Sentences with phrase «in spacecraft missions»

He pursues these interests through theoretical modeling and participation in spacecraft missions.

MSSS scientists have also participated in spacecraft missions to other bodies in our Solar System as Principal Investigators, Co-Investigators, and Collaborators.

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The Dawn spacecraft is in such a stable orbit around the world, one Dawn mission scientist told the BBC, that it could stay there for a century or more and become «a perpetual satellite.»

He said that in September of this year, he would reveal details about a new rocket and spacecraft beyond the current Falcon and Dragon series, which may be used for Mars missions.

In the memo, China said it lost contact with the spacecraft on March 16, 2016, after it «fully fulfilled its historic mission.»

«It conducted six successive rendezvous and dockings with spacecraft Shenzhou - 8, Shenzhou - 9, and Shenzhou - 10 and completed all assigned missions, making important contributions to China's manned space exploration activities,» said a memo that China submitted in May 2017 to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

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.

Slated for a first crewed mission in 2021, it is expected to serve as NASA's deep - space exploratory spacecraft for the next decade, potentially carrying astronauts to the moon, nearby asteroids and even Mars or one of its moons in the 2030s.

After six successful missions to Tiangong - 1 — three of which were crewed — China abandoned the spacecraft in June 2013.

For Planetary Resources, the first wave of development is to culminate in a doughnut - shape spacecraft heading on a prospecting mission to a near - Earth asteroid in 2020.

It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon's orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth).

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.

Launched in October 1997, the Cassini mission to Saturn included a sophisticated robotic spacecraft that orbited the ringed planet and provided streams of data about its rings, magnetosphere, moon Titan and icy satellites.

Starting in late 2016, the Cassini spacecraft will begin a daring set of orbits that is, in some ways, like a whole new mission.

But the spacecraft's resounding triumphs in that time and the indisputable logic of keeping such a productive asset at work helped us press the case for continuing Cassini's mission.

Mission scientists will examine the spacecraft's final observations in the coming weeks for new insights about Saturn, including hints about the planet's formation and evolution, and processes occurring in its atmosphere.

But Jeffrey Sheehy, chief engineer of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C., and Johnson agree that the technology could potentially pave the way for interstellar missions, in which powerful lasers could accelerate sail spacecraft to a tenth the speed of light or faster.

But despite dozens of proposed missions spanning almost 30 years, no NASA spacecraft has visited Earth's twin since the Magellan craft ended its mission by plunging into Venus» atmosphere in 1994 and burning up.

Scientists have found the first direct evidence for explosive releases of energy in Saturn's magnetic bubble using data from the Cassini spacecraft, a joint mission between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency.

Morse said that the number of NASA astrophysics missions in operation had peaked at 15 in 2010 and was now in decline with the phaseout of spacecraft such as the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.

While nearly all spacecraft use chemical rockets for launching, once the hardware is in space, propulsion is still needed to manouvere the craft for orbital station - keeping, supply missions and space exploration.

This case is bolstered by data from the last mission to make such measurements — the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which swooped by Titan in 1980 during solar maximum conditions and found similarly depleted levels of methane.

«And this mission would be NASA's first mission that is directly tasked with searching for signs of life on another world since the Viking Spacecraft were given that task back in the 1970s on the surface of Mars.»

«We will have had seven years of experience and practice in pointing the spacecraft,» says Tom Duxbury, the Stardust mission manager at JPL.

Scientists using the Rosetta spacecraft — which arrived at 67P in August and became the first mission to orbit and land on a comet — now think they may have discovered the source of these patterns on cliff faces and in deep pits: layer upon layer of rounded nodules, 1 to 3 meters across.

No one knows when it formed, but the Galileo spacecraft didn't spot it before the end of its mission in 2003, says Andy Cheng of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

This Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth on May 11 carrying, among other things, science samples from the One - Year Mission, in which NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko stayed aboard the station from March 2015 until March of this year.

The spacecraft entered its science orbit around the moon's equator on Nov. 20, and in March 2014, LADEE extended its mission operations following a highly successful 100 - day primary science phase.

