Spacecraft activity

Usage examples of flyby.

Voluminal influences/interests rated Creheesil 15%, Affront 10%, Culture 5% (the normal claimed minimum, the Culture's influence/interest equivalent of back­ground radiation), and a smattering of investigations and flybys by twenty other civilisations making up a nominal 2%.

With two flybys of Venus, one of Earth, and one of Jupiter for gravitational assists, the ship will, after a seven-year voyage, be injected into orbit around Saturn.

At any rate, no camera was flown, and subsequent missions have, for this particular world, at least partly vindicated that judgment: Even at high resolution from close flybys, in visible light it turns out there are no breaks in the clouds of Venus, any more than in the clouds of Titan.

The orbits, pumped and shaped in three dimensions by Titan flybys, had periods ranging from a hundred days to ten, Saturn closest approaches ranging from three Saturn radii to seven, orbital inclinations ranging up to sixty degrees above Saturn's equator.

The long curve of windows, which were shielded against sun and flybys, kept the room in shadows.

She heard the whirl of flybys, then cursed the media again as she spotted the first air van.

The last two times he had done this, the basket was bobbing and weaving so much, it took several flybys before he actually had time to jump in.

In a large conference room at the Sudbury ground station, Rollie Thibodeau and the rest of the twenty-four- man RDT were gathered before a flat-panel wall monitor, viewing the same pictures that appeared on the Cessna's video display as it made its flyby.

But she knew it was privacy treated to prevent anyone nervy enough to try a flyby from seeing in.

But flybys past and orbiters around Mars have found no excess of molecular oxygen, no substances--whatever their nature--enigmatically and profoundly departing from thermodynamic equilibrium, no unexpected surface pigments and no modulated radio emissions.