Sentences with phrase «in spacecraft propulsion»

There are many different types of rockets, and a comprehensive list can be found in spacecraft propulsion - they range in size from tiny models such as water rockets or small solid rockets that can be purchased at a hobby store, to the enormous Saturn V used for the Apollo program.

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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.

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.

The robotic spacecraft would cruise in deep space towards a near - Earth asteroid, using a technology called advanced Solar Electric Propulsion.

The most likely strategy for returning samples stored on the 2020 rover will involve two more spacecraft heading to Mars, says Charles Whetsel of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

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.

The researchers found between four and 28 viable cells per passport photo — size unit of area — similar to those in clean rooms at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where spacecraft are assembled.

Facing limited funds, NASA administrator Michael Griffin slashed many science programs, including astrobiology (down 50 percent in the 2007 request) and the development of nuclear propulsion systems for spacecraft (down 97 percent).

Cornell's team will compete in the latter, which focuses on propulsion for small spacecraft and near - Earth communications.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Denver -: The «Adapting Commercial Spacecraft for the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle» study will define system concepts for a Solar Electric Propulsion Module based on an existing commercial spacecraft bus and NASA Hall Spacecraft for the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle» study will define system concepts for a Solar Electric Propulsion Module based on an existing commercial spacecraft bus and NASA Hall spacecraft bus and NASA Hall thrusters.

In 2014, the spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver; and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California; and the THEMIS team at ASU, developed procedures to rotate the spacecraft for upward - looking imaging of Comet Siding Spring as it passed near Mars.

A 2003 survey found a particularly stubborn strain of the rod - shaped bacteria Bacillus pumilus in even the cleanest of clean rooms at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where Mars - bound spacecraft are assembled.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

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.)

Developed in conjunction with Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, FINDER is based on remote - sensing radar technology developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to monitor the location of spacecraft JPL manages for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

ARM will use capabilities in development, including the new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and high - power Solar Electric Propulsion.

The valves took several minutes to open when the team pressurized the spacecraft's propulsion system in October.

«We've got a spacecraft on the way to Ceres, so we don't have to wait long before getting more context on this intriguing result, right from the source itself,» said Carol Raymond, the deputy principal investigator for Dawn at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Dawn will map the geology and chemistry of the surface in high resolution, revealing the processes that drive the outgassing activity.»

The spacecraft's view is now three times as sharp as in its previous mapping orbit, revealing exciting new details of this intriguing dwarf planet,» said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

Concerned about the possibility that astronauts might unwittingly be exposed to pathogens that lurk in a spacecraft's surfaces or in air filters — biological contamination has been found in both the ISS and Russia's MIR before — NASA asked researchers at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, to assess the problem.

Its overarching theme as an observatory is investigating star formation, says Paul Goldsmith, Herschel project scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Both spacecraft, though primarily ESA projects, were built in conjunction with NASA.)

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, built the twin Voyager spacecraft and operates them for the Heliophysics Division within NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

But on an early fly - by in February 2005, the spacecraft's magnetometer «sensed something unusual going on with its magnetic field», says Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

While the scientific payload is being assembled in Switzerland, work in Spain has focused on preparing the spacecraft platform that will carry the payload and provide power, propulsion, communications, and thermal control.

Magnetospheric Multiscale mission integration and test team members, seen here in white clean - room suits, integrate the fourth and final instrument deck onto the spacecraft deck / thrust tube assembly, which houses the propulsion module, officially making it an observatory.

During the teleconference, problems that had arisen with the propulsion system, and tears in the spacecraft's sunshield were cited as examples of issues that had caused delays.

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California will monitor the descent and collect data from Cassini during the 1 to 2 minutes before the friction and heat from the fall destroy the spacecraft.

Electric propulsion has already proven its worth on commercial satellites, culminating in the 2015 launch of the world's first all - electric spacecraft, said Mitchell Walker, chairman of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics» Electric Propulsion Technical Committee, who also presented testimony during thpropulsion has already proven its worth on commercial satellites, culminating in the 2015 launch of the world's first all - electric spacecraft, said Mitchell Walker, chairman of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics» Electric Propulsion Technical Committee, who also presented testimony during thPropulsion Technical Committee, who also presented testimony during the hearing.

In 2014, the spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver; and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California; and the THEMIS team at Arizona State University, Tempe, developed procedures to rotate the spacecraft for upward - looking imaging of a comet passing near Mars.

The GRACE spacecraft, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and launched in 2002, are in the same orbit approximately 137 miles (220 kilometers) apart.

Crossing the huge distance between the Sun and Alpha Centauri using current spacecraft technologies would take several millennia, though the possibility of nuclear pulse propulsion or laser light sail technology, as considered in the Breakthrough Starshot program, could reduce the journey time to a matter of decades.

A 30 - year veteran at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mr. Hoffman has supported a number of major flight projects, including working on software for the Voyager spacecraft's encounter with Neptune, testing computer hardware for the Cassini mission to Saturn, participating in the STARDUST mission to the WILD - 2 comet as a member of the project systems engineering team, contributing to the Mars rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) as Avionics Systems Manager and serving as Deputy Project Manager for the GRAIL mission to the Moon.

«No spacecraft has ever been this close to Saturn before,» Earl Maize, Cassini Project Manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, said in a statement «We could only rely on predictions, based on our experience with Saturn's other rings, of what we thought this gap between the rings and Saturn would be like.

After that, Olkin found work on spacecraft navigation at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

Metallic hydrogen propellant in pulse propulsion systems could give us spacecraft with an Isp of over 1,700.

Due to fuel and propulsion restrictions, however, MESSENGER is relying on a complicated trajectory which required several gravitational assists from Venus as well as Mercury in its attempt to become the first Human spacecraft to orbit the planet.

«The spacecraft will burn up and disintegrate like a meteor in the upper atmosphere of Saturn,» Preston Dyches, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), told Space.com via email.

«If you deploy it in deep space,» he continued, «there's no other propulsion system to date that can match it pound for pound of spacecraft mass in terms of the thrust that it can give you.

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Ground controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Lockheed Martin erupted in applause when the solar - powered Juno spacecraft beamed home news that it was circling Jupiter's poles.

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