Sentences with phrase «deep space mission operations»

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Starved of solar power, Rosetta's mission is coming to an end after more than a decade of operations, concluding with a crash into the comet it has shadowed through deep space for two years.

Mission control confirmed end of operations just a few minutes later, at 3:40 p.m., when no signal was detected by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) station in Goldstone, California, at the time the spacecraft would have emerged from behind the planet.

The agency recently announced that its Mars plan now includes building a «deep - space gateway» around the moon to serve as a testing ground for operations and technology that will be required for those Red Planet missions, Williams said.