Sentences with phrase «major space observatory»

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On 28 September, India plans to launch a major space - based observatory that will set a milestone for a developing country — and also mark a first for space science.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory was a critical part of the space agency's effort to gather data on climate change, and the probe's failure is a major blow to earth scientists eager to collect more accurate data on carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas.

Both the Livingston and Hanford observatories are now wrapping up major overhauls that will allow them to scan 1,000 times more space than before.

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.

Researchers said that Chandra and European Space Agency's XMM - Newton Observatory detected diffuse X-ray emission that came from a large amount of hot gas, which, according to astronomers, is a major defining feature of a true galaxy cluster.

Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station (ISS) will be the focus of the three day «AMS Days at CERN» meeting, an occasion that brings together many of the world's leading theoretical physicists and principal investigators of some of the major experiments exploring the field of cosmic ray physics (IceCube, Pierre Auger Observatory, Fermi - LAT, H.E.S.S. and CTA, the Telescope Array, JEM - EUSO, and ISS - CREAM).

The National Space Administration Agency (NASA) is a major partner in the Observatory, which is managed by the California Association for Research in Astronomy (CARA; on behalf of the institutions).

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