• 最后一颗欧洲气象计划卫星已升空

    12-07-06 The latest spacecraft in Europe's long-running Meteosat series has just gone into orbit on an Ariane rocket. 欧洲气象卫星计划最后一颗卫星已搭载阿丽亚娜火箭升空。 Meteosat-10 (MSG-3) being placed on top of its Ariane launcher It is now being manoeuvr...

  • target spacecraft 目标飞行器

    12-06-11 The program spokesman said that Tiangong-1 will serve as a target spacecraft for rendezvous and docking experiments. 项目发言人称,天宫一号将作为空间交会对接的目标飞行器,完成交会对接试验。 文中的target spacecraft就是指目标飞行器,此次发射的天宫一号...

  • 俄火星探测器碎片将坠回地球

    12-01-16 The remainder of the crippled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is set to crash to Earth on Sunday following its botched mission to Mars, space experts have said. 航天专家日前表示,福布斯-土壤火星探测器发射失败后,报废的航天器碎片将于周日坠入地球。 The minib...

  • 首个阿耳特弥斯月球探测器进入预定轨道

    11-06-30 The first of two ARTEMIS (Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun) spacecraft is now in its lunar orbit. On June 22, ARTEMIS P1 began firing its thrusters(推进器) to move out of its kidney-...

  • 深度撞击号飞船完成最后一圈绕地飞行

    10-06-27 On Sunday, NASA's historic Deep Impact spacecraft will fly past Earth for the fifth and last time on its current University of Maryland-led EPOXI mission. At time of closest approach to Earth, the spacecraft will be about 30,400 kilometers (18,900 m...

  • 美航天局观测到彗星撞击太阳景象

    10-05-25 Solar physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured for the first time the collision of a comet with the sun. Using instruments aboard NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft, four post-doctoral fellows at UC Berkeley's Space Sciences La...

  • 揭密木星表面大红斑

    10-03-17 This is our first detailed look inside the biggest storm of the Solar System, says Glenn Orton, who led the team of astronomers(天文学家) that made the study. We once thought the Great Red Spot(木星表面大红斑) was a plain old oval(椭圆形,卵形...

  • 罗塞塔号卫星完成最终变轨

    09-11-14 Rosetta passed over the ocean, just South of the Indonesian island of Java, at exactly 08:45:40 CET, at a speed of 13.34 km/s with respect to(关于,至于) Earth an an altitude(高度,海拔) of 2481 km. The swingby was pre-planned and fully automate...

  • Nasa team scours Moon crash data 美国航空航天局分析卫星撞击

    09-10-11 Nasa scientists have been outlining their preliminary results after crashing two unmanned spacecraft into the Moon in a bid to detect water-ice. 美国航空航天局的科学家大致描述了他们将两艘五人宇宙飞船坠落到月球以探测水冰的初步结果。 Both spacecraft h...

  • US spacecraft set for Moon crash 美宇宙飞船将坠落月球

    09-10-09 Nasa is set to crash two unmanned spacecraft into the Moon in a bid to detect the presence of water-ice. 美国航空航天局将向月球坠落两艘无人宇宙飞船以探测冰水是否存在。 The shepherding spacecraft will analyse the impact debris A 2,200kg rocket stage...