Sentences with phrase «first space satellite»

Sputnik Planitia is a large plain named after Sputnik 1, the first space satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.

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There were 20 deals worth nearly $ 1 billion in the space industry in the first quarter, according to investment firm Space Angels — though $ 500 million of that was a single deal: A big investment from Fidelity Investments in Elon Musk's SpaceX to develop its constellation of 4,425 broadband satellspace industry in the first quarter, according to investment firm Space Angels — though $ 500 million of that was a single deal: A big investment from Fidelity Investments in Elon Musk's SpaceX to develop its constellation of 4,425 broadband satellSpace Angels — though $ 500 million of that was a single deal: A big investment from Fidelity Investments in Elon Musk's SpaceX to develop its constellation of 4,425 broadband satellites.

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

George's favorite projects include creating MIT's first ever reality web series, revealing the secret behind white asparagus, explaining why ketchup is so hard to get out of the bottle, helping develop a massive open online course on protein drug development, and giving a friendly satellite - fixing space robot his television debut.

The new horizon, which first opened fully to view in 1957 with the launching of a man - made space satellite, is the mastery of the whole universe!

They haven't won the league since the first satellite was sent to space.

Growing up in Costa Rica, Chang Díaz became fascinated with all things space in 1957, when the Soviets successfully launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite.

If the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) succeeds at launching its probe, it could be the first environmental group to send its own satellite into space.

Now, cosmologists using CMB maps from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite have pinned down the timing for one key event in that story — the end of the universe's «Dark Ages,» the epoch that lies between the CMB's creation and the formation of the first stars.

People thought the flux of particles from space would be a million times greater than it is and that the first satellites would erode away within a year.

That puts GeoOptics in head - to - head competition with Spire for the first private satellite systems doing business in space.

Its military launched Sputnik — the world's first artificial satellite — heralding the dawn of the space age.

Then she moved to University of Leicester where she carried out her first space - related project, building a detector for a satellite that has since been launched.

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.

In what seems to be the first unauthorised satellite launch, a start - up company may have sent four tiny — and potentially dangerous — satellites into space

These collisions could have left dents in the cosmic microwave background, the universe's first light, which the European Space Agency's Planck satellite is mapping with exquisite precision.

He gained research experience at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and also acted as a project manager and system engineer on the first UA student team charged with building a miniaturized satellite for space research.

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

If the whole thing had worked from the beginning, our interest would have of course dropped after the first week with the satellite in space,» he says.

For the first time, an optical clock has traveled to space, surviving harsh rocket launch conditions and successfully operating under the microgravity that would be experienced on a satellite.

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.

This launch complex in the heart of Kazakhstan had sent the first satellite, animal and human (Sputnik, Laika and Yuri Gagarin) into space.

Although these first images are smudgy, the technique could provide advance warning that solar flares and storms will take aim at Earth — warnings that could help electrical utilities or satellite operators plan for possible disruptions and put key instruments into a safe mode, says Ernest Hildner, director of the Space Environment Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

A research team led by Romeiser was the first to accurately measure currents from a space shuttle platform between islands off the Dutch coast and the first to make current measurements using the radar on the TerraSAR - X satellite.

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After several failures, North Korea put its first satellite into space with a long - range rocket launched in December 2012, and has since launched another satellite on a similar rocket.

The shuttle mission this weekend will also deploy the European Space Agency's Eureca satellite, the world's first reusable satellite for studying the effects of microgravity (see «Making the most of weightlessness», New Scientist, 11 July).

Within 200 seconds, the satellite began collecting the first x-ray images of a burst's early stages, says mission director Neil Gehrels of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«First - ever GPS data release to boost space - weather science: «Unprecedented» data key to understanding radiation threats to satellites, infrastructure.»

The GOES - R satellites will also provide the world's first space view of where lightning is occurring in the Western Hemisphere.

The first maps of the cosmos from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite are due out in early 2013.

New technology demonstrations aboard the Dragon spacecraft include the Special Purpose Inexpensive Satellite, or SpinSat, to test how a small satellite moves and positions itself in space using new thruster technology and the 3 - D Printing In Zero - G Technology Demonstration, the first 3 - D printer in space.

It's the first climate satellite NASA has launched since a faulty rocket sent the space agency's Glory probe crashing into the ocean in February.

The first hints arrived last year when the European Space Agency's ENVISAT satellite detected huge clouds of methane above forested areas.

Their theory first sought to account for a wealth of gamma rays emanating from the center of our galaxy, picked up by the European Space Agency's Integral satellite, that correspond to the annihilation of electrons with their antiparticle, positrons (positively charged counterparts to electrons).

The 115 - kilogram satellite is the first of four satellites to be built under the Brazilian space programme, which was established by the Brazilian government at the end of 1979.

It also includes spent upper - stage rockets, used to loft the satellites into orbit, and items that have escaped the grasp of butterfingered astronauts, such as the glove Ed White dropped in 1965 as he became the first American to walk in space, and the tool kit that slipped from Heide Stefanyshyn - Piper's hand during a 2008 space walk.

The NuSTAR satellite will be the first space telescope capable of focusing high - energy x-rays into high - quality imagery — a feat that requires some incredibly intricate optics

First, a team led by astronomer Jon Miller of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton satellite to study two bright x-ray sources in the nearby galaxy NGC 1313.

By BARBARA WOOD - KACZMARLater this month, the world's first reuseable satellite for studying the effects of weightlessness is due to be launched into space on the shuttle.

First conceptualized in the early 1960s, GPS is a space - based navigation system that allows a receiver to compute its location and velocity by measuring the time it takes to receive radio signals from four or more overhead satellites.

By May of this year, a team lead by Neil Gehrels from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, detected the first short burst with the satellite.

Later this month, the world's first reuseable satellite for studying the effects of weightlessness is due to be launched into space on the shuttle.

First, both satellites appear to be moving through space with Pluto, and they also appear to be moving around Pluto, as one can see from the images.

The launch was the starting gun for the space race, embarrassing the US, which was even more chagrined when the rocket meant to launch its first satellite, Vanguard, blew up in front of news cameras two months later.

The pairs of NOSS satellites fly in a «space combat spread» type formation dozens of miles apart laterally and with the second satellite in trail of the first.

These may be observed for the first time with the LIGO observatory, which is currently under construction, or the LISA satellites, which the European Space Agency will launch more than a decade from now.

It is the first Canadian scientific satellite in orbit in 33 years, and it is the first space telescope to be entirely designed and built in Canada.

It's the first of an intended global system of 20 such satellites in China's QUESS («Quantum Experiments at Space Scale») program.