19: A previous version of this article stated that Orbital Sciences was rebranded as Orbital ATK but it was actually later rebranded as Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems in 2018.
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NASA previously awarded private official "Commercial Resupply Services" for the ISS, which is a similar type of business but much closer to home, to SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, and then another round of CRS contracts more recently to Orbital ATK (the new Northrop Grumman-owned entity which Orbital Sciences became), Sierra Nevada and SpaceX once again.
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"We estimate the number of orbital debris 21 cm and larger is approximately 22016,30.223, and the number of orbital debris 230.22 mm or larger is in the order of 29,22015,000," said Dr. Liou.
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Included in this orbital "clown car" was the Orbital Reflector, a satellite designed by artist Trevor Paglen to deploy a massive, inflatable balloon coated with a reflective paint once it was in orbit.
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ORBITAL DEBRIS offers a classic "tragedy of the commons" problem.
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Orbital did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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But it is because its orbital period is so long.
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Farout, by comparison, orbits at three times Pluto's orbital distance.
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Traditional defense contractors are also developing their own orbital rockets.
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The first orbital fight for Starship is planned for 2020.
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NASA insists there's a business case for its orbital outpost.
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" Orbital ATK: "You don't want everything wrapped up in there.
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The orbital paths of HD 131399Ab and its three suns.
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Orbital insertions are difficult manoeuvres at the best of times.
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Orbital flights are scheduled for three to four years hence.
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"Chime" by Orbital is that kind of track for me.
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With too little regulation, certain orbital altitudes could become unusable.
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The umpire sustained a broken orbital bone under his eye.
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Orbital flights will be conducted in three to four years.
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Later, orbital traveler, and thanks for keeping watch for missiles.
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By switching to the Atlas, Orbital was able to add about 660 extra pounds to the Cygnus capsule, according to Frank Culbertson, a former astronaut and president of the space subsystems group for Orbital ATK.
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Orbital inclinations of planets in the solar system / Image courtesy of NASA Orbital inclinations of planets in the solar system / Image courtesy of NASA To scientists, Pluto had always been a bit of an oddball.
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Until now, SpaceX and Orbital ATK weren't actually docking their spaceships.
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This kind of orbital mapping is more than just scientifically interesting.
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Orbital ATK's Pegasus XL rocket is capable of launching from air.
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Orbital launches are the next big step for Bezos' rocket company.
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It plans to launch its first orbital flight later this year.
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Several private companies are planning to offer suborbital and orbital flights.
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It's been a good few days at Orbital ATK and SpaceX.
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Image credit: Orbital ATKThe change in form is driven by function.
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We also need to develop an appreciation of the orbital ecology.
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The asteroid Bennu, seen here after OSIRIS-REx's "Orbital B" insertion.
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John Glenn boards a rescue ship after completing his orbital flight.
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Within five years, Orbital ATK hopes to have five in space.
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Orbital was one of those bands that had success early on.
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The meteor showers occur when Earth crosses the comet's orbital path.
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After the accident, Orbital sped up plans to replace the motors.
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Orbital had spare cables, though, and was reworking the issue yesterday.
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Orbital flights are said to be on the books for 2020.
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It offers 360 degrees of orbital rotation and 380 different positions.
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They're named after the M25, which is also called 'the Orbital.
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The founder of Orbital Insight, for example, is in his 50s.
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The Nevada-based Sierra Nevada Corporation acquired Orbital Technologies in 2014.
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And when that happens, the mission team sees excellent orbital performance.
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In turn, Orbital shares were about 20 percent in the premarket.
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This was the first time Electron's orbital deployment systems were tested.
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That videoconference across orbital altitude began an exchange program of sorts.
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Too much junk in one orbital field can render it useless.
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But Naiad's perfectly timed undulations provide orbital stability, said Dr. Brozović.
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The orbital path of the star S103 is outlined in yellow.
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The orbital path of the star S2 is outlined in yellow.
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Orbital can launch 300 kilograms, or 660 pounds, more cargo on the Atlas V than it can with the Antares, according to Frank DeMauro, Orbital ATK's vice president and general manager of the advanced programs division.
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Orbital lines popped up to illustrate the asteroid's path near to Ada.
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An Orbital ATK Antares rocket launches from a NASA facility in 2017.
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Compare that to comet Hyakutake, which has a 70,000-year orbital period.
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Orbital Insight, in other words, has the keys to the time machine.
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Musk said the company should have its first orbital prototype by June.
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The rules of orbital mechanics mean that requires a lot of energy.
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These images were captured during Juno's first orbital flyby of the planet.
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Nicole already pushed back Orbital ATK's launch plan by about three days.
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Orbital last raised an $8.7 million round in March of last year.
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ESA fully expects the orbital insertion to go off without a hitch.
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The main purpose of the screens is to provide orbital flight tracking.
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Measuring blips in starlight can determine the exoplanet's size and orbital path.
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From that point, it was out of the Orbital Reflector team's hands.
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Tokyo-based Itochu Corporation gave funding to satellite analytics company Orbital Insight.
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Measuring dips in starlight can determine the exoplanet's size and orbital path.
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Steinmeyer declined to say how much Orbital was investing in the project.
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The team carried out a flawless flight with incredibly precise orbital insertion.
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Orbital Insight is not alone in capturing satellite images of the fire.
