Sentences with phrase «from uncrewed»

Protective covers and the explosive bolts used to separate them from uncrewed spacecraft have also been left to float away, along with a few lens caps for good measure.

Unlike a net you would use in the ocean, this one is a 700 - metre - long mesh of aluminium and steel wires that hangs from an uncrewed spacecraft.

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The United Arab Emirates has announced details of its uncrewed Mars probe, which it plans to launch in 2020 to monitor the planet's atmosphere from orbit.

IN SEPTEMBER 2009 a giant robotic arm beneath the International Space Station plucked an uncrewed Japanese cargo ship from the void of space.

In a move that will garner begrudging respect from Bond villains around the world, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos secretly launched an uncrewed rocket to space yesterday from his private launch facility in the Texas desert.

Plucked from space by ISS astronauts using the station's multi-jointed robot arm, the uncrewed Dragon cargo capsule, made by SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, had already passed its pre-docking manoeuvring tests to show it can safely approach the ISS.

In October 2016, citing development and production concerns, Boeing spokesman William Barksdale stated that the company would delay its pad abort test from October 2017 to January 2018, with the uncrewed test flight moving from December 2017 to June of 2018.

The proposals, which include the launch of an uncrewed spacecraft that would collect samples from a comet's surface and a probe that would investigate Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus, will now undergo scientific and technical review over the next seven months.