Sentences with phrase «landers on an asteroid»

And Deep Space Industries, another Silicon Valley startup, thinks it can land robotic landers on an asteroid within three years — and wants to build an entire space city within 30.

Not exact matches

In NASA's New Frontiers medium - class mission line, a mission to return asteroid samples prevailed over a proposed Venus lander that would have lasted a precious three hours on the surface.

Technology like the Rosetta probe's radio scanner and its lander's harpoon (see main story) could aid bids to grab hold of asteroids and hunt for buried treasure, says Wlodek Kofman of IPAG in Grenoble, France, who is on the Rosetta team.