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Orbital Insight generates analytics for businesses using satellite imagery and other data.
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That means we're in for a long and exciting orbital insertion tonight.
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Orbital also supplies solid rocket motors and other rocket parts for ULA.
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Larger, orbital vehicles are next on the Blue Origin to-do list.
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I hope to share details about this first orbital vehicle this year.
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I actually remember what the song was: "On and On" by Orbital.
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Anytime, however, an orbital system exists, the possibility of tidal systems exists.
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You can see that for lower orbital distances, it is indeed faster.
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Orbital ATK was advised by Citigroup and the law firm Hogan Lovells.
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It's already being tested underwater, and orbital testing is scheduled for 2023.
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What's more, this orbital configuration would not appear again for 175 years.
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Rasio predicted this orbital evolution but was not involved in this study.
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The orbital distance between planets and stars is also a key detail.
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Early Sunday morning, the Starliner shed its service module and orbital thrusters.
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However, we don't know where those bits of orbital junk might land.
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They can be used to identify patterns -- patterns like orbital debris paths.
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And this is, like, a type of microdermabrasion that&aposs called orbital.
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Orbital Marine Power, a Scottish engineering company, will use the money to construct a production model of its Orbital O2 2MW turbine, which it claims will be the "most powerful tidal generating platform in the world" when launched.
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Today, with the launch of Orbital ATK-built communications satellite THAICOM 8 from Kennedy Space Center's Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX has for the fourth time landed the Falcon 93's first stage after a challenging orbital launch.
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Orbital ATK Antares rocket explosion on October 28th 2014 / Image courtesy of NASA Orbital ATK Antares rocket explosion on October 28th 2014 / Image courtesy of NASA The most notable change in the upgraded Antares is the main engine.
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Cygnus OA-6 mission profile / Image courtesy of Orbital ATK Cygnus OA-6 mission profile / Image courtesy of Orbital ATK Among Cygnus' scientific cargo is a 3-D printer, a "Gecko Gripper" study, and a large-scale fire experiment.
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But it's also true that Musk envisions a future where orbital space is a much busier place, and a staging ground for orbital cargo transfer and refueling as Moon and Mars-bound spacecraft ready themselves for the outward journey.
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You have orbital predictability for a while, but eventually, chaotic diffusion inevitably ensues.
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Snag one today in a Silver or Orbital Grey finish for just $20.99.
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"He mutilated her face and she had orbital and skull fractures," says Nikolov.
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Diagram showing the orbital path of Goblin relative to other Solar System objects.
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"Intentionally creating orbital debris fields is not compatible with human spaceflight," he said.
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The report, by Orbital ATK, was commissioned by a group of 10 automakers.
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Orbital developed the Cygnus spacecraft that delivers cargo to the International Space Station.
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LAUNCH (1 hr, 28 min after sunrise)9:45:26 pm Orbital insertion
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Their clients — military, corporate, private — used the balloons in place of orbital satellites.
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Perella Weinberg is the financial adviser to Northrop, while Citigroup is advising Orbital.
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Boeing's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test is targeted for launch no earlier than April.
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Musk also said he expects the first orbital launch to happen in 2020.
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Dr Cuk's explanation relies on another form of orbital perturbation called an evection.
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People are rightfully concerned about what to do with all this orbital litter.
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Asteroids included on this list have different orbits, spin rates and orbital speeds.
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One does not engineer and test an orbital launch system in a day.
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Our sources tell us she's believed to have suffered a broken orbital bone.
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I felt very fortunate to have been selected for the first orbital flight.
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The gravitational interplay between Earth and the Moon makes this orbital configuration possible.
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Correction: A previous version of this article stated that Orbital has one rocket.
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"I've got a busted orbital, I'm getting injections on my knee," he said.
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And beyond that, Orbital eventually wants to get into the space habitat business.
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With this upcoming launch, Orbital will be using its own rockets once again.
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"Orbital refilling is vital to humanity's future in space," Musk tweeted on Thursday.
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Grego advised combining defensive space technology with stronger legal limits on orbital weaponry.
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Orbital was much more...ravey, I suppose, than anything I was involved with.
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That's the company's spaceplane that's designed to take passengers into sub-orbital space.
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Take Lockheed Martin's investment in Terran Orbital this summer as just one example.
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Mosher: The Gateway is kind of like this orbital outpost for the moon.
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According to Anderson, Ulysses had surgery on his orbital socket on Christmas Eve.
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Two companies, SpaceX and Orbital ATK, now regularly deliver cargo to the station.
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Ahead, the cutest orbital piercings from New York and L.A. piercers on Instagram.
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Northrop is valued at $46.5 billion, while Orbital is valued at $6.3 billion.
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The observations of the orbital patterns were made using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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News of the potential orbital smash-up came via Bigelow Aerospace's Twitter account.
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Previously, only orbital radar has been used to look through Martian polar ice.
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SpaceX will next develop and flight-test orbital prototypes of its Starship spacecraft.
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The New Shepard is Blue Origin's reusable sub-orbital rocket The New Shepard is Blue Origin's reusable sub-orbital rocket, designed to take six passengers up to the edge of space where they can experience a few minutes of weightlessness.
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Famously, before Glenn took off on his first orbital spaceflight, he requested Johnson double-check all the orbital math of the mission by hand — being slightly distrustful of the new-fangled electronic computers that NASA had installed to do the work.
