Sentences with phrase «space engineers on»

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Daryl Schuck, principal engineer of human space systems at Honeywell, says he contacted RI in the fall of 2010 after stumbling by chance on a mention of RI's tech in Popular Mechanics magazine.

Today, thanks to aerospace engineer Burt Rutan's brilliance, the team at Virgin Galactic is working on the world's first feasible space tourism operation.

In the space of one week, Simo increased the number of engineers working on Live from 10 to 100.

Cavanagh - Lomas got advice on how to talk to the manager by logging in to Team Space, a web - based app built by Cisco engineers.

U.S. defence contractor Lockheed Martin, 3D printing specialist Stratasys, and engineering firm PADT have developed the parts using new materials that can withstand the extreme temperatures and chemical exposure of deep space missions, Stratasys said on Tuesday.

Relativity Space engineers inspect the company's Aeon 1 engine on the test stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center.

Boeing opened a new factory in Charleston, South Carolina, while decades of federal spending on space and defense programs created a pool of engineers in Alabama.

Engineers have successfully been pushing more storage into smaller spaces for decades, but that can't go on forever.

«You often hear space starts at 100 kilometers — that's based on where aerodynamic forces start having an effect to where you can actually control your [craft] with wings,» Jesse Gossner, an orbital - mechanics engineer who teaches at the US Air Force's Advanced Space Operations School, told Business Insspace starts at 100 kilometers — that's based on where aerodynamic forces start having an effect to where you can actually control your [craft] with wings,» Jesse Gossner, an orbital - mechanics engineer who teaches at the US Air Force's Advanced Space Operations School, told Business InsSpace Operations School, told Business Insider.

James E. Oberg, a former NASA space shuttle engineer and the author of 10 books on spaceflight who often debunks U.F.O. sightings, was also doubtful.

What's certain — that's how we got wind of it — is that Urmson was talking to a number of other top engineers in the space from companies like Uber, Apple and Tesla to join him and could easily attract an A-team of techies who want to strike out on their own.

So when we think about Charlie's vantage point and understanding of this stuff it's quite profound because he's worked in this space at the very highest levels from numerous ends of the spectrum from actually designing the code and working on the code of blockchain to you know doing the engineering side over at that coin base which is one of the exchanges.

Theresia Gouw is an engineer, an experienced entrepreneur, and successful investor in the new mobility space, focused primarily on Consumer, Social Commerce, and Security opportunities.

The online retailer announced in 2015 that it had plans to move beyond some leased space on one floor in the 150 W. Jefferson office tower downtown where about 100 employees work on software development, engineering and advertising sales.

Elio has over 18 years of engineering and executive management experience and has spent much of his time in the automotive space focused on technology development.

For more than a decade Wickman was an engineer for Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space, where she worked on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and International Space Station Programs, receiving commendations from NASA for her contributions and being designated as Lockheed's Corporate Astronaut.

Powder & Bulk Solids (PBS) is the only dedicated Ontario event for processing engineers, connecting industry professionals with the latest in pneumatic conveying, dust collection and pollution control, material handling, regulation and safety, silo and bin design, combustible dust hazards and mitigation, and bulk blending — all in one dedicated space on the ADM Expo Toronto floor.

Gary Banks worked as a research engineer on the NASA Space Station project before entering teaching.

He has bachelor's and master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering and worked as a research engineer on the NASA Space Station project before entering teaching.

Math and engineering are clearly at the forefront at this one - of - a-kind think space... just be sure to not step on those pesky blocks!

Corporate officials at Procter & Gamble attacked the problem on a grand scale, according to court documents, assigning the formidable task of designing the perfect diaper to Kenneth Barclay Buell, a mechanical engineer who had worked on the Gemini space program in the 1960s.

NASA engineers make a foray into fashion with three outlandish designs for the new Z - 2 space suits, and encourage the public to vote on which will become a prototype.

Torero, who now teaches at the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, in Brisbane, Australia, first «got interested in fire after he left [his native] Peru to study engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where he met researchers working on fire safety problems for the International Space Station,» Wade wrote.

Congress's attitude has undergone «a great change» in recent years, leading to a drop in «real commitment to scientific research,» said Representative Daniel Lipinski (D - IL), the ranking member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's research and technology subcommittee and one of a dozen trained engineers in Congress.

NPS programs include engineering, acoustics, nanomaterials, sensor development, robotics, power and propulsion studies, oceanography, meteorology, and space systems; there's even a program focused on free electron lasers.

