Sentences with phrase «for planetary exploration missions»

As a member of the engineering staff, her research work encompassed a multidisciplinary approach to the development and testing of analytical instruments for planetary exploration missions with the focus on transitioning fundamental scientific research and early technological demonstrations toward breadboard and brassboard instrumentation development.

Not exact matches

Possible candidates for robotic planetary exploration missions include Venus, Mars, asteroids, comets and Titan

In addition to being a first for humanity, the $ 1.4 billion Rosetta mission marked a strikingly ambitious effort for ESA's planetary exploration program.

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.

NASA may have to draw money from other Mars missions as well as the agency's larger planetary exploration programme to pay for the MSL delays, but did not specify which projects would be affected.

The cost - capped New Frontiers program, with $ 850 million set out for the mission and about $ 150 million for the launch, is the largest planetary exploration line that NASA opens to outside competition and leadership.

The Obama Administration has allocated «a disproportionate increase in the amount of federal funds» for earth science «at the expense of and compared to Exploration and Space Operations, Planetary Science, Heliophysics and Astrophysics which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be central to the core mission of NExploration and Space Operations, Planetary Science, Heliophysics and Astrophysics which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be central to the core mission of Nexploration and should be central to the core mission of NASA.»

From groundbreaking technology like LightSail ®, to policy that shapes historic missions, the global group explores space together through four core enterprises: Human Space Exploration, Robotic Exploration, Planetary Defense and the Search for Life.

Having traveled a grand total of 25 miles (40 km) over the course of its historic mission of exploration, NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has taken the record for the greatest distance traveled on another planetary body.

Mars Express — ESA's mission to the Red Planet — was launched in 2003, marking the start of a new era for Europe in planetary exploration.

Strategists can make 150 technological advances across 11 scientific categories for each race, and eight different types of spaceship are available for missions involving exploration, reconnaissance, and planetary invasion.