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Two orbital objects ramming into each other can have disastrous implications: Each piece of shrapnel from such a collision becomes uncontrollable garbage, and at orbital speeds, something smaller than a thumb tack could blow a hole into another critical satellite.
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There's also a business incentive: Keeping their orbital planes clean will be essential for companies like OneWeb that are investing billions in their constellations, according to Shagun Sachdeva, an analyst at Northern Sky who has researched megaconstellations and orbital debris management.
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Once complete, SpaceX will run a first test of the orbital prototype with the goal of reaching a height of 12 miles, or 63,000 feet, before moving on to higher velocity testing at similar heights, and finally a first orbital flight.
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It's called the Orbital Reflector, and it's the brainchild of U.S. artist Trevor Paglen.
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And Rocket Lab is already preparing for its next orbital launch, set for December.
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Each of these chunks of shrapnel exponentially increases the chance of another orbital collision.
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It's the country's first launch site and the first private orbital launch range ever.
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Cleveland receiver Taylor Gabriel went to a hospital after suffering a fractured orbital socket.
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And in June Northrop Grumman scooped up Orbital ATK, a rocket-builder, for $9.2bn.
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What sets the vehicle apart from other orbital rockets in operation is its size.
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A forty foot-wide orbital telescope that'll search for proof of life beyond Earth.
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Sierra Nevada was picked for that round, along with SpaceX and Orbital ATK again.
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This Orbital ATK resupply vehicle just became the world's largest flaming trashcan in space.
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Northrop Grumman may also get a foothold through its recent acquisition of Orbital ATK.
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SpaceX is the only rocket company that safely lands boosters after launching orbital missions.
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This kind of orbital signal sniffing also used to be the domain of governments.
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Six seconds into its last departure for the ISS, Orbital ATK's Antares rocket exploded.
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The first shell has one type "s" orbital, for a maximum of two electrons.
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But within a certain orbital radius, known as the Roche limit, moons cannot form.
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The "kill shot," for lack of a better term, was in her left orbital.
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At low altitudes (anything under about 2,000km), orbital mechanics is a surprisingly imprecise science.
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Clockwise from top left: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Sierra Nevada, and Orbital ATK's concept spacecraft.
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Their peculiar behavior allowed astronomers to determine their size, mass and short orbital period.
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If that goes well, then Orbital will be on track for its July launch.
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The planned orbital heights of the rest of the 4,409 satellites haven't been changed.
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It's not clear exactly why SpaceX has received so many more orders than Orbital.
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Safety and chopping down risk are always on NASA's and Orbital ATK's front burners.
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Orbital is expected to debut an updated version of the Antares on May 31st.
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But in the meantime, Orbital ATK needed to launch cargo to the space station.
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So as a stopgap measure, Orbital turned to the United Launch Alliance for help.
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One can imagine both SpaceX and Boeing taking passengers on stand-alone orbital jaunts.
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"NASA astronaut Ron Garan explains this incredible feeling in his book, "The Orbital Perspective.
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They are, further aware of adversary capabilities to exploit American dependence on orbital systems.
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The mission involves putting 24 different spacecraft into orbit, along three separate orbital paths.
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Rotating crews of astronauts and cosmonauts have staffed the orbital outpost since November 2000.
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To date, DiuX has invested in Quid, Saildrone, Orbital Insight, Shield AI and more.
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Orbital ATK currently manages Lake City until Olin Winchester takes over October 1, 2020.
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The first big check-up of his broken orbital bones is in a month.
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"We flew a major subpiece of the of the orbital craft's software," Lindsey said.
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In case you're not familiar, an orbital is a bit like an industrial piercing.
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Howard suffered a concussion and later learned he had a broken orbital bone too.
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The idea, if successfully implemented, would solve several orbital headaches in one fell swoop.
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New Shepard is a sub-orbital space-visiting platform, not a satellite-launching one.
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The greatest victory of the Orbital Worker's Union is shown early in the game.
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Traditionally, orbital rockets don't survive the trip into space and cannot be used again.
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Somewhere out there is the Olympic Stadium and that awful ugly orbital thing. pic.twitter.
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Orbital Insight found that foot traffic disappeared as well as potential shoppers stayed home.
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This debris forms a cloud all along Swift-Tuttle's orbital path around the Sun.
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The relationship between period and orbital distance gives a "21 = 23" equation for Earth.
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When Paglen approached him about the Orbital Reflector, Oboodiyat immediately recognized its potential lyricism.
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Engineers cluster around SpinLaunch's first orbital rocket; a centrifuge is visible in the background.
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Perella Weinberg Partners is the financial adviser to Northrop while Citigroup is advising Orbital.
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That's about 8x the number of satellites currently in orbit, across all orbital zones.
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Going forward we will do everything needed to ensure safe orbital flights with crew.
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She would go on to calculate crucial rocket trajectories, orbital paths and launch windows.
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So "Orbital Vanitas" is both a celebration of virtual reality and also a critique.
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The mission, called Boeing Orbital Flight Test (OFT), is only carrying cargo, not humans.
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SpaceX's Crew Dragon already completed its orbital flight and docking test, called Demo-1.
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The Data Orbital survey of 85033 likely voters in Arizona was conducted between Oct.
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But it's still unclear whether there's enough demand to justify all that orbital internet.
