Sentences with phrase «for lunar landers»

«It's one small step for lunar landers, one giant leap for commercial development of the moon,» he says.

«Until recently the European Space Agency had plans for a lunar lander (which has since been scrapped) and the science case for Lunar Mission One is quite similar,» Ian Crawford, one of Lunar Mission One's principle scientific advisers, told BBC News.

It also has plans for a lunar lander.

Not exact matches

Jason has designed and built robots for over a decade including lunar rovers, lunar landers, and aerial transportation drones.

NASA is running a competition that will select a private company to provide $ 500 million in cargo - and crew - ferrying services to the International Space Station and has chipped in $ 2 million toward a new $ 2.5 million X-Prize competition for a lunar - lander - type vehicle.

But scientists could piggyback on those journeys to study topics such as the plasma environment around the lunar poles, or to begin establishing a network of geophysical landers that would listen for moonquakes.

In the weeks since, NASA officials have started sketching out how that effort might unfold — from a series of small commercial landers, to larger NASA landers, to a multinational space station near the Moon that could serve as a base for robots and astronauts travelling to the lunar surface.

For the first time, NASA may use commercial landers to reach the lunar surface.

Woida is the SSI downlink engineer for the Phoenix lander, as well as a senior staff engineer at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson.

The ship must then operate reliably in orbit there, unmanned, for up to six months while its lander carries the crew to the lunar surface and back.

In mid-January, NASA announced its lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown (CATALYST) programme, which will give participants access to resources including NASA scientists, software and testing labs in exchange for the rights to lander designs born from the partnership.

To do this, the programme includes a design for the Orion crew capsule with up to six seats, the Altair lunar lander, and a new booster system called Ares, which uses components from both the Apollo - era Saturn rocket and the space shuttle.

MSSS also built the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) for the Phoenix Mars Scout lander and the suite of high resolution cameras aboard the 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

«Nixon fired ten thousand lunar lander workers for nothing when he cancelled the last three moon shots.»