Sentences with phrase «deep space destinations»

The discovery of water on the Moon is a game changer, not just for the economic viability of lunar resources, but for the economics of reaching Mars and other deep space destinations.

Not exact matches

«I don't think you're going to see anything out of Star Wars,» he said of future manned missions to deep - space destinations.

EUROPE»S Aurora manned space program may have the giddy quality of a dream, but solving its twin challenges — building a vessel to carry a crew into deep space and designing the engines that can reach interesting destinations — pushes it toward mundane pocketbook realities.

«An asteroid in the Earth - moon system would provide a safer destination to begin developing our capability for human deep space exploration,» says Chris Lewicki of Planetary Resources, a space - mining firm in Seattle.

The announcement is a crucial milestone for the agency's nascent Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which is intended to set the stage for future missions sending humans to Mars and other deep - space destinations.

The film would have to be blanketed by a highly reflective cover to endure the harsh conditions of deep space and the heat near the destination star.

Thanks to its ion propulsion system, Dawn is the first spacecraft ever targeted to orbit two deep - space destinations.

Instead, their primary purpose is to see if CubeSats can survive the harsh conditions of an extended deep space mission and still perform tasks when they arrive at their destination.

He will be directing from Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare On Elm Street, Final Destination 5) and Ronald D. Moore's (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) script.

A rocket ship launches from the American Midwest, carrying you into the deep reaches of space to an unknown destination 20 light years away.

Like climate satellites, space probes only work if mission control is still in business when deep space instuments and cameras get to their distant destinations.