Sentences with phrase «includes spacecraft»

My broad experience base also includes spacecraft and launch vehicle configuration design, and performance analysis.

Our research approach includes spacecraft observations (from missions such as Cluster, THEMIS, MMS, Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter), large scale kinetic simulations, and fundamental plasma theory to understand plasma phenomena throughout the universe.

Highlights include a spacecraft's rendezvous with a comet, the origins of the first Americans, how to defeat hackers and an inside look at the Ebola outbreak.

The new Vesta photos from the Dawn probe, which NASA unveiled today (Aug. 1), include the spacecraft's first full - frame view of the entire asteroid and should help astronomers understand how the space rock formed in the early solar system, researchers said.

Four student teams will be set up to define the scientific objectives of a space mission and a preliminary end - to - end mission design including the spacecraft, scientific instruments, mission, and science operations capable of meeting the stated objectives.

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Bezos also has interests outside of Amazon, including investments in his privately owned space company Blue Origin, which successfully launched its first spacecraft in 2015, and The Washington Post, the newspaper he bought in 2013.

The Dragon spacecraft delivered payloads to the International Space Station (ISS), including some high - profile biopharma cargo from Merck (mrk) and others.

Other spaceflight companies, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Sierra Nevada and Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin, are variously developing new spacecraft designed to carry humans into orbital space as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP).

The MX spacecraft architecture supports multiple applications, including delivery of scientific and commercial payloads to the Moon at low cost using a rideshare model, or charter science expeditions to distant worlds.

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.

The restaurant was designed by Kristofer Keith of Spacecraft Design Group, and includes an outdoor patio with custom picnic tables with built - in heaters, power outlets and phone charging stations.

Former winners of the awards include Naomi Mitchison, a senior hardware engineer at Selex ES, Abbie Hutty, a spacecraft engineer currently working on Europe's first Rover Mission to Mars and Yewande Akinola, an environmental services engineer with a passion for innovation and sustainable water supply.

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.

Since the 1960's scientists thought that only in permanently shadowed areas in craters near the lunar poles was it cold enough to accumulate this volatile material, but recent observations by a number of spacecraft, including LRO, suggest that hydrogen on the moon is more widespread.

Ongoing work includes reworking the calculations of the physics by factoring in smaller influences on a Mars - bound spacecraft than the pull of gravity from Mars itself, such as Jupiter's gravitational pull.

The class includes six men and three women who have been training to fly on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft and NASA's new deep space capsule, which is expected to be used for the trip to an asteroid called for by President Barack Obama.

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).

Other nations, including the US, send spacecraft to inspect problem satellites.

Maps of the moon generated from gravity data gathered by the GRAIL spacecraft include three previously undiscovered lunar basins, Bartels - Voskresenskiy, Copernicus - H and Asperitatis.

«The fourth spacecraft, Kosmos 2499, is making regular changes to its orbit, including making a visit on 28 October to the Briz - M rocket stage that launched it,» he says.

Their suggestions include using a nanotechnology called «resistive memory» to keep electronics humming and using carbon nanotube shielding — originally made by NASA to shield spacecraft from radiation — for protection.

Those that failed to progress included a proposal to send a spacecraft diving, as Cassini did, into Saturn's atmosphere to study its composition and history, as well as a notional orbiter for Titan and a second plume - diving spacecraft for Enceladus independent of ELSAH.

And yet, despite over four centuries of intense scrutiny, including visits by eight spacecraft, there's still much that scientists don't know about Jupiter.

Other big news included the rise and fall of a claimed detection of gravitational waves, new findings about the history of early humans from analyses of DNA and the spectacular landing of the Rosetta spacecraft's robotic...

During its 14 months in orbit around Vesta, the spacecraft delivered unprecedented scientific insights, including images of its cratered surface and important clues about its geological history.

That includes $ 595 million to send an orbiter and lander to Jupiter's moon Europa; Trump's budget had sought $ 425 million to send a spacecraft flying by the moon.

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

«We're committed to safely transporting U.S. astronauts on American - made spacecraft and ending the outsourcing of this work to foreign governments,» Bolden said last year as he announced payments of up to $ 92 million to four companies, including Blue Origin and Boeing, that are working on commercial space - crew vehicles.

Today's stories on newscientist.com, at a glance — including how flu vaccine could grow faster, an inflatable heat shield for spacecraft, and the usefulness of the smell of death

Two NASA and one European spacecraft, including NASA's MAVEN mission led by the University of Colorado Boulder, have gathered new information about the basic properties of a wayward comet that buzzed by Mars Oct. 19, directly detecting its effects on the Martian atmosphere.

During more than 6 years of touring Jupiter and its four largest moons, the spacecraft managed to radio some 5 gigabytes of data to Earth, including more than 14,000 images.

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.

Other big news included the rise and fall of a claimed detection of gravitational waves, new findings about the history of early humans from analyses of DNA and the spectacular landing of the Rosetta spacecraft's robotic explorer Philae on comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko.

Siding Spring will be the first comet from the Oort Cloud to be studied up close by spacecraft, giving scientists an invaluable opportunity to learn more about the materials, including water and carbon compounds, that existed during the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.

TWO CASSINIS The Cassini spacecraft has become famous for its stunning views of Saturn, including this image of the unlit side of the rings taken in 2012.

«By retire, I mean, if we know they're coming and they pose a threat, we have the technology to deal with it» — options include detonation or disrupting the object's orbit by ramming into it or tugging it off - course with a nearby spacecraft.

The English mathematician would build on Galileo's law of inertia as he compiled a set of laws so complete that engineers still use them centuries later to navigate spacecraft across the solar system — including NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter.

Dozens of unmanned spacecraft, including orbiters, landers, and rovers, have been launched toward Mars since the 1960s.

[Photos: Asteroid Vesta and NASA's Dawn Spacecraft] Earlier photos of Vesta have zeroed in on intriguing features on the space rock's surface, including the boundary between the day and night sides.

The spacecraft's instruments include a cosmic - ray telescope for measuring radiation, an altimeter to create high - resolution 3 - D surface renderings, radar to search for water ice, and a neutron detector to seek hydrogen (which some engineers have suggested mining as rocket fuel for a future moon base).

Watch engineers assemble spacecraft in a clean room or peer down on mission control, where staff guide active missions, including the Mars rovers and the twin Voyager craft.

After a painstaking analysis that modeled all known sources of acceleration for Juno, including the minute contributions from sunlight warming the spacecraft, Iess's team found a large north - south asymmetry in Jupiter's gravitational field — a clear sign of material flowing beneath the cloud tops on deep atmospheric winds.

An exceptionally close stellar explosion discovered on Jan. 21 has become the focus of observatories around and above the globe, including several NASA spacecraft.

However, Earth's atmosphere interferes with UV readings, so the team used Hubble to take UV images of a small area of the lunar surface that included the landing sites of the Apollo 15 and 17 spacecraft.

«When people were deciding what to include on the Voyager spacecraft, they deliberately decided to exclude religious material,» says Douglas Vakoch, a psychologist at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, California.

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

The spacecraft also includes a particle detector designed to measure the interactions between Pluto's atmosphere and the solar wind.

The research is part of the Measurements of 11 Asteroids and Comets Using Herschel (MACH - 11) program, which used Herschel to look at small bodies that have been or will be visited by spacecraft, including the targets of NASA's previous Deep Impact mission and upcoming Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS - Rex).