"star" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Several instruments have failed, including a star tracker that was an important navigation and orientation device.
- The picture was taken by the star tracker and shows a point of light, believed to be the asteroid, moving across the starfield.
- The problem, it seems, was that its star trackers were overly sensitive to light.
- The main problem was that the system's star trackers, which help determine the pointing direction, were oversensitive to light.
- The main sensor of the line of sight in both spacecraft is the star tracker.
- There were four other working star trackers, and in any case spacecraft attitude control was not important during this phase of the mission.
- Another failure was the loss of the star tracker.
- Ironically, the star tracker was an off-the-shelf component, expected to be highly reliable.
- Without a working star tracker, ion thrusting was temporarily suspended.
- But those plans were dashed when the pointing system's star trackers had problems shortly after the shuttle was launched early Sunday.
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