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The company said it will conduct its first orbital test flight later this year.
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Illustration of Thaicom 8 satellite / Image courtesy of Orbital ATK Illustration of Thaicom 53 satellite / Image courtesy of Orbital ATK SpaceX had previously launched another satellite for Thaicom, the Thaicom 6 satellite, in January of 2014 on only their second mission to GEO.
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In the complaint, filed at the U.S. District court in the district of Minnesota, Orbital said it was seeking damages for breach of contract over the XM25 semi-automatic weapon system which Orbital and Heckler & Koch started developing more than 20 years ago.
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Orbital acknowledged the unauthorized access of SSL's data and fired the employee, but did not respond to questions about the scope of the breach or about five other Orbital employees whom NASA said may have read the SSL documents, the lawsuit said.
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Dream Chaser's Shooting Star can also actually become an orbital satellite itself – its design allows for an inflatable module to be attached that can essentially convert it into an orbital platform with a very high payload and power capacity with an inflatable module.
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Long March-7 is a medium-lift orbital vehicle, powered by kerosene and liquid oxygen.
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Despite their size, however, they behave like moons, each with its own unique orbital pattern.
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It was the last planned test flight before Virgin Galactic will attempt an orbital mission.
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With an orbital period of 248 Earth years, the little world's winters can last decades.
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In the whole of 2016, all countries and companies together managed just 85 orbital launches.
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The BE1.463 is going to power Blue Origin's new orbital rocket called the New Glenn.
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Descartes Labs Both Descartes and Orbital are playing in the emerging market of geospatial analytics.
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During the brawl, one officer suffered an orbital eye fracture and another broke his hand.
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The First Orbital Selfie Stick To film themselves, astronauts rigged a camera to a pole.
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You'll don the role of Fireteam Raven — an elite group of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.
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His list of early investments include Carbon, Farmer's Business Network, Abundant Robotics and Orbital Insight.
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This time, it's private spaceflight company Orbital ATK that's in charge of the resupply run.
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The pass was the first of 22016 planned orbital flybys, NASA said in a statement.
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Switchblades can be loaded up with miniature, but ultra-powerful warheads made by Orbital ATK.
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Paint circles around your eyes pushing as hard as you can around the orbital area.
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First stages of previous Falcon 9 iterations have flown a maximum of two orbital missions.
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Orbital Insight's business is centered on the large-scale analysis of satellite and UAV imagery.
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In its record-breaking approach, Juno completed just one of its scheduled 36 orbital flybys.
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Think less of carbon fiber and 3D printing, and more of plaster and orbital sanders.
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Two weeks after the announcement, traffic was up, but only by 5 percent, Orbital said.
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The Air Force's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle sits on a runway after visiting space.
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But Orbital claims the engines were responsible for the accident and decided to replace them.
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Incumbents Space Exploration Technologies and Orbital ATK are vying with privately owned Sierra Nevada Corp.
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Juno's "orbital insertion" means that three Lego figures are also now in orbit around Jupiter.
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NASA knows freedom, because NASA is amping up this Independence Day with an orbital insertion.
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That orbital neatness affects the number of planets that TESS&apos transit method can identify.
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The spacecraft will stay docked to the ISS for about two months, according to Orbital.
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"We're already more than three years into development of our first orbital vehicle," he wrote.
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Orbital space travel will also be available to tourists in the near future, he adds.
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We still know very little about the orbital rocket that Blue Origin plans to build.
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The Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway would be expensive, costing $85033 million in fiscal 2019 alone.
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However, he should convene a panel of experts to review the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway.
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Orbital ATK, with its Cygnus capsule, is the only other company actively resupplying the station.
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Mercury orbits close to the sun, with an orbital radius about 40% that of Earth.
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NASA hired SpaceX and Orbital ATK to resupply the station after it retired the shuttles.
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This orbital sunrise is an example of what not to miss: View the discussion thread.
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That task remains incomplete today with only half of the "Orbital Reflector's" cluster being identified.
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Nigeria doesn't have a global network of sensors to track stuff in their orbital neighborhood.
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Orbital, which makes space rocket motors and satellites, has a market value of $6.3 billion.
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In January 2019, a crowdfunding round raised £7 million for the Orbital O2 2MW project.
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When it's closer to the sun, it has a small orbital radius but moves faster.
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Finally, Cramer turned to defense contractor Northrop Grumman's $7.8 billion bid to buy Orbital ATK.
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Khalaf is a Republican strategist and pollster at Data Orbital, based out of Phoenix, Ariz.
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The laser altimeter works like any typical orbital laser ranger you have around the house.
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We didn't have really the knowledge of orbital physics the way we understand it today.
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"Hyperbolic" is the technical term for an orbital path that does not close on itself.
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"Now the first orbital test launch, instead of December 2020, is early 2021," Ellis said.
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That will be a flight to a sub-orbital altitude of just under 70,000 feet.
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Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos is already developing his own reusable orbital rocket, the New Glenn.
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Branson's Galactic, one of two Virgin-branded space companies (the other is Virgin Orbit, which intends to provide orbital commercial small satellite launch capabilities), will seek to bring paying tourists to sub-orbital space using its SpaceShipTwo spacecraft and modified carrier airplane launch platform.
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The game is known for its extremely realistic simulation of spaceflight and orbital mechanics The game is known for its extremely realistic simulation of spaceflight and orbital mechanics, with enterprising players being known to accidentally learn some advanced physics to succeed in the game.
