Sentences with phrase «for space instruments»

Ground - based detectors are more technologically advanced than space - based telescopes, because the design for space instruments has to be frozen five or six years before launch.

These are to conduct projects in thermal and structural design and analysis, to plan and monitor an instrument development schedule, and to develop a sensor for a space instrument, including its detailed design.

Not exact matches

For worship of the incarnate God, space is a most important instrument.

For the church to be an instrument of God's grace, we ourselves must provide the grace - filled spaces for people to express doubts, fears, concerns, and angeFor the church to be an instrument of God's grace, we ourselves must provide the grace - filled spaces for people to express doubts, fears, concerns, and angefor people to express doubts, fears, concerns, and angers.

The Saturday Jam is a comfortable space for young folks discovering new instruments, songs, and styles.

You can create a life - sized board game with slides, musical instruments and other activities to keep their interest along the way or tone it down with a more realistic version using a piece of foam board as your game board and adding your own colored spaces for game play.

The first section of the DCE instrument consisted of demographic questions, including the type of care women experienced and whether they were «happy» with their birth experiences The next section included eight different choice sets (Table 2), and finally a space for women to write any additional comments about their childbirth experiences.

The concept was that 18 - year - old saxophonist Chad Lilley would interact with the chickens in a pasture and share space with them inside a «Chickenmobile» — while performing «Ku Ku,» a piece composed for the instrument that features plenty of chicken-esque squeaks, squawks, and clucks.

«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

It is perfectly engineered for children to get the feel of the instrument, with a perfectly - spaced fretboard and low string action.

Next week, the heads of 11 space agencies are expected to issue a joint communique from a meeting in New Delhi calling for cooperation to calibrate instruments and validate measurements «to achieve an international, independent system for estimating the global emissions based on internationally accepted data.»

The later arrival indicated by Planck is good news for observers hoping to see the light from the first stars with next - generation instruments that will soon come online, like the James Webb Space Telescope and the Square Kilometer Array.

The plan she is working on calls for a two - part instrument, a space telescope and an «external occulter,» a movable starshade that flies in front of the telescope to block out the starlight and bring the planet into view.

The University of California at Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory also provided four science instruments for the mission.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express satellite has used ground - penetrating radar in some areas to look for a water table but found no evidence for one, despite research that concluded any water would be found within 9 kilometres of the surface — well within the reach of the probe's instruments.

Some researchers involved with HDST worry, however, that no matter how broadly appealing such a powerful instrument might be, any proposal for a supersize space telescope is destined to be a nonstarter: although giant observatories are astronomically useful for researchers, they also tend to be deemed astronomically expensive, especially lately.

Over a career that spans the entire Space Age, he has designed some of the first scientific instruments for satellites, directed searches for life - supporting conditions on Mars and above all managed the science team of the Voyager missions that explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune along with their moons — the single greatest expedition ever undertaken.

As the faster of the two probes, Voyager 1 was poised to reach interstellar space first, but its instrument for measuring the solar wind had stopped functioning in 1980.

«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.

NASA spends only $ 1.2 million a year operating the satellite's Earth - facing instruments, as DSCOVR's primary costs, for its sun - facing space weather instruments, lie with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The «can crusher» is one of NASA's premier instruments for developing new rockets capable of carrying payloads more affordably to the International Space Station and beyond.

«Our comet is coming out of its deep - space slumber and beginning to put on a show for Rosetta's science instruments,» said Matt Taylor, Rosetta's project scientist from the European Space Agency's Science and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlspace slumber and beginning to put on a show for Rosetta's science instruments,» said Matt Taylor, Rosetta's project scientist from the European Space Agency's Science and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The NetherlSpace Agency's Science and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

LIGO consists of two gargantuan optical instruments called interferometers, with which physicists look for the nearly infinitesimal stretching of space caused by a passing gravitational wave.

Those contract winners — The Boeing Co.; Lockheed Martin Space Systems; Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems; Orbital ATK; and Space Systems / Loral — took four months to appraise the need for Mars telecommunications and global high - resolution imaging as well as assess possible added scientific instruments, optical communications and the use of solar - electric propulsion.

According to Dan Baker, REPT instrument lead at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado in Boulder, «a powerful electron acceleration event was already in progress, and we clearly saw the new belt and new slot between it and the outer belt.»

In a quest to better predict space weather, the Dartmouth researchers study the radiation belts from above and below in complementary approaches — through satellites (the twin NASA Van Allen Probes) high over Earth and through dozens of instrument - laden balloons (BARREL, or Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses) at lower altitudes to assess the particles that rain down.

