Sentences with phrase «first space mission»

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.

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.

The experimental probe's potential first target would be Switzerland's first space mission, a picosatellite called SwissCube that was launched in 2009.

ISS - CREAM is the first space mission capable of measuring the low flux of cosmic rays at energies approaching the knee.

Besides a tongue - twisting name, it has the distinction of being the first space mission in NASA's Explorer program to be operated solely by a university.

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Then 2010 is our first mission to the space station, so we were able to finish development of Dragon and dock with the space station in 2010.

Lately, I've found that even the mission - critical business ideas that make it through my first set of filters have to address another elephant in the room: the question of whether this startup is building something that's going to become a free - standing and independent business or whether it's developing a great feature that is going to be swallowed up, ripped off, or rolled over by one of the big guys in their space in the near future.

A mission called STS - 1 — short for Space Transportation System - 1 — was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's space shuttle proSpace Transportation System - 1 — was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's space shuttle prospace shuttle program.

Bigelow first started his space company, Bigelow Aerospace, in 1999 to develop habitats for use as research labs for corporations and countries without space programs, housing for missions to Mars, or even as hotels for tourists on the final frontier.

More than three decades after the launch of the first space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space space shuttle mission (and three years after the last one), investment in new human spaceflight systems is back with an intensity the aerospace industry hasn't seen since the heady days of the Space Space Race.

Slated for a first crewed mission in 2021, it is expected to serve as NASA's deep - space exploratory spacecraft for the next decade, potentially carrying astronauts to the moon, nearby asteroids and even Mars or one of its moons in the 2030s.

What's more, SpaceX's mission was to send the first exclusively - made Taiwanese satellite to space.

Peake is set to become the first British astronaut to board the International Space Station (ISS) when he departs on a 6 - month mission in November.

It also means that Virgin Galactic's mission won't be completed when our first space tourism flights blast off.

First, Abovitz encouraged a comparison of Magic Leap's ambitions to those of explorers on a space mission.

The mission is certainly exciting — it will mark the first time humans have traveled that deep into space in 45 years.

The mission will launch using two major parts that have been to the space station before: the first - stage booster and the capsule.

PT Scientists is aiming to launch the mission with a Falcon 9 rocket from Elon Musk's space exploration company SpaceX in the first quarter of 2019, according to Bohme.

It would mark the first private space mission to the moon, if successful.

Moon Express is the first company in history to contract multiple launches for space exploration missions.

This was the first time in history that any government signatory to the Outer Space Treaty exercised its rights and obligations to formally authorize and supervise a commercial entity to fly a mission beyond Earth orbit.

Which means the Dragon 2 lunar mission will occur hot off the heels of SpaceX's first human mission into space.

The Falcon 9 rocket was first used in April 2016 to lift - off a resupply mission to the International Space Station.

In our podcast's inaugural episode, Commercial Lunar Ambitions, Chad interviews John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic — one of the most influential leaders in the entrepreneurial space sector, and who is currently planning the world's first commercial mission to the Moon in 2019.

Among them Richard Garriott de Cayeux, a man who was one of the first private citizens to travel to space, saw his own journey to the stars portrayed on screen in the film Man on a Mission: Richard Garriott's Road to the Stars.

Since then Dragon has twice delivered cargo to and from the space station, in the first of many cargo resupply missions for NASA.

Bowien took that audacious attitude with him when he opened the first Mission Chinese in New York City in a tiny space in the Lower East Side.

AiroCide technology was first launched aboard Space Shuttle Columbia, mission STS - 73.

Scientists have found the first direct evidence for explosive releases of energy in Saturn's magnetic bubble using data from the Cassini spacecraft, a joint mission between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency.

They were the first human missions to those two giant planets and then afterwards, they just shot out of the solar system and are now heading into deep interstellar space.

But being the first space - based test of that principle, «this mission... opens the way to even more ambitious ones,» Pierre Touboul of the French space research center Onera wrote with his colleagues.

By combining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gaia mission, University of Groningen astronomers have been able to measure the proper motion of 15 stars in the Sculptor Galaxy, the first such measurement of stars in a small galaxy outside the Milky Way.

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.

The Beagle 2 team set up exhibits of the mission and opened the Lander Operations Control Centre (LOCC) at the National Space Centre, «the first of its kind to be in full view of the general public,» says Talboys.

The crew, headed by the first female shuttle commander, Eileen M. Collins, accomplished their mission of launching the largest payload ever carried aloft by a shuttle and made a flawless night landing at Kennedy Space Center on July 27.

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.

Earlier this year, the European Space Agency's COROT satellite found its first exoplanet, and in 2009, NASA's $ 550 million Kepler mission, the most sensitive planet seeker to date, is scheduled to blast off.

The LISA Pathfinder mission will test the technology required to observe gravitational waves in space for the first time.

On his first mission to the ISS in 2007, he flew on the space shuttle.

BOSTON — For the first time since the Viking missions to Mars in the 1970s, NASA is making the search for evidence of life on another world the primary science goal of a space mission.

The Red Planet now has seven robots studying it, following the arrival of two new orbiters in September: NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) and MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission), the Indian space agency's first Mars spacecraft.

Here's a rundown of the top 11 spaceflight stories of 2011, from the last mission of NASA's venerable space shuttle program to China's first - ever docking of two spaceships in Earth orbit

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.

Aalborg University has just reported to the ESA on the launch and the first part of the mission where AAUSAT5 and a commercial satellite from GomSpace in Northern Jutland are the first ESA satellites ever sent into orbit directly from the space station.

He was NASA's first «Mars czar,» a title he earned in restructuring the space agency's Mars agenda in 2000 in the wake of back - to - back Red Planet mission failures.

The first U.S. production in nearly 30 years of a specialized fuel to power future deep space missions has been completed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee.

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.

The NIC Human Space Flight team at Goddard is already planning the communications for Exploration Mission - 1, the first flight of the agency's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to demonstrate the integrated system performance prior to the first crewed flight.

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An instrument similar to those used on Earth by art detectives and to sense explosives at airports will be taken into space for the first time by ExoMars, the European Space Agency's mission to Mars in space for the first time by ExoMars, the European Space Agency's mission to Mars in Space Agency's mission to Mars in 2018.