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And we'll have to run the drive for another twenty-five years to circularize the orbit.

The tidal force from Jupiter, on the other hand, works to circularize their orbits.

We could, I suppose, circularize the provincial police forces.

Aerobraking is then used to circularize the orbit.

Forty five minutes later, 180 around the Earth, four small hydrogen/oxygen rocket motors fire, and circularize the orbit.

European flight controllers planned another thruster firing today to circularize the orbit at 315 miles.

Over the next two months, the computers would control burns that would gradually circularize their course just inside the orbit of Phobos.

The first of several orbit changing maneuvers happened as planned at 07:54:45, with a 63 second burn to circularize the orbit.

Generally aerobraking is used to circularize a highly elliptical capture orbit while minimizing the use of on board fuel.

It was used to circularize the orbit of the spacecraft in order to increase the precision of the measurement of the gravity field.

Gregor had them fire another burn to circularize their orbit, and that one went off automatically, so Rick began to relax about that anyway.

They now had a half-orbit ahead of them before the rendezvous maneuver which would circularize their orbit and send them to space station Alpha.

Without this forced eccentricity, Io's orbit would circularize through tidal dissipation, leading to a geologically less active world.

The same process in reverse can be used to lower or circularize the apogee of a magsail's orbit when it arrives at a destination planet.

Starting in a week, the spacecraft will use the upper fringes of the Martian atmosphere to lower and circularize its orbit through a technique called aerobraking.

As for finding your wife, we plan to circularize her photograph, but we're hoping you can provide a better likeness than the one on her driver's license."

The use of three stages, plus the coast period between second and third stage firings, help to circularize the orbit, ensuring the perigee clears the Earth's atmosphere.

Once inside the host, the cosmids circularize with the aid of the host's DNA ligase and then function as plasmids.

In preparing to deploy the satellite, the astronauts fired the Discovery's steering jets twice to raise and circularize its orbit three miles to 354 miles above Earth.

Their respective owners assumed charge, and later fired the onboard kickmotors at apogee, to circularize the orbits and align them with the equator.

That's the biggest single problem you're going to have to deal with: how an orbit that could take it from Jupiter to an Earth-encounter could circularize to what we see today.

Because of the precise nature of some of the scientific experiments, it was necessary to refire the two orbital maneuvering system engines to circularize the orbit at 184 miles.

There would be prosecutions, stiff gaol sentences, and the Company would circularize its neighbours, and they would all settle back and wait for the next customer to appear.

Prior to this, commander Mark Kelly and pilot Greg Johnson completed an engine firing, known as the OMS-2 burn, to circularize the orbit of the shuttle.

Given this limitation, most payloads are first launched into a transfer orbit, where an additional thrust maneuver is required to circularize the elliptical orbit which results from initial space launch.

Most agents circularise prospective purchasers at regular intervals, to check on their continued interest.

At only 8.27 million kilometers from the star, tidal forces would circularise the orbit unless another perturbing body exists in the system.

You can get fantastically long reads, and you can circularise molecules to get enough data that it is error free for all practical purposes.

There would be prosecutions, stiff gaol sentences, and the Company would circularise its neighbours, and they would all settle back and wait for the next customer to appear.

By contrast, in tripping cases and any other case where the condition of the road or roadside is relevant, it will almost always be necessary to circularise the neighbourhood (see Chapters 29 and 33).

Because tidal forces would tend to circularise the orbit of the planet on short timescales, this suggested that Gliese 436 b is being perturbed by an additional planet orbiting the star.

To access circular orbits using a launch loop a relatively small 'kick motor' would need to be launched with the payload which would fire at apogee and would circularise the orbit.

The Gaon Khalifah represented himself as a community leader, whose duty was to circularise religious teaching, implement religious duties, preserve a prayer-hall, take care of the morals and parcel out justice by consulting with elders.