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With over 500,000 pieces of known and tracked orbital debris—even the smallest of which can destroy a satellite or put crewed missions in danger—figuring out how to remove this debris and ensure a sustainable orbital future is paramount for the space sector.
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Stratolaunch signed a deal last year to launch Orbital ATK's Pegasus XL rocket from the plane.
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Northrop Grumman declined to comment and Orbital did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Hyten warned that adversaries will soon be able to threaten US satellites in every orbital regime.
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Orbital Marine Power's CEO, Andrew Scott, said that the firm was "delighted" with the funding result.
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In June, the aerospace and defense tech firm acquired rocket maker Orbital ATK for $22018 billion.
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Moreover, the industry standards for geostationary satellites limit their spread to a 15 degree orbital inclination.
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The orbital period is constant, but there is a slight variation as seen from the Earth.
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The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, Monday, Oct.
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This is known as "orbital emphysema," and it usually goes away on its own, he said.
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The company completed sub-orbital flights in 2018 as precursors to the SQX-1 Y1 rocket.
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Bezos' company is also planning to build and launch orbital-class rockets from Florida as well.
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The satellites will "automatically maneuver around any orbital debris," he said, to avoid collisions in space.
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Next Tuesday, Orbital ATK will launch their Cygnus cargo vehicle to the International Space Station (ISS).
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It's the idea of rapidly sending passengers to distant locations on Earth, using sub-orbital rockets.
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A majority of respondents to the Data Orbital poll had a strongly favorable opinion of him.
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"They have engaged in discussions with the orbital debris community from the very beginning," he says.
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The potential regions of visibility for Orbital ATK's Antares rocket launch, scheduled for 8:03 p.m.
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It was just recently discovered around Jupiter's co-orbital region, and stumped scientists who studied it.
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More simply, these synchronized orbital periods can be expressed as the ratio 2200:6:4:3.
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You know the rest of our long national space story: five decades of orbital-only boondoggles.
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One, in a rare stab at humour, is called ORDEAL: Orbital Rate Display, Earth and Lunar.
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If you're a wonk, maybe Orbital ATK, or Blue Origin, owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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The successful orbital launch was preceded by two failures since late last year by other startups.
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Shares of Orbital and Huntington Ingalls closed up over 2 percent and over 1 percent, respectively.
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Orbital is confident that things will go well, though, but nerves will still be running high.
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These tiny chunks then form a stream of particles that stretches along the comet's orbital path.
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Weather is looking good, too, with a 95 percent chance of favorable conditions, according to Orbital.
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On Monday, Musk added that orbital flights with the booster and spaceship could begin in 2020.
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Landing an orbital rocket post-launch will put Blue Origin in a whole new ball game.
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The TAO Clean Orbital Facial Brush System might be just the thing to get you started.
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The assault left her with a broken orbital bone and facial injuries that required reconstructive surgery.
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It conducts orbital missions for commercial satellite companies as well as NASA and the US military.
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"Orbital refilling is vital to humanity's future in space," Musk tweeted after the partnership was announced.
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On Wednesday afternoon, Raytheon traded approximately 1.60 percent higher while Orbital ATK was up 2.14 percent.
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Donaire, we'll find out later, broke part of Inoue's orbital bone and nose with this shot.
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The company made the first Atlas rockets used by Project Mercury, NASA's manned orbital flight program.
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The other aspect is of course 'constructs,' which can be space ships, houses or orbital stations.
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"Going forward we will do everything needed to ensure safe orbital flights with crew," Boeing said.
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It's basically a pair of pants housed in the Russian Orbital Segment of the space station.
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NASA also used its 4K trick to sex up an Orbital ATK launch earlier this month.
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He also said he wants to build giant orbital structures that could host self-sustaining colonies.
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After the design validation tests, Orbital ATK kicked its 18-station assembly line into high gear.
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How do you find the orbital distance for a planet that isn't moving in a circle?
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The Orbital Reflector, as Paglen calls it, seems at first glance almost romantic, even deliberately naïve.
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In an Instagram post, the SpaceX chief described the "sordid history" of orbital rocket Falcon 9.
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The orbital economy is heating up and the infrastructure to support it is starting to creak.
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The fire was causing tailbacks on the nearby Moscow orbital highway, according to live traffic data.
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The demand for orbital launches is increasing steadily, and the industry is nowhere near keeping up.
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Even those flecks of paint, moving at orbital speeds, are enough to seriously damage a spacecraft.
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Such events occur when two roughly sun-size stars get locked in a deadly orbital dance.
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He sustained a concussion and an orbital bone injury and required as many as 100 stitches.
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is famous for his orbital musical renditions, and Christmas is no exception.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft sampled the plumes of Enceladus, but larger material typically doesn't reach orbital height.
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Artist rendition of Blue Origin orbital rocket facility / Image courtesy of Blue Origin Artist rendition of Blue Origin orbital rocket facility / Image courtesy of Blue Origin Bezos stated that the entire rocket would be manufactured in this facility with the exception of the rocket engines themselves.
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Orbital said in the filing, seen by Reuters, that Heckler & Koch had failed to deliver twenty additional prototypes of the XM25 weapon systems, as contracted, and that its failure to do so meant the U.S. Army had raised the possibility of terminating its contract with Orbital.
