Sentences with phrase «land spacecraft»

Cosmic Pioneer — 1gb ram Navigate through space and successfully land your spacecraft without crashing.

No surprise, astronomers are desperate to land spacecraft there.

If MOXIE can produce oxygen on Mars, that oxygen could then be used as fuel to get a spacecraft back to Earth — a much, much cheaper and safer option than trying to land a spacecraft that's still loaded with enough fuel for the return journey.

In a Physics World special report on Japan, Dennis Normile reports on how the Japanese space agency JAXA plans to land a spacecraft onto an asteroid in 2018 to search for clues of how life began on Earth.

Ferguson plans to land the spacecraft Thursday (July 21) for one last time at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Google Lunar X Prize is offering $ 20 million to the first private team to land a spacecraft on the moon, make it travel 500 metres and send back video by the end of 2015.

You have to figure out how to land your spacecraft safely and then get it on its way to the next destination.

Astronomers are desperate to land spacecraft there.

The Physics World «2014 Breakthrough of the Year» went to the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission1 for being the first to land a spacecraft (Philae) on a comet (67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko), on 12 November.

Moon Express would become the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon if successful.»

Over the next decade, Southwood's «cosmic vision» program calls for, among other goals, landing spacecraft on Mars, Mercury, Saturn's moon Titan, and a comet; observing the birth, evolution, and death of stars and galaxies at gamma ray and infrared wavelengths; studying the afterglow of the big bang; and mapping the positions and motions of nearly every star in the Milky Way.

Six minutes later, mission managers will know whether they have joined the select club of agencies that have successfully landed a spacecraft on Mars.

«These results define specific targets for future exploration of Mercury by orbiting and landed spacecraft.»

«The landing spacecraft... is surrounded by framework and partially cut away, so engineering students can do detailed studies of the design of actual space hardware,» said Daniel Hastings, of MIT.

«This deposit is probably more accessible than most water ice on Mars, because it is at a relatively low latitude and it lies in a flat, smooth area where landing a spacecraft would be easier than at some of the other areas with buried ice,» researcher Jack Holt of the University of Texas said in a statement.

Description: When Colonel George Taylor (the fabulous Charlton Heston) crash lands his spacecraft on what seems to be an unfamiliar planet, he is captured and held prisoner by a dominant race of hyperrational, articulate apes.

The main character lands his spacecraft on an alien planet in order to replenish the supplies lost due to a technical malfunction.

Not exact matches

It will be awarded to the first team that lands a commercial spacecraft on the moon, travels 500 meters across its surface and sends high - definition images and video back to Earth — all before the end of 2015.

Instead of landing, NASA's spacecraft will fly by Europa 45 times over a period of three years.

This plan called for a large rocket to launch a single spacecraft to the moon, but only a small part of that spacecraft (the Lunar Module) would actually land on the surface.

Instead of sending large spacecraft capable of moving asteroids, the startup wants to send a small craft that could land on the asteroid and 3 - D print a propulsion system and guidance mechanisms — essentially turning the asteroid into its own spaceship that would then drive itself to wherever a crew was located.

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.

It's remarkable to see how much better the images got when spacecraft got up close, on flybys or landings.

By the end of the next decade, neither spacecraft that take off and land from a runway like a conventional jet airliner nor reusable rockets will be outside the realm of possibility, and either could change the calculus of human space travel.

If the landing is successful, it will be the first time scientists have landed a probe on a comet, and it will be the completion of a mission that began 10 years ago when the Rosetta spacecraft launched.

The perfect spot to land giant chunks of spacecraft that are traveling more than 180 mph upon impact.

During the keynote, Musk revealed a video of a prototype rocket that, once detached from the spacecraft, could re-enter Earth's atmosphere and land vertically like a helicopter.

Its second spacecraft aims to land in 2019 near the moon's south pole.

The spacecraft was the same one used in another simulation in November where it was able to land vertically on its target site.

Jeff Bezos» space company Blue Origin successfully landed one of its New Shepard spacecraft during a test flight on Friday.

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).

Arrival follows the story of a linguist recruited by the military to explore a mysterious spacecraft after it lands on Earth.

Comprised of carbon and hydrogen, in closed growing environments, like on a spacecraft or in a terrestrial greenhouse or a land - base perishable cooler, ethylene builds up rapidly and causes plants to mature too quickly.

Buell had worked on rocket motors for the Gemini program that eventually were a key part of the Apollo program allowing spacecraft to land on the Moon.

However, no signal was ever received to confirm that it had survived the landing and it was assumed that the spacecraft had crashed onto the surface.

The spacecraft then returned to Earth, landing daintily on one of SpaceX's two spaceport drone ships (the one called, appropriately enough, «Of Course I Still Love You»).

And no spacecraft at all have landed on the Venusian surface since 1985.

But taking along just a little extra fuel can then gently lower a ballistically captured spacecraft into scientifically valuable, standard orbits of around 100 to 200 kilometers like those achieved with Hohmann transfers — or even onward to the Martian surface for a landing.

Some extremophile bacteria could survive the a crash - landing of a meteorite or spacecraft, helping them travel between worlds

Hayabusa Terra is a large land mass saluting the Japanese spacecraft and mission (2003 - 2010) that returned the first asteroid sample.

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.

One spacecraft, called Deep Impact, will attempt to blast a huge hole in a comet; another is intended to land on a comet and scoop up parts of its surface.

That spacecraft, like the new orbital launch vehicle, will feature a reusable rocket booster capable of vertical landings — a technology that space industry leaders have said can dramatically reduce the cost of commercial spaceflight.

In 2013, a 1.2 - tonne spacecraft called Chang «e-3 landed on the Moon, delivering a rover that used ground - penetrating radar to measure the lunar subsurface with unprecedented resolution.

Farmer helped select the landing site for Mars Pathfinder and thinks that the Mars Surveyor and Mars Odyssey spacecraft now in orbit have begun the job of meeting the first - stage requirements of finding potential ancient hydrothermal systems — for example, the Mars hematite site at Terra Meridiani.

Once the spacecraft matches its velocity to the «fish» — the comet or asteroid in this case — it is ready to land by simply reeling in the tether and descending gently.

Down the road, the technology could allow large spacecraft, robotic and manned, to pierce through the Martian atmosphere and land on the Red Planet.

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...

For any spacecraft landing on a comet or asteroid, being able to slow down enough to arrive safely is critical.

Scientists are still eager to see the spacecraft return to Earth in case some loose asteroid bits accidentally made their way into the collection chamber during the landings.