"satellite" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Due to a malfunction to its stabilizing system, it is expected that the satellite will spin uncontrollably and eventually get lost in space.
- The satellite spun out of control and efforts to stabilize it resulted in the expenditure of the majority of its fuel.
- The entire satellite spins so that the linear sensor array in the focal plane scans over the earth six times every minute.
- For Planck, the circular solar array is fixed on the bottom of the satellite, always facing the sun as the satellite spins around its vertical axis.
- As the satellite spun, ground controllers would measure the frequency with which each slit became exposed to the sun to infer the satellite's position.
- Their cameras take rock-steady pictures even though they and the satellites spin a hundred times a minute for stability, like a top.
- Slowly, the long cylinder-shaped satellite spun through an arc until its blunt nose aimed at a point in space above the earth's distant curved horizon.
- As the satellite spun in orbit, some part of the array would always be lit by the sun and provide power to the satellite power bus.
- Some satellites spin like tops, Paul said, and I wondered why they bothered to do that, but I didn't ask.
- The gigantic, silver-colored, wheel-shaped satellite, although seemingly motionless, spun in its orbit at 6,888 miles per hour.
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