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NASA hired privately owned SpaceX and Orbital ATK to resupply the station after the shuttles were retired.
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It's also drunk as hell, spinning on its side at a 98 degrees off its orbital plane.
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That goes on to include d and f orbital shapes, which hold 27 and 27 electrons, respectively.
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The same launch that delivered Orbital Reflector, for example, also deposited artist Tavares Strachan's Eonoch sculpture-satellite.
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The impact broke his nose and two orbital bones, and caused severe damage to his right eye.
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Muthart said she underwent emergency to "clean her empty orbital sockets" but was now home and recovering.
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Vector, whose first public customer is the orbital radar-maker Iceye, is a similar rocket start-up.
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Once ready, it'll be paired with SpaceX's future "Super Heavy" launch rocket for extra-orbital launch capabilities.
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Alas, Piazzi would not be the one who ultimately found a way to crunch those orbital numbers.
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The DART scientists expect that their mission, if successful, will decrease that orbital time by eight minutes.
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Additionally, SpaceX made history as the first company to fly the same orbital-class rocket three times.
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Scrappy scientific upstarts have, for a while, been building smallsats to get orbital data on the cheap.
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Steve Shelton: A close-up of the orbital socket and horn of one of my ram skulls.
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In 2016, the SpaceX Falcon 9 made the first successful ocean landing of a reusable orbital rocket.
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The mini-Neptune was an exciting find for researchers because of its orbital period of 36 days.
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But Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck says that November flight was "flawless" and had great orbital accuracy.
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Because of this difference, experts believe SpaceX's orbital rocket is much more technically difficult to land successfully.
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To accelerate a spacecraft to Earth orbital speed of about 17,500 mph takes a lot of energy.
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There, the ascent vehicle will rendezvous with an orbital spacecraft to hitch a ride back to Earth.
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Blue Origin also intends to use the BE-4 on its as-yet unnamed orbital launch vehicle.
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Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company Blue Origin is inching ever closer to launching tourists into sub-orbital space.
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Compared to suborbital launches, orbital launches are much more difficult and require more power and technical complexity.
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Sunday's flight will take place nearly two years after Orbital ATK's launch failure on a similar mission.
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Orbital ATK's upgraded Antares rocket sits on a launchpad at Wallops Flight Facility on October 15th, 2016.
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As Wood said, "The countdown to the first orbital rocket launch from UK soil has officially begun."
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Image: NASA/JPL-CaltechJuno will start to experience that radiation fairly early in the orbital insertion maneuver.
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The clock starts ticking—will it complete the orbital insertion before the solar-powered batteries run out?
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We have a phenomenal orbital station collecting a wide array of data on our planet every minute.
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Early last month, the company officially announced plans for their first orbital rocket, known as New Glenn.
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The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) is the military's newest and most advanced re-entry spacecraft.
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As for orbital periods between one to four days—the short-period Neptunian desert—not so much.
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Unlike Orbital ATK's expendable Cygnus capsule, the Dragon is designed to survive the descent through Earth's atmosphere.
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After a six-day mission on the orbital outpost, Crew Dragon autonomously detached about 2:30 a.
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Orbital Systems, a 'clean-tech' startup out of Sweden, has raised £15 million in Series B funding.
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Today, this dead satellite, the Vanguard 1, holds the title of the oldest piece of orbital debris.
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The New Shepard is Blue Origin's premiere rocket meant to take paying customers into sub-orbital space.
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One objection that did carry water, however, was the request for an extensive orbital debris mitigation plan.
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After providing development awards, NASA has bought flights from SpaceX, Northrop Grumman-owned Orbital Sciences and Boeing.
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In this orbital configuration, it should take about five days for spacecraft from Earth to reach Gateway.
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Per my book, ice ages are driven by orbital variability, aided by a CO2 feedback: 2/ pic.twitter.
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Last year, SpaceX became the first company to launch and land the same orbital rocket three times.
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Almost immediately after the accident, both NASA and Orbital ATK launched investigations to look into the failure.
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Building a sustainable orbital habitat is far from the only milestone China hopes to achieve in space.
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Sounding rockets are much smaller, cheaper launch vehicles that send payloads on suborbital, rather than orbital, trajectories.
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NASA's commercial partner Orbital ATK pulled off the first major test of its new, upgraded rocket yesterday.
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" He said Allen "has a broken orbital bone," has "damage to his tongue," and underwent "brain scans.
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Right now, the company is really only involved in space tourism and sub-orbital research for NASA.
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The company is also optimistically hoping for an orbital test in as little as six months' time.
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Rapidly reusable orbital rocket systems will be key to making space travel practical and affordable, Musk said.
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The space agency also re-hired SpaceX and Orbital ATK, which currently fly cargo to the station.
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Likely opportunities, he told CNBC, could include these three space stocks: Ducommun, Orbital ATK and United Technologies.
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Hop tests are due to start in 2019 with the first orbital flights a few years later.
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Here's a shot of the array expanding like an orbital Fruit Roll-Up, sped up 300 percent.
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What had happened is, unbeknownst to me, I had broken my orbital lamina bone in my eye.
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Today, the Orbital ATK was finally able to fly Cygnus on top of their own rocket again.
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K2 will be used to better understand the orbital characteristics of each exoplanet and ultimately their masses.
