Sentences with phrase «first planetary spacecraft»

InSight will be the first planetary spacecraft to take off from the West Coast.

It will also be the first planetary spacecraft to launch from the West Coast.

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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.

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.

Essam Marouf, a planetary scientist at San José State University in California, reported on the first results from a separate radar experiment that sent radar reflections to Earth instead of back to the spacecraft.

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.

The vast fountains of icy material erupting from Enceladus's south pole enthralled planetary scientists when they were first spotted in images returned by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2005.

Of all these future sail technologies, the first to get a chance to prove its worth will be solar sailing, including, of course, The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft.

On Jan. 14, 2005, the Huygens entry probe became the first spacecraft to land on a planetary surface in the outer solar system, carrying out various physical and chemical measurements of Titan's atmosphere and transmitting high - resolution images as it descended by parachute.

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

The new craft, called the LightSail - 1, will actually hopefully be the first of a series of three similar solar - sailed spacecrafts created by the Planetary Society — the space advocacy organization founded by none other than Carl Sagan.