12 sentences with 'spacecraft'
Example sentences and phrases with the word spacecraft and other words derived from it.
• « By the way, we are travelling in the fastest spacecraft in history. The only ship capable of making this journey through outer space. The only one that, safely and without error after travelling millions of light years, will return us to the warm shelter of our roof, to the certainty of our pillow. »
• « We are moving away from Jupiter thanks to a special effort of our spacecraft: it is not easy to escape the gravitational pull of this planet, which also radiates several times more energy than it receives from the Sun. »
• « In 1979, the Voyager I and II spacecraft photographed the satellite Io to the astonishment of scientists, who discovered eight plumes of gases between 70 and 280 kilometres high above the surface, spreading out to cover areas of more than a thousand kilometres. These gaseous plumes, rising at a speed of between half a kilometre and a kilometre per second, were erupting from violently erupting volcanoes. »
• « To see what follows, it is not necessary for the group travelling on the left side of the spacecraft to crowd the right side, or vice versa. »
• « We're flying over the ring system of this planet. And what the spacecraft is going to do now, not even the most modern spacecraft sent to the outside world can do: we are going to stop and slowly drop into the interior of the rings. Here we go. »
• « When the Voyager II spacecraft passed by the planet Saturn, it shed light on the matter and showed that the circular structure around Saturn is much more complex than we thought on Earth, as is often the case. »
• « Speaking of flight, it is known that the space taxi uses its engines to the full on landing and also that, if it were possible to build a spacecraft capable of reaching the speed of light, the journey would be a rejuvenation cure. »
• « Several projects are under study on the possibility of applying near-light-speed propulsion to spacecraft. »
• « If a spacecraft travelling at the speed of light were to be achieved, Einstein calculated that its crew members would age seven times slower than the colleagues and relatives they left behind on Earth, due to a phenomenon of time dilation. »
• « Please remain seated and do not expend too much energy: during our fleeting passage by Pluto, the spacecraft, whose engines are now working at maximum capacity, will devote part of its potential to heating up its structure. »
• « In a few decades we jumped from the automobile to the aeroplane, from the airplane to the spacecraft. And then? »