Although these first images are smudgy, the technique could provide advance warning that solar flares and storms will take aim at Earth — warnings that could help electrical utilities or satellite operators plan for possible disruptions and put key instruments into a safe mode, says Ernest Hildner, director of the Space Environment Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

«We're still anticipating some big events, and we've had a year to deeply understand the probes and how our instruments behave in space, and so we're prepared for what the sun may soon throw our way.

An instrument similar to those used on Earth by art detectives and to sense explosives at airports will be taken into space for the first time by ExoMars, the European Space Agency's mission to Mars in space for the first time by ExoMars, the European Space Agency's mission to Mars in Space Agency's mission to Mars in 2018.

«The short - term fluctuations — though large — don't influence climate so much,» said Greg Kopp of the University of Colorado, Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, which developed the TIM instrument.

Stephan Ulamec, the Philae project manager for the European Space Agency (ESA), said that the lander's scientific instruments were taking data and that he was confident Philae would live for another day.

«There's a lot of demand to use this telescope, so you have to be meticulous in choosing which exoplanets to look at,» says René Doyon, a co-author on the paper who is also the principal investigator for NIRISS, the Canadian Space Agency instrument on board JWST.

«Space - weather monitoring instruments developed at Los Alamos have been fielded on GPS satellites for decades,» said Marc Kippen, the Los Alamos program manager.

As for the very early universe, instruments like Hubble and the Spitzer Space Telescope allow astronomers to find similar objects at varying distances and at different points in their life span.

The instrument has been in the works since 1994, when former NASA administrator Dan Goldin was looking for a science rationale for the space station — and Nobel prize — winning physicist Samuel Ting of MIT realized he could help.

For months, the four scientific instruments at the heart of the James Webb Space Telescope have been sealed in what looks like a huge pressure cooker.

«By mixing [the data from] these instruments, we'll get information about the current star formation rate, but we'll also get information about the star formation history,» explained Hans Ulrik Nørgaard - Nielsen, an astronomer at the Danish Space Research Institute in Denmark and the principal investigator for the proposed observations.

«The CHIME telescope in Penticton, British Columbia, should be an excellent instrument for detecting fast radio bursts and studying their polarization properties,» says Shriharsh Tendulkar, postdoctoral researcher at the McGill Space Institute.

As Mars Express flies in polar orbit, dipping to within 155 miles of the planet spinning beneath it, instruments made in Sweden, France, and Italy will map the composition of the atmosphere, looking in part for evidence that vestiges of that water are still escaping into space.

The team's technique could be used on other telescopes, Swain says, opening up much larger instruments for use than those available in space.

Researchers have invented a range of instruments from giant telescopes to rovers to search for life in outer space, but so far, these efforts have yielded no definitive evidence that it exists beyond Earth.

He knew the scientists who had built instruments for Mars 96 had spares; that's standard procedure in space science.

«The images have confirmed the sensitivity of the instrument and are sharp,» says Antoine Pommerol, co-investigator of the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) of the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University of Bern.

For the moment, data on brown dwarfs can be used as a stand - in for contemplating extrasolar worlds we hope to study with future instruments like the James Webb Space TelescoFor the moment, data on brown dwarfs can be used as a stand - in for contemplating extrasolar worlds we hope to study with future instruments like the James Webb Space Telescofor contemplating extrasolar worlds we hope to study with future instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope.

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

But their presence was an important clue, says Claude Geffroy, a geochemist at the University of Poitiers in France, who is working on a SAM - like instrument for the European Space Agency's planned ExoMars rover.

Those missions include the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite to monitor Earth's ocean health and atmosphere in 2022; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 3 experiment that would track carbon - dioxide levels from the International Space Station; the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) pathfinder Earth climate instrument for the ISS in 2020 time frame; and, finally, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a joint NASA - NOAA mission that is in orbit today and monitoring Earth from sSpace Station; the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) pathfinder Earth climate instrument for the ISS in 2020 time frame; and, finally, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a joint NASA - NOAA mission that is in orbit today and monitoring Earth from sSpace Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a joint NASA - NOAA mission that is in orbit today and monitoring Earth from spacespace.

So is Paul Mahaffy at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who leads the team responsible for the rover's onboard lab, the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument.

Due to launch on Aug. 8, 2013, the VERIS rocket, short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, will launch for a 15 - minute trip carrying an instrument that can measure properties of the structures in the sun's upper atmosphere down to 145 miles across, some eight times clearer than any similar telescope currently in space.

The infrared space telescope's official end was recorded by a ground station in Australia, which recorded an increase in temperature for all of the spacecraft's instruments during the telescope's daily communications session.