Sentences with phrase «orbiter project»

Officials working on India's Mars orbiter project are finalizing plans for a six - month science campaign after the spacecraft arrived in orbit last week, an achievement that has already satisfied the mission's primary objectives, the head of India's space agency said Monday.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project and Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Not exact matches

If all goes as planned, joint European - U.S. projects will yield an orbiter ready for launch in 2016 and two rovers in 2018.

«Sometimes they'll happen and you'll have to be somewhere else on Earth to see them,» said Noah Petro, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter deputy project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Most [residents] of the continental United States will be able to see the whole thing.»

Richard Zurek of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, is the project scientist for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, whose gravity mapping provided support for the hypothesis that the northern lowlands were formed by a massive impact.

Rosetta project scientist Matt Taylor says that early results from some of the orbiter's instruments show that the surface is slightly warmer than expected — an indication that it is more dusty and porous than icy.

AKATSUKI (PLANET - C) is the next planetary exploration project for the Martian orbiter NOZOMI.

During the dive, the orbiter will be going so fast, and Saturn's atmosphere will be thickening from its perspective so quickly, «that Cassini will be vaporized in I think maybe 2 minutes --[actually] I think more like 1,» Cassini project manager Earl Maize, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said during a news conference Wednesday (Sept. 13).

The institute is the PI institution of the STIX X-ray telescope to be flown onboard ESA's Solar Orbiter mission and is also involved in cubesat projects.

Just hours after the launch, MAVEN Project Manager David Mitchell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, officially confirmed the rocket had began the orbiter's journey.

Project Description: Science Mission: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a robotic mission that is gathering high - resolution data about the lunar surface and surrounding environment.

Rick Nybakken is Juno's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Tonight, through tones, Juno sang to us,» he noted on the orbiter's arrival.

The Trace Gas Orbiter completed the first two burns Wednesday and Saturday, according to Håkan Svedhem, TGO's project scientist at the European Space Agency.

«We're an atmospheric monitoring mission, whereas all the orbiters that come before us have really been surface - mapping, surface - observation - type missions,» Guy Beutelschies, MAVEN project manager at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, which built the spacecraft, told reporters Friday (Nov. 15).

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.

MSSS staff are involved in a variety of research and operational projects, including the Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera, the Mars Odyssey Thermal Emission Imaging System (IR and VIS), the Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (launching in 2005), and the Phoenix Mars lander (launching in 2007).