Sentences with phrase «including orbiters»

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

The mission would include an orbiter and a lander, and possibly a solar - powered airship that would fly through Venus» upper atmosphere.

chart maps the flight path and orbit around every planet, moon, comet, and asteroid of the many instruments illustrated, including every orbiter, rover, flyby, and impactor that has successfully left Earth's gravitational field.

The Cosmic Exploration chart maps the flight path and orbit around every planet, moon, comet, and asteroid of the many instruments illustrated, including every orbiter, rover, flyby, and impactor that has successfully left Earth's gravitational field.

Not exact matches

A few orbiters have visited Venus in the past decade, including the European Space Agency's Venus Express from 2006 to 2014, and the Japanese space agency's Akatsuki, in orbit since December 2015.

To meet NASA's requirements, such a mission would probably have to include a short - lived lander and perhaps an orbiter.

The mission would include a lander spending 35 days on the moon's surface to sample and screen material for traces of life; an orbiter spending three months taking measurements to unravel the basic structure of the planet; and the orbiter crashing into the moon, gathering data on Europa's tenuous atmosphere on the way down.

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.

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.

The facility monitors signals being beamed from the space program's star performers, including the Mars rover Curiosity, the Cassini orbiter exploring Saturn and its neighborhood, and the Spitzer Space Telescope, which follows Earth around the sun, collecting information on stars and galaxies.

He included links to images from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (the most advanced Mars orbiter at the time), showing vistas that really did resemble thick stands of giant trees.

China is building upon earlier robotic lunar exploits, including unmanned orbiters and a lander that dispatched the nation's Yutu moon rover in December 2013.

Narasimha took part in reviews at various stages of «Mangalyaan,» India's Mars Orbiter Mission, including the cryo rocket program.

Having three orbiters (including the Japanese craft) would facilitate a thorough survey of Jupiter's magnetosphere.

The overall plan, currently known as the Europa Jupiter System Mission, or EJSM, includes a NASA spacecraft dubbed the Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO), which would settle into orbit around Europa after conducting a broader tour of the Jovian environs.

NASA is planning to send an orbiter to Europa as part of an international fleet of probes slated to explore Jupiter's environs that may even include a landing on the intriguing moon

It includes the European Venus Explorer (EVE), which would be launched in the 2016 - 2018 time frame and would include a balloon to float in the atmosphere, a probe that would descend to the surface, and an orbiter; and the Venera - D mission by Russia, to launch in 2016, which could include a lander.

Vittorio Formisano of the Institute of Physics and Interplanetary Science in Rome and his colleagues (including me) analyzed thousands of infrared spectra collected by the Mars Express orbiter.

There are three other missions as part of this initiative, including JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer, an L - class mission intended for a 2022 launch), Solar Orbiter (M1, intended for a 2017 launch), and Euclid (M2, intended for a 2020 launch).

The Cassini orbiter was designed and assembled at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and its imaging team includes scientists from the United States, England, France and Germany.

Star Trek's influence on NASA and space exploration was recognized publicly in 1976 when NASA named the first shuttle orbiter «Enterprise» in a ceremony that included astronauts, NASA personnel, Nimoy himself and other Star Trek cast members.

MSSS, a small, privately - owned company of ~ 60 employees located in San Diego, CA provides products and services in three main areas: Cameras for spacecraft; Spacecraft instrument operations; Space science research MSSS cameras include those that were aboard Mars Observer (MO), Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Polar Lander (MPL), Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Odyssey (ODY), Cosmos I, and the Phoenix Mars Lander (PHX).

MSSS cameras include those aboard Mars Observer (MO), Mars Global Survyeor (MGS), Mars Polar Lander (MPL), Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Odyssey (ODY), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), Cosmos 1, the Phoenix Mars Lander (PHX), and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

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.

Provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, such RTG's have been included on many past deep space probes such as the Cassini mission to Saturn, the Galileo orbiter of Jupiter, and the Voyager craft now on their way out of the solar system.

The speakers include Beagle 2 Manager Mark Sims; U.K. Space Agency Chief Executive David Parker; Alvaro Giménez Cañete, ESA's director of science and robotic exploration; and John Bridges, a science team member on NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) missions.

MSSS staff are involved in a variety of research and operational projects, including the Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera, the Mars Odyssey Thermal Emission Imaging System (IR and VIS), the Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (launching in 2005), and the Phoenix Mars lander (launching in 2007).