Sentences with phrase «french space agency»

The joint NASA - CNES (French Space Agency) Topex / Poseidon oceanography satellite provides high - precision data on the height of the world's ocean surfaces, a key measure of ocean circulation and heat storage in the ocean.

(PhysOrg.com)-- On Dec. 7, 2001, NASA and the French Space Agency Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) launched the Jason - 1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., embarking on a planned three - to - five - year...

The boron was identified by the rover's laser - shooting ChemCam (Chemistry and Camera) instrument, which was developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in conjunction with the French space agency.

Then on 15 July something unexpected happened: perhaps by accident, perhaps in a moment of revolutionary fervour after Bastille Day, someone at the French space agency CNES made public sensational new images of the comet's icy core.

Now, Denis Dilhan at the French space agency and his colleagues have a solution: make metal satellite parts burn up more efficiently as they enter the atmosphere by using thermite.

In a 2012 paper Jacques Blamont, a founding director of the French space agency CNES, argued that people are losing interest in the human exploration of space «because spacefaring nations, and especially the USA, have clung on to outmoded cold war ways of thinking about it.

The simulated Martian landscape is part of a project called GEROMS, announced last week by the French space agency CNES.

The AERES evaluation schedule for this year includes the French Petroleum Institute (IFP), the French Space Agency (CNES) and the French Research Institute for Development (IRD).

In 2006 the French Space Agency's Corot spacecraft will look for other silhouetted planets that might reveal more about the composition of alien worlds.

Officials at the French space agency say the CRV presents more of a technological challenge than the other projects.

Additionally, Oculus said it is sending one of its Rift VR headsets to the International Space Station through a partnership with the French Space Agency CNES.

Not exact matches

The UK Space Agency is tiny compared to its French and German counterparts, which have 2,400 staff and 1,230 respectively.

European Space Agency, NASA and Felix Mirabel (the French Atomic Energy Commission & the Institute for Astronomy and Space Physics / Conicet of Argentina)

The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N.M., developed ChemCam in partnership with scientists and engineers funded by the French national space agency, CNES, the University of Toulouse and research agency, CNRS.

The best launch site in the world right now is the spaceport that the European Space Agency has in French Guiana, about five degrees north of the equator.

On 2 December, a spacecraft will blast off from the European Space Agency's base in French Guiana, carrying equipment designed to help detect gravitational waves.

On December 3 from a launchpad in French Guiana, the European Space Agency successfully launched the LISA Pathfinder mission, a satellite that will test technologies needed for a future space - based gravitational wave deteSpace Agency successfully launched the LISA Pathfinder mission, a satellite that will test technologies needed for a future space - based gravitational wave detespace - based gravitational wave detector.

The best place to launch is the spaceport that the European Space Agency has in French Guiana [five degrees north of the equator].

The French and European space agencies were noncommittal about the idea.

The European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft took off from Kourou, French Guiana at 01:04 local time on 3 December, one day later than planned due to a technical issue with the Vega rocket that carried it into orbit.

Rosetta's Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by the German Aerospace Center, Cologne; Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Go?ttingen; French National Space Agency, Paris; and the Italian Space Agency, Rome.

On 29 April [Note: this date has been postponed to mid May since the time of writing], the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch two such instruments from its base on the coast of French Guiana.

A MISSING drainage plug caused the accident which killed two men at the Ariane - 5 launch area in Kourou, French Guiana, earlier this month, according to France's national space agency (CNES).

THE European Space Agency's ERS - 2 Earth - sensing satellite was successfully launched last Friday from Kourou in French Guiana.

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced the long - awaited results on January 30, a day after a summary of it had been unintentionally posted online by French members of the Planck satellite team and then widely circulated before it was taken down.

With increased funding for planet hunters, NASA's plans to launch the $ 550 million planet - seeking Kepler mission in 2009, and the French national space agency's launch of the alien - Earth - hunting COROT late last year, the exosolar ranks should continue to grow.

Today's inaugural flight of Europe's Vega rocket went off without a hitch as European Space Agency mission VV01 lit up the early morning sky above the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

THE MOMENT: The European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft gets a thorough cleaning — including vacuuming and an ultraviolet inspection to check for dust particles — near Kourou, French Guiana, before its launch last May 14.

Health, food security, climate change, sustainable energy, urban systems, digital technologies, and space will be the national priorities; they will be further refined and periodically revised by a newly created strategic research council, chaired by Prime Minister Jean - Marc Ayrault, with input from the French national research agency (CNRS) and five large research - coordinating networks.

The next - generation space telescope had previously been slated to launch into orbit atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the European Space Agency's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in the Spring of space telescope had previously been slated to launch into orbit atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the European Space Agency's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in the Spring of Space Agency's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in the Spring of 2019.

Ad hoc reviewer for several grant agencies including: Wellcome Trust, European Commission, Medical Research Council of UK, Funding for Scientific Research of Belgium, National Research Agency of France, National Cancer Institute of France, the Broad Foundation for Scientific and Medical Research of USA, Health Research Board of Ireland, Italian Ministry of University and Research, Italian Ministry of Health, Italian National Institute of Health, Italian - German University, Italian National Research Council, Al Neelain University of the Islamic Republic of Sudan, Cancéropôle Grand Ouest of the French government, Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Science, Technology and Space State of the State of Israel, Cancer Research Wales, Kuwait University.

The mission is led by CNES in association with French laboratories and has a large international participation: the European Space Agency (ESA), Austria, Belgium and Germany contribute to the payload, and Spain and Brazil contribute to the ground segment.

«The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and French National Space Agency (CNES) had agreed to work together on autonomous navigation of rovers on Moon, Mars and other planets, and aero braking technologies for planetary exploration.»

The Matiss experiment, as part of the Proxima Mission sponsored by France's CNES space agency [Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES); National Centre for Space Studies (CNES)-RSB-, is based on four identical plaques that European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the 10th French citizen to go into space, will take with him and install when he joins the space station in November for a six - month misspace agency [Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES); National Centre for Space Studies (CNES)-RSB-, is based on four identical plaques that European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the 10th French citizen to go into space, will take with him and install when he joins the space station in November for a six - month miagency [Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES); National Centre for Space Studies (CNES)-RSB-, is based on four identical plaques that European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the 10th French citizen to go into space, will take with him and install when he joins the space station in November for a six - month misSpace Studies (CNES)-RSB-, is based on four identical plaques that European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the 10th French citizen to go into space, will take with him and install when he joins the space station in November for a six - month misSpace Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the 10th French citizen to go into space, will take with him and install when he joins the space station in November for a six - month miAgency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the 10th French citizen to go into space, will take with him and install when he joins the space station in November for a six - month misspace, will take with him and install when he joins the space station in November for a six - month misspace station in November for a six - month mission.

As engineer working for French and European Space Agencies, I have the greatest respect for NASA achievements, especially in the field of man flight.