Sentences with phrase «as robotic spacecraft»

Later, using new technologies on the ground as well as robotic spacecraft, scientists like Shoemaker started to track, catalog, and closely examine the objects.

Not exact matches

The space agency wanted that spacecraft to provide advanced communications and imaging as well as robotic science exploration in support of NASA's plans to send astronauts to the vicinity of the Red Planet or its moons sometime during the 2030s.

NASA has selected two missions to further explore past targets — Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and the comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko — as the final candidates for its next billion - dollar robotic spacecraft, the agency announced today.

Robotic spacecraft, such as Pioneer 10 and 11 and the Voyager probes, gave us our first close - ups of the gas giant planets in the outer solar system.

Ground - based radars using large antennas including the GBT could be used as a collisional hazard assessment tool and as a safety mechanism for spacecraft that encounter navigation or communication issues, in future robotic and human missions to the moon.