Sentences with phrase «new space satellite»

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Shotwell told an audience at a satellite conference that the cost of using a previously launched SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to get to space could be as much as 30 percent less when compared to a new Falcon 9 flight.

The new legislation is part of the country's effort to establish a legal basis to bring the global space industry to U.K. soil, especially looking to attract the space tourism and satellite industries to new spaceports.

«Space - based applications, like imaging satellites, can help people more easily access important information, so we're excited to support SpaceX's growth as it develops new launch technologies,» Google said in a statement.

The company's new satellite Internet service is born from a satellite it sent to space in June.

Rocket Lab blasted off into space on Saturday, taking a major step toward opening low - cost access for a new generation of satellites.

Wyler was also involved in launching O3b Networks, which already has 12 satellites in space, providing Internet to 40 customers, including Royal Caribbean International, the Republic of Congo and the Papua New Guinea University of Technology, an O3b spokeswoman said.

Last week, we covered how entrepreneurial space companies like SpaceX are planning major satellite constellations in low - Earth orbit, and how this influx of new technology will present a significant challenge for regulatory bodies.

«Satellogic will democratize access to space - based services by dramatically reducing the barriers to obtain real - time satellite data, creating a new layer of world - wide awareness.»

The new horizon, which first opened fully to view in 1957 with the launching of a man - made space satellite, is the mastery of the whole universe!

Among the biggest bureaucratic challenges faced by the UK Space Agency is its management of applications for new satellites, which are viewed as critical because of their ability to provide data on the environment, climate, weather, security agriculture, coastal management and disaster mitigation.

A record - breaking quantum satellite has again blown away the competition, achieving two new milestones in long - distance quantum communications through space.

Would hundreds or perhaps thousands of new, tiny orbiting satellites create space debris problems?

The feat called attention to a new space race, one featuring tiny satellites that are roughly the size of a half - gallon milk carton and sprout antennas and solar panels.

New research zeroes in on one supernova, called SN 2017egm, which exploded May 23 within view of the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, which monitors star positions.

But today, space weather scientists are reaping such a windfall, as the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has released 16 years of radiation measurements recorded by GPS satellites.

«New satellite method enables undersea estimates from space: Statistical advance quantifies important ocean parameters in the illuminated ocean.»

Results from the Micius satellite test quantum entanglement, pointing the way toward hack - proof global communications — and a new space race

Researchers, including physicists from Heidelberg University, have gained new insights into dark energy and the theory of gravitation by analysing data from the «Planck» satellite mission of the European Space Agency (ESA).

Even more new atmospheric «species» may turn up with future observations from satellites or the International Space Station, says Yair.

Colombo moved to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York in the late 1970s, where he developed his ideas for tethered satellites.

Bluefield is one of many new companies taking advantage of new «CubeSats,» or tiny satellites that can make inexpensive measurements from space (Climatewire, Jan. 29).

The shuttle mission this weekend will also deploy the European Space Agency's Eureca satellite, the world's first reusable satellite for studying the effects of microgravity (see «Making the most of weightlessness», New Scientist, 11 July).

With New Delhi indicating an interest in anti-satellite capabilities, Cheng noted that Beijing's ability to sustain people in space, and associated military technology benefits — not to mention the expansion of their Tianlian data - relay satellite network nominally needed for piloted space telemetry — will be a sign of China's edge over India in space.

The instrument, which launches to the International Space Station in December 2014, will explore new technologies that could also be used in future satellite missions.

The satellite — NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), a new ultraviolet space telescope — will examine the chromosphere, a long - ignored layer of plasma beneath the corona, in unprecedented detail.

Upcoming instruments like the European Extremely Large Telescopeor the Cheops space telescope might be able to see the new planet, but the best option could be a small satellite dedicated to staring at Alpha Centauri.

«The new space agency is about making sure that the U.K. fully exploits its competitive advantage in satellites, robotics and related technologies,» Drayson said.

