The first Cube Sat was created in the early 2000s, as a way of enabling Stanford graduate students to design, build, test and operate a spacecraft with similar capabilities to the USSR's Sputnik.
2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B
The founder of two tech companies, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is bringing electric vehicles to mass market and enabling humans to live on other planets.
2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
VERB
使能够;使有机会
If someone or something enables you to do a particular thing, they give you the opportunity to do it.