Sentences with phrase «for space probe»

Raman Laser is well used and is the instrument of choice for space probe detectors.

Solving the resulting equations tells us how planets orbit the sun or how to plot a trajectory for a space probe.

Believers in second chances will be rooting next week for a space probe as it tries again to orbit Venus.

«Interestingly enough, the scientist who is lead primary investigator for the X-ray spectrometer for the space probe, they call it the PIXL, was his first graduate student from Macquarie University, before his KU times.

As for space probes, «the technology of robotics at that time was fairly primitive.»

Our auroral camera network started regular operation in 1957, and in the 1980's we began to build instruments for space probes, extending our research to planetary science.

And of course there is another energy technology that has been successfully used to generate electricity for space probes and satellites and space stations «for decades with no interruptions or service calls» — photovoltaics.

Not exact matches

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.&raqFor example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.&raqfor academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.&raqfor cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

I realize this may not be clear or meaninful to some readers and I can't take the space here to go into it other than to say that a good segment of biblical scholarship for a couple decades at least, has properly broadened its pursuits in an interdisciplinary manner, into probing for better understandings of the nature and formative, growth processes of the earliest groups of Jesus followers and how they ultimately became Jewish Christian groups, or started as mixed Jewish / Gentile groups (as via Paul, et al.).

Here we should take a leaf from Barcelona's book and observe how they patiently pass the ball, probe the defence and waiting for space to occur as a result of frustration.

Council members also will provide space for CCRB investigators to take the accusers» «formal statements,» which are needed for the board's probes to proceed.

A far - flung star's extra wink, spotted in data from the Kepler space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant space telescope and further probed by the Hubble Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant Space Telescope, may be the first evidence for an exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a distant star.

Future probes like NASA»S James Webb Space Telescope will scrutinise the atmospheres of planets in other solar systems for possible signs of biological activity.

Deep space exploration China's State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense has heralded the repurposed probe, which has made China's space agency the third ever to visit a Lagrangian point.

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.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

Measurements of the afterglow from the Big Bang by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite mission yield predictions for the Hubble constant that are 5 percent and 9 percent smaller, respectively.

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.

In this episode: Quantum Teleportation, Mars Rover Mix Tape, MASER Beams, Funding Ax for Telescopes, Radiation Space Probes

The Hubble Space Telescope probed the quasars» light for information on the speed of the gas and whether the gas is moving toward or away from Earth.

But if the probe's demise has left you wanting more space rock action, mark your calendar for 2018, which will see two missions arrive at asteroids — NASA's OSIRIS - REx, which launched earlier this month, and Japan's Hayabusa 2.

And so Cassini knew Saturn as intimately as anyone from his era, establishing sufficient Saturnian credentials to earn the honor of having a space probe named for him.

For the next year the Gravity Probe B team, led by Francis Everitt of Stanford, will monitor the spheres to see if the warp or drag of space tilts their spin axes out of alignment.

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.

The radiation belts are two donut - shaped regions of highly energetic particles trapped in the Earth's magnetic field — the inner, located just above our atmosphere and extending 4,000 miles into space; and the outer, from 8,000 to 26,000 miles out — and are named for their discoverer (as are the probes), the late James A. Van Allen of the University of Iowa.

«It will give us the facility to contribute to space missions probing for life on solar system bodies.»

«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.

The belts» makeup and properties have affected both spaceflight and physics research for the past 50 years, and the Van Allen Probes were designed to answer a number of fundamental questions about these harsh regions of space.

He is involved with the surface science package for Huygens, a European Space Agency probe that will parachute into Titan's atmosphere in January 2005.

Although specifics are meager, the new budget would bolster earth sciences, keep on track a new rocket to replace the space shuttle after 2010, and provide more funding for robotic probes to visit other planets.

Perhaps they could turn the space into a classroom, study whether lighting can reduce falls among older people or probe whether certain office conditions make it easier for people with traumatic brain injuries to return to work.

The researchers said that this work is also an important pathfinder for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to probe the archaeology of the Milky Way.

Instead, the probe makes a loop that takes it right up next to the planet — to within 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of the cloud tops — and then far out into space, before looping back in for another close pass.

Newton, who formulated the universal law of gravity and used it to explain a wealth of phenomena, including the orbits of planets, the tides of the ocean, and the flattening of Earth at its poles, did not need to know the value of G. Nor, for that matter, do NASA engineers who plot the paths of space probes with breathtaking precision.

While earthbound scientists have been observing Comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko for years now, the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which was dispatched in 2004 to map and study the comet, caught the first glimpse of its target in only the last few weeks.

Since the geysers are ejecting material from the lake up into space, a probe could simply take a few passes through the plumes, sweep up samples and fly them back home for study in terrestrial labs.

NASA space junk experts have refined the forecast for the anticipated death plunge of a giant satellite, with the U.S. space agency now predicting the 6 1/2 - ton climate probe will plummet to Earth around Sept. 23, a day earlier than previously reported.

What's more, no longer do you have to wait for an age to see the bewitching vistas these space probes send home.

By contrast, the plan for visiting Europa called for a standard - issue space probe.

The wafer can be used inside either an insulated handpiece for manual sampling or a longer probe for remote sampling of soil and spaces under buildings or in luggage or other containers.

Murata sees future uses for M - TRAN's descendants as space rovers or deep - sea probes, as well as fearless explorers closer to home.

These include building a laser far larger than any we have today, developing techniques to use it as both propulsion and communication for the spacecraft, and protecting a tiny probe from the hostile environment of interstellar space.

Back in the US, meanwhile, teams work flat out on plans for a $ 650 million space probe called the Joint Dark Energy Mission.

DARMSTADT, GERMANY — After the Philae probe bounced its way to a tenuous, unanchored perch on a comet — a bittersweet victory for the European Space Agency (ESA) and its Rosetta mission — Fred Jansen cried in the control room.

Such planets could be the targets for an eventual launch of miniature space probes by the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative.

Such planets could be the targets for an eventual launch of miniature space probes by the Breakthrough Starshot initiative.

Space probes beyond Earth orbit, designed for other uses, have been tasked with the vulcanoid search.

In 1980 and 1981 NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 space probes passed for the first time over the planet Saturn, located 1,500 million km from the Sun.

Additionally, the agency plans to turn off five American solar probes and stop paying for its portion of the Ulysses solar probe, operated jointly with the European Space Agency.

Today, it develops and launches satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy, sends probes to the far reaches of the Solar System and cooperates in the human exploration of space.