Sentences with phrase «propulsion laboratory team»

Even NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory team communicates via Slack while maneuvering the Mars Curiosity rover.

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«EDF has a very good team, and I have no doubt that it can be done,» says Charles Elachi, who formerly headed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Riley Duren, a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, says that the EDF team's goals are ambitious — and if MethaneSAT succeeds, it will help to fill an important gap in methane monitoring.

A team led by Ronald Kwok of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has studied satellite images of the Nares Strait — the narrow passage between Greenland and Ellesmere Island.

Curiosity team members at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will share remembrances about the dramatic landing night and the overall mission in an event that will air on NASA Television and the agency's website from 7:45 to 9 a.m. PDT (10:45 a.m. to noon EDT) on Tuesday, Aug. 6.

«The human operator is as much a part of the system as the robot,» says Brett Kennedy, who leads the team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with the squat, four - legged robot Robosimian.

In 2014, the spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver; and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California; and the THEMIS team at ASU, developed procedures to rotate the spacecraft for upward - looking imaging of Comet Siding Spring as it passed near Mars.

On that final day in September, the team will gather to say goodbye at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

The team first tested the grippers in the Robo - Dome, a giant air hockey table at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where two 370 - kilogram robots gently pushed each other around using a small square of gecko gripper.

Taken with Juno's star - tracking navigation camera, the shot reveals that «heaven looks the same to us from Jupiter,» said Heidi Becker, leader of Juno's radiation monitoring team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

«We've only found simple organic molecules so far,» says Ashwin Vasavada, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who leads Curiosity's science team.

But Phoenix team member Michael Hecht of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, disagrees.

«Finding brown dwarfs near our sun is like discovering there's a hidden house on your block that you didn't know about,» said astronomer Michael Cushing, a WISE team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and lead author of the study on the Y dwarfs.

Knight's team will now work with Jet Propulsion Laboratory staff to create a map of the microbes living in the facility over the next six months, including the Mars 2020 Rover.

Steve Squyres oversees the science operations of both rovers and a team of 170 researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

«These beautiful measurements from the South Pole Telescope and Herschel strengthen our confidence in our current model of the universe,» said Olivier Doré, a member of the U.S. Planck science team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «However, this model does not tell us how big the primordial signal itself should be.

The team of cosmologists from Harvard University, the University of Minnesota, the California Institute of Technology / Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Stanford University / SLAC used BICEP2 to observe telltale patterns in the cosmic microwave background — the afterglow of the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago — that support the leading theory about the origins of the universe.

«The National Academy of Sciences recently convened a meeting to look at science missions in CubeSats,» said Bryce Tappan, an explosives chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead researcher on the CubeSat Propulsion Concept team, «and identified propulsion as one of the primary categories of technology that needs to be developPropulsion Concept team, «and identified propulsion as one of the primary categories of technology that needs to be developpropulsion as one of the primary categories of technology that needs to be developed.»

«By combining seven smaller telescopes to synthesize the accuracy of one large one,» says Michael Shao, the scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who heads the SIM team, «we're going to be able to search the nearest 40 or so stars to find planets that are from one to two times the mass of Earth and that are in a habitable zone around their stars.»

NASA has also approved the launch of a probe, scheduled for 1998, being developed by a team headed by Perry Hacking of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Update 21 March: Yesterday afternoon, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a statement that read, in part, «It is the consensus of the Voyager science team that Voyager 1 has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar space.

The team's scenario «is a really very interesting way to get a «false positive»» for extraterrestrial life, says Wesley Traub, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Tantalizingly, Diana Blaney of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a member of the Mars Exploration Rover team, announced at the September meeting that a rock found by the Spirit rover, christened Independence, is claylike.

The contribution from dust «appears to be somewhat higher than the pre-Planck models predicted,» says BICEP2 team member Jamie Bock of the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both based in Pasadena.

