Sentences with phrase «first spacecraft designed»

The first spacecraft designed to do away with itself was unveiled on Friday.

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This will allow future crewed spacecraft to dock automatically and is designed to work with SpaceX's Dragon V2 and Boeing's Starliner capsule, both of which are expected to make their first trips to the ISS in the next couple of years.

SOYUZ A Soviet - designed modular spacecraft first launched in 1967.

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.

Early in April, Europe will launch the first satellite in its Copernicus program: a fleet of a dozen environmental monitoring spacecraft designed to study Earth's oceans, changes in land use, and atmosphere.

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft is the first of NASA's new Discovery - class probes, which are intended to show that NASA can operate with cheap and simple designs.

Russia had launched its Phobos - Grunt spacecraft, designed to land on Phobos — the first ever attempt on the largest Martian moon.

SpaceX Founder and Chief Designer Elon Musk said in an interview this evening that the version of the Dragon spacecraft designed to take humans into space initially will be tested in an automated mode, but the first time it carries people, they will be NASA astronauts.

The spacecraft is the first to get a close look at Pluto and was designed to gather as much data as possible from a single flyby.

In a bid to shed some more light on our closest star, NASA launched its most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the Sun in February this year - now the first images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory have been unveiled.

Denis has assembled an eclectic range of talents for the project, her first entirely English - language film: The script was co-written by novelist Zadie Smith, the spacecraft designs are being handled by artist Olafur Eliasson, and the supporting cast includes André 3000 and A Cure For Wellness» Mia Goth.

Since then, he designed the aircraft that made the first nonstop around the world flight and designed the first suborbital spacecraft to win the X-Prize.

And scientists will be see if this unique spaceship will become the prototype for long term interstellar travel.Some scientists believe that such solar sail technology holds the key to long term exploratory spaceflight, according to the Associated Press.The solar sail spacecraft are designed to be propelled by accumulating photons, not solar winds, and though slow - moving at first, would eventually be able to reach tremendous speeds.