Sentences with phrase «first research flights»

Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland's ice sheet is melting from below.

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Ironically, the first mission in years that had much scientific research aboard was STS - 107, the final, tragic flight of Columbia.

The maiden flight of Falcon I was originally scheduled for this August, and the first payload was supposed to be a 250 - pound Department of Defense — Naval Research Laboratory experimental communications satellite called TacSat - 1.

Now, for the first time, the campaign will expand its reach to explore the Arctic's Eurasian Basin through two research flights based out of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

«Anytime you do research and development, there's a cost associated with it,» says Ian Murphy, director of media relations for the X Prize Foundation, which rewarded the first private manned suborbital flight.

New Mexico State University (NMSU) has a long history of research in space and aerospace beginning with NMSU student teams film projects on the first V - 2 flights at White Sands Proving Ground in 1946.

The countdown has begun for the first fully operational flight of the Indian Space Research Organization's most powerful rocket to date: the Geostationary Launch Vehicle Mark 3, or GSLV - MK3.

The StratoClim observations will provide the first close - up view of the upper reaches of the monsoon, as no prior research flights have ever sampled this critical part of the Earth's atmosphere.

At first, I thought I'd do a little research and paint one of my characters with this quirk, but my pause and flight of fancy at the word «justice» (thankfully) derailed that and led to a chunk of free - standing flash fiction.

A first class flight could cost ~ $ 1,338, based on our research at the time of writing.

First, Michelle researched flights from LA to Singapore and found that Singapore Airlines had a lot of options providing layovers in Tokyo.

First, by carrying a Chase United card (even the fee - free version) you have access to more saver level domestic Economy award availability (HT: bluecat who correctly points out the availability extends to international flights on United metal) I haven't found the difference that noticeable for the most part, but while doing some research for an upcoming Brandon Asks post I noticed it was quite useful for positioning flights.

We spent the rest of our first day in Panama, after a red eye flight from the States and a two hour bus ride, in our room — Skyping, emailing and researching where we would stay the last two nights of our trip.

I will research the best points / miles to use first and then compare those results with the cost of those same flights on Google Fflights on Google FlightsFlights.

Therefore, those looking to book short flights from one west coast city to another may want to consider Alaska as their first option when researching award possibilities.

According to Aurora Research Energy, at the time when the renewables took flight, the U.K. was experiencing (for the first time) negative prices in its «day ahead» electricity market.

Berkeley Lab researcher Sebastien Biraud makes final preparations for the first Alaska research flight of the G - 1 at the Deadhorse Airport

A spectacular crack crossing the glacier was first discovered during a NASA IceBridge research flight in October 2011.

The survey, is known as HIPPO, comprised several pole - to - pole research flights that successfully collected atmospheric gases in three years and generated the first - ever detailed mapping of gases and particles that affect Earth's climate, they say.

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