Sentences with phrase «flight controllers»

He ran inside and looked at the television monitors; they showed flight controllers with their heads in their hands.

Suddenly, flight controllers found themselves working blind, unable to access key information on the dozens of aircraft in the sky above them.

While flight controllers at ESA's European Space Operations in Darmstadt, Germany had hoped to deploy all three booms by May 12, the unfurling of the remaining antennas will not resume until engineers fully understand the current anomaly, as well as its implications to future boom deployment.

«The simulation is used both in testing the algorithms and in designing them,» said Clawson, who helped has successfully developed an autonomous flight controller for the robot using biologically inspired programming that functions as a neural network.

«There was a little bit of competition... between flight controllers in the MOCR and the occupants of the MER: «We thought we were hot shit, and they thought that we weren't!»

Later in the afternoon, NASA reported that the Russian flight controllers were unable to send commands to Progress 59, and that it was spinning uncontrollably.

«It's been an incredible ride,» Ferguson radioed NASA astronaut Dan Tani and the room of flight controllers working at NASA's Mission Control room in Houston.

Fortunately, two astronauts from the shuttle were able to force Eureca's antennas within reach of their latches, while flight controllers in Germany radioed the satellite to close them.

Per the plan, the spacecraft currently is in data - gathering mode and not in contact with flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physical Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

Soon afterward, Paul Maley, a former NASA flight controller turned amateur astronomer, captured a video of what appeared to be an out - of - control Hitomi, spinning wildly in orbit.

Flight controllers dare not send a rocket into a charged blue sky, where the craft might act as a giant, flying lightning rod.

On July 12, as a huge CME headed toward Earth, forecasters warned of possible power outages, spurring flight controllers to reroute aircraft on polar routes to lower latitudes, away from the shower of energetic particles.

Requests for additional data that flight controllers needed were routed through here.

By taking the software out of the loop, and falling back on fail - safe procedures, flight controllers skillfully avoided disaster.

Principal Investigator Alan Stern celebrates with New Horizons flight controllers after they received confirmation from the spacecraft that it had successfully completed the flyby of Pluto.

Free NASA e-book offers inside look at space station flight controllers 15 April 2018 (The Statesman) For every hour of 6,371 days and counting, a team of people on the ground has been watching over the space station's crews and systems from the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

For added realism, there is a rather good looking flight controller available from Thrustmaster called the T.Flight HOTAS.

Sports umpires Flight controllers Bird and other animal and plant counts Traffic police Judgments of human behavior Reading of many complex scientific instruments Racing drivers and crews Judges and juries This list could get very long.

The aerial platform consolidates with the new A3 flight controller onboard and sports the latest Lightbridge 2 video - transmission technology that provides high frame rates and HD live - streaming capability at distances up to five kilometers.

Williams told flight controllers at Mission Control, Houston that BEAM looked pristine and said it was cold inside.

Flight controllers for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express probe halted plans to deploy the second boom in a series of antennas that comprise the spacecraft's subsurface radar instrument after detecting an anomaly on May 7.

If English is the universal language of flight controllers, then Mooney's Scottish accent is the universal voice of health economics.

Once Cassini arrived at Saturn in late 2004, flight controllers at NASA began to steer it past one moon after another to get some closer looks.

I plan to stay here in Houston for the next several months performing my debriefs, passing on the knowledge and experience I've gained through my six - month expedition to flight controllers, scientists and engineers.

«It's important to restore this National Historic Landmark for future generations and share the incredible work by these flight controllers to achieve a common goal.»

But when Ronnie Ray - Gun started the «squash unions» movement by crushing the Flight controller's union and implementing «free trade» to kill the manufacturing unions... things started to go to h — l in this country.

We are not training replacements for my New Horizons team, but we are full of young people, from postdocs in their 20s to engineers, flight controllers, and scientists in their 30s and 40s.

CANNED SPAN: The Spacecraft Analysis room, or SPAN room, «was a bridge between the flight controller and engineering worlds.»

«They read all [the flight controllers»] procedures, and then they devised training scripts to test us.

Flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., sent commands to the spacecraft in advance for the course change.

Flight Controllers at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Littleton, Colorado, will be responsible for the health and safety of the spacecraft throughout the process.

The actors had lots of questions for the flight controller and especially the astronaut about their experience filming space versus being in space.

Because the aircraft captain ignored protocol, i.e. instructions from the flight controller to return to base, either to LaGuardia Airport only seven miles away or, if not practical to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, he had his feet put to the fire.

Valve notes that «DirectInput controllers other than gamepad style controllers (wheels, flight controllers, etc.) are not currently supported.

Elite dangerous with the flight controller.

In some cases, you might even find an attorney who has actual experience as a pilot, aircraft mechanic or flight controller.

But a few years back, Volocopter was interested in using the flight controllers being developed by a company called Ascending Technologies.