Sentences with phrase «in lunar orbit»

It looks like NASA's stepping - stone to Mars will be a miniature space station in lunar orbit rather than a chunk of captured asteroid.

Astronauts will travel aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, launched on the Space Launch System rocket, to rendezvous in lunar orbit with the captured asteroid.

Sometime in the distant future, astronauts are expected to travel aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft to rendezvous in lunar orbit with a captured asteroid and bring back samples.

An artist's illustration for the high - tech laser communications system on NASA's LADEE moon dust probe now in lunar orbit.

Cernan also broke several NASA records on that 1972 mission, including the longest time spent in lunar orbit and the largest collection of lunar samples ever brought back to earth.

«Eventually,» Jones says,» [Musk] can deliver cargo, he can deliver rocket fuel, and maybe even habitable modules — privately built modules that could be part of an outpost in lunar orbit, or put together to go to an asteroid.

NASA, for their part, has published plans for a Deep Space Gateway — essentially, a crewed spaceport in lunar orbit.

Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft launched on the Space Launch System (SLS) would rendezvous with the captured asteroid mass in lunar orbit and collect samples for return to Earth.

CE5 - T1 is expected to arrive in lunar orbit on 26 October.

India, Japan, China and the European Space Agency have added to the traffic in lunar orbit, with most of these missions carrying scientific instruments from other countries.

India's first lunar orbiter Chandrayaan - 1's star sensor failed to work after a few months in lunar orbit.

But first Congress wants a station or infrastructure in Lunar orbit to support / enhance Orion cislunar operations.

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.

NASA's ongoing Journey to Mars involves missions only in lunar orbit, not on the surface.

Boeing's John Elbon and Orbital ATK's Frank Culberston both advocated for habitats in lunar orbit as the next step for humans into deep space.

It does envision assembling the base camp — comprised of two Orion spacecraft, a habitat, a laboratory module, and solar panels and other systems — in lunar orbit beginning in 2021, but the goal is to send it to Mars orbit for arrival in 2028.

The LADEE probe beamed the laser signal across 248,548 miles (400,000 kilometers) to reach Earth from its position in lunar orbit.

There's no mention of ARM in NASA's newly unveiled «gateway» plan, which outlines the basic architecture of a small, sometimes - staffed space station in lunar orbit.

The satellite, now in lunar orbit, carried Indian instruments as well as those from the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA and Bulgaria — an arrangement far removed from the nationalist striving of the U.S. — Soviet space race.

That smaller module would then rendezvous with the main spacecraft, the Command / Service Module, in lunar orbit and the crew would return home.

In lunar orbit, it occurred to me that, here we are, all the way up there at the moon, and we're studying this thing, and it's really the Earth as seen from the moon that's the most interesting aspect of this flight.»

The cosmic collision is intentional: Mission engineers need to guide the spacecraft down because they have run out of fuel to keep themselves in lunar orbit.

Some of the savings from defunding the ISS would feed into NASA's return to the moon, chiefly a new lunar robotic exploration program as well as a «Deep Space Gateway» in lunar orbit that would serve as a staging ground for operations on the surface.

Artist's concept of NASA's «deep space gateway» in lunar orbit.

So build that craft, net that rock, put it in lunar orbit, and hand it over to PRI and DSI as a playground to.test their business models.

No, instead NASA is proposing to build a space station in lunar orbit.