Sentences with phrase «flight system at»

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«We know we can shoot HIMARS [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System] off the flight deck of a ship,» Neller said during remarks at the at the Marine Corps League's annual Modern Day Marine expo in Quantico, Virginia, on Sept. 21, according to Defense News.

And so, whether we're getting dinged by a «system access» fee or our flight is overbooked or our hydro is interrupted without compensation, we have no choice but to shake our fists skyward in mute rage and then maybe lash out at a conveniently sullen barista to restore our sense of dominion over commerce.

SpaceShipOne itself suffered several such problems in its three space flights, including the loss of its navigation system, a sudden lurch that carried the ship some 30 miles off course, the buckling of the aircraft's skin from the rocket motor's heat, and an uncontrolled wobble that spun the craft around at high speed some 20 times before pilot Melvill — he flew the first prize - winning flight, Binnie the second — stilled it, possibly just in time to prevent a fatal tumble.

Our bodies can only take so many sneezes on a flight before our immune system takes a hit and we find ourselves spending our hard - earned vacation days staring at the ceiling of a hotel bathroom.

A little - known reservations and booking system used by more than 120 airlines is delaying flights at airports worldwide.

Norwegian, however, has free Wi - Fi on most short - haul flights (you can pay to watch movies and live - stream TV), and a complimentary in - flight entertainment system on long - haul ones — and a great one at that.

Designed to provide exceptional service for high - priority, on - demand goods, DP World Cargospeed systems will deliver freight at the speed of flight and closer to the cost of trucking.»

If Elta's MMR radar system analyzes a rocket's flight path and rules out a hit on a built - up area, the Iron Dome system will not go into action, and will not fire an expensive interceptor missile at it.

The Veggie system was developed by Madison, Wis. - based Orbital Technologies Corp. and tested at the Kennedy Space Centre before flight.

With a shot accuracy of 57 % in the top - flight this term, Vardy is adept at finishing clinically when used in a 4 -4-2 system.

The only harness - type device approved by the FAA for takeoff, flight, and landing is the Child Aviation Restraint System, or CARES, suitable for children at least 1 year old who weigh between 22 and 44 pounds.

So to clarify, at 10 months old a baby has no capacity for high - order thinking, only able to engage their hindbrain (the part where the «fight or flight» response comes from) and their limbic system (the part of the brain responsible for emotions).

«He's involved, he's getting his degree, he's taking the SNS exam at our state show in June — he was going to do it in San Antonio, but our schedule was changed and our flight doesn't work — he helps me do menu plans, back house setup for our software system, he's doing a salad bar roll - out — Chris has just really stepped up, really helped,» said Kroeger.

Weather intervened, however, since a storm system interrupted flights and trapped her at home in North Carolina.

«There weren't any drone collisions until now, and when you consider how many flights there are, I think it confirms my suspicion that there is not this insane risk of planes going down regularly as sometimes the media had us fear would happen,» says Mykel Kochenderfer, an aeronautics engineer and director of the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory at Stanford University.

«The bottom line is that we're paying a lot more attention to modeling very small accelerations, such as those exerted by solar radiation pressure, than previous missions have had to do,» said Michael Moreau, OSIRIS - REx flight dynamics system manager at Goddard.

We used the findings to make several improvements to the spacecraft's sail deployment mechanism,» said Tiffany Lockett, a NEA Scout sail systems engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

«All we need to produce narrow rings and other structures in our models of debris disks is a bit of gas, too little for us to detect today in most actual systems,» said co-author Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

A few hours later, however, on - board safety systems turned the spacecraft toward Earth and re-established contact with mission control at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

At the same time, NASA is gearing up for the first test flight of the Space Launch System in 2017.

Right now, astronauts on board the ISS filter wastewater and then distill it to recover pure water, says Layne Carter, a systems engineer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who is in charge of the space station's water systems (and who is not involved in the new study).

Antti Pulkkinen, who leads NASA's «Solar Shield» satellite - based detection system at the Goddard Space Flight Center, said the cloud of ionized particles from Tuesday's violent «coronal mass ejection» will largely miss Earth, giving some North American residents a glimpse of the aurora borealis, or northern lights, this weekend.

This is not a scene from a science fiction movie, but rather the rendition of a test at the Institute for Flight System Dynamics of the Technische Universität München (TUM).

For the past 10 years, the Camera Culture group at MIT's Media Lab has been developing innovative imaging systems — from a camera that can see around corners to one that can read text in closed books — by using «time of flight,» an approach that gauges distance by measuring the time it takes light projected into a scene to bounce back to a sensor.

Fog is problematic for time - of - flight systems because it scatters light: It deflects the returning light signals so that they arrive late and at odd angles.

At a range of 2 meters, existing time - of - flight systems have a depth resolution of about a centimeter.

