Sentences with phrase «future missions to»

Space Horizons is a new collection of mission patch designs for your favorite past, present and future missions to help engage a new generation in the excitement of extending humanity's reach beyond Earth.

The moon base will allow for sustained human presence on the moon's surface and help the agency prepare for future missions to Mars and beyond, explained NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale.

Norton says future missions to find Earth - like planets in Earth - like orbits will be when the real search for signs of alien life will begin.

The major aspect of their work is to test out life - detection instruments that will be used on future missions to Mars.

During this time, he was also the Communications Officer for the Mars Foundation, a non-profit group headed by Bruce Mackenzie in an effort to design future manned habitats (constructed primarily from in - situ materials) for future missions to the Red Planet.

In addition to the Kepler mission, the agency is planning to use future missions to further exoplanet research, including the James Webb Space Telescope, the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope, and the newly announced Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which is expected to study the nearest bright stars and potentially discover thousands of new planets.

Eight years after it went missing, the location of India's first lunar orbiter has been discovered, thanks to a new NASA radar technique which the space agency believes could be used to locate previously hard - to - find orbiting object while planning future missions to the moon.

In view of future missions to the outer Solar System, an accurate identification of the space weather conditions around a planet can contribute significantly in the estimation of the water abundances in the planetary atmospheres and their long - and short - term variability.

As SEP events may produce very large enhancements in the ion production rate in the Venusian upper and middle atmosphere, investigations of space weather effects at Venus are relevant to future missions to the planet, particularly those carrying low - frequency radar instruments (Nordheim et al. 2015).

He's now helping design future missions to Saturn's moons.

NASA began considering plans for future missions to orbit Europa, and perhaps to send a lander.

As Cassini's mission is scheduled to come to an end in September, Perron says further investigation of Titan's surface will help to guide future missions to the distant moon.

Urine that it vented also left a residue when tiny particles hit the craft's panels, so Lorenz suggests that future missions to Enceladus could look for signatures of life if similar residue is found in the minuscule dents left on a detector by ice grains from the plumes.

Our work emphasizes the need for future missions to characterise the UV emissions of this type of star,» said Grenfell.

In a discovery with implications for long - term spaceflight and future missions to Mars, a researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has found that mice flown aboard the space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth with early signs of liver disease.

«These particle radiation conditions present important environmental factors for space travel and space weather, and must be carefully studied and accounted for in the planning and design of future missions to the moon, Mars, asteroids and beyond.»

The emphasis of NASA's Mars 2020 mission is searching for signs of life, whilst also laying the ground work for future missions to return samples to Earth.

That includes President Bush, who in January 2004 unveiled an ambitious plan to return American astronauts to the moon by 2020 and to create a lunar base for future missions to Mars.

Orbital observations will continue, but future missions to the surface could seek additional information.

Davis says she wouldn't want to see radiation - sensitive astronauts kept from future missions to the moon or Mars, but she would want those astronauts to be prepared to take special precautions to protect their brains, such as wearing extra shielding or not performing space walks.

The researchers hope that future missions to Mars will shed light on the geological processes that produced methane billions of years ago.

JIMO would determine whether Europa has a buried ocean and find potential landing sites for future missions to search for life down below.

The agency was looking for domestic vendors interested in, or capable of, developing commercial payload landing services for future missions to the lunar surface.

Manufacturing facilities in orbit would allow components and raw materials to be shipped into orbit piecemeal and assembled into the means for future missions to points beyond, Sirangelo said.

By simulating Venus - like conditions, researchers in Germany are working on how best to collect and interpret data from a future mission to the planet.

JPL built and managed NASA's Galileo mission for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, and is developing a concept for a future mission to Europa.

ESA has already decided to proceed with a future mission to build a gravitational wave observatory, using free - falling masses like those in LISA Pathfinder but on a bigger scale.

Scientists also will compare medical data from Scott and Mark, «to gain insight into how the human body responds to longer durations in space,» information that could prove useful for planning a future mission to Mars, the White House suggests.

Such a probe would cost between $ 300 million and $ 500 million and could piggyback on a future mission to the outer reaches of the solar system (www.arxiv.org/gr-qc/0411077).

It would also scout locations for a future mission to land.

The new technology incorporated in the asteroid mission, such as the Orion Spacecraft and the Space Launch System rocket, will be vital for the future mission to Mars.

Astronauts at NASA went underwater to test tools that would be used in a future mission to an asteroid planned for the 2020s.

What they show could have huge impacts on the future mission to Mars.

The New Worlds Technology Development Program, which lays the scientific groundwork for a future mission to study nearby Earth - like planets, and the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope, which would provide short - wavelength radio surveys to study dusty material associated with galaxies and stars, are ranked the highest priority for midsize space - and ground - based programs, respectively.

These astronauts could be on a future mission to Mars.

Not exact matches

Lockheed Martin is one of several legacy companies working to be a part of future Mars missions, while SpaceX and its founder Elon Musk are pushing to begin colonizing Marsas early as 2022.

«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

Lately, I've found that even the mission - critical business ideas that make it through my first set of filters have to address another elephant in the room: the question of whether this startup is building something that's going to become a free - standing and independent business or whether it's developing a great feature that is going to be swallowed up, ripped off, or rolled over by one of the big guys in their space in the near future.

Montenegro has already explored its likely future role by contributing 25 troops to the NATO - led mission in Afghanistan since 2010 as part of its preparations for joining the alliance.

«I went and I met with Steve Jobs,» says Zuckerberg, «and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be.»

«Our mission is to empower this new generation to take greater ownership in their financial future,» the company says, «which we believe can help shrink the gap between the «haves» and the «have nots» and lead to a healthier, more robust global economy.»

It could also serve to aid future space travel, including planned missions to Mars.

Early on in our history when things weren't really going well — we had hit a tough patch and a lot of people wanted to buy Facebook — I went and I met with Steve Jobs, and he said that to reconnect with what I believed was the mission of the company, I should go visit this temple in India that he had gone to early in the evolution of Apple, when he was thinking about what he wanted his vision of the future to be... That reinforced to me the importance of what we were doing, and that is something I will always remember.

The NRO determined that the equipment does not meet its future intelligence missions, so it passed the hardware on to NASA.

Will the government be able to attain its mission of jobs creation, remains the pertinent question, which will decide the BJP's future in the 2019 General Elections.

«We continue to embrace thoughtful regulation and collaboration on our mission to help build the future of money,» they said in a statement quoted by the New York Post.

A meaningful mission statement can also distinguish a company from its competitors, suggest potential directions for future growth and provide team members with a common goal to work toward.

Their mission is to build a bridge that spans the old code and connects the past with the future as quickly and inexpensively as possible.

In addition to his concerns about the future of AI, Musk touched on his mission to colonize Mars.

One of the big limiting factors in plaguing future space missions is lifting off from Earth with all the supplies, fuel, spacecraft and equipment humans would need to establish a permanent lunar base or field a Mars mission.