Sentences with phrase «first orbiting spacecraft»

Although radar systems have been used in the past to provide high - resolution maps of Venus» surface, Venus Express is the first orbiting spacecraft to produce a map that hints at the chemical composition of the rocks.

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Then a couple of years later we did the first launch of Falcon 9, version 1, and that had about a 10 - ton - to - orbit capability, so it was about 20 times the capability of Falcon 1, and also assigned to carry our Dragon spacecraft.

And when his Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down a few hours later, the first American to orbit the Earth reminded us that with courage and a spirit of discovery there's no limit to the heights we can reach together.

While his company became the first privatized space company to return a spacecraft to Earth from low orbit; it had some bumps in the road.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.

On July 20, 2016, Moon Express became the first company to receive U.S. government approval to send a robotic spacecraft beyond traditional Earth orbit and to the Moon.

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).

In 2010, SpaceX became the first commercial company to successfully recover a spacecraft from Earth orbit with its Dragon spacecraft.

The first line is captured, then the orbit of the spacecraft moves the camera relative to the surface, and then the next line is captured, and so on, as thousands of lines are compiled into a full image.

«NASA's Juno spacecraft sends first in - orbit view.»

In 2004, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft first began orbiting Saturn and studying its moon Titan, Brigham Young University planetary scientist Jani Radebaugh was puzzled.

SwRI's Dr. Frederic Allegrini, Dr. Randy Gladstone, and Valek are co-authors of «Jupiter's magnetosphere and aurorae observed by the Juno spacecraft during its first polar orbits»; lead author is Dr. John Connerney of the Space Research Corporation.

Scientists using the Rosetta spacecraft — which arrived at 67P in August and became the first mission to orbit and land on a comet — now think they may have discovered the source of these patterns on cliff faces and in deep pits: layer upon layer of rounded nodules, 1 to 3 meters across.

Farmer helped select the landing site for Mars Pathfinder and thinks that the Mars Surveyor and Mars Odyssey spacecraft now in orbit have begun the job of meeting the first - stage requirements of finding potential ancient hydrothermal systems — for example, the Mars hematite site at Terra Meridiani.

On November 14th 1971 NASA's Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to successfully orbit another planet.

Juno's arrival in July won't be heralded with new pictures; the instruments will be switched off as the spacecraft whips around the planet and begins its first orbit.

Rosetta is the first spacecraft to orbit and escort a comet, and Alice, developed and operated for NASA, is the first instrument to obtain far - ultraviolet observations at a comet.

When NEAR arrives next February, ground controllers will again fire the thrusters in an attempt to make NEAR the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.

Late last year his company, SpaceX, became the first private firm to successfully recover a spacecraft from Earth orbit, another big advance in its long - term bid to be the first company to carry astronauts to the ISS.

Jupiter's magnetosphere and aurorae observed by the Juno spacecraft during its first polar orbits.

We'll find out more in February 2015, when NASA's Dawn spacecraft goes into orbit and gives us our first close - up look at the first asteroid astronomers ever discovered, back in 1801.

The Rosetta spacecraft orbiting comet 67P has released its first haul of high - res images, and fans wasted no time turning them into an incredible rotating gif

During a busy first year in orbit around Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft got its first close - up look at the ringed planet's sixth - largest moon, Enceladus — and wowed scientists in the process.

For the first time two spacecraft will soon make up - close studies of objects from the solar system's Kuiper Belt, a mysterious region beyond Neptune's orbit.

At 1 A.M. Eastern time on July 16, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will become the first man - made probe to enter orbit around a so - called main - belt asteroid.

After only a few months in orbit, the four spacecraft of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission flew through a region of space where reconnection takes place and measured — for the first time — the movement of the electrons thought to be responsible for the phenomenon.

This is the first time ion engines have been used to send a spacecraft into orbit around a distant object in the solar system.

The gap meant that the United States would soon — for the first time in three decades — have no spacecraft that could move people and cargo into Earth orbit.

NASA also has its own spacecraft, Orion, being built by Lockheed Martin, which aims to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit for the first time since Apollo astronauts last left for the moon in 1972.

FIRST ROCK FROM THE SUN NASA's Messenger spacecraft orbited Mercury for four years, giving an unprecedented view of its surface, including this enhanced view of the chemicals and minerals that coat it.

In 1962 astronaut John Glenn was wearing a Heuer stopwatch aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft when he became the first American to orbit Earth.

Forty years ago, in December of the troubled year of 1968, astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders piloted the Apollo 8 spacecraft into orbit around the moon, the first humans ever to circle any globe but our own.

The re-usable shuttles were the first (and still the only) spacecraft to reach orbit more than once.

In July 2020, the oil - rich nation aims to launch a spacecraft called Hope that will orbit the Red Planet and probe its atmosphere from top to bottom, beaming back «the first holistic view of the entire dynamics of the lower atmosphere of Mars,» says Sarah Amiri, Hope's science lead.

The first spacecraft to orbit Mercury is almost out of gas.

THE Rosetta spacecraft made history last week when it became the first to orbit a comet, but it has no time to rest on its laurels.

Still image from an animation that shows the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2, the first NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere.

When it reaches Mars in August, the spacecraft will first enter a highly elliptical orbit.

Three taikonauts successfully linked a spacecraft to the Tiangong - 1 orbiting lab in June, the first time a Chinese crew performed such a docking.

NASA's Galileo spacecraft, orbiting Jupiter at the time, first noticed what turned out to be corrugations in the planet's main ring in 1996, but the nature of the ring features was somewhat unclear at the time.

At a NASA press conference today, researchers reporting on the first three months that the MESSENGER spacecraft has been orbiting the sun's closest neighbor emphasized many distinctive mercurian aspects.

(Officially, an orbit starts when the spacecraft reaches its farthest distance, or «apojove,» which it does for the first time on July 27.

Even then, though, scientists do not expect any decent images or dramatic findings until August 27, when the spacecraft rounds its first orbit and swoops close to the planet again.

The company has a November 1, 2016, date set for the first unmanned launch of its spacecraft into orbit.

The increase in particles was due to a geomagnetic storm front that moved across the path of the orbit after the first spacecraft passed.

This fall a converted Russian intercontinental ballistic missile is scheduled to launch Cosmos 1, the world's first solar sail spacecraft, into Earth orbit.

The nation famously succeeded in lofting the first animal — a dog called Laika («Barker»)-- to orbit aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft in November 1957.

The spacecraft made its first major discovery while its orbit was still being finalized.

Right from MGS's first moments at Mars, it was a pioneer: it was the first spacecraft at the Red Planet to use the technique of aerobraking to put itself into its final orbit.

One of MGS» first targets was the «Face on Mars,» an infamous feature snapped by the orbiting Viking 1 spacecraft on July 25, 1976.