Sentences with phrase «hunting spacecraft»

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Iowa State University's Steve Kawaler is heading back to Cape Canaveral this month to witness the launch of another planet - hunting spacecraft.

Orbital ATK designed, manufactured, integrated and tested the planet - hunting spacecraft, which was awarded to them by NASA in 2013.

Following this, the planet - hunting spacecraft was able to continue its search of the universe for other worlds.

TESS will take the baton from NASA's other planet - hunting spacecraft, Kepler, which is running out of fuel after almost a decade in space.

A new exoplanet - hunting spacecraft called Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will launch no earlier than mid-April 2018 to do an all - sky survey from an orbit between the Earth and the moon.

Don Yeomans of NASA's Near Earth Object Program thinks that won't be a problem for future asteroid - hunting spacecraft.

Not exact matches

NASA's planet - hunting Kepler spacecraft finds two worlds that have sizes and orbits similar to ours

After five years of searching, researchers using data from NASA's exoplanet - hunting Kepler spacecraft have discovered what look to be two of the most Earth - like worlds yet.

Without those bearings, the spacecraft lost its aim, and Kepler's prime planet - hunting days came to an abrupt end.

The Kepler spacecraft was launched in 2009 to hunt for exoplanets in a single patch of sky, but in 2013 a mechanical failure crippled the telescope.

And next decade, spacecraft such as NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope and ESA's Planetary Transits and Oscillations will join the hunt, alongside a new generation of enormous ground - based telescopes with mirrors 30 meters across or more.

This space - based experiment was meant to hunt gravitational waves from even bigger black holes than LIGO can detect by sending lasers between three spacecraft arranged in a triangle.

Johnson and his colleagues used data from the exoplanet - hunting Kepler spacecraft to analyse the composition of stars known to have planets.

This experiment was designed to hunt gravitational waves from even bigger black holes than LIGO can detect by sending lasers between three spacecraft arranged in a triangle.

Using a sophisticated array of life - detection methods — the same methods being refined for the hunt for extraterrestrial life — Venkat has discovered a plethora of bizarre microbes thriving in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, microbes that would have escaped detection by older technologies.

As it happens, detectors on board the Fermi spacecraft as well as underground in the Large Hadron Collider are on the hunt for the weird particle constituents of dark matter.

After 4 years of faithful service, a reaction wheel malfunction may have scuppered the planet - hunting Kepler spacecraft for good.

Team members in the hunt for Earth - size planets circling other stars released the identity and characteristics of 306 candidate exoplanets located using the Kepler spacecraft launched in March 2009.

NASA announced that it will stand down on attempts to recover the exoplanet - hunting Kepler spacecraft, but might find other science uses for it

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, a Russian - launched, European - built spacecraft that arrived at Mars in October, is starting to dip into the upper reaches of the red planet's atmosphere in a year - long «aerobraking» campaign place the observatory in the right position to hunt for methane, an indicator of potential biological activity.

Even though the planet - hunting telescope's crucial pointing ability was crippled last year, data mined from the spacecraft are still turning up a trove of strange and wonderful worlds, researchers said — bringing them ever closer to finding «Earth 2.0.»

NASA's planet - hunting Kepler spacecraft has discovered an alien world that might just support life as we know it.

The story details how NASA's planet - hunting Kepler spacecraft has spotted a strange star in the Milky Way named KIC 8462852.

Liftoff of NASA's planet - hunting TESS spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket April 18, 2018.

After Witasse's team realized that comet 67P — and therefore ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, then orbiting the comet — was lined up to be right in the path of the CME, too, they began hunting for other observations.

NASA's planet - hunting Kepler spacecraft may be down a couple wheels, but it's by no means out for the count, mission scientists said Thursday.

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