Sentences with phrase «for space science missions»

Also, the company provides orbital launches of small satellites as well as suborbital launches for space science missions.

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Her work relies on data from NASA's spaceward missions, and a shift from earth science toward even more space data might offer new opportunities for her research.

Our maiden Mission Approval establishes an important precedent for the private sector to engage in peaceful space exploration, bringing with it monumental implications for the advancement of technology, science, research, and development, as well as commercial ventures that expand Earth's economic sphere.

Experts appearing include Anjana Ahuja, science writer for The Times, Dr Kevin Fong, Co-Director of the Centre for Aviation Space, UCL Professor Gerard de Groot, author of Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent madness of the American Lunar Quest and Sima Adya, Space Missions Scientist.

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

John Grunsfeld, repairman for the Hubble Space Telescope, is set to become associate administrator for the science mission directorate.

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

«Developing large space missions is difficult,» Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement from the agency.

Other science outlays included $ 46 million over 4 years to create 1500 industrial internships for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows within Canadian business, $ 49 million toward the transformation of the National Research Council into what officials call a «toolbox» for industry, and a commitment to extend Canadian participation in the International Space Station mission to 2024.

NASA, viewing the mission as a prime opportunity to build public interest in space science, has asked for an extensive outreach program, so the public will be watching closely.

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 missSpace Agency (CSA), meanwhile, has partnered with the American, European, and Japanese space agencies, providing technology and science packages for planetary and space - telescope missspace agencies, providing technology and science packages for planetary and space - telescope missspace - 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.»

In early 2015, ESA and the CAS issued a call for proposals for space - science missions.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the agency's New Frontiers Program for the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

The GREAT3 challenge is designed to improve methods for measuring weak lensing in preparation for future dark matter / dark energy missions, such as the European Space Agency's Euclid, in which NASA plays an important role, and the National Academy of Science's highest priority for NASA, WFIRST — also known as the WFIRST - AFTA mission, which stands for Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope - Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the program for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

If launch rates for space - science missions are any indication, the outlook for researchers — especially young ones — is dim.

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.

BOSTON — For the first time since the Viking missions to Mars in the 1970s, NASA is making the search for evidence of life on another world the primary science goal of a space missiFor the first time since the Viking missions to Mars in the 1970s, NASA is making the search for evidence of life on another world the primary science goal of a space missifor evidence of life on another world the primary science goal of a space mission.

In 2011 during its penultimate mission the Space Shuttle Endeavour delivered three to the International Space Station (ISS), where they were mounted outside for three years as part of a materials - science experiment.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

Despite technical glitches and regulatory hurdles, nanosatellite swarms could someday be the cornerstone for revolutionary interplanetary or even interstellar space - science missions

The request also calls for canceling five NASA earth science missions, including an operating Earth - facing camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite and the planned Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite, set for launch in 2022, which would assess the ocean's health and its interactions with the atmosphere.

«Webb is the highest priority project for the agency's science mission directorate, and the largest international space science project in U.S. history,» said acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, who is retiring from the agency next month.

NICER is an Astrophysics Mission of Opportunity within NASA's Explorers program, which provides frequent flight opportunities for world - class scientific investigations from space utilizing innovative, streamlined and efficient management approaches within the heliophysics and astrophysics science areas.

«It's tragic that we now have a scientifically very interesting mission without an option of really flying it,» says Michael Grewing of the Institute for Millimeter Radio Astronomy in Grenoble, France, chair of ESA's Space Science Advisory Committee.

The results of this NASA - funded study were published in Science on June 22, 2017 — a special time of the year for the IRIS mission, which celebrates its fourth anniversary in space on June 26.

Chris Russell, the principal investigator for the Dawn mission, was at a conference on low - cost space exploration in Japan in November 2005 when he got the news: NASA's Science Mission Directorate had decided to put Dawn in «stand down»mission, was at a conference on low - cost space exploration in Japan in November 2005 when he got the news: NASA's Science Mission Directorate had decided to put Dawn in «stand down»Mission Directorate had decided to put Dawn in «stand down» mode.

And the National Space Science Centre, designed with the help of researchers at the University of Leicester, will house mission control for CATSAT, a satellite built partly by students under supervision from Leicester researchers.

