Sentences with phrase «building spacecraft»

Building spacecraft that work is hard, and it is in the interests of the nation, I believe, to have those engineering capabilities for Earth science in an organization that regularly does this for space exploration as a whole....

The game uses actual physics and aerodynamics to prove that you know nothing about building spacecraft, but then throws in cute aliens to make it all a bit less devastating.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver is building the spacecraft.

There have been other, perhaps even wilder, alternatives for building spacecraft in orbit.

«Reaching this stage means a lot to the team and our stakeholders,» said Andy Driesman, Solar Probe Plus project manager at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL), which manages the mission for NASA and is building the spacecraft.

It was also part of a new concept for building spacecraft after a series of cost overruns and unsuccessful missions.

«Building a spacecraft is not building a spacecraft; it's building and testing and testing a spacecraft, because you can't go up and fix it.

Reedman graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in mechanical engineering and has now been working at MD Robotics — formerly SPAR Aerospace — designing and building spacecraft for over 17 years.

«The teams at NASA, APL, and the other institutions did a great job building the spacecraft and instruments,» says APL's Harvey.

«They are not building these spacecraft for UV microbial death,» says John Rummel, an astrobiologist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

«We're building a spacecraft that's going to launch from the Earth, rendezvous with an asteroid and characterize all of its fundamental properties in great detail.

SpaceX and Boeing are both building spacecraft for NASA's commercial crew program, with the project goal being to get American astronauts on American rockets back into space.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems built the spacecraft.

Lockheed Martin of Denver built the spacecraft.

Although purpose - built spacecraft, like NASA's Van Allen probes, have studied the belt, nothing can beat the GPS system for the frequency and duration of its observations, according to Steven Morley, a Los Alamos researcher.

Orbital ATK, Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft.

For space veterans Eric Anderson and Chris Lewicki, asteroid mining will be just the start — they want to build spacecraft out of the rocks

Data from WISE may generate proposals for telescope time on Herschel for more detailed follow - up observations, says Paul Goldsmith, project scientist for Herschel at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Goldsmith's JPL colleagues will manage ground operations for WISE; Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, designed and built its instrumentation, and Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft itself.)

The Spacecraft Assembly Facility at Jet Propulsion Laboratory is where NASA builds spacecraft and machinery to be launched into space.

Back on Earth, the mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (which built the spacecraft and operates the mission for NASA) along with the Flight Software (FSW) and Radio Frequency (RF) Teams, have recently made some improvements in getting the science teams more data.

Equal parts taskmaster, entrepreneur, and showman, Stern has been working for 25 years to get a spacecraft to Pluto — 10 years to muster political and scientific will, 5 years to build a spacecraft, and nearly 10 years to make the trip.

Orbital Sciences Corp. in Dulles, Va., designed and built the spacecraft.

We might be able to make it move, but we don't have a clue how it works — and we certainly couldn't fix it if it went wrong, or build another spacecraft from scratch.

The popularity of the burgeoning commercial space travel industry may come down to economics: Companies will have to attract investors and build spacecraft that can easily, inexpensively and repeatedly be launched to and return from suborbital altitude.

The reduced scale reduces the capital outlay required to build each spacecraft and enables the Lynx to make up to four flights daily (although two a day are more likely at first), XCOR president, Jeff Greason, said during the press conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., adding, «If I could figure out how to hold a half passenger, I would.»

Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft.

Between 1996 and 2003, for example, NASA had a program to explore what it calls Breakthrough Propulsion Physics to build spacecraft capable of traveling at speeds faster than light (299,790 kilometers per second).

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colorado, built the spacecraft.

Major subcontractors were Astrium Ltd. who built the spacecraft platform, Astrium France who supplied the spacecraft avionics and Alenia Spazio, Turin, Italy, for assembly, integration and verification.

(Lockheed Martin Space Systems, which designed and built the spacecraft, is based in Littleton, Colo..)

With a little more than a year to go before U.S. astronauts launch aboard a U.S. - built spacecraft, and from U.S. soil, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era, NASA has ordered its second Post-Certification Mission (PCM) from SpaceX.

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, a Russian - launched, European - built spacecraft that arrived at Mars in October, is starting to dip into the upper reaches of the red planet's atmosphere in a year - long «aerobraking» campaign place the observatory in the right position to hunt for methane, an indicator of potential biological activity.

The NASA - built spacecraft, developed in partnership with the European Space Agency, dived into Saturn's atmosphere Sept. 15 to end a nearly 20 - year mission.

Partnered with NASA, the APL team and its industry partners have built a spacecraft that should make some 24 orbits around the Sun.

«We're an atmospheric monitoring mission, whereas all the orbiters that come before us have really been surface - mapping, surface - observation - type missions,» Guy Beutelschies, MAVEN project manager at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, which built the spacecraft, told reporters Friday (Nov. 15).

Before arriving at Goddard, New Horizons underwent vibration testing at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, which designed and built the spacecraft.

As a result Nasa started a competition and it chose a team called New Horizons to build a spacecraft that will study Pluto, Charon and several Kuiper Belt objects during a series of flybys.

Lockheed Martin of Littleton, Colorado, will build the spacecraft based on designs from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and 2001 Mars Odyssey missions as well as perform mission operations.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Littleton, Colo., designed and built the spacecraft and is responsible for testing, launch processing, and mission operations.

Lockheed Martin Space, Denver, built the spacecraft.

As the humanoid alien Thomas Jerome Newton, Bowie starts a hi - tech company on Earth in order make money to build a spacecraft to transport water back to his thirsty planet.

You build a spacecraft, and fly it into space.

The game is simple - design and build spacecraft to take the cutesy Kerbals to the Mun and beyond.

See what it takes to build your spacecraft (aka brand), how it travels through the universe, and how it interacts with the outside world.

The only thing I would add is when it comes to building satellites there is an efficiency / benefit that comes from having the spacecraft development infrastructure for Earth observations in the same organization that builds spacecraft for other purposes — planetary and astrophysics.

The same species also builds spacecraft.

How's about somebody builds a spacecraft that has a 50/50 chance of making it to space and back safely.

It's fascinating to think that scientists in 1977, working with calculation systems less sophisticated than a modern electronic car key fob, built spacecraft that are still functioning 40 years later, still sending back telemetry from (in Voyager 1's case) interstellar space.

Not exact matches

It starts with building up a revenue stream using SpaceX's current fleet of reusable Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft.

April 27 - A heat shield used in a NASA spacecraft designed to send a six - wheeled rover vehicle to Mars in 2020 suffered an «unexpected» fracture during a structural test this month, causing the space agency to build a replacement, the space agency said.