As a result, the sun now looks 7 percent brighter than it will in July, but its low winter elevation keeps things chilly in the Northern Hemisphere during the run - up to the premier space event of 2006: the return of the Stardust spacecraft after a six - year mission.

Farmer's experience with Exxon, which involved a variety of imaging and remote sensing techniques to locate geological structures favorable for the accumulation of petroleum, also served him well in working with NASA mission planners and technologists developing the instruments to be carried into Mars orbit by the next generation spacecraft.

Observations of Neptune from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, operating in its K2 mission, were important in this comparison between the planet and brown dwarfs.

Studies of Mars, for instance, have boomed in recent decades thanks to the steady stream of missions sent there; meanwhile, NASA hasn't sent a spacecraft to Venus in more than 20 years.

Stewart says the study should help NASA's Juno mission come up with better models of Jupiter's interior layers when the spacecraft goes into orbit around the planet in July 2016.

As the spacecraft plunged through these orbits, a radio telescope in Argentina, run by the European Space Agency, NASA's partner on the mission, listened for tiny Doppler shifts in Cassini's signal.

IN THE REARVIEW WINDOW A final image of Saturn's moon Titan (like one shown here from the Cassini spacecraft's last distant flyby September 11) will be among the «final picture postcards of the Saturn system... to put in our Cassini scrapbook,» Linda Spilker, head scientist for the Cassini mission, said in a news conference September 1IN THE REARVIEW WINDOW A final image of Saturn's moon Titan (like one shown here from the Cassini spacecraft's last distant flyby September 11) will be among the «final picture postcards of the Saturn system... to put in our Cassini scrapbook,» Linda Spilker, head scientist for the Cassini mission, said in a news conference September 1in our Cassini scrapbook,» Linda Spilker, head scientist for the Cassini mission, said in a news conference September 1in a news conference September 13.

Before the Cassini spacecraft ends its 20 - year mission by disintegrating in Saturn's atmosphere, we have one last chance for new information on the gas giant

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft exited the vast bubble of particles that encircles the sun and planets on August 25, 2012, mission scientists report September 12 in Science.

A few hours later, however, on - board safety systems turned the spacecraft toward Earth and re-established contact with mission control at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The Red Planet now has seven robots studying it, following the arrival of two new orbiters in September: NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) and MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission), the Indian space agency's first Mars spacecraft.

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.

Experimental gas - based lithium - ion batteries could power instruments in high - altitude drones and on spacecraft missions to Mars and beyond

The other finalist, the Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return (CAESAR) mission, would launch a spacecraft before the end of 2025 to collect a 100 - gram sample from the surface of comet 67P, which was mapped by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, and return it to Earth in 2038.

In missions that use conventional propellant, spacecraft use a lot of fuel just to accelerate enough to get into orbit.

Bowman is talking just after the mission control center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, received radio confirmation at 8:52 pm, July 14th, that the spacecraft was still in good shape after passing Pluto.

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.

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 spacIn 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 spacin space.

In discussing the Phoenix mission, Smith indicates the spacecraft traveled 600 million kilometers to Mars and estimates «the light travel time to Earth» as «about 15 minutes.»

The only previous data on Jupiter's interior came from the Galileo spacecraft, which ended its mission by entering Jupiter's atmosphere at a single point in 1995.

«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.»

In the meantime, aspiring female astronauts in search of a role model had to make do with «Astronaut Barbie» or scantily clad Jane Fonda in the 1968 movie Barbarella, who piloted her fur - lined spacecraft on a mission to eradicate evildoers on the planet TaIn the meantime, aspiring female astronauts in search of a role model had to make do with «Astronaut Barbie» or scantily clad Jane Fonda in the 1968 movie Barbarella, who piloted her fur - lined spacecraft on a mission to eradicate evildoers on the planet Tain search of a role model had to make do with «Astronaut Barbie» or scantily clad Jane Fonda in the 1968 movie Barbarella, who piloted her fur - lined spacecraft on a mission to eradicate evildoers on the planet Tain the 1968 movie Barbarella, who piloted her fur - lined spacecraft on a mission to eradicate evildoers on the planet Tau.