Sentences with phrase «cross-strapped spacecraft bus»

The components were then shipped to prime contractor Northrop Grumman's facility in Redondo Beach, California, where they will be finally attached to the spacecraft bus and its tennis court — size deployable sunshield.

But similar work with the spacecraft bus and sunshield, at a Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, California, has experienced delays, they added.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Denver -: The «Adapting Commercial Spacecraft for the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle» study will define system concepts for a Solar Electric Propulsion Module based on an existing commercial spacecraft bus and NASA Hall thrusters.

The sunshield will be joined with the spacecraft bus (main structure) followed by more testing.

The two parts of the spacecraft — the telescope and instrument package and the spacecraft bus with sunshield — are waiting to be melded together at the facility of prime contractor Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California.

The Optical Telescope Element is shipped to Johnson Space Center for cryogenic testing in a giant thermal vacuum chamber called «Chamber A.» The spacecraft bus is connected to the sunshield.

The telescope and instruments will be joined with the spacecraft bus and sunshield in 2018, and final tests of the full observatory will be conducted.

Power: Gallium Arsenide triple junction solar arrays, 10 kW at Earth and 1.4 kW at Ceres Orbit Altitude: At target asteroids: As high as 4,500 km and as low as 25 km Reliability: Redundant and cross-strapped spacecraft bus electronics Mission Life: 10 years

Not exact matches

Called the James Webb Space Telescope, the bus - sized, infrared - seeing spacecraft — often delayed and well over-budget — may ultimately cost taxpayers nearly $ 9 billion.

At the same time, the Gateway would also serve as an interplanetary bus stop of sorts; a convenient point from which spacecraft bound for Mars could launch and to which they could return.

That's when mission planners project radio communications will be lost with the two - ton, bus - size spacecraft as it plunges into the giant planet's turbulent atmosphere at more than 122,000 kilometers per hour.

The defunct bus - size spacecraft is NASA's Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite (UARS), which launched in 1991 and was shut down in 2005 after completing its mission.

They have since powered transportation modes ranging from cars and buses to spacecraft.

You decommission a weapon of mass destruction, which carried as its payload the means of destroying everything we cherish, and you convert that into a bus that launches a spacecraft into Earth's orbit, which is a means for exploring the universe.

The spacecraft came so close to Europa that if there were something there the size of a school bus, Galileo would have detected it.

Some spacecraft are the size of a school bus.

Based on early plans, Europa Clipper will be a larger spacecraft with two 29 - foot solar panels and a main body the size of a school bus.

These objects range in size from centimeter - long chunks of metal or other spacecraft debris to bus - sized satellites.

The most important thing about this reusable spacecraft is that it can carry a payload equivalent to sending five double - decker London buses into space — which will be invaluable for future manned space exploration or in sending bigger satellites into orbit.