Sentences with phrase «future spacecraft»

The fourth parameter, needed to complete the interior model, will be obtained from future spacecraft missions.

The team plans to issue the report to help with future spacecraft planning; one of those recommendations might be including a gas gauge.

Now he gets to assess the technologies that will, or will not, make it into future spacecraft.

At the same time that MSSS started work on the MGS MOC in the mid-1990s, the company was developing a very small, modular camera system for future spacecraft flight opportunities.

X-ray science is playing a key role, too, in ensuring future spacecraft survive in extreme environments as they descend through otherworldly atmospheres and touch down safely on the surface.

This work could help ensure future spacecraft survive the rigors of otherworldly atmospheres.

The Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS), an optical technology demonstration experiment, could improve NASA's data rates for communications with future spacecraft by a factor of 10 to 100.

Engineers are taking a counterintuitive approach to protecting future spacecraft: shooting at their experiments.

To defend future spacecraft from taking a hit, Bonvoisin and colleagues are developing armor made from fiber metal laminates, or several thin metal layers bonded together.

The ultimate goal, which may take years to realize, would be to develop detectors and other hardware to make pulsar - based navigation readily available on future spacecraft.

The last swing past Saturn's largest moon sent Cassini heading directly towards the planet — and showed how future spacecraft will explore other moons.

We also hope to analyze samples that will be returned from future spacecraft missions to other planets and asteroids.

The homemade appearance of the instrument — a wooden tube covered with brown paper and fitted with two small lenses — cut an impossible contrast to the remote sensing devices and future spacecraft designs that dominated the scientific presentations.

Planetary scientists would like future spacecraft to scoop up samples of these plumes.

However, to understand the complex chemistry in these subsurface oceans, we will need further direct observations by future spacecraft flying through Enceladus's plumes.»

«Orbital robotics and AI techniques in general can enable future spacecraft to repair satellites, remove space junk, extract resources from asteroids and comets, and so on,» said study co-author Yang Gao, a space roboticist at the University of Surrey in England.

A new map of Mars» gravity, which NASA is touting as the best one ever made, will make it easier for future spacecraft to make their way to the Red Planet.

A future spacecraft could collect ice from the plumes and see whether it contains biological compounds — or even living organisms.

We've caught Jupiter's icy moon spitting into space a second time - which means it could be easy for a future spacecraft to scoop up a sample and find life

But Biosphere 2 is a poor model for a future spacecraft.

Bonus science: The orbiter is now scouting perfect landing spots for future spacecraft — including, potentially, some with human passengers in the 2030s.

One of their primary goals is to look for the sort of sedimentary rocks that a future spacecraft can bring back to Earth for analysis.

They hope the superfluid helium whistle will eventually find a use in extremely precise gyroscopes for future spacecraft.

Future spacecraft might scoop up samples of Enceladus» plumes.

If a pulsar - based navigation system passes muster, future spacecraft could precisely keep track of their location in 3D space, and autonomously adjust their path to stay on target, without needing to communicate with Earth.

OXON HILL, Md. — Future spacecraft could navigate by the light of dead stars.