Sentences with phrase «by space debris»

It made me smile to see that my lifetime probability of getting hit by space debris has been calculated.

Hubble's had 5 service missions, and its camera housing has been hit many times by space debris, it has impact craters.

Like the rest of Pluto, this region would presumably have been pummeled by space debris for billions of years and would have once been heavily cratered — unless recent activity had given the region a facelift, erasing those pockmarks.

Not exact matches

«It's not impossible, but since the beginning of the Space Age... a woman who was brushed on the shoulder in Oklahoma is the only one we're aware of who's been touched by a piece of space debris,» he Space Age... a woman who was brushed on the shoulder in Oklahoma is the only one we're aware of who's been touched by a piece of space debris,» he space debris,» he said.

From donating desperately - needed supplies and funds, to pitching in with hands - on debris clean - up, to offering up space as emergency shelter and beyond, businesses heeded the call to help thousands of individuals displaced and otherwise affected by the devastating massive recent hurricanes and the floods they precipitated.

Consequent to the announcement of NASA that seven exoplanets have been discovered, a new study has argued that life forms on one planet can seed life in other planets by riding on space debris to reach other planets.

Most likely, Meech says, the object is an outcast from another star system: a space rock flung out during the star's tempestuous youth when it was surrounded by freshly - formed giant planets embedded in a disk of debris.

The orbital space environment is threatened both by man - made debris and natural space weather.

A September report by the National Research Council found that the debris field is so dense that collisions between objects in orbit will create additional debris faster than space junk falls out of orbit.

Earth is surrounded by a cloud of debris, both natural — such as micrometeorites and comet dust, which create meteor showers — and unnatural, including dead satellites and the cast - off detritus of space launches.

«Although there is a sort of sandblasting going on in space all of the time, both from man - made and natural debris, we've only had two operational spacecraft ever hit by man - made debris (that we know of) that sustained any major damage.»

Engineers tested how well a prototype shield for spacecraft would stand up to space debris by shooting it with a solid aluminum pellet.

Early computer models showed that more than half of the debris blasted into space by the impact would fall into the atmosphere within eight hours.

The orbiting debris has included a glove and a spatula dropped by space - shuttle astronauts, bags of Mir's garbage, and the Russian radio transmitter in a space suit, SuitSat.

And besides, in the 54 - year history of the space age, no one has ever been hit by falling debris, despite a steady rain of satellites and rocket bodies.

A theory exists that Mars» large North Polar Basin or Borealis Basin, which covers about 40 percent of the planet in its northern hemisphere, was created by that impact, sending debris into space.

Some of this debris was thought to lurk within a few light - years of the sun and generate x-rays that have been detected by space probes and ground - based observations.

THE risk to spacecraft from a collision with space debris could be reduced by equipping launchers with a gossamer - thin «sail».

One chunk of that debris floated around in space for roughly 5 million years — Agee can tell by the traces of cosmic radiation etched into the rock — until it fell to Earth, and ultimately into Agee's lab.

The debris clouds, initially distributed along the orbital paths of the satellites, are spreading to enshroud the entire planet, joining the roughly 19,000 large chunks of orbiting space junk (as seen in this image) already tracked by the Department of Defense.

Asteroid P / 2013 R3 is shattering into a cloud of debris in these images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

While NASA's Johnson Space Center manages monitored debris threats for spacecraft related to U.S. manned missions such as the International Space Station, the responsibility for unmanned missions managed by NASA falls to the Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis, or CARA, team operating out of NASA Goddard.

17,300 The estimated number of pieces of debris larger than 10 centimeters in diameter that are being tracked by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network.

(Nobody is known to have ever been injured by a piece of man - made space debris.)

«If a spacecraft is lost due to being hit by debris, the odds are the satellite will be hit by something the trackers can't see,» said Nicholas Johnson, NASA chief scientist (retired) for orbital debris at Johnson Space Center in Houston.

It also includes sticking to international guidelines intended to minimise new debris, drawn up by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), which represents all the world's major space agedebris, drawn up by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), which represents all the world's major space agenSpace Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), which represents all the world's major space ageDebris Coordination Committee (IADC), which represents all the world's major space agenspace agencies.

«Being hit by a 1 - centimetre object at orbital velocity is the equivalent of exploding a hand grenade next to a satellite,» says Heiner Klinkrad, head of the space debris office at the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, Gerspace debris office at the European Space Agency in Darmstadt, GerSpace Agency in Darmstadt, Germany.

US lawmakers were incensed by a 2007 Chinese anti-satellite test that created the largest space debris cloud in history when it pulverized one of its own aging satellites.

In 1996, a French satellite was damaged by debris from a rocket that exploded 10 years earlier, and a 2007 anti-satellite test launched by China introduced more than 3,000 pieces of debris to space, according to NASA.

