Sentences with phrase «new propulsion»

Now, their ability to flee quickly from predators has inspired a new propulsion system for boats and other water craft.

Meeting the new goals would require shippers to significantly increase fuel efficiency and to shift to low - and zero - carbon fuels such as biofuels or perhaps hydrogen, while adopting new propulsion technologies, some of them still unproven.

New Propulsion System could Revolutionize Space Travel.

Backed by a brand - new propulsion system — able to deliver a 53 - mile all - electric driving range and 42 mpg in combined driving with gasoline — the next - generation 2016 Chevrolet Volt furnishes a unique ownership experience in a compact - sized package.

The Equinox delivers on all fronts, starting with its fresh new design and all - new propulsion systems.

Yet the heart of the matter is the car's new propulsion system, touting a two - motor design that's 12 percent more efficient than the past version — even as it serves up 19 - percent stronger off - the - line acceleration.

A moderator put this question to a panel last week at Breakthrough Discuss, an annual conference devoted to life beyond Earth and the development of new propulsion technologies.

Includes funding for aviation safety, new propulsion systems, and NASA's wind - tunnel facilities.

In addition, he says the world of aviation is ready for a new propulsion system that he estimates will have 80 percent lower emissions and be dramatically quieter than comparable planes.

«This is the first time in 70 years that you actually get a dramatically new propulsion system entering the business,» he said.

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«This is evidence of a big shakeup early on in the solar system's formation,» Glenn Orton, a co-author of the new study and a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Business Insider.

The surge decades of pop history were characterized by the emergence of new subcultures and an overall sense of forward propulsion.

In Niagara Falls, meanwhile, the company will spend to create a new space propulsion manufacturing and testing facility.

In 2014, Dmytro Rafalskyi and Ane Aanesland from the Laboratory of Plasma Physics, École Polytechnique, France demonstrated a new electric propulsion concept.

Now 91 specimens from a new quarry reveal the creature had a lot in common with cephalopods, including well - developed eyes with an internal lens, a funnel - shaped nozzle for jet propulsion, and two tentacles with bumps that could be primordial suckers (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature09068).

Although the mission was flown to test new types of propulsion and navigation systems, the technology worked well enough to get Deep Space 1 to Borrelly.

IT»S A BIRD, IT»S A PLANE Aaron Parness of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory does his «best Superman» to grab a floating cube with a new gecko gripper — inspired hand in a microgravity plane.

Second Life: Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory restarted the probe's thrusters in November 2007, sending it on a new mission to survey comet Hartley 2.

And now NASA has entered the retro space race with three new posters created by artists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A concept called Comet Hitchhiker, developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, puts forth a new way to get into orbit and land on comets and asteroids, using the kinetic energy — the energy of motion — of these small bodies.

«It is a very good paper which provides valuable new insights about the physical processes controlling the change in reflectivity of the Greenland ice sheet and specifically its darkening over time,» said Eric Rignot, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies ice sheets but was not involved with the new study.

Parker was inspired by the similarity between the pumping heart muscle tissue he had seen in the lab and the jellyfish propulsion he saw while visiting the New England Aquarium in Boston.

«This is really an entirely new kind of remote sensing,» says project scientist Michael Watkins, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

New Scientist magazine reports that Jet Propulsion Lab researcher Adrian Stoica told a meeting in England last month that gait analysis from satellites should make it possible to identify people by their walk and because of the angle of the satellite you have a better chance of getting the image of the shadow than of the actual walk.

ARM will use capabilities in development, including the new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and high - power Solar Electric Propulsion.

«To put it another way, that puts the current probability of no impact in 2032 at about 99.998 percent,» said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near - Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «This is a relatively new discovery.

The new research has been carried out by the National Space Research Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space) and collaborating international partners from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of New Brunswick (UNnew research has been carried out by the National Space Research Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space) and collaborating international partners from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of New Brunswick (UNNew Brunswick (UNB).

The source was the massive 2011 Tohoku - Oki earthquake in Japan, and its signature was detected at this orbital altitude only eight minutes after the arrival of seismic and infrasonic waves, according to Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech's Yu - Ming (Oscar) Yang and colleagues in collaboration with the University of New Brunswick, Canada, who present their research today at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America (SSA).

The spacecraft's view is now three times as sharp as in its previous mapping orbit, revealing exciting new details of this intriguing dwarf planet,» said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

«We're the first measurement from the martian surface,» says Christopher Webster, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and lead author of the new study.

Purdue University researchers have developed a way to produce amine - boranes that promises to be safer and cheaper, and could lead to new uses in medicine, energy storage, rocket propulsion and other technologies.

«These new results imply the current - day impact rates for small particles at Saturn are about the same as those at Earth — two very different neighborhoods in our solar system — and this is exciting to see,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It took Saturn's rings acting like a giant meteoroid detector — 100 times the surface area of the Earth — and Cassini's long - term tour of the Saturn system to address this question.»

Three new papers co-authored by Mike Russell, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., strengthen the case that Earth's first life began at alkaline hydrothermal vents at the bottom of oceans.

Christophe Sotin, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, calls the new results «quite compelling.»

Its stated purpose is to test and develop new technologies for spaceflight, such as NASA's Space Launch System heavy - lift rocket, its Orion deep - space crew capsule and an advanced solar - electric propulsion engine suitable for long - haul cargo trips.

«This is a very exciting discovery, found by scouring the new generation of wide - area, sensitive surveys astronomers are conducting using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer in orbit and ground - based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii,» said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

«On Pluto, almost the whole game is haze,» says planetary scientist Robert West of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who wrote a commentary on the new work, also published in the Nov. 16 Nature.

The new Volt is part of GM's so - called E-Flex strategy to develop a family of electric vehicle propulsion systems.

«I think it's a very compelling argument, especially with the two papers together,» says Linda Spilker, a planetary scientist and Cassini project scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who also did not contribute to the new studies.

In January, Toyota — spooked by rising prices and supply concerns — announced that it is developing a new type of propulsion, called an induction motor, for future electric and hybrid vehicles.

The GPS signal used for «sat - navs» could help improve understanding of ocean currents, according to new research published in Geophysical Research Letters by National Oceanography Centre (NOC) scientists, alongside colleagues from the University of Michigan and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

Kepler project scientist Nick Gautier of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory presented new data at the meeting on three of the larger planets in the Kepler - 20 system, now officially known as Kepler - 20b, -20 c and -20 d. From the star's wobbles, observed with ground - based telescopes, Gautier and his colleagues were able to deduce the masses of Kepler - 20b and -20 c: 8.7 and 16.1 Earth masses, respectively.

Snow «pushes» earth down Donald Argus, a research scientist and geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., recently published a study outlining the new technique in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

«It's like video - streaming services not only predicting what you would like to watch in the future, but also your current age, based on your viewing preferences,» said Adam Miller of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, lead author of a new report on the findings appearing in the Astrophysical Journal.

«NASA plans to invest in a number of new approaches to exploration, such as robotic networks, modular systems, pre-positioned propellants, advanced power and propulsion, and in - space assembly, that could enable these kinds of vehicles.»

NASA added that it is also committed to designing «a new and powerful transportation» system involving solar electric propulsion, which will use the sun's energy to take spacecraft deeper into space.

«These astonishing science results are yet another example of Jupiter's curve balls, and a testimony to the value of exploring the unknown from a new perspective with next - generation instruments,» said Scott Bolton, Juno's principal investigator at the Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, in a statement from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is considering a new mission to Uranus and possibly Neptune after successfully flying by Pluto and, if all goes according to plan, the Europa moon orbiting Jupiter.

Other partners include: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Virginia Tech, Blacksburg; and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, headquartered in Washington.