If a time - of - flight imaging system is firing light into a scene at the rate of a billion pulses a second, and the returning light is combined with light pulsing 999,999,999 times a second, the result will be a light signal pulsing once a second — a rate easily detectable with a commodity video camera.

«Just as an observation, this is an intriguing result,» says Sarita Thakoor, a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who works on robotic flight systems based on ideas gleaned from insects such as dragonflies and bees.

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But leaks reported on Russianspaceweb.com suggest the commission will point the finger at design errors and inadequate preflight testing of the spacecraft's flight control system.

The most notable of these occurred at an FAA center near Atlanta in August 2008, when the computer system that processes flight plans went down.

To investigate the layers and composition of clouds and tiny airborne particles like dust, smoke and other atmospheric aerosols,, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland have developed an instrument called the Cloud - Aerosol Transport System, or CATS.

It was recorded at 01:30 coordinated universal time (UTC) on 8 March; the last transmission from flight MH370, an electronic «handshake» between the aircraft's communication system and a satellite, took place at 00:19 UTC, when the plane is estimated to have run out of fuel.

Dust will affect climate and, at the same time, climate change will affect dust,» said lead author Hongbin Yu, an associate research scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), a joint center of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Once a complementary system called Local Area Augmentation Service is in place at selected airports, the FAA will eventually be able to turn over the task of flight navigation, from takeoff to precision landings, entirely to GPS.

«The automated systems in today's cockpits assume many of the tasks formerly performed by human pilots and do it with impressive reliability,» says Stephen Casner, coauthor of «Thoughts in Flight: Automation Use and Pilots» Task - Related and Task - Unrelated Thought» and research psychologist at NASA's Ames Research Center.

The Colorado High - resolution Echelle Stellar Spectrograph, or CHESS, sounding rocket gets ready for a six - minute flight to observe far beyond our solar system — to peer at a place where new stars are born.

At 10,500 meters, onboard a Virgin Atlantic flight from San Francisco to London, he describes blasts that rip apart matter, explosions that destroy stellar systems and cataclysmic events that shake the cosmos.

«Comets retain a record of conditions from the early solar system, but astronomers think some comets might preserve that history more completely than others,» said Michael DiSanti, an astronomer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author of the new study in the Astronomical Journal.

With the completion of this latest safety - testing milestone of key systems, Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president of Space Systems at Sierra Nevada, says that this stage of the Dream Chaser program, before NASA announces a winner, is «90 to 95 percent complete,» with at least one more landing flight test and tests of the thrusters remsystems, Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president of Space Systems at Sierra Nevada, says that this stage of the Dream Chaser program, before NASA announces a winner, is «90 to 95 percent complete,» with at least one more landing flight test and tests of the thrusters remSystems at Sierra Nevada, says that this stage of the Dream Chaser program, before NASA announces a winner, is «90 to 95 percent complete,» with at least one more landing flight test and tests of the thrusters remaining.

But when Demos Kazanas at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and his colleagues looked at 18 years» worth of X-ray observations of neutron stars in binary systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud, they found that half were slowing down — at the same rate as the others were accelerating.

Launch company SpaceX may even shoot two space tourists around the moon before NASA's giant rocket, the Space Launch System, makes its first uncrewed flight, in December at the earliest.

The P - 3 Orion, based at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will carry IceBridge's most comprehensive instrument suite: a scanning laser altimeter that measures surface elevation, three types of radar systems to study ice layers and the bedrock underneath the ice sheet, a high - resolution camera to create color maps of polar ice, and infrared cameras to measure surface temperatures of sea and land ice.

The Missile Defense Agency and Lockheed Martin conducted a successful flight test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, HI.

The funding is for the final phase of the commercial crew program which includes final development and certification of the systems, at least one demonstration flight to the ISS carrying at least one NASA crew member, between two and six additional flights to the ISS, and «special studies.»

«We're seeing something that goes against how we think about how our solar system formed,» says lead study author Hannah Wakeford, a postdoctoral fellow at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Kinney comes to Keck Observatory from NASA, where she was most recently the Director of the Solar System Exploration Division at Goddard Space Flight Center.

The system was developed at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

A 30 - year veteran at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mr. Hoffman has supported a number of major flight projects, including working on software for the Voyager spacecraft's encounter with Neptune, testing computer hardware for the Cassini mission to Saturn, participating in the STARDUST mission to the WILD - 2 comet as a member of the project systems engineering team, contributing to the Mars rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) as Avionics Systems Manager and serving as Deputy Project Manager for the GRAIL mission to thsystems engineering team, contributing to the Mars rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) as Avionics Systems Manager and serving as Deputy Project Manager for the GRAIL mission to thSystems Manager and serving as Deputy Project Manager for the GRAIL mission to the Moon.

The Agency also is looking to the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide the MPCV Service Module, a critical component of the new spaceflight system, for at least one test flight.