Sentences with phrase «called space launch»

The timetable for NASA's longer - term projects is more handwavy — the Obama administration talks vaguely about missions to an asteroid around 2025 and Mars around 2030 — but the agency is working on a well - defined program, called the Space Launch System, to develop powerful rockets for interplanetary travel, whatever the destination.

The Chicago - based aerospace giant is working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop a heavy - lift rocket called the Space Launch System for deep space exploration.

The space agency is also in an ever - present budget pinch — and behind schedule in building its own super-heavy-lift rocket, called Space Launch System.

Not exact matches

The space industry is coming off record investment in 2017, which Anderson has called «the year of commercial launch.»

He values it so much that when he launched his new messaging app for college students, called Islands, he rented a space in student housing at the University of Western Ontario so he could be closer to his potential customers.

She calls 2017 the «year of the «pinkcubator,»» when The Pink Ceiling will launch a coworking space for founders in Raleigh.

We were launching a cloud - based document management into a space that was increasingly being called Enterprise 2.0.

Mr. Zuckerberg traveled to Kenya in 2016 for the launch of a Facebook - affiliated satellite called Amos - 6, which was set to go to outer space in a SpaceX rocket.

In the coming months a privately backed project called LightSail 2 plans to launch a lunch box — size craft into orbit, where it will deploy a Mylar sail about as big as two parking spaces.

The CAL and QUANTUS teams plan to join forces on a second space station mission, called BECAL, which would launch in 2020 or 2021.

The resulting plan called for two spacecraft — the starshade and an orbital telescope — to launch together and detach in space, or to go up separately.

A space telescope called Gaia, scheduled for launch later this year, will map the positions and distances of about one billion stars on our side of the Milky Way, plotting the three - dimensional structure in unprecedented detail.

Not to be outdone, the European Space Agency hopes to launch an ambitious 12 - year mission in February called Rosetta.

An Indian - made rocket called PSLV - C37 soared 310 miles into the Earth's ionosphere last February and launched 104 space satellites, spitting them out rapidly from both sides.

In its latest project, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is collaborating with NASA on its next Mars lander, called Phoenix, scheduled for launch in 2007.

On June 23, Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative to send spacecraft to another star system, launched half a dozen probes called Sprites to test how their electronics fare in outer space.

But the nascent quest to equip aquanauts to live in «inner space,» as some called the vast undersea realm, never got anything close to the billions of dollars pumped into launching the Apollo astronauts into outer space, birthing an industry and defining the global zeitgeist.

The wood - paneled walls around Koblick's office are filled with memorabilia that attest to his years as an undersea pioneer and a genuine player in a decades - long quest to turn ordinary divers into «aquanauts,» the name applied to those equipped to live on the seabed, much as crews launched into space get to be called astronauts.

And a spacecraft called Lisa Pathfinder launched last December to test technology for a proposed space - based observatory that will be sensitive to longer - wavelength gravitational waves from supermassive black hole collisions.

The request also calls for canceling five NASA earth science missions, including an operating Earth - facing camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite and the planned Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite, set for launch in 2022, which would assess the ocean's health and its interactions with the atmosphere.

The experimental probe's potential first target would be Switzerland's first space mission, a picosatellite called SwissCube that was launched in 2009.

A new experiment set for an Aug. 14 launch to the International Space Station will provide an unprecedented look at a rain of particles from deep space, called cosmic rays, that constantly showers our plSpace Station will provide an unprecedented look at a rain of particles from deep space, called cosmic rays, that constantly showers our plspace, called cosmic rays, that constantly showers our planet.

In about eight years, NASA and the European Space Agency plan to launch the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, called LISA.

NASA's successor to Webb, a 2.4 - meter space telescope called WFIRST slated to launch in the mid-2020s, could potentially observe Alpha Centauri.

The constellation of Earth - imaging satellites launched yesterday — 28 individual sputniks, called «Doves,» each about the size of its namesake and weighing in at a svelte five kilograms — is on its way to the International Space Station.

