Sentences with phrase «caltech jet propulsion»

These investigations, under contract to the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (which manages the MRO Project for NASA), supported development of the MARCI and CTX for launch aboard the 2005 orbiter and now are supporting mission operations at MSSS.

In 2004 — 2006, as part of its contract to the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory for Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) operations, MSSS assisted with the relay of MER data from Mars, through the MOC, back to Earth.

Not exact matches

Ravi is the project scientist for the Deep Synoptic Array prototype, which is being constructed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Caltech and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration through the JPL President's and Director's Fund Program.

Erick Sturm / Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Caltech / NASA

Now with Pentagon and NASA funding, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena has squeezed all the components of a camera onto one low - power chip, revealed in a US patent filed last week (www.tinyurl.com/ojwmdq).

«Our work introduces a design scheme to mimic the key flight mechanisms of biological bats,» said Chung, who is also a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which Caltech manages for NASA.

As Derrickson explained at a panel discussion on his film at the California Institute of Technology — where he was joined by Keanu Reeves, Caltech cosmologist Sean Carroll, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory roboticist Joel Burdick — Shostak redacted some meaningless mumbo jumbo in the description of the spaceship's approach to Earth and replaced it with «The object was not following a gravitational free - fall trajectory; as such its path was recalculated.»

of Maryland; Michael Werner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Caltech

The source was the massive 2011 Tohoku - Oki earthquake in Japan, and its signature was detected at this orbital altitude only eight minutes after the arrival of seismic and infrasonic waves, according to Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech's Yu - Ming (Oscar) Yang and colleagues in collaboration with the University of New Brunswick, Canada, who present their research today at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America (SSA).

Further, in areas of the ocean with persistent or frequent eddies, Qiu and co-authors from the Japan Meteorological Agency, Caltech and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory determined that sea level can reliably be used to calculate circulation at a fairly high resolution, that is, at fairly small length scales (resolution of 10 miles).

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, built the rover and manages the Curiosity mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

NuSTAR is a Small Explorer mission led by Caltech and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

«We are witnessing enormous changes,» says Eric Rignot from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech in Pasadena, California, US.

During its 55 - day flight, Super-TIGER collected just a few thousand of the heavy atoms that Binns seeks, with the help Super-TIGER's collaborators at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Caltech, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the University of Minnesota.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, built the twin Voyager spacecraft and operates them for the Heliophysics Division within NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Yuan Wang, who conducted the research with Zhang while at Texas A&M, currently works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Mawet is currently associate professor of astronomy at Caltech and a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

As a NIH - NIGMS project and in collaboration with Dr. Abhi Jain at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech, we are developing the ICMD methods called Generalized Newton - Euler Inverse Mass Operator (GNEIMO) to enable long time scale and wider conformational search simulations.

While at Caltech, he held a joint appointment at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as manager of High - Performance Computing and Communications.

Credit for Spitzer image: NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and S. Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center / Caltech)

The discoveries were made using instruments fitted to telescopes at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego: the Robo - AO adaptive optics system, developed by the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics in India and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and the PALM - 3000 adaptive optics system, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Caltech.

KAMUELA, Hawaii — With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper - belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status — and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.

And that's what we mean by polar motion,» said Surendra Adhikari, a researcher with Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who conducted the work with his colleague Erik Ivins.

As the Mars Surveyor 1998 cameras were being built, MSSS was selected in 1997 by Arizona State University to provide the Visible Imaging Subsystem (VIS) of the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) instrument aboard the Mars Odyssey orbiter, and by the Caltech / Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to provide a descent camera for the Mars Surveyor 2001 lander.

Chu (University of Illinois, Urbana), and STScI; [Right] NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Caltech, and K. Gordon (STScI)

Leakage of the Greenland Ice Sheet through accelerated ice flow AU: * Rignot, E AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Caltech, MS 300-319 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, ca 91109 - 8099 United States AB: A map of coastal velocities of the Greenland ice sheet was produced from Radarsat - 1 acquired during the background mission of 2000 and combined with radio echo sounding data to estimate the ice discharge from the ice sheet.

Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (the leading robotics and spacecraft design and manufacturing NASA center), Art Center College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, California School of Culinary Arts Pasadena and the Norton Simon Museum of Art.

In addition, Pasadena is also home to many scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena City College, Fuller Theological Seminary, Art Center College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Norton Simon Museum and the USC Pacific Asia Museum.