Sentences with phrase «orbiting space power»

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Chang Díaz also wants VASIMR, in its interim role, to become a «space tug» that could power the rockets that haul provisions to space stations and carry satellites to their designated orbits.

As Mankins points out in his 2014 book The Case for Space Solar Power, the orbiting plants would tap an essentially limitless supply of free fuel.

A ground - based laser array in a high - altitude site like Chile's Atacama Desert, shown in this artist's rendering, could send 100 gigawatts of power to orbiting space probes, enough to accelerate them to a significant fraction of the speed of light.

Several ribbons in full - scale operation will open the heavens for solar satellites that can beam power back to Earth, large - scale zero - gravity manufacturing, space tourism, better global environmental monitoring, orbiting observatories, removal of man - made debris from Earth orbit, asteroid mining, and Mars - colonizing ships filled with hundreds of people.

It takes huge blasts of rocket power to free spacecraft of Earth's gravity, but only a tiny nudge to correct a satellite's orbit, dodge space debris, or counter the slight but pernicious force of sunlight.

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staSpace Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staSpace Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staspace suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space staspace station.

The advantage of using GNSS - R is that it uses the GNSS transmitters already in orbit, and the lightweight, low - power receivers can be launched into space relatively cost - effectively.

At the fringes of space, the dual - mode power plant would switch to a conventional rocket engine, drawing on the liquid hydrogen and a small supply of liquid oxygen to propel the winged craft into orbit at a final speed of Mach 25.

To build the International Moon Village and mine the Moon's resources, we need super efficient small, medium, large, and super large 4,100 (and higher) Isp electric rocket propulsion system powered reusable upper stages and space tugs for efficiently hauling cargo from LEO to a stable Low Lunar Polar Orbit.

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Shoshone Station is the first joint enterprise, a solar power, space station parked in geostationary orbit over Denver, Colorado.

Your mission is to get key personnel to safety by restoring power to the shuttle and then launching it to a low Earth orbit space station.

The big powers being led by the US make a space ship orbiting the Earth's moon functioning as a prison of captured Typhon.

In Prey, you are the first human enhanced with alien powers aboard the Talos I space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032.

Artist Statement «The solar - powered Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter orbit on the 4th of July after traveling five years through the vacuum of space.

Recent breakthroughs to > 50 % efficient high - power diode lasers can provide continuous illuminated spots on surface receivers from kilowatts to terawatts from satellites injected to geostationary orbit (GEO) in payloads of a few metric tons each without in - space assembly.

And what makes it funny is this: what do people think powers the Space Shuttle INTO orbit?

Anyway, the analyses I happen to be most interested in are space - based: the potential for creating a self - growing factory complex on and in orbit around the Moon, capable of creating an exponentially growing supply of space - based power collectors and transmitters.

Through his 21 - years as an astronaut, 3 spaceflights and 2600 orbits of Earth, Colonel Hadfield has become a worldwide sensation, harnessing the power of social media to make outer space accessible to millions.

Through his 21 - years as an astronaut, 3 spaceflights and 2600 orbits of Earth, Colonel Hadfield has become a worldwide sensation, harnessing the power of social media to make outer space accessible to millions and infusing a sense of wonder into our collective consciousness not felt since humanity first walked on the Moon.