Sentences with phrase «for planetary missions»

Even though the proposed NASA authorization bill would increase funding for planetary missions, it has gotten decidedly mixed reviews from interest groups, reports Marcia Smith of Space Policy Online.

«The DNA sequencer also needs higher accuracy and durability to withstand the long timescales required for planetary missions.»

My goal for planetary missions from here on out is to find roles where I can have a lot more fun and a lot less responsibility.

Not exact matches

Roger Clark, who is a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and co-investigator for one of the mission's instruments, explains why:

For Planetary Resources, the first wave of development is to culminate in a doughnut - shape spacecraft heading on a prospecting mission to a near - Earth asteroid in 2020.

Within NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD), the budget provides Planetary Science with a 4.5 percent increase, including a $ 150 million boost above FY 2017 omnibus funding, to $ 425 million total, for a planned mission to Jupiter's moon Mission Directorate (SMD), the budget provides Planetary Science with a 4.5 percent increase, including a $ 150 million boost above FY 2017 omnibus funding, to $ 425 million total, for a planned mission to Jupiter's moon mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.

In addition to taking manned spaceflights deeper into space than ever before, the proposed mission would also bring some benefit for planetary science.

No mission has ever explored a planetary system as rich as Saturn's in such depth for so long.

At a joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Conference and the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences held last week in Nantes, France, the session on ExoMars began not with a review of the mission's science, but with a discussion about ways to ensure its survival.

In the agency's latest competition for future Discovery missions — its line of low - cost planetary probes — two out of five final candidates targeted Venus, including a mission Glaze would have led.

More recently, says John Rummel, a biologist who was NASA's planetary protection officer before Conley, JPL has butted heads with the office over the next big mission, the Mars 2020 rover, which will gather rock samples for later retrieval to Earth.

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

While there are no formal plans for a NASA mission to Europa yet, it's a top priority for many researchers working for the organization, says planetary scientist Bob Pappalardo of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Pappalardo has also introduced a proposal that would send planetary scientists to Beauchamp's spring to develop strategies and test equipment for a Europa mission.

Solar sails that are tested in Earth's orbit must adjust their orientation with the sun regularly to build energy, says Bruce Betts of The Planetary Society in Pasadena, California, which hopes to launch its own sail, LightSail - 1, into orbit as early as next year, paving the way for an eventual interplanetary mission.

For those who prefer a more macho approach, planetary scientist Steven Chesley of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has proposed a companion mission called ISIS.

A new mission would likely head for Encke, a comet described as «evolved, degassed, used - up, and as old as possible» by Contour mission leader Joseph Veverka, a planetary scientist at Cornell University.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA), meanwhile, has partnered with the American, European, and Japanese space agencies, providing technology and science packages for planetary and space - telescope missions.

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.»

The mobile laboratory also is guiding designs for future planetary missions.

It was meant to be a new dawn for Japanese planetary missions, but the disappointing reports from the country's Venus probe Akatsuki are all too familiar.

The idea is enticing because solar sails can navigate through space without any fuel, making them ideal for lengthy round - trip missions, says Bill Nye, director of the Planetary Society.

Last March the National Research Council released a 400 - page report called the Planetary Decadal Survey, which recommended 25 possible missions for NASA between 2013 and 2022.

He worries that younger planetary scientists are starting to look for other opportunities, undermining the prospects of future missions.

With budgets capped at roughly $ 1 billion and a launch rate of about twice per decade, New Frontiers missions are arguably the best bets for breaking new ground in planetary science.

«We're going to see beneath the cloud tops for the very first time,» says Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio and head of the Juno mission.

Other factions within planetary - science circles would prefer to send another mission to Titan — maybe even an airborne drone, a sailboat or a submarine — or to reach for farther frontiers by sending orbiters to Uranus and Neptune, the last two planets that remain scarcely explored.

These are consistent with clouds forming at sunset and sunrise, said mission head Alan Stern during an October 18 news conference at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences.

The dream of many a planetary scientist is a sample - return mission, bringing back a piece of another world, comet, or asteroid for study, as the Apollo missions did for the moon.

Planetary scientist Alan Stern, director of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, is the principal investigator for the mission.

Since then, NASA has increasingly played up the search for life when justifying its planetary missions.

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.

At NASA, a 6 - month period is typical for principal investigator — led spacecraft, such as the MESSENGER mission to Mercury, says James Green, the director of NASA's planetary science division in Washington, D.C.. However, Green says, NASA headquarters can insist that the principal investigator release data for key media events.

For each of the past couple of years, Congress has given the agency's planetary - sciences division tens of millions of dollars more than it asked for, and directed it to spend the money on Europa mission concepFor each of the past couple of years, Congress has given the agency's planetary - sciences division tens of millions of dollars more than it asked for, and directed it to spend the money on Europa mission concepfor, and directed it to spend the money on Europa mission concepts.

A wide variety of landscapes, ongoing surface transformations and a family of wildly spinning moons are among the riddles reported by the New Horizons mission team November 9 at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences.

For the Europa team, planetary scientists and researchers interested in the search for life in the solar system, each step of the Europa mission's journey is an important oFor the Europa team, planetary scientists and researchers interested in the search for life in the solar system, each step of the Europa mission's journey is an important ofor life in the solar system, each step of the Europa mission's journey is an important one.

ARM will demonstrate advanced, high - power, high - throughput solar electric propulsion; advanced autonomous high - speed proximity operations at a low - gravity planetary body; controlled touchdown and liftoff with a multi-ton mass from a low - gravity planetary body, astronaut spacewalk activities for sample selection, extraction, containment and return; and mission operations of integrated robotic and crewed vehicle stack — all key components of future in - space operations for human missions to Mars.

HOUSTON, TEXAS — A committee of the National Research Council is insisting that the cost of two of the largest planetary missions it is recommending for NASA in the coming decade must be slashed or they can't fly.

Dubbed the first planetary meteorological satellite by mission scientists, Akatsuki was supposed to orbit Venus for 2 years, using its five cameras operating at ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths to track clouds at different altitudes and watch for venusian lightning.

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.

Earlier this month, NASA unveiled a draft set of rules for its next Discovery competition, which funds planetary science missions costing no more than $ 450 million.

Bethany Ehlmann, a planetary geologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who isn't involved in the mission, says it promises «data we've not had for Mars before.»

At stake is $ 210 million that the division gives out in grants every year for researchers to make sense of data collected by planetary missions.

Hunter Waite has waited years for the chance to use his planetary science engineering chops on a mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

The 1300 planetary scientists gathered here suffered sticker shock when Squyres presented the costs of their hoped for missions.

A landing on Europa is «not an easy thing to achieve, primarily because we don't really know what the surface is like on the meter and submeter scale,» says Ronald Greeley, an Arizona State University planetary geologist and co-chair of NASA's science definition team for the Europa mission.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages the NEOWISE mission for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office within the Science Mission Directorate in Washmission for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office within the Science Mission Directorate in WashMission Directorate in Washington.

Some old - school planetary scientists still fear that someone will abuse «their» data, but the Mars rover missions have demonstrated that sharing raw images is a win - win situation, as those who work with such images are also the best PR people a mission can wish for.

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.

He knows, having been involved in NASA lunar and planetary missions for more than four decades.