While 2010 appropriation documents instructed NASA to continue with the Constellation effort, the October law, known as a reauthorization, calls it instead a «Space Launch System» (SLS) although the requirements are similar.

Although the shuttle program ended in 2011, NASA scientist Lynne Phillips said it's important to understand hazardous contaminants as the space center transitions to what she calls «the next generation of space launch.»

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States government's only manned launch vehicle currently in service.

To get a good look at it, Bock, Cooray, and an international team of colleagues built a detector, called the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER), that could be launched to the edge of space on a rocket and collect images with two 11 - centimeter telescopes.

Meanwhile, NASA's Exploration account received a considerable 20.6 percent increase over last year, which would fund the Orion Crew Vehicle and the Space Launch System (SLS) at significantly higher amounts than the President's budget; SLS would still see funding at least $ 300 million below what House and Senate appropriators called for.

Despite its canine focus, the Soviet Union and its successor state Russia did launch a number of rhesus monkeys to space in the 1980s and 1990s, as part of a program called Bion.

Led by former astronaut Ed Lu, their plan is to launch a space telescope called Sentinel.

The Federation of Neuroscience Labs launches a call for a new research group in Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences for which 120m2 lab space will be available from early 2017.

On July 18, 2011, the Russian Space Agency launched a satellite into orbit that unfolded into a 10 - meter (33 - foot) dish radio telescope called Spektr - R.

Both the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and the House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearings raised questions about other priorities in the NASA budget request — especially funding for robotic Mars exploration — but the focus was firmly on commercial crew versus the Space Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) space capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorizationSpace and Technology Committee hearings raised questions about other priorities in the NASA budget request — especially funding for robotic Mars exploration — but the focus was firmly on commercial crew versus the Space Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) space capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorizationSpace Launch System (SLS) and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) space capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorizationspace capsule (called Orion) Congress directed NASA to build in the 2010 NASA authorization act.

A successor observatory called the James Webb Space Telescope is expected to launch in 2020.

This image of a pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273 was released to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the launch of the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope

The satellite, called Deep Space Climate Observatory, was once scheduled for launch from a space shuttle in 2000 but has never gotten off the grSpace Climate Observatory, was once scheduled for launch from a space shuttle in 2000 but has never gotten off the grspace shuttle in 2000 but has never gotten off the ground.

Lerner is the creator of a dating app called The Grade, which launched last year with the goal of creating a space that was...

More than 300 men blackmailed by fraudsters posing as women on dating apps in Hong Kong Ambitious plans to launch a «space nation» called Asgardia already appear to be running into very Earth - like problems.

It's been almost four months since Call of Duty: WWII launched with its ambitious new Headquarters social space, but one promised HQ feature is still missing in action.

How many of you remember that time last year when in the space of a few weeks, Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2 and Call of Duty: Advance Warfare were all launched, in that order?

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A small fragment of humanity manages to escape the devastation, launching themselves through space until they crash - land on a planet called Mira.

November will see one shooter return to its roots with Call of Duty: WW2 and another launch into space with Star Wars: Battlefront II.

Adam Smith, a Hood River sixth - grade math, science, and language arts teacher, came across a video online called «Hello Kitty Goes to Space,» showing a seventh - grade student launching a high - altitude weather balloon into the atmosphere and capturing data while in flight.

The Soviet Union's 1957 launch of the first manmade satellite to orbit the earth riveted attention on space and inspired the editors to call their collaborative research and writing project the «Moonshooter.»

With enough computing power to launch a fleet of space shuttles, the whole system (which also includes Ferrari's rear E-Diff limited - slip differential) is called 4RM, which stands for 4 Ruote Motrici in Italian — or 4 Wheel Drive.

After a bumpy start with his first self - published project, a serial called The Bug, he learned the ropes and had a successful launch for his Space Team comedic SF series.

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