Sentences with phrase «for flight missions»

Thereby, we will be able to reduce the size of systems based on terahertz quantum - cascade lasers in the future — an important point for flight missions such as SOFIA,» Wienold emphasizes.

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However, he said he was concerned about the «disconnect» between the standard of proof required for designating a flight as a «White House support mission,» and the proof that was actually given to back up Mnuchin's travels.

A Delta - operated flight from New York to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and back, made headlines for narrowly avoiding the storm in a mission to evacuate another plane - full of passengers from the area ahead of Irma's landfall.

My goal was that when I got back, I wanted for the flight director that I had in the beginning of the flight to talk to the flight director at the end of the mission.

Saturday's flight marks the third successful launch - and - land for the rocket, with similar missions completed in January and November.

Still, while other companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are planning much of their business around space flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space Station.

Mission is making solidarity with poor people in their flight for justice.

Best Deep - Reading for a Long Flight: The Atlantic Monthly's November issue and Jon Lee Anderson's breathtaking feature article, «The Mission» in The New Yorker

The flight of Jonah is Israel's refusal of her world - wide mission; the swallowing of Jonah is the Exile, and his disgorging, the return; the continued surliness of Jonah is Israel's postExilic blindness to her international obligations; the repentance of Nineveh is a prophecy of the world won to righteousness; and the sullen prophet at the allegory's end stands for the stubbornness with which Israel retains her nationalistic ill will.

So a good season from Newcastle and it was mission accomplished for Rafa Benitez who stuck with the club to get them back to the top flight.

Twin Tiers Honor Flight Inc., is a nonprofit organization with a mission to honor veterans for their sacrifices.

«Swift is always watching the sky for bursts of X-rays and gamma - rays,» said Neil Gehrels, the mission's Principal Investigator and chief of the Astroparticle Physics Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Danchi, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is running simulations for the Fourier - Kelvin Stellar Interferometer, a proposed space mission that could lay the groundwork for the search for Earth - like worlds in the next decade.

The Navigator GPS Flight receiver was purposely designed to detect, acquire, and track faint GPS signals for NASA's MMS mission.

Several other Canadians are working on concepts for future missions in general that have not yet been manifested for flight.

Astrophysicist Fred Espenak of the Goddard Space Flight Center speaks for many of his colleagues: «With the current state of technology, planetary science can be done much more inexpensively with robot missions than with manned ones.»

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the agency's New Frontiers Program for the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

When JSC became inaccessible due to dangerous road conditions and rising flood waters, the team at Marshall Space Flight Center's Payload Operations Integration Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who serve as «Mission Control» for all station research, worked to connect Wallace to Whitson using Wallace's personal cell phone.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the program for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center provides overall mission management, systems engineering and the safety and mission assurance for OSIRIS - REx.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

He spent the next 10 years at JPL, participating in assembly, test, and launch operations for Mars missions and acting as flight director for Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity and surface mission manager for Mars lander Phoenix.

Bigelow recently ran a help - wanted ad for «professional astronauts» with «flight experience on a recognized space mission.»

NICER is an Astrophysics Mission of Opportunity within NASA's Explorers program, which provides frequent flight opportunities for world - class scientific investigations from space utilizing innovative, streamlined and efficient management approaches within the heliophysics and astrophysics science areas.

The first crewed flight for SLS and Orion would be in 2021 or 2022 as part of this mission, which the agency sees as a step towards a human mission to Mars in the 2030s.

Gripping, detailed stuff for the true space fanatic, penned by someone who was actually at Mission Control during the flight.

Ride served as a mission specialist for the shuttle's second flight.

And based on the timeline for building SLS and Orion, a 2021 Mars mission would be the first crewed flight for both vehicles, which would mean skipping a piloted test flight closer to home.

Dave Folta, a senior aerospace engineer with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, says they are planning to use Howell's techniques — which he admiringly calls «highfalutin math» — for at least four missions over the next decade, including the Next Generation Space Telescope, scheduled to replace the Hubble Space Telescope in eight years.

Back on Earth, the mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (which built the spacecraft and operates the mission for NASA) along with the Flight Software (FSW) and Radio Frequency (RF) Teams, have recently made some improvements in getting the science teams more data.

The NIC Human Space Flight team at Goddard is already planning the communications for Exploration Mission - 1, the first flight of the agency's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to demonstrate the integrated system performance prior to the first crewed fFlight team at Goddard is already planning the communications for Exploration Mission - 1, the first flight of the agency's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to demonstrate the integrated system performance prior to the first crewed fflight of the agency's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to demonstrate the integrated system performance prior to the first crewed flightflight.

Engineers on the project say the technology is perfect for such a mission, where storage space on the flight to the planet is a scarce commodity.

Spending nearly a year in space, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, made sure astronaut Scott Kelly could reach home for the entire 340 - day duration of his mission.

«This is a major advance in our understanding of what processes can energize the solar atmosphere, and lays the foundation for investigations with even more detail to determine how big of a role spicules play,» said Adrian Daw, IRIS mission scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Ricker's winning team also includes NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., which is managing the mission; MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Mass.; Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC), Dulles, Va.; NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.; The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, Calif.; and the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md..

SpaceX is scheduled to make another flight, SpaceX CRS - 5, at the beginning of December for a one month stay, the final mission of the year to the station.

Only one will be chosen for flight as the fourth mission in the planetary exploration program; the APL - led New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt was the first New Frontiers mission ever selected.

Researchers from the Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia will also be at the conference, highlighting unmanned aircraft for use in science missions.

Norman Augustine, who is chairing a blue - ribbon panel examining alternative futures for the U.S. human space - flight effort, hinted last week that the panel might shy away from advocating an expensive human mission to the moon, Mars, or an asteroid.

If it all works, it will be a vindication for Robert Farquhar, the 81 - year - old who was the mission's original flight director.

A three - year exploration class mission is predicted to require approximately 1,100 pills, whose packaging would add mass and disposal requirements for the flight.

Although the price tag is a whopping $ 1.4 billion for a two - person flight, the first mission is expected to cost the company up to $ 8 billion, in part because it will need to purchase rockets and a crew capsule from other private spaceflight ventures.

Enrico Costa of the Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics in Rome and Gerald Fishman of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, won the astronomy prize for leading the development of space missions that started unraveling the secrets of gamma - ray bursts (pictured).

«There's no guarantee where it would come down,» says Paul Ondrus, project manager for operational missions at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The gecko gripper project was selected for a test flight through the Flight Opportunities Program of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directflight through the Flight Opportunities Program of NASA's Space Technology Mission DirectFlight Opportunities Program of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate.

This would have been catastrophic not only to the satellite, but would result in thousands of pieces of new debris,» said Harry Solomon, Mission Manager for Suomi NPP at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the MAVEN project and provided two science instruments for the mission.

For a man obsessed with entities long - since expired, it seems cruelly fitting that Still, whom I sat with on that flight two years ago, may soon see the death of his own NASA program: managing the Kepler space telescope, which orbits the sun with a mission to find exoplanets near other stars.

Such a mission would break the deep - space barrier, while taking a crucial step toward the two - to three - year flight times and 600 - kW systems that would be needed for Mars exploration.

Braukus and agency managers say the success of the Bion 11 mission, a joint U.S., Russian, and French project, now paves the way for the next monkey flight slated for early 1998.