Sentences with phrase «designing space missions»

LOL... PatrioticDuo, please be aware that NASA has learned (the hard way) never to let scientists build - and - launch satellites, and (conversely) never to let engineers conceive - and - design space missions!

Space Decentral hopes to leverage some of the current development work under way in the Ethereum community to produce an open - source toolbox to collaboratively design space missions.

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«Beyond practical uses for training, virtual reality offers us a compelling method to share the work we've been doing to design sustainable human missions and to inspire the next generation of pioneers in space,» Crusan says.

As the founder and CEO of online interior design service Laurel & Wolf, Fine's mission to take the uncertainty, cost and sunk time out of space makeovers.

It supposed to be capable of carrying 140,000 pounds of cargo into space and has been designed with three stages that can return safely to Earth, so they can be reused during future missions.

Our mission @ T - REX is to energize the economic vitality of St. Louis by supporting innovative, entrepreneurial technology companies with well - designed, affordable space, world class programming and events, and critical connections for development and growth.

From commercial tenant fit - outs to high - rise infrastructure; religious institutions to boutique retail spaces; mission critical facilities to residential developments to health care complexes; Jonathan's diverse array of industry experience in both design & construction provides a unique compliment to Broadway Construction's team of professionals.

In March 2009 Nasa launched its Kepler Space Telescope, which was specifically designed, as its mission statement says, to «search for habitable planets».

ExoMars comprises two missions under ESA's Aurora programme designed to further scientific discovery and develop technologies to lay the foundations for human space exploration.

But Seager emphasizes the importance of the analysis, which established scientific goals for the mission, compiled a tentative list of target stars and evaluated starshade designs and implementation strategies in space.

SNW: Some space missions take years to design, build, launch, land and wait for data return.

The GREAT3 challenge is designed to improve methods for measuring weak lensing in preparation for future dark matter / dark energy missions, such as the European Space Agency's Euclid, in which NASA plays an important role, and the National Academy of Science's highest priority for NASA, WFIRST — also known as the WFIRST - AFTA mission, which stands for Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope - Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets.

Over a career that spans the entire Space Age, he has designed some of the first scientific instruments for satellites, directed searches for life - supporting conditions on Mars and above all managed the science team of the Voyager missions that explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune along with their moons — the single greatest expedition ever undertaken.

I find the objectives of scientific space instruments inspiring and the mission of designing them fascinating.

In Russell's proposal, Dawn used the same basic engine design as Deep Space 1 but needed a larger xenon fuel tank and other changes to ensure the system would survive its eight - year mission.

They founded B612 to search for near - Earth asteroids; for now, all of its activities are directed toward a single space mission, called Sentinel, designed to find every potentially hazardous rock out there.

Almost all India's space research is headed up by the Bangalore - based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon misspace research is headed up by the Bangalore - based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon misSpace Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon mission.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

Farquhar was the first to employ halo orbits for a space mission, designing them into the trajectories for the International Sun Earth Explorer - 3, launched in 1978.

Because there typically isn't enough time to design and launch a scientific mission to intercept a first - pass - through - the - solar - system comet before it swoops back into the depths of space, «[i] t's almost impossible to send a spacecraft to one of these comets,» he notes.

There, they will be tested and hopefully reused in NASA's future heavy - lifting rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), which is designed for missions beyond Earth orbit.

And the National Space Science Centre, designed with the help of researchers at the University of Leicester, will house mission control for CATSAT, a satellite built partly by students under supervision from Leicester researchers.

The team will conduct analyses of spacecraft and mission design, and investigate concepts to support robotic mission objectives, including overall science, planetary defense, asteroid resource use and deep - space capability demonstrations.

Astronaut sampling and potential commercial activities could indicate the value of C - type asteroids for commercial mining purposes, which in turn could have significant impacts on how deep space missions are designed in the future.

Other research measures announced by Flaherty included $ 72.75 million for a forestry and environmental genomics competition at Genome Canada; $ 63.78 million over 5 years for the Canadian Space Agency's plan to develop the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, which proposes to generate radar images using multiple satellites; and $ 17.46 million over 5 years «to commence the pre-construction design phase» for the proposed Canadian Arctic Research Initiative.