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Using this for the distance, I get an orbital velocity of 6,576 meters per second (14,710 mph).
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Johnson was instrumental in getting the first astronauts into space with her equations of orbital space flight.
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From Lyn Collins to Alicia Keys to Orbital, this video reveals what made In Colour so fun.
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Even with high costs of launch and return, the math for orbital manufacturing works out, Rush says.
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Here is a plot of the magnitude of the planet's velocity as a function of orbital distance.
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We talked with all the industry partners: [United Launch Alliance,] SpaceX, Orbital ATK, Blue Origin, Aerojet Rocketdyne.
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Currently, SpaceX is building its Starship prototype for orbital testing at a facility in Boca Chica, Texas.
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Thomas Stafford of the Air Force on a three-day orbital mission testing rendezvous and docking procedures.
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Why is reusing the orbital class booster important to Mr. Musk's dream of sending people to Mars?
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At orbital speeds, even a small fleck of paint colliding with a satellite can cause critical damage.
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The satellite repair business is part of a $1 billion investment by Orbital in future space technologies.
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It's not clear if the timeline Musk laid out for Starship's first orbital test flight still stands.
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Trilobites Astronomers detected an orbital resonance between the two innermost satellites of the mysterious ice giant planet.
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It could complete its first orbital test this year, from the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak, Alaska.
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The orbit of 2015 BP519 is tilted 54 degrees from our orbital plane, according to the paper.
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During the downtime, Orbital bought rides for two Cygnus cargo ships aboard Atlas rockets, built and flown by United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co. Orbital conducted a 30-second engine test firing of the Antares at the Virginia launch pad on May 31.
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Researchers observed the orbital data collected by NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, which reached Saturn and its moons in 2004, and deduced that Saturn's moons Tethys, Dione, and Rhea are really young moons because there isn't evidence of changes in their orbital tilt that is typical of older moons.
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"While the agency provides live views from exterior space station cameras through the ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment, there has been no activity outside the space station since the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo spacecraft arrived to the orbital laboratory on Sunday," the spokeswoman explained in an email to Gizmodo.
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SpaceX is also priming Starlink for high-traffic operation (though the total constellation won't all be operating in the same orbital region, it'll still be a considerable addition to the orbital population relative to the roughly 8,000 objects that have been launched to space to date — in total).
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CrowdAI's most direct competitor, Orbital Insight, has raised more than $28 million, but focuses exclusively on satellite imagery.
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"By measuring the speed of the glitch, we can measure the orbital parameters of the object," Murray explained.
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This is the first time astronomers have directly measured the orbital motion of a black hole at all.
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This orbital region is 22,236 miles above the Earth and is often referred to as the Clarke belt.
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Normally, a protoplanetary disk rests along the same plane as the orbital plane of its binary star hosts.
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But the United States isn't the only country with good orbital infrastructure; check out this Japanese weather satellite.
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Orbital is counting on a smooth Antares launch to help attract other customers for the rocket besides NASA.
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Rubins, Ivanishin, and Onishi will spend approximately four months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in October.
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The Soviet Union by that time had sent two cosmonauts, Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov, on orbital flights.
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NASA has partnered with Lockheed Martin, Ball Aerospace, Orbital Sciences and others for the last decade and longer.
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You have SpaceX's Falcon 290 rocket, for instance, the United Launch Alliance's Atlas V, and Orbital ATK's Antares.
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So we didn't sweat orbital mechanics too much because that 17-year wait was such a significant statistic.
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These will perform high-altitude testing before SpaceX builds additional prototypes for orbital, and ultimately human, test flights.
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But if you do know what you're doing, there's now no easier way to book an orbital flight.
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Orbital has its own rocket, the Antares, which is also capable of sending the Cygnus to the station.
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This is a picture of the Orbital Cygnus spacecraft as it approached the International Space Station this weekend.
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Most of the exoplanets TESS will find are expected to have orbital periods of 10 days or less.
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This orbital temperature monitoring system will be 3% of the cost of existing solutions without losing measurement accuracy.
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Another interesting consequence of resonance, besides keeping planets alive, is that their orbital periods form whole number ratios.
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Giving a new agency a new regulatory authority over just orbital debris would have required changing the law.
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Playing the Jehuty Orbital Frame was an incredible feeling, because it felt like being a samurai in space.
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The company has been test launching its orbital Electron rocket since 2017, and serving customers commercially since 2018.
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And, for those of a technological mindset, it also offers the world's first private orbital-rocket-launching base.
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Northrop's purchase of Orbital would help sharpen its focus on small space systems, launch vehicles, missiles and munitions.
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NASA hired Orbital and SpaceX to fly cargo to the station after the shuttles were retired in 2011.
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Image credit: NASA/Scott Kelly[Orbital ATK]Top image: Cygnus spacecraft approaching the space station in December 2015.
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No damage was revealed in the initial inspection beyond a bit of wear-and-tear from orbital spaceflight.
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Oh, just for fun the orbital velocity at the height of Mount Newton would be 7252 m/s.
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In addition to the Humanity Star, artist Trevor Paglen launched a light-bouncing balloon called the Orbital Reflector.
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Hippocamp was actually first spotted in Hubble data in 2013 but its orbital configuration wasn't confirmed until now.
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That would make it the first orbital rocket of its kind to travel to space a second time.
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Orbital in January won an Air Force contract worth up to $180 million to develop rocket propulsion technologies.
