Sentences with phrase «space technology mission»

And perhaps most worrisome, NASA now wants to fold its Space Technology Mission Directorate into the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate, surely to support the administration's goal of setting up a human colony on the moon.

«NASA is proud of our investment in the success of small businesses and its long - term impact on our economy,» said NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate acting Associate Administrator Jim Reuter in a release issued by the space agency.

Johns, who serves on NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate's Technology, Innovation and Engineering Committee, said Southern Research is well positioned to participate in the nation's space program for decades to come.

NIAC is funded by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, which is responsible for developing the cross-cutting, pioneering new technologies and capabilities needed by the agency to achieve its current and future missions.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — September 25, 2014 — Michael Gazarik, Ph.D., associate administrator of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), visited Southern Research Institute's Engineering Research Center (ERC) today to tour -LSB-...]

In addition to planetary science, the new budget also allocates $ 1.243 billion for Commercial Crew (sending U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station starting in 2017), $ 2 billion for the Space Launch System (SLS), $ 1.921 billion for Earth Science studies, and $ 686 million for the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD).

WASHINGTON — As part of the Obama Administration's recognition of the critical role that space technology and innovation will play in enabling both future space missions and bettering life here on Earth, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has announced the creation of the Space Technology Mission Directorate.

«With our flight software, the SLS program at Marshall partnered with NASA's Engineering and Safety Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards, Calif., and the Space Technology Mission Directorate's Game Changing Development Program to test our algorithm on a NASA F / A -18 airplane,» added VanZwieten.

Although the first Red Dragon mission would largely be a technology demonstration, there has been great interest from scientists about what sorts of experiments might piggyback on the mission — or, more likely, on its follow - ons in 2020 and beyond, says James Reuter, a deputy associate administrator in NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate at the space agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C.

The gecko gripper project was selected for a test flight through the Flight Opportunities Program of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate.

NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is paving the way for future Mars exploration.

The SEXTANT technology demonstration, which NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate had funded under its Game Changing Program, took advantage of the 52 X-ray telescopes and silicon - drift detectors that make up NASA's Neutron - star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER.

The Cislunar Explorers — cislunar means «between the Earth and the moon» — are in phase 3 of the four - phase Ground Tournament portion of the Cube Quest Challenge, sponsored by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate Centennial Challenge Program.

But Jeffrey Sheehy, chief engineer of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C., and Johnson agree that the technology could potentially pave the way for interstellar missions, in which powerful lasers could accelerate sail spacecraft to a tenth the speed of light or faster.

NASA's SBIR and STTR programs within the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) would fall below FY 2016 levels.

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At SpaceX, his steering a company whose mission is to «revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.»

SpaceX's mission statement highlights both its short - term goals (developing the technologies needed to explore space) and long - term aspirations (enabling people to live on other planets, like Mars).

The «floating brain» is equipped with IBM's Watson artificial intelligence technology and is expected to assist astronauts during the European Space Agency's Horizons mission in June.

Our mission @ T - REX is to energize the economic vitality of St. Louis by supporting innovative, entrepreneurial technology companies with well - designed, affordable space, world class programming and events, and critical connections for development and growth.

Our maiden Mission Approval establishes an important precedent for the private sector to engage in peaceful space exploration, bringing with it monumental implications for the advancement of technology, science, research, and development, as well as commercial ventures that expand Earth's economic sphere.

Intersection launches a brand refresh and new website, advancing its mission to improve daily life in cities and public spaces through innovative technology.

AiroCide technology was first launched aboard Space Shuttle Columbia, mission STS - 73.

ExoMars comprises two missions under ESA's Aurora programme designed to further scientific discovery and develop technologies to lay the foundations for human space exploration.

«Operating the latest detectors in ground - based and balloon - borne experiments allows us to mature these technologies for space missions and, in the process, make discoveries about the universe,» said Paul Hertz, NASA's Astrophysics Division director in Washington.

Recently, this basic theory of the universe was again confirmed by the Planck satellite, a European Space Agency mission for which NASA provided detector and cooler technology.

«By investing in these studies, NASA will gain valuable insight into affordable ways to perform the Asteroid Redirect Mission while also advancing technologies needed to drive future exploration missions,» said James Reuther, deputy associate administrator for Space Technology at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Proposals were selected in collaboration with NASA's Space Technology and Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorates.