«These particle radiation conditions present important environmental factors for space travel and space weather, and must be carefully studied and accounted for in the planning and design of future missions to the moon, Mars, asteroids and beyond.»

As NASA gains experience dealing with the hazards of deep space, it will be in a better position to design vehicles for Mars surface missions.

The findings will help in the design of future space missions that have the goal of taking pictures of planets similar to Earth, called exo - Earths.

They used measurements collected by the European Space Agency's CryoSat - 2 satellite mission, which carries an altimeter specially designed for this task.

In 1968 Playtex, the bra and girdle manufacturer, beat out a slew of military - industrial companies to win the contract to design and hand - sew the space suit for the 1969 Apollo mission to the moon.

MESSENGER is a NASA - sponsored scientific investigation of the planet Mercury and the first space mission designed to orbit the planet closest to the Sun.

What's more, results from Keck's vortex coronagraph will help with a planet imager planned for the future Thirty Meter Telescope and with proposed NASA space missions, such as the Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) and the Large UV / Optical / IR Surveyor (LUVOIR), which would use next - generation vortex coronagraphs currently being designed in Mawet's group at Caltech.

It is important because most discoveries today are made by telescopes that were designed and built ten to twenty years ago — and what discoveries we may make in the future depends on what telescopes, instruments, and space missions we are building now.

The Space Shuttle is only designed for low Earth orbit missions.

Four student teams will define the scientific objectives of a space mission and will provide a preliminary end - to - end design of spacecraft, scientific instruments as well as mission and science operations that will meet their stated objectives.

Instead, the asteroid initiative was designed to advance long - term human space exploration in a time when the budget doesn't exist for human missions to the Moon.

The offered lectures will cover existing and planned space missions, space mission design, and the principles of instrumentation for the required observations, including in - situ measurements.

Four student teams will be set up to define the scientific objectives of a space mission and a preliminary end - to - end mission design including the spacecraft, scientific instruments, mission, and science operations capable of meeting the stated objectives.

«One of the pertinent attributes about ATLAST is that it's being designed to be modular and serviceable, following the Hubble Space Telescope model,» states Julie Crooke, a lead member in the Goddard study on the future mission.

Ostensibly designed as a precursor to future NASA missions to Mars and deep space, one scientist called the Asteroid Redirect Mission a «one - off costly stunt» that did nothing but distract from the agency's ultimate goal of sending a manned mission to the Red Mission a «one - off costly stunt» that did nothing but distract from the agency's ultimate goal of sending a manned mission to the Red mission to the Red Planet.

Space Academy is a hands - on, minds - on experience designed to engage and excite both middle school students and teachers about current NASA missions.

However, that same decadal survey went on to state that «it is too early to determine what the design of that space mission should be, or even which planet - detection techniques should be employed.

Dressler said that NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Jet Propulsion Laboratory have known about the telescopes for some time and several mission designs have emerged.

The James Webb Space Telescope passes its Mission Critical Design Review, which signifies that the integrated observatory will meet all science and engineering requirements for its mMission Critical Design Review, which signifies that the integrated observatory will meet all science and engineering requirements for its missionmission.

The Wrinkled Brain Project is formally an initiative of Blue Marble Space, a registered 501 (c) 3 nonprofit institution whose mission is to «promote and enable international unity through space exploration by providing scientific and technological services, namely, research, education, and design in the field of space exploration and the Earth system.&rSpace, a registered 501 (c) 3 nonprofit institution whose mission is to «promote and enable international unity through space exploration by providing scientific and technological services, namely, research, education, and design in the field of space exploration and the Earth system.&rspace exploration by providing scientific and technological services, namely, research, education, and design in the field of space exploration and the Earth system.&rspace exploration and the Earth system.»

Falcon Heavy designed to carry humans into space and crewed missions to Moon and Mars will be launched in the coming months.

Even NASA's best - designed space telescopes can break, become obsolete or simply complete their missions.

The New Frontiers Program is designed to provide opportunities to conduct several of the medium - class missions identified as top priority objectives in the Decadal Solar System Exploration Survey, conducted by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council.

Since its preliminary inception, HST was designed to be a different type of mission for NASA — a long - term, space - based observatory.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Littleton, Colo., designed and built the spacecraft and is responsible for testing, launch processing, and mission operations.