Sentences with phrase «major space mission»

«Between the TESS mission and SDSS - V, Vanderbilt is going to be at this world - leading nexus of a major space mission and a major international collaboration on Earth focused on finding new habitable planets around other stars and making detailed measurements of them,» Stassun said.

The countries may be ready to join hands on a major space mission.

SDSS - V, with its programs anticipated to start in 2020, will be well - timed to multiply the scientific output from major space missions (e.g., TESS, Gaia, eROSITA) and ground - based projects.

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I left McAfee after seven years to begin my next company in the endpoint security space, CrowdStrike, with the mission to stop major breaches and redefine how endpoint security was delivered from the cloud.

The mission will launch using two major parts that have been to the space station before: the first - stage booster and the capsule.

Thus, the analysis of the Planck data gives major impetus for research during future space missions.

Starting in 2020, the world's major space agencies, including NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the China National Space Administration, are planning their first manned missions to our satelspace agencies, including NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the China National Space Administration, are planning their first manned missions to our satelSpace Agency (ESA) and the China National Space Administration, are planning their first manned missions to our satelSpace Administration, are planning their first manned missions to our satellite.

«This is a major advance in our understanding of what processes can energize the solar atmosphere, and lays the foundation for investigations with even more detail to determine how big of a role spicules play,» said Adrian Daw, IRIS mission scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«Over the next few years, major new astronomical facilities exploring other wavelengths will complement Fermi and give us our best look yet into the most powerful events in the universe,» said Julie McEnery, the mission's project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

It is clear that the People's Liberation Army plays a major role in China's space missions, says Dean Cheng, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. «It begs the question of whether there is a civilian manned space program in any meaningful sense of the word,» he says.

Such mission - focused labs led to major technical and scientific strides in fields such as nuclear power, advanced materials, and supercomputing that came out of the atom bomb and space programs.

A veteran of four space shuttle missions in the 1980s and»90s, Bolden retired as a major general in the Marine Corps in 2004.

One of the major goals of the ongoing space shuttle mission — Endeavour's final visit to the International Space Station — was to bestow a 7.8 - ton parting gift: an automated particle detector called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS - 02, or, more colloquially, AMS), which was attached to the station yestespace shuttle mission — Endeavour's final visit to the International Space Station — was to bestow a 7.8 - ton parting gift: an automated particle detector called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS - 02, or, more colloquially, AMS), which was attached to the station yesteSpace Station — was to bestow a 7.8 - ton parting gift: an automated particle detector called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS - 02, or, more colloquially, AMS), which was attached to the station yesterday.

In his first major speech to astronomers since his controversial decision in January to abandon a planned space shuttle mission to Hubble, O'Keefe explained why.

Johnson felt the committee hadn't spent enough time discussing several major NASA programs, including the fate of the International Space Station, the status of several planetary exploration missions, and a proposal by President Donald Trump to kill the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, a $ 3 billion plus instrument under development.

Nevertheless, Steven Running, chair of a NASA earth science advisory committee meeting, was pleased both with the funding request, as well as with a year that had seen the launch of three major missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, joint with the Japanese Space Agency; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 mission; and the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, which just launched on 31 January.

Steven Running, chair of a NASA earth science advisory committee meeting, was pleased both with the request, as well as with a year that had seen the launch of three major missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission, joint with the Japanese Space Agency; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 mission; and the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, which just launched on 31 January.

In tweets, Spergel offered a blunter assessment, writing that the «U.S. is abandoning its leadership in space astronomy,» and that the proposed cuts «imperil not only WFIRST but any future major mission.»

«This is a major step beyond what we understood about this moon before, and it demonstrates the kind of deep - dive discoveries we can make with long - lived orbiter missions to other planets,» said co-author Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team lead at Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado, and visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

Since among the main goals of this mission are the characterization of atmospheric loss processes (with special attention to water) and the identification of their relation to the solar wind (Bougher et al. 2014), major scientific return related to space weather is expected in the next years.

Over the past decade, major breakthroughs in planetary geophysics have been made by spacecraft missions, space - based telescopes, and ground - based observatories including Keck.

On the other, the Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission (1989 - 93) failed to detect significant astrometic motion resulting from a major close companion as small as 0.5 Solar - mass between 11 AUs (one arcsecond) and 0.35 AU of the star (Akeson et al, 2009).

«The acquisition of 1UP, with its authentic voice, tenured editorial personalities and bustling user community, allows us to expand our base of quality content and represents a major step forward in UGO's mission to become the leader in the games space,» said J. Moses, CEO of UGO entertainment.

The opportunity to present an exhibition in the dynamic Minnesota Street Project space aligns with the gallery's mission as it looks towards its next phase, when it will continue its tradition of exhibiting major works of historic significance international in scope alongside prominent local Bay Area artists, while also providing a platform for promoting and nurturing young artists with engaging new exhibitions and programming.

In addition Platow has launched a popular and growing performance series, re-installed the center's major Nam June Paik sculpture in its new location, and is in the process of redesigning the CAC's lobby space to better fulfill the mission of the institution.

The Art in Embassies program, now in its sixth decade, acquires artworks and arranges exhibitions for American diplomatic missions around the world, often with pieces borrowed from the storage spaces of major museums or collectors.

It has served the gallery well, as the gallery mission has been to show exciting, innovative and challenging work, which sometimes involves major alterations to the physical space.