Though no one has ever been killed by a falling meteorite (mostly due to their tendency to burn up in the atmosphere), the recent Tiangong - 1 falling Chinese space satellite incident has proven that every sizable piece of debris that makes it through the atmosphere is another roll of the dice.

Without atmospheres to slow and stop tiny impacts, the surfaces of these small worlds are repeatedly sand - blasted by all manner of space debris.

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Posing yet another threat to astronomical observations, space debris generated by satellite launches, human activity in space, and inoperative hardware can become a major hazard for telescopes in space.

The story of two astronauts (George Clooney and Sandra Bullock) struggling to return to Earth after debris cripples their space shuttle is the first film shot in 3D by Cuarón's frequent collaborator, Emmanuel Lubezki (Tree of Life).

In particular, one map is particularly haunting: a destroyed International Space Station, torn asunder by flying debris.

WHAT: When their space shuttle is destroyed by hurtling debris from a damaged Russian satellite, U.S. astronauts Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) are left adrift in space with limited oxygen and a minimal chance of survival.

At the San Diego Zoo, a rare, unusually sociable albino silverback gorilla named George encounters one of these pieces of space debris and in the process finds himself infected by a strange green mist.

Debris includes rocket boosters ~ old communication and weather satellites and even tools dropped by astronauts while outside the International Space Station.

The main purpose of small woody debris on Redwood Creek is to give adequate space for small fish to remain undetected by aerial predators and provide cooler temperature waters away from direct sunlight.

I spent the demo throwing Stormtroopers out windows into space, bringing TIE Fighters crashing down with extra debris, throwing Stromtroopers one by one into an oncoming AT - ST, using Force lightning to stun my enemies, then cut through them with my lightsaber.

In Liam's case, this mission involves Ryder and company hiding in debris to be scavenged, although instead of space pirates they end up being picked up by a bunch of hostile Kett aliens.

While the game features a female protagonist who's trapped in space and surrounded by debris, the similarities end there.

On the subject of being in space, you also have the occasional mission that may want you to spacewalk, by floating about outside and grappling to debris to travel through the void.

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For the Sunroom Project Space, Gallo creates an imaginary hive interior informed by Wave Hill's beehives, using yellow, recycled, plastic bags and caution tape woven through debris netting.

Curated by Naz Cugoðlu and Serhat Cacekli of Collective Çukurcuma alongside Russia - based Nikolay Alutin, the «Survival Kit» exhibition was held at Karaköy's independent art venue Space Debris between September 8 - October 7.

Curated by Michael Rooks «Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks; Recent Developments in Painting» Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark «HyperSurface», OVADA, Oxford, UK «Schil / Ders», De Constant Rebecqueplein (DCR), The Hague, Netherlands «HyperSurface», Rod Barton Invites, London «Parallax», Fieldgate Gallery, London 2007 «Existencias», Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Castilla Y Leon, Leon, Spain «Design for Living», Initial Access, Wolverhampton, England «Raumwelten», Kunsthalle Arnstadt, Arnstadt, Germany «Odd Spaces», Galerie Møller Witt, Aarhus, Denmark Artist Intervention, Commissioned by Vienna Art Week and the City of Vienna, Austria 2006 Recent Acquisitions, Hamburger Banhof, Berlin, Germany «The City is Not a Tree» Alon Segev Gallery, Tel - Aviv, Israel «Slider» Cell Projects, London 2005 «Ian Monroe and Emma Stibbon: Utopian Architecture», Upstairs Berlin, Germany «Infrastructure» Studio Voltaire, London «Winterzauber» Upstairs Berlin, Germany 2004 «Edge of the Real», The Whitechapel, London «Selected Sculpture» MW Projects, London «Cinderella» Trailer Projects, London «Contra Pop» Vamiali's Gallery, Athens, Greece 2003 «Bag Lady» Cell Projects, London «Reduced» Century Gallery, London «Debris» Martinez Gallery, Brooklyn «Godzilla» Trailer Projects, London Saatchi Gallery, County Hall, London «The Queen Mum Show» One in the Other Gallery, London «Chockerfuckinblocked» Jeffery Charles Gallery, London «RSVP» 5 Cork Street, London 2002 «Present» Hammer Sidi Gallery, London «The Way to Happiness» VTO Gallery, London «Trailer Presents» Trailer Projects, London «Lend us # 100m» 21 Dingley Road, London

But here the back radiation is caused by GHGs and not «space debris».

Scientists have proposed ways to clear space junk by launching water at it and have taken measures such as astronauts sleeping in escape pods in reaction to the growing space debris problem.

According to Discovery News, «Launched on ballistic flight paths that quickly re-enter the atmosphere, the water wouldn't add to the debris problem, unlike some other proposals to clean up space... The so - called Ballistic Orbital Removal System could be operated inexpensively by launching water on decommissioned missiles out of suborbital launch complexes, such as NASA's Wallops Island in Virginia, he added.»