Sentences with phrase «next spacecraft mission»

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Slated for a first crewed mission in 2021, it is expected to serve as NASA's deep - space exploratory spacecraft for the next decade, potentially carrying astronauts to the moon, nearby asteroids and even Mars or one of its moons in the 2030s.

NASA is preparing astronauts for the next manned mission to the International Space Station onboard the private CST - 100 Starliner spacecraft by Boeing.

Farmer's experience with Exxon, which involved a variety of imaging and remote sensing techniques to locate geological structures favorable for the accumulation of petroleum, also served him well in working with NASA mission planners and technologists developing the instruments to be carried into Mars orbit by the next generation spacecraft.

NASA's next mission will go where some spacecraft have gone before.

«The signal from the spacecraft is gone, and within the next 45 seconds, so will be the spacecraft,» Cassini project manager Earl Maize announced from the mission control center at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.

The next Commercial Resupply Services mission to the space station is Orbital - 3 which is targeted to begin Oct. 14 when Orbital Sciences will launch its Cygnus spacecraft from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Next summer, NASA's Juno spacecraft is scheduled to enter into an orbit around Jupiter, kicking off a one - year mission to map and explore Jupiter's atmosphere.

It looks fairly certain that Europe's next Earth - observing science mission to win approval for construction will be Biomass, a spacecraft that will be able to measure the carbon content of the world's forests with unprecedented range and accuracy.

NASA has selected two missions to further explore past targets — Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and the comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko — as the final candidates for its next billion - dollar robotic spacecraft, the agency announced today.

Specifically, five Saturn - related concepts are contending for the next New Frontiers mission, a program that in past years yielded the New Horizons Pluto spacecraft, the Juno Jupiter orbiter, and the asteroid - return spacecraft OSIRIS - REx.

Twenty - five years ago, next week, shuttle mission STS - 34 and the crew of Atlantis rocketed into orbit to launch NASA's Galileo spacecraft on a lengthy odyssey to Jupiter.

NASA's next - generation human - rated spacecraft for missions beyond low - Earth orbit, Orion, is scheduled to make its inaugural test flight in September of this year onboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket.

As for what is next for the spacecraft, once all the Pluto flyby data is guaranteed to be in good form, the team will clear the onboard memory so the probe will have space to record data from its next mission.

«Now, with our spacecraft transmitting the last of its data from last summer's flight through the Pluto system, we know that the next great exploration of Pluto will require another mission to be sent there.»

Over the next few months, Juno's mission and science teams will perform final testing on the spacecraft's subsystems, final calibration of science instruments, and some science collection.

Seven minutes later the 798 pound (362 kg) spacecraft was deployed from the second stage, and TESS continued on into the next phase of its mission.

After completing its primary mission in May 2008, the spacecraft continued its next phase of exploration.