Sentences with phrase «damage spacecraft»

Dr Schwendner said: «In addition to potential health risks for the crew, some of these microorganisms could have a negative impact on spacecraft, as they grow on and might damage spacecraft material.

High - energy electrons can damage spacecraft and satellites and can even harm astronauts doing work outside their craft.

Cassini does not attempt many images of Earth because the sun is so close to our planet that an unobstructed view would damage the spacecraft's sensitive detectors.

Solar energetic particles from these events can easily penetrate typical shielding and damage spacecraft electronics and biological cells.

It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon's orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth).

Or maybe you'd prefer to repair your damaged spacecraft?

The missions in Shadow Fall are varied and interesting, specifically the various destinations that you visit like a severely damaged spacecraft with zero gravity.

Not exact matches

Those pieces of flotsam can damage other spacecraft if they collide at high speeds, and bits smaller than about a centimeter are hard to track and avoid, says ESA materials engineer Benoit Bonvoisin in a statement.

Even as far away as Mars, one of the instruments aboard the Odyssey spacecraft — an instrument designed to assess radiation risk to humans — was damaged.

Decommissioned or damaged satellites, fragments of space stations and other remnants of space missions pose a potential threat of collisions with active satellites and spacecraft every day.

«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.»

Just like that, a flotilla of NASA spacecraft has plumbed one of the deeper mysteries of space physics: what causes «magnetic reconnection,» the process that allows energy from the sun's magnetic field to leak into Earth's, triggering potentially damaging space weather.

Potentially damaging plasma clouds would show up on the spacecraft's images of the sun.

Solar storms can at times create radiation damage or introduce errors in satellite or spacecraft computer processors, causing them to function unpredictably, malfunction (sometimes permanently) or «misbehave» in other ways, Anderson says, adding that much of this activity goes unreported to the public because, particularly in commercial space - based systems, operators tend to be very reticent to admit they have had a problem that might discourage investors.

The spacecraft approached the comet at just a few kilometers per hour — a gentle walking pace — but the probe wasn't designed for landings and was likely damaged.

Mark Showalter from the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and colleagues have been using images of Pluto's lunar system to search for potential hazards that could damage NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and colleagues have been searching images of Pluto's satellite system for potential hazards that could damage NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

That's a problem since they can damage crewed spacecraft like the International Space Station and the 24 GPS satellites that we depend on back on Earth.

ESA is looking to develop a spacecraft that could for the first time provide us with a «side - view» of the Sun, improving our ability to predict potentially damaging space weather events such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

The specific issues at that time included production delays and minor component qualification test issues as well as delays stemming from a spacecraft dome element, which was damaged during the manufacturing process.

We know that the best shape for a large interstellar spacecraft is not like the fictional Starship Enterprise of Star Trek fame, but more likely is elongated to minimize the damage from collisions with interstellar dust.

The reschedule was caused by delays and minor component qualification test issues, as well as delays stemming from a spacecraft dome element that was damaged during the manufacturing process.

NASA is taking steps to protect its Mars - orbiting spacecraft from damage by the cosmic visitor.

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Using a low level ship is almost advisable so the inevitable bump or two has no chance of damaging a more expensive spacecraft; at least until you have mastered planet side flight.

Your spacecraft is divided into 8 stations: four turrets used to attack enemies, a navigation station for piloting the ship, a map used to view the level, a shield station which controls where your protective barrier is located around the perimeter of your ship, and the ultra-powerful Yamato cannon, a destructive weapon capable of inflicting massive amounts of damage.

Initially, the only form of attack your spacecraft has is the ability to bump into enemies to dish out damage.

Covers damage caused by fire, lightning, explosion, riot, impact by aircraft, land vehicle, satellite or spacecraft, vandalism, theft or attempted theft.