Sentences with phrase «as space engineers»

Immense potential, but on the other hand, I've seen how poorly voxel games run such as Space Engineers, hell even minecraft block style ones such as Spacemade making full use of culling can't maintain large objects in view without melting a CPU / GPU, and when you add physics, the server melts down too.

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Young was reassigned in 1987 as special assistant for engineering, operations and safety at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, a move he viewed as punishment for his outspokenness.
In it, space nerds of all stripes will find a ton of engineering to marvel at, including a 35 - story space vehicle (and even the prospect the intercontinental rockets that could get you from London to New York in under a half an hour), as well as plenty of discussion of the many technical challenges to realize this dream.
Assumption: The commercial space industry, through competition and engineering advances, will settle down to the same fuel - to - overhead ratio as the modern airline industry.
With today's highly - engineered wall systems such as Beyond by Allsteel — the system that FOX used for B10ck — a truly finished, permanent «feel» is possible in the office space, while using entirely modular components.
It makes coming to school more exciting,» said Jason Candreva, a PhD candidate in chemical engineering, as he headed up to gleaming new lab space at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering.
Oil may be the dominant business sector, but Space City, as Houston has been nicknamed, is a hotbed for engineering jobs and has learned from history.
26th January 2018 Civil engineering solutions provider Concor Infrastructure, formerly known as Murray & Roberts Infrastructure, is well positioned to take advantage of the recent increase in optimism in the mining space, with company representatives poised to attend the 2018 Investing in African Mining Indaba in... →
Behlendorf says «the regulators there, like the political leaders, are former engineers... they understand scale better than regulators in other parts of the world», citing this as evidence that they will be among the leaders in this space.
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.
And when you get right down to it, her description of the science was not really that great either (which is not surprising, considering her experience in the space program was as an engineer, not a scientist), so it's wrong to say there is nothing wrong with her synopsis.
· engineers have improved compression techniques so video no longer needs as much transmission space (bandwidth)
That ability also tied in with our title wins and whilst the game changes and formations go in and out of fashion, the principles of engineering space when attacking and narrowing space when defending have existed as long as football has existed.
Canadian Astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield is currently living in space in the International Space Station as a Flight Engispace in the International Space Station as a Flight EngiSpace Station as a Flight Engineer.
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.
They plan, configure, install, and manage the robust secure traffic engineered MPLS Backbone that transport data, voice, and video from and to Space Shuttles, the International Space Station, the Deep Space Network and numerous Satellites as well as other «Man» and «Unmanned» space crSpace Shuttles, the International Space Station, the Deep Space Network and numerous Satellites as well as other «Man» and «Unmanned» space crSpace Station, the Deep Space Network and numerous Satellites as well as other «Man» and «Unmanned» space crSpace Network and numerous Satellites as well as other «Man» and «Unmanned» space crspace crafts.
«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
As a civilian scientist, he then pursued two M.S. degrees (in space systems and electrical engineering), and a doctorate in aeronautics, astronautics, and propulsion.
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.
The internal CSA team managing this activity serves as the interface between scientists, engineers, and other government space agencies to ensure the successful delivery of this important payload.
Anderson started out as an aerospace engineer and always wanted to venture into space.
Earlier this year, as astronauts busied themselves inside the International Space Station, engineers on the ground conducted their own experiment just outside the craft.
Most recently, Dryden engineers helped design and test the Orion crew module, which may serve as a lifeboat aboard the International Space Station.
In practice, however, designers of possible future missions have grappled with the great complexity of engineering such ambitious spacecraft as well as new frontiers of contaminating noise in space.
As the CEO and chief asteroid miner of Planetary Resources, Inc. in Redmond, Washington, the 42 - year - old aerospace engineer is looking to identify how the materials in near - Earth asteroids — namely metals and water — can be used to one day facilitate long - haul space missions and travel, and even save the Earth's resources from being overused.
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.
Typically engineers build photodiodes as tiny square elements and spread them out in regularly spaced grids.
Technically speaking, it might be difficult to find a system — or to engineer one — with those exact parameters, such as the energy level spacings that perfectly balance one another and an interaction between the three qubits that links their energy levels.
As nothing else does, the frontier of space exploration, which draws upon a dozen fields of science and engineering, attracts the ambitions of those who are still in the educational pipeline.
Without him, his engineering and management skills combined with his undying enthusiasm for popularising space travel, it is unlikely that space exploration would have developed as fast as it has in the past half century.
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.
As ESA engineers begin building a giant cargo vessel for large loads going to and from the space station, they are also looking at how it can be adapted to carry astronauts and become Europe's first manned spacecraft.
Having to work with limited volumes of space available and accommodate complex engineering needs as well as design for astronauts living under stressful and exhausting conditions was a supreme challenge.
In 1999, Robert Twiggs, an astronautical engineer now at Morehead State University, helped create the Orbiting Picosatellite Automatic Launcher (OPAL), a microsatellite that can propel several satellites as small as ice cream bars into space.
«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.
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.
As the UKSA prepares its spaceport plan, the nation's space engineering and tourism industry is set to take off, says Kenyon.
The Expedition 40 crewmembers hope to document Cygnus» reentry Sunday as part of an engineering exercise to study the mechanics of the breakup of a space vehicle.
As engineers figure out how to cram more chip power into smaller spaces, they also have to tackle the problem of excess heat.
«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.
From graduate student to her current role as an assistant director of the NASA Johnson Space Center, her career in science and engineering has always been closely linked with the advances and applications of space technoSpace Center, her career in science and engineering has always been closely linked with the advances and applications of space technospace technology.
«People usually see space as a source of heat from the sun, but away from the sun outer space is really a cold, cold place,» explained Shanhui Fan, professor of electrical engineering and the paper's senior author.
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).
Last week, the CIA released a sheaf of pictures taken in the 1960s by its Corona satellites, known to the public as the Discoverer series, and hundreds of pages of once - secret documents describing engineers» early frustrations as they tried to make space cameras work.
The tests are helping engineers working on the development of the SLS at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., ensure the rocket can adjust to the environment it faces as it makes its way to sSpace Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., ensure the rocket can adjust to the environment it faces as it makes its way to spacespace.
As Galileo raced away from Earth, NASA's space - flight engineers began to scratch their heads.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden released this statement: «Leonard Nimoy was an inspiration to multiple generations of engineers, scientists, astronauts, and other space explorers... As Mr. Spock, he made science and technology important to the story, while never failing to show, by example, that it is the people around us who matter most.
While flight controllers at ESA's European Space Operations in Darmstadt, Germany had hoped to deploy all three booms by May 12, the unfurling of the remaining antennas will not resume until engineers fully understand the current anomaly, as well as its implications to future boom deployment.
Before joining ALMA, Dr Whyborn worked at the Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON) as Instrument Scientist and System Engineer of the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far - Infrared (HIFI), one of three instruments launched on - board the Herschel space telescope in Space Research (SRON) as Instrument Scientist and System Engineer of the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far - Infrared (HIFI), one of three instruments launched on - board the Herschel space telescope in space telescope in 2009.
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