She set her goal, studied mechanical engineering, and then got Chang - Diaz to take her on as an intern at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

It is a place human explorers will not visit in the foreseeable future, although the data on the flux of cosmic rays (energetic particles from deep space) into the solar system will allow engineers to better gauge the risk to both spacecraft and humans during extended space voyages.

In 2010, Boeing engineer Dongfan Chung — a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in China and grew up in Taiwan — was sentenced to 16 years in prison for stealing trade secrets connected to the U.S. Space Shuttle program and Delta IV rocket on behalf of mainland China.

Earlier this year, as astronauts busied themselves inside the International Space Station, engineers on the ground conducted their own experiment just outside the craft.

But the U.S. space program has produced some other examples of engineering that keep on ticking...

He gained research experience at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and also acted as a project manager and system engineer on the first UA student team charged with building a miniaturized satellite for space research.

Right now, astronauts on board the ISS filter wastewater and then distill it to recover pure water, says Layne Carter, a systems engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who is in charge of the space station's water systems (and who is not involved in the new stSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who is in charge of the space station's water systems (and who is not involved in the new stspace station's water systems (and who is not involved in the new study).

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

With the help of enthusiastic European ham radio operators, Aalborg University engineering students now have two - way communication with their home - built ESA - sponsored satellite AAUSAT5 that was sent into orbit around Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on October 5.

The plot centers on efforts of a visionary structural engineer in the 22nd century, Dr Vannevar Morgan, to construct a space elevator connecting the surface of the earth with a satellite in geostationary orbit, almost a kind -LSB-...]

Toward that end, Congress instructed NASA to spend $ 55 million, under the 2016 appropriations bill, on developing space habitats, with funding primarily going to major engineering partners such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK and Bigelow Aerospace.

Engineers on the project say the technology is perfect for such a mission, where storage space on the flight to the planet is a scarce commodity.

«For this study, GRACE served as a unique tool that provided information on water volume changes directly from space, and corroborated the water balance estimates,» said Hyongki Lee, a co-author of the study and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Houston.

She was still at Langley when the first electronic computers were installed, and when West Computing was disbanded, she partnered with an engineer working on the mechanics of space docking manoeuvres.

After years of watching engineers model traffic flow with advanced physics to alleviate jams, a team of urban planners called Shared Space have adopted a simple solution based on a zoological concept known as the risk compensation effect.

Then in 2011, Goddard engineer Donald Dichmann, who at the time worked for Applied Defense Solutions in Columbia, Md., and his co-authors began work on a paper reviewing the trade studies NASA made when it decided to move its Interstellar Boundary Explorer from its original orbit to a more stable position at another lunar - resonant orbit — P / 3 — where it's mapping the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.

Clad in bulky spacesuits, station commander Peggy Whitson and flight engineer Dan Tani floated outside the station for seven hours on the 100th spacewalk devoted to space station assembly and maintenance.

«This work not only sheds new light on skeleton formation of animals, but also might inspire interdisciplinary studies in fields such as theoretical biology, bioengineering, robotics, and architectural engineering, utilizing mechanisms of self - constructing architectures that self - adjust to their environments, including remote environments such as the deep sea or space,» the researchers write.

Joining the astronauts on the Earthwalk will be a conceptual model of a lunar rover and astronaut and engineer Gregory Chamitoff, whom Magnus replaced on the space station.

A recent study led by Hugh Lewis, an aerospace engineer at the University of Southampton in England, reports the growth of small satellite traffic is expected to have a «significant impact» on the space environment.

But UARS was built in an era when engineers envisioned the space shuttle routinely returning scientific spacecraft, and it lacks the thrust capacity to be placed on a path for controlled reentry.

Davies, by day a NASA engineer on the space shuttle programme, is effectively replacing RepRap's skeleton with one of his own making.

This science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education initiative provides numerous students across the United States the ability to propose and design real experiments to fly in low - Earth orbit on the space station.

A team of NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers involved in developing those craft offers a peek at them in «To the Moon and Beyond,» which makes up one half of this month's special report on the future of space exploration, beginning on page 62.

NASA looking to create online role - playing game on the cheap As if sending robots to Mars wasn't enough, NASA is hoping to capitalize on the popularity of massive multiplayer online role - playing games (MMORPG) like World of Warcraft and EverQuest by creating its own virtual world to get kids excited about the space program (not to mention about science, technology, engineering and mathematics).