This would involve launching a spacecraft able to give the asteroid a nudge to change its orbit.
Most see a greater role for the private sector in launching astronauts to low-Earth orbit.
That is because, unlike the rockets currently used to get into orbit, they are air-breathing.
They orbit the Kepler-62 star in the Constellation Lyra - 1, 200 light-years from Earth.
As a result, the stars will move closer to each other and orbit faster.
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He and wife Kate were taking children Amy, nine, and six-year-old Charlie to the Orbit.
The other study would look at new low-Earth orbit applications for an ATV-derived vehicle.
The quantum world is starting to jump its orbit and pull the physical world with it.
Active removal would see new spacecraft launched specifically to take other, redundant satellites out of orbit.
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He realized that when Mars was closest to the sun, it went fastest in its orbit.
Measurements from orbit suggest that the martian permafrost is within half a metre of the surface.
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All systems appeared to function normally and eight minutes later, the spacecraft had entered orbit.
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Her role in the mission will be to run the medical experiments in orbit.
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No longer will it own the vehicles it uses to go to low-Earth orbit.
The shuttle did some extraordinary work in low-orbit experiments, the International Space Station, moving cargo.
AU, something going round the sun would complete its orbit in a sprightly 5.8m years.
Making the leap into orbit will require money and, even more than that, political will.
But he explained that a spacecraft's orbit lifetime could only be estimated to about 10% accuracy.
Would he have remained in their reputational orbit, that of a mere scientific genius?
"There's a market for people in orbit if the price is low enough, " Greason said.
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There was 1995, when Netscape went public and sent Nasdaq into a five-year orbit.
The cargo capsule will continue its orbit Wednesday as it travels toward the space station.
Dr Foale, who was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, has logged over 374 days in orbit.
This meant relying on unproven and complex technology and launching dozens of satellites into low-earth orbit.
The rocket was attempting to carry a 19.5kg satellite to a low-Earth orbit of 450km.
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You have two days of orbit before you connect to the International Space Station.
He said the rocket did not reach its intended orbit and likely fell back to earth.
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