Sentences with phrase «in spacecraft design»

This was hammered into myself and my peers because we were getting prepped and ready to work in the spacecraft design industry.

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April 27 - A heat shield used in a NASA spacecraft designed to send a six - wheeled rover vehicle to Mars in 2020 suffered an «unexpected» fracture during a structural test this month, causing the space agency to build a replacement, the space agency said.

So serious, in fact, that the organization's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has put out a call for design proposals of the spacecraft that will eventually land on an asteroid, then send a huge chunk of it over to humans for experimentation.

When Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of electric - car company Tesla, founded SpaceX back in 2002, he probably didn't envision that his company, which designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, would be responsible for delivering better coffee to astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).

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This will allow future crewed spacecraft to dock automatically and is designed to work with SpaceX's Dragon V2 and Boeing's Starliner capsule, both of which are expected to make their first trips to the ISS in the next couple of years.

The current boom in private spacecraft designs (for example) shows the kind of inventiveness and flexibility that NASA could have practiced or at least funded for the past few decades if not for the shuttle.

While NASA inches ahead with plans for a new Crew Exploration Vehicle, the Russians are racing to replace their aging Soyuz fleet with a futuristic manned spacecraft designed to give Russia the competitive edge in commercial space exploration.

On 2 December, a spacecraft will blast off from the European Space Agency's base in French Guiana, carrying equipment designed to help detect gravitational waves.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., designed and built MESSENGER, a spacecraft developed under NASA's Discovery Program.

Orbital ATK, Inc., in Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft.

In the original design for the spacecraft, which launched in 2011, there was no camerIn the original design for the spacecraft, which launched in 2011, there was no camerin 2011, there was no camera.

SOYUZ A Soviet - designed modular spacecraft first launched in 1967.

In six months NASA will launch one of the most ambitious spacecraft ever conceived — designed to look back through time and tell us the greatest secrets of the universe, including how it will end

The spacecraft will in coming years be plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere, bringing the mission to a fiery end designed to avoid contaminating any of the planet's astrobiologically interesting icy moons.

Analysis of these samples by the spacecraft's Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer designed and developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, detected eight different types of metal ions, including sodium, magnesium and iron.

Data from WISE may generate proposals for telescope time on Herschel for more detailed follow - up observations, says Paul Goldsmith, project scientist for Herschel at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Goldsmith's JPL colleagues will manage ground operations for WISE; Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, designed and built its instrumentation, and Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft itself.)

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

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.

However, none of these are designed to provide 24/7 data, necessary for accurate and timely forecasts and all the spacecraft are ageing rapidly, with some of them having spent more than two decades in space.

Next month the European Space Agency will launch the Gaia spacecraft, which is designed to create a 3D map of the stars in the Milky Way and their motions.

Reedman graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in mechanical engineering and has now been working at MD Robotics — formerly SPAR Aerospace — designing and building spacecraft for over 17 years.

The $ 700 - million spacecraft is designed to test two predictions of Einsteins general theory of relativity, which he proposed in 1916.

Virgin Galactic's spacecraft were also designed with environmental sustainability in mind, Whitehorn said.

Orbital Sciences Corp. in Dulles, Va., designed and built the spacecraft.

Russia's Progress spacecraft are disposable vehicles designed to burn up in Earth's atmosphere after completing their missions.

Early in April, Europe will launch the first satellite in its Copernicus program: a fleet of a dozen environmental monitoring spacecraft designed to study Earth's oceans, changes in land use, and atmosphere.

In January, Virgin Atlantic's space tourism arm, Virgin Galactic, along with spacecraft maker Scaled Composites, LLC, unveiled designs for their eight - seat SpaceShipTwo.

A sort of miniature space shuttle, Dream Chaser is based on a plane - like spacecraft that NASA itself designed in the 1980s, inspired by spy photos of a Soviet prototype.

The focus of Phase B will be to further refine the mission objectives, and eventually make preliminary design plans for the spacecraft, Joan Salute, the Europa mission program executive, told Space.com in an email.

They designed this «sky - crane» — along with a beefed - up heat shield and parachute — to slow 3 tons of spacecraft from bullet speeds to a gentle stop on the surface in 7 minutes.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

The pyrotechnic devices designed to separate it from Mars Express could fail, in which case the spacecraft itself would be too heavy to achieve its intended orbit, and the whole mission would fail.

In fact, one criterion for deciding which design to take to the demonstration stage will be which spacecraft appears to be most commercially attractive.

A trio of spacecraft called the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or LISA, is designed to be sensitive to low - frequency gravitational waves, with periods of between 100 and 1000 seconds, in the range expected from colliding supermassive black holes.

The plan for the RLV, in which new technologies will be demonstrated before a full - scale spacecraft is designed, will avoid those problems, he says.

Though the Pluto system will resemble little more than bright dots in the camera's view until May, mission navigators will use the data to design course - correction maneuvers to aim the spacecraft toward its target point this summer.

The design is based on a spacecraft, the HL - 20, that NASA developed in the 1980s and»90s but decided not to pursue.

Cassini wasn't designed to detect signs of life in the Enceladus plume — indeed, scientists didn't know the plume existed until after the spacecraft arrived at Saturn.

Doing away with wires could also create new options for interior design and reduce weight in airplanes, cars, spacecraft or any other vehicle that today is laden with heavy power cables.

None of these spacecraft were designed to detect gravity waves, but in a three - week experiment running until 11 April they will form part of a detector.

This clean room was designed and built for MMS to house all four spacecraft at once: Two additional observatories appear in the background.

(Lockheed Martin Space Systems, which designed and built the spacecraft, is based in Littleton, Colo..)

SpaceX Founder and Chief Designer Elon Musk said in an interview this evening that the version of the Dragon spacecraft designed to take humans into space initially will be tested in an automated mode, but the first time it carries people, they will be NASA astronauts.

March 15, 2018 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are part of a national planetary defense team that designed a conceptual spacecraft to deflect Earth - bound asteroids and evaluated whether it would be able to nudge a massive asteroid — which has a remote chance to hitting Earth in 2135 — off...

«The Earth Trojan survey was designed primarily as an exercise for the mission team to rehearse the hazard search the spacecraft will perform as it approaches its target asteroid Bennu,» NASA said in the statement.

-- to design and demonstrate next - generation spacecraft architectures in orbit.

In a bid to shed some more light on our closest star, NASA launched its most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the Sun in February this year - now the first images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory have been unveileIn a bid to shed some more light on our closest star, NASA launched its most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the Sun in February this year - now the first images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory have been unveilein February this year - now the first images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory have been unveiled.

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