Sentences with phrase «future spacecraft missions»

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

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

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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.

Earlier this year, the company unveiled Prospector X, a tiny robotic spacecraft that'll sit in low Earth orbit testing technologies for future asteroid prospecting missions, including water - powered propulsion and optical navigation systems.

In practice, however, designers of possible future missions have grappled with the great complexity of engineering such ambitious spacecraft as well as new frontiers of contaminating noise in space.

Researchers say the spacecraft fleet currently orbiting the Red Planet are aging and there are no replacements in the works, imperiling future Mars landers, rovers and even possible human missions that will depend on orbiters to talk to Earth.

The plumes on Enceladus are far bigger and probably less uniform on the inside than a spacecraft's simple metal waste tube, but Lorenz says this method could still help us validate our models of the moon's jets and to design future missions.

It will also be a test of the spacecraft's endurance as it drags itself through the planet's thick air, which will provide valuable data for future interplanetary missions.

«The new gravity map will be helpful for future Mars exploration, because better knowledge of the planet's gravity anomalies helps mission controllers insert spacecraft more precisely into orbit about Mars.

Ground - based radars using large antennas including the GBT could be used as a collisional hazard assessment tool and as a safety mechanism for spacecraft that encounter navigation or communication issues, in future robotic and human missions to the moon.

In this context, the future BepiColombo mission with two spacecraft and with its comprehensive payload, and in particular with the SERENA experiment on board the MPO spacecraft, will provide important feedback for characterizing space weather in Mercury's vicinity.

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.

Lockheed Martin plans to reduce the production cost of the Orion crew capsule for future missions through reuse of the vehicle structure and other components of the spacecraft, SpaceNews reported Friday.

Having successfully demonstrated that radar can be used to detect and track spacecraft in lunar orbit, the researchers now intend to use these arrays as a hazard assessment tool in future manned and unmanned missions to the moon.

He is also involved with the Webb Telescope (which will launch in 2018 as the successor to Hubble), with efforts to send a spacecraft to Uranus and Neptune, and with other concepts for future space missions.