«The loss of Contour would be a basic setback for the near future of cometary science,» says Gerhard Schwehm of the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, who is the project scientist for the European Rosetta mission to comet Wirtanen, due to be launched on 13 January 2003.

Ricker's winning team also includes NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., which is managing the mission; MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Mass.; Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC), Dulles, Va.; NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.; The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, Calif.; and the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md..

``... NASA and NSF had to cancel their Antarctic - launched long - duration space science research missions for the year because NSF can not reopen facilities in time to get research balloons off on schedule.

Kane is a member of the science team for two upcoming satellite missions — NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the European Space Agency's Characterizing ExOPLanet Satellite (CHEOPS)-- that will have HD 20782 in their sights after they launch in 2018.

Slated for launch in 2024, PLATO was chosen yesterday by the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Science Programme Committee to be the third medium - class science mission in the agency's «Cosmic Vision 2015 - 25» pScience Programme Committee to be the third medium - class science mission in the agency's «Cosmic Vision 2015 - 25» pscience mission in the agency's «Cosmic Vision 2015 - 25» program.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washmission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, WashMission Directorate, Washington.

• In the News Focus section of Science this week, Robert Irion, who directs the Science Communication Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, writes about a private foundation that is raising money for a space mission to find asteroids that could harm Earth.

Results reported Wednesday by a China - led space science mission provide a tantalizing hint — but not firm evidence — for dark matter.

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

The Discovery Program is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

The letter from the Coalition for Space Exploration thanks the committee for its support of human and robotic exploration programs (specifically mentioning the James Webb Space Telescope as an «exploration science mission»), but «we remain concerned that by flat funding SLS, Orion and other Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - 1] imission»), but «we remain concerned that by flat funding SLS, Orion and other Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - 1] iMission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - 1] iMission - 1 [EM - 1] in 2018.

Useful for launching larger interplanetary science payloads such as Asteroid Redirect Mission, Mars Sample Return, Jupiter Europa Orbiter, Saturn / Titan Sample Return, Ice Giant Exploration, Outer Planet Sample Return, Large Telescopes and In - Space Infrastructres.

Whereas knowledge of space weather conditions at different planetary systems is a requisite for future mission planning, the scientific data to be obtained by these missions are going to provide in turn an important feedback for interdisciplinary science in the field of planetary space weather.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Science Programme Committee announced on Wednesday, February 19, that it has selected the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars (PLATO) mission for a prospective 2024 launch utilizing a Soyuz - Fregat launch vehicle.

Massive cost overruns on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will imperil funding for the agency's on - orbit astronomy missions while potentially wiping out big - ticket space observatories and a host of less - expensive development projects deemed high priorities by the science community, according to expSpace Telescope will imperil funding for the agency's on - orbit astronomy missions while potentially wiping out big - ticket space observatories and a host of less - expensive development projects deemed high priorities by the science community, according to expspace observatories and a host of less - expensive development projects deemed high priorities by the science community, according to experts.

ARIEL Press Release (03/2018)-- ARIEL selected as ESA's next medium - class science mission ARIEL, a mission to answer fundamental questions about how planetary systems form and evolve, has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as its next medium - class science mission, due for launch in 2028.

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«Webb is the highest priority project for the agency's Science Mission Directorate, and the largest international space science project in US history,» comments LigScience Mission Directorate, and the largest international space science project in US history,» comments Ligscience project in US history,» comments Lightfoot.

Herbert Funsten is recognized as a world - renowned experimental space scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missspace scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missSpace and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missSpace 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missions.

The House's dissatisfaction with the Asteroid Initiative is further evidenced by the scheduling of a hearing (as reported by the Space Politics website) by the Science, Space, and Technology Committee for 10 a.m. on Feb. 27, which will also be webcast live, titled «Mars Flyby 2021: The First Deep Space Mission for the Orion and Space Launch System?»

In addition to planetary science, the new budget also allocates $ 1.243 billion for Commercial Crew (sending U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station starting in 2017), $ 2 billion for the Space Launch System (SLS), $ 1.921 billion for Earth Science studies, and $ 686 million for the Space Technology Mission Directorate science, the new budget also allocates $ 1.243 billion for Commercial Crew (sending U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station starting in 2017), $ 2 billion for the Space Launch System (SLS), $ 1.921 billion for Earth Science studies, and $ 686 million for the Space Technology Mission Directorate Science studies, and $ 686 million for the Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD).