Sentences with phrase «more robotic missions»

Two more robotic missions would then follow.

Called ballistic capture, it could help open the Martian frontier for more robotic missions, future manned expeditions and even colonization efforts.

Not exact matches

Their mission is to make robotics more accessible, usable and practical than they've ever been before.

Mars, the target of more than a dozen robotic missions to hunt for signs of microbial life, comes in third at 0.59.

But all this could be done more cheaply with a robotic mission, says Sykes.

They also may make frozen water more accessible than previously thought to future robotic or human exploration missions.

Most robotic missions to Mars have failed, but future astronauts headed for the Red Planet will have more than an imagined martian jinx to worry about.

After two years of operation, NHATS has identified more than 1,000 NEAs that could be destinations for future robotic or human missions, enabled by future technology.

I hope we will begin to show some of the greater boldness that we showed in the 1960s and 1970s, with missions more like Voyager, Pioneer, and Apollo, using robotic spacecraft where appropriate, where the risk to life can be prevented, and confining our human missions to areas where we can make a special contribution.

The use of robotics and advanced SEP technologies like this concept of an SEP - based spacecraft during a NASA mission to find, rendezvous, capture and relocate an asteroid to a stable point in the lunar vicinity offers more mission flexibility than would be possible if a crewed mission went all the way to the asteroid.

Up until this point, the rockets have been used to lift more than 60 critical missions without people: satellites, robotic probes and even the Mars rovers.