Sentences with phrase «first planetary mission»

Dawn spacecraft is NASA's first purely scientific mission to be powered by ion propulsion and is Orbital's first planetary mission.

Akatsuki was JAXA's bid to vindicate itself following the failure of its first planetary mission, the Mars probe Nozomi, launched in 1998 to enter the red planet's orbit the following year.

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For Planetary Resources, the first wave of development is to culminate in a doughnut - shape spacecraft heading on a prospecting mission to a near - Earth asteroid in 2020.

During the first few years she cut her teeth on experimental lab work and informational control and design as a robotic engineer, but what she really wanted to do was work directly on planetary missions.

The European Space Agency is contemplating a mission to test ways to push such an object off a threatening trajectory, the first serious attempt at developing a planetary defense.

In Richard Kerr's News Focus article, «Pluto, the Last Planetary First,» Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, called the arrival of the New Horizons probe at Pluto — expected in July 2015 — «an epochal milestone in the exploration of the solar system.»

«We're going to see beneath the cloud tops for the very first time,» says Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and head of the Juno mission.

«She has reached any number of «first woman to...» milestones, including principal investigator on a NASA planetary mission and head of an MIT science department,» but, Zuber told ScienceInsider, «I've never realized I was first until after the fact.

In addition to being a first for humanity, the $ 1.4 billion Rosetta mission marked a strikingly ambitious effort for ESA's planetary exploration program.

Dubbed the first planetary meteorological satellite by mission scientists, Akatsuki was supposed to orbit Venus for 2 years, using its five cameras operating at ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths to track clouds at different altitudes and watch for venusian lightning.

Only one will be chosen for flight as the fourth mission in the planetary exploration program; the APL - led New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt was the first New Frontiers mission ever selected.

According to Rummel, this is the first time since the Viking missions to Mars in 1975 that a full - system sterilization — meaning every component of the spacecraft — is planned for a planetary lander.

«NASA first mission to distant Pluto will also be humankind's first close up view of this cold, unexplored world in our solar system,» said Jim Green, director of NASA's Planetary Science Division at the agency's Headquarters in Washington.

«Seeing a new world for the first time, I mean that's huge,» says Cathy Olkin, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and a deputy project scientist on the New Horizons mission.

It is the first space mission sponsored by a public organization, the 100,000 - member Planetary Society, cofounded by the late Carl Sagan, and the first financed by a media outlet, Cosmos Studios, a science - based entertainment company run by Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow and collaborator.

It was recommended by the 2003 National Academy of Sciences» Planetary Decadal Survey («New Frontiers in the Solar System») that this first mission to the Kuiper Belt should include flybys of both Pluto and other KBOs in order to maximize the science return.

The most recent NRC planetary science decadal survey ranked returning a sample of Mars to Earth as its first priority for a flagship mission, with a Europa mission second.

Dad may not be able to go to Mars himself this year, but his name can be put on the first ever public naming effort for Mars, and he'll know that it'll be going to Mars when Mars One launches its first lander mission in 2018,» said Alan Stern, Ph.D., planetary scientist, and founder and CEO of Uwingu; Stern formerly directed all science programs and missions at NASA.

My first experience with planetary science education came as a graduate student at the University of Arizona, where I was a member of the E / PO program for the Mars Phoenix mission.

Two visits with the Planetary Society Senior Editor this week, as Emily first provides an update on the Rosetta comet mission and then returns with an extended look ahead at the New Horizons Pluto encounter next week.

Planetary Society describes the first of the three missions, which it hopes will launch in December of next year, as follows: «Our first solar sail will lay the foundation for the whole LightSail program by demonstrating controlled flight with only the pressure of solar photons bouncing off the sail.»