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The ultimate prize, though, was a space station that would act as an orbital platform for commercial activities.
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More than 700 people have paid the $250,000 price to reserve a seat on the sub-orbital spaceplane.
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If things go well we could be doing the first orbital flights in about two to three years.
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Orbital ATK and Huntington Ingalls Industries lifted the sector ETF, both stocks were up over 2 percent earlier.
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The move should help mitigate orbital debris and provide better signal for the company's terrestrial users as well.
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"Orbital debris is a serious problem, but at the same time the sky is not falling," he said.
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Spacewalks look fun in theory, but the actual footage emphasizes just how alien the orbital environment really is.
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Orbital found a new ride in the Atlas V rocket, which is manufactured by the United Launch Alliance.
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This is known as a hot fire test, and early signs indicate that it was successful, Orbital says.
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Companies in the U.S. that have a great amount of launch heritage … like Lockheed Martin [or] Orbital ATK.
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Galileo realized that Jupiter was the center of an orbital system, which contradicted the teachings of the day.
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So NASA wants to pack the radiator up so that it doesn't get damaged by any orbital debris.
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With Orbital joining the fold, the firm sees this business growing 9 percent over the next four years.
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An image a tiny puncture made by orbital debris, or space junk, on the Solar Maximum Mission satellite.
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Back in December, SpaceX successfully launched and landed their Falcon 9 rocket in an orbital mission to space.
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The TEXO Group will undertake the work at its quayside facilities in the city of Dundee, Orbital said.
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She did trajectory analysis for the first human spaceflight and ran calculations personally for John Glenn's orbital mission.
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The rocket has to be fired opposite the Earth's motion so it can counteract the Earth's orbital velocity.
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These trips have invariably introduced an array of microbes to the orbital outpost, as have shipments of cargo.
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"This song is an ode to London's orbital motorway, the M25," said Jamie Smith in the press release.
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With the clock running out of time, it's unclear how long the "Orbital Reflect" will be fully operational.
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In short, Iridium tasked Orbital ATK with doing for aerospace what Henry Ford had done for the automobile.
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Astronomers had never found any evidence that the stars eclipse one another in those orbital paths until now.
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Each launch helps it build out its constellation, expanding the reach and frequency of its orbital imaging services.
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The lower half can be switched out when doing an orbital EVA versus a surface EVA, for instance.
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Cerrone&aposs nose was broken and he suffered a "mild" orbital bone fracture, as reported by MMA Fighting.
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Two other missions were lunar orbital test runs, and Apollo 13 was an aborted landing after a malfunction.
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In an Instagram post Thursday, the SpaceX chief executive described the "sordid history" of orbital rocket Falcon 9.
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All this has space nerds calling for the establishment of a set of orbital rules of the road.
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The Space Adventures spokesperson said the price tag would be "in the range as other orbital spaceflight opportunities."
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The other question arises, why should people be interested in rich people taking orbital jaunts around the world?
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Specific orbital trajectories and access to orbits are, in economics jargon, common-pool resources and public goods, respectively.
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Naiad and Thalassa's periodic, repetitive cha-cha is not the only noteworthy orbital resonance in the solar system.
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Death-by-reentry may seem like a wasteful way to dispose of expensive orbital infrastructure like Tiangong-1.
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It's the spacecraft that the company wants to use to send paying customers into sub-orbital space someday.
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An Orbital ATK L-1011 Stargazer aircraft carrying a Pegasus XL Rocket with eight NASA Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (Image: NASA)The Pegasus air-launched rocket was developed by Orbital ATK back in the 1990s, and it remains a cheap and effective way to deliver small satellites into orbit.
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The last few months have seen Orbital Marine Power announce a number of agreements relating to its newest turbine.
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Whenever a distant exoplanet is discovered, astronomers categorize it according to its most obvious physical features and orbital characteristics.
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DE WINNE: We will peacefully settle on orbital platforms and eventually, we will move out to the moon base.
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The Orbital ATK Antares rocket is rolled from the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) to launch Pad-0A, Thursday, Oct.
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Their model took Phobos' paltry gravity into account, along with its twisted topography, spin, and orbital relation to Mars.
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Loyd suffered a fractured left orbital bone and damage to one eye, Orlando Police Chief John Mina told reporters.
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Along with others, Kristian von Bengtson founded the professional space project Orbital Express, which builds booster rockets for satellites.
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In February, the Army paid ammo-maker Orbital ATK $45 million to complete development of the new smart round.
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Once TDRS-M launches, one of Orbital ATK's Minotaur rockets is scheduled to fly from Florida later this month.
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Orbital Systems: a Swedish clean-tech company that develops a water recycling technology to be used in domestic appliances
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Virgin Galactic is still the group's space tourism venture, focused on providing sub-orbital spaceflight experiences to paying customers.
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They sell pictures of that parking lot — and thousands of others like it — to a firm called Orbital Insight.
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The probe is running out of fuel, and it'll soon be impossible for mission controllers to make orbital corrections.
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The SpaceX CEO now wants to "bring rocket upper stage back from orbital velocity using a giant party balloon".
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Right now, two companies — SpaceX and Orbital ATK — hold contracts with NASA to periodically resupply the station through 2018.
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Once the tones end, the craft will start transmitting detailed information about how it fared during it orbital insertion.
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