«The biggest advantage [comes] from the high spatial resolution,» says Christian Frankenberg, a remote sensing scientist on NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 (OCO - 2) team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

A team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is feeling pretty confident that its robot can get into a car.

Though 1000 times brighter than the Milky Way, these dusty galaxies went unseen until a team led by Jingwen Wu of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, observed their infrared radiation.

The latest results come from the lander's Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer (MECA), where «we're making mud and stirring it with sensors,» as team member Michael Hecht of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, put it.

«Dione has been an enigma, giving hints of active geologic processes, including a transient atmosphere and evidence of ice volcanoes — but we've never found the smoking gun,» Bonnie Buratti, a Cassini science team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, said in a statement from NASA.

Each robot has more than doubled its expected lifetime of 90 sols, or Mars days, but the pace continues to be hectic as the team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tries to squeeze even more work out of the plucky pair.

The U.S. science team is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif..

«Most of the available data on snowfall in the Eurasian Basin is outdated, from drifting stations that operated between 1954 and 1991,» said Ron Kwok, a member of IceBridge's science team and a sea ice researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Now a team led by Takashi Hosokawa at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has used computer simulations to show the gas clouds from which the stars formed would have been much hotter than thought.

In 2014, the spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver; and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California; and the THEMIS team at Arizona State University, Tempe, developed procedures to rotate the spacecraft for upward - looking imaging of a comet passing near Mars.

The Cassini orbiter was designed and assembled at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and its imaging team includes scientists from the United States, England, France and Germany.

«The success of science collection at Jupiter is a testament to the dedication, creativity and technical abilities of the Nasa - Juno team,» said Rick Nybakken, project manager for Juno from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US.

«While Earth will be only about a pixel in size from Cassini's vantage point 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers) away, the team is looking forward to giving the world a chance to see what their home looks like from Saturn,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL, in Pasadena, Calif..

A team of researchers from the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and the Wageningen University in the Netherlands measured the amount of ozone between 10,000 and 30,000 feet above the Earth's surface.

A 30 - year veteran at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mr. Hoffman has supported a number of major flight projects, including working on software for the Voyager spacecraft's encounter with Neptune, testing computer hardware for the Cassini mission to Saturn, participating in the STARDUST mission to the WILD - 2 comet as a member of the project systems engineering team, contributing to the Mars rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) as Avionics Systems Manager and serving as Deputy Project Manager for the GRAIL mission to the Moon.

A team led by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, will measure the Doppler shift in the probe's signal relative to Earth.

The science team members are: P. Kalas, J. Graham, E. Chiang, and E. Kite (University of California, Berkeley), M. Clampin (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.), M. Fitzgerald (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif.), and K. Stapelfeldt and J. Krist (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.).

The Legacy Survey team makes use of data products from the Near - Earth Object Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), which is a project of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology.

«These fluids could be from different sources at different times,» said Diana Blaney, a Curiosity science team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «We see crosscutting veins with such diverse chemistry at this localized site.

In 2014, the spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the THEMIS team at ASU developed procedures to rotate the spacecraft for upward - looking imaging of Comet Siding Spring as it passed near Mars.

The team includes researchers from NASA Goddard, NASA Glenn (Cleveland, Ohio), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, Calif.), University of Arizona (Tucson), University of California (Berkeley), SETI Institute (Mountain View, Calif.), University of Washington (Seattle), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

A team of sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students from Magnolia Science Academy (MSA) # 3 in Carson received first place with their engineering invention in a challenge organized by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

We have the chance to behold these bold, retro posters courtesy of The Studio at JPL, a design and strategy team that works with Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists and engineers to visualize and depict complex science and technology topics.

Here's an excerpt from the description of the image posted by the mission team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory:

Assistant Professor Liming Li is leading a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to analyze data from instruments on board the Cassini.

A team led by Ala Khazendar of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, found evidence of the ice shelf flowing faster and becoming more fragmented.