Sentences with phrase «flagship mission»

The report laid out decision criteria for which of its top priority flagship missions should proceed depending on mission costs and funding availability.

After years of working on flagship missions at a major NASA centers, she tells the students she mentors not to «go into anything related to NASA because it's too difficult and unstable.»

Now, according to the company mission, «Golden Spike will exploit these advances, and others in the late stages of development, for commercial use, to offer human expeditions to the Moon at prices comparable to robotic flagship missions.»

Several flagship missions, such as the James Webb Space Telescope, have run over budget and need housecleaning anyway.

His whole program is now organized into production groups, in which each expensive flagship mission, such as Rosetta — which cost $ 750 million — has at least one cheaper spin - off.

NASA recently assembled a team of scientists and engineers, based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to begin laying plans for its next, next generation flagship mission.

The NASA - ESA Cassini - Huygens mission is the most recent outer planets flagship mission.

There are compelling scientific, programmatic, technical, and educational reasons for ensuring some balance between the major flagship missions and missions of moderate and small size (and cost).

eXTP will be «a flagship mission for astrophysics» until other observatories come online, Santangelo says.

The division also got $ 645 million that the agency says is needed to continue developing its flagship mission, the James Webb Space Telescope.

Others have suggested that returning Mars samples would require an entirely separate spacecraft, or series of spacecraft, on the order of a «flagship mission» costing around $ 2 billion.

The potential cost of NASA's flagship mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa was recently put at $ 4.7 billion.

A colleague told her that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in nearby Pasadena was hosting a series of meetings to begin planning a flagship mission to explore Europa.

«But we've determined that trying for ’09 would require us to assume too much risk — more than I think is appropriate for a flagship mission like Mars Science Laboratory,» Griffin said.

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.

Jim Green, NASA's head of planetary sciences, announced Monday that the Jet Propulsion Lab will next study a flagship mission to Uranus or Neptune, or both, as a way of filling that gap.

Europa Clipper could become a flagship mission at NASA by next Spring, which would move it from the concept stage to active planning.

It needs to be a flagship mission.

He currently chairs the MEPAG Climate Committee, has served on Science Definition Teams for Mars and Titan missions, and has participated in NASA flagship mission studies.

The flagship mission is referred to as the scientific successor to the stalwart Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and is set to launch on an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket in the Spring of 2019 from Kourou, French Guiana.

Although a handful of worlds are now thought to have subsurface oceans, Enceladus joins only Jupiter's moon Europa (which was recently selected as the destination of NASA's next flagship mission) in having an extraterrestrial ocean that is known to communicate with its surface.