The planetary society says that if all goes according to the plan, the collision will push the moonlet slightly closer to Didymous and shorten its orbit around the asteroid by a few minutes.

行星协会表示，如果一切按计划进行，撞击将使小卫星更加靠近Didymous小行星一点，并将小卫星围绕小行星的轨缩短几分钟。

Experts at Analytical Graphics, an American software company, believe a Russian satellite recently gave birth so to speak to a smaller satellite and then that satellite had a baby of its own.

美国软件“形分析”的专家称，近日，有一颗俄罗斯人造卫星“生下”了一颗小人造卫星，并且这颗小人造卫星中还包含着一颗更小的卫星。

Others are trying to catch it with a massive fishing net and in August, a company called Astroscale successfully tested capturing a small satellite with a magnetic arm.

其他人正试用一个巨大的渔网进行捕获，今年8月，一家名为Astroscale的成功测试了用磁力臂捕获一颗小卫星。

Ida is another, and was discovered to have a small moon orbiting it.

还有艾达，它还被发现有一个绕其运行的小卫星。

Sure, the pieces would be smaller than a satellite, but they wouldn't completely disintegrate.

当然，这些碎片比卫星还要小，但它们不会完全解体。

Uranus and Neptune also have many small moons.

天王星和海王星也有许多小卫星。

I mean, if this little moon sitting out there in his hostile environment of Jupiter can have life form on it, that means that probably tell us that, that life is almost everywhere.

我是指，如果这个小卫星在那里，在木星恶劣的环境下，能够有生命存在，那就意味着或许会告诉我们，生命几乎到处存在。

Then a comparatively low-speed collision at around 2.4 kilometres a second would mean that much more material from the moonlet was deposited on the lunar surface than was blasted off by the impact.

然后，以大约 每秒2.4里的相对低速碰撞意味着，小卫星上更多的物质被沉积在月球表面而不是因碰撞而喷射出来。

Setting aside the tiny problem that the US could barely launch satellites without blowing them up, CORONA project scientists also had to figure out how to make a camera work in space.

撇开美国几乎无法在不炸毁卫星的情况下发射卫星的小问题不谈，CORONA 项目的科学家们还必须弄清楚如何让相机在太空中工作。

Later it took a little video of Phobos, the larger of Mars's small moons, passing as a shadow across the face of the Sun.

后来，它拍摄了一小段关于火卫一的视频，火卫一是火星上较小的卫星中较大的一个，它以阴影的形式掠过太阳表面。

NASA says when the DART spacecraft arrives at Didymos about a year after launch, it will attempt to crash land on the moonlet.

美国国家航空航天局表示，DART太空船会在发射一年后抵达迪迪莫斯，届时它将试在那颗小卫星上坠毁着陆。

And a spacecraft around Mars has ventured closer to the red planet's little moon Deimos than any humanmade object in nearly a half-century.

近半个世以来，一艘绕火星飞行的宇宙飞船比任何人造物体都更接近这颗红色行星的小卫星火卫二。

A wide field picture shows the faint rings around Jupiter as well as two tiny moons against a glittering background of galaxies.

一张广角像显示了木星周围的微弱光环以及两个小卫星，背景是闪闪发光的星系。

In 2005, NASA discovered a series of small moons dancing around Pluto, and named one of them after the goddess.

2005年，美国宇航局发现了一系列环绕冥王星的小卫星，并以这位女神的名字命名其中一颗卫星。

CRANE : Why did you want to get into the small sat space?

你为什么要进入这么小的卫星空间？

The surfaces of the moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, and even Jupiter's angry little moon Io are all overwhelmingly volcanic.

月球、火星、水星、金星，甚至木星愤怒的小卫星木卫一的表面都有大量的火山。

The goal, astronomers say is to nudge the moonlet.

天文学家的目标是撞开这个小卫星。

That's when the agency intentionally slammed its DART spacecraft into a smaller moonlit to alter its orbit.

当时，美国宇航局故意将航天器撞向一个较小的卫星，以改变其运行轨。

The Russian Ministry of Defense also announced the first satellite release saying the smaller one would inspect the condition of the larger one.

俄罗斯国防部也宣布释放了第一颗卫星，并称这颗小卫星的功能是用来检查大卫星。

While Virgin Orbit inches closer to that milestone, competitor Rocket Lab recently launched six small satellites into low earth orbit.

当维珍轨距离这个里程碑只有几英寸的时候，竞争对手火箭实验室最近发射了六颗小卫星进入近轨。