Although the mission was flown to test new types of propulsion and navigation systems, the technology worked well enough to get Deep Space 1 to Borrelly.

Instead of rocketing astronauts off into deep space, the Asteroid Redirect Mission would send a robotic spacecraft to a small asteroid, secure it (potentially by grabbing it and stuffing it into a giant high - tech bag) and tow it back to orbit the moon using a hyper - efficient kind of rocket engine technology called solar electric propulsion.

Regardless of the presentation, the Asteroid Redirect Mission met a chilly reception in the House of Representatives, where the Committee on Science, Space and Technology passed an authorization bill that would halt work on the project.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA), meanwhile, has partnered with the American, European, and Japanese space agencies, providing technology and science packages for planetary and space - telescope missSpace Agency (CSA), meanwhile, has partnered with the American, European, and Japanese space agencies, providing technology and science packages for planetary and space - telescope missspace agencies, providing technology and science packages for planetary and space - telescope missspace - telescope missions.

Astrophysicist Fred Espenak of the Goddard Space Flight Center speaks for many of his colleagues: «With the current state of technology, planetary science can be done much more inexpensively with robot missions than with manned ones.»

On December 3 from a launchpad in French Guiana, the European Space Agency successfully launched the LISA Pathfinder mission, a satellite that will test technologies needed for a future space - based gravitational wave deteSpace Agency successfully launched the LISA Pathfinder mission, a satellite that will test technologies needed for a future space - based gravitational wave detespace - based gravitational wave detector.

The LISA Pathfinder mission will test the technology required to observe gravitational waves in space for the first time.

Although no NASA mission currently has plans to take a sequencer into space, the agency is supporting several efforts to get the technology ready for exploration.

«And the coronagraph technology this would test will help us plan for future missions, the huge space telescopes we want to launch decades from now.

The European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder mission, set to test gravitational wave detection technology, is on hold after an issue with its launch rocket

Louis Lanzerotti, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology who spent many years at Bell Labs and worked on space missions such as Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo, was a graduate student in nuclear physics at Harvard University when Telstar 1 went into orbit.

«New investments in space technology provide the transformative capabilities to enable new missions, stimulate the economy, contribute to the nation's global competitiveness, and inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers,» concluded Gazarik.

The driving element of MELiSSA is the recovery of food, water and oxygen from waste, carbon dioxide and breath condensate through the development of technology for long - term manned space missions.

Along with Mars 2020, STMD is hard at work, advancing promising technology for potential infusion into these Mars missions including: Heat - shield for Extreme Entry Environment, a tailorable, woven thermal protection system that would reduce entry loads and greatly reduce heat - shield mass; Deep Space Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likeSpace Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likespace to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likeSpace Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likespace travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likespace navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks like GPS.

This demonstration of the key steps in fuel production will ensure that this vital space power technology will be available to provide electricity and heat for ambitious exploration missions of the solar system in this decade and beyond.

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.

«The loss of Contour would be a basic setback for the near future of cometary science,» says Gerhard Schwehm of the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, who is the project scientist for the European Rosetta mission to comet Wirtanen, due to be launched on 13 January 2003.

The instrument, which launches to the International Space Station in December 2014, will explore new technologies that could also be used in future satellite missions.

In anticipation of eLISA, ESA recently launched the LISA Pathfinder, a mission to test technologies needed for the full - fledged space - based gravitational wave detector.

Still, the sky may not be the limit for 3 - D printing — Kiran envisions that the technology could build replacement parts and unplanned - for devices on space missions.

When SMART - 1, the European Space Agency's first mission to the moon, launched in September 2003, astronomers hailed it as the testing ground for a revolutionary and efficient solar - electric - propulsion technology.

The mission also leverages the agency's progress on the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and other cutting - edge technology developments.

The Science and Technology Facilities Council, which sets research priorities and disburses government monies, said that cost overruns have forced it to withdraw support from experiments, including the International Linear Collider (a proposed follow - up to the Large Hadron Collider) and a number of ground - based telescopes, as well as trim its investments in planned space missions such as the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft (set to study the early univespace missions such as the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft (set to study the early univeSpace Agency's Planck spacecraft (set to study the early universe).