But it does not delve into several near - term issues that senators are likely to raise with Bolden, such as cost overruns on satellite projects, retirement of the space shuttle, and an expensive new human launcher now in the works.

Creating the ability to more quickly and accurately forecast space weather would give satellite operations teams, space programs and others technologies that rely on assets in Earth's space environment the ability to reposition satellites and / or shut down noncritical components as well as defer critical operations — such as uploading new software or orbital maneuvers — that might be adversely affected by storm effects, such as increased penetrating radiation.

An international team of astronomers, led by Imperial College London, used a new way of combining data from the two European Space Agency satellites, Planck and Herschel, to identify more distant galaxy clusters than has previously been possible.

The Obama administration has opened public comment on new rules designed to ease government controls on exporting space - related technologies, such as satellites, that could have military applications.

New technology demonstrations aboard the Dragon spacecraft include the Special Purpose Inexpensive Satellite, or SpinSat, to test how a small satellite moves and positions itself in space using new thruster technology and the 3 - D Printing In Zero - G Technology Demonstration, the first 3 - D printer in spaNew technology demonstrations aboard the Dragon spacecraft include the Special Purpose Inexpensive Satellite, or SpinSat, to test how a small satellite moves and positions itself in space using new thruster technology and the 3 - D Printing In Zero - G Technology Demonstration, the first 3 - D printer in spanew thruster technology and the 3 - D Printing In Zero - G Technology Demonstration, the first 3 - D printer in space.

The Biomass radar will still have to be turned off when it is over North America and Europe because it will interfere with systems used by the military to track objects in space, but forests there are relatively well studied; it's the swathes of forest in the tropics, Siberia, and China that will be the new satellite's main concern.

NEW DELHI — The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) last night abandoned efforts to rescue its premiere communications satellite.

«The NRO is vehemently opposed to the idea of using a new, unproven booster,» according to one defence analyst who says that the spy satellite agency is still smarting from its experience with the space shuttle.

This would have been catastrophic not only to the satellite, but would result in thousands of pieces of new debris,» said Harry Solomon, Mission Manager for Suomi NPP at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

As future missions look to travel back to the moon or even to Mars, new research from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center cautions that the exposure to radiation is much higher than previously thought and could have serious implications on both astronauts and satellite technolonew research from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center cautions that the exposure to radiation is much higher than previously thought and could have serious implications on both astronauts and satellite technoloNew Hampshire's Space Science Center cautions that the exposure to radiation is much higher than previously thought and could have serious implications on both astronauts and satellite technology.

Almost every mission into space has created new debris, either from the launch vehicles, objects falling off satellites, or unintended collisions.

A space scientist at the University of Leicester, in collaboration with the New Zealand Defence Technology Agency and DMC International Imaging, has been trialling a concept for using satellite imagery to significantly improve the chances of locating ships and planes, such as the missing Malaysian flight MH370, lost at sea.

On October 28, NASA launched the National Polar - orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project, a prototype of the new generation of satellites, Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), that will be the backbone of U.S. space - based weather and climate observations.

Texas aerospace firm FireFly Space Systems announced the FireFly Alpha, a shiny new launch vehicle designed to carry lightweight satellites at low cost

«The Budget creates new opportunities for collaboration with industry on space station operations, supports public - private partnerships for deep - space habitation and exploration systems, funds data buys from companies operating small satellite constellations, and supports work with industry to develop and commercialize new space technologies,» OMB officials wrote.

Geologist and geochemist Isaac Larsen at UMass Amherst is used to tramping around in the dirt to conduct his soil research, but satellite photos of the Iowa farmhouse where he grew up have added a new dimension to the work, and he now has a grant from NASA to study soils in a whole new way, from space.

The ability of the material could make it useful for an array of applications, such as inserting medical devices inside veins and arteries, or deploying new satellites that unfold in space.

This new Hubble Space Telescope reveals a dazzling look at the N11 region of the Large Magellanic Cloud — a SATELLITE galaxy near the Milky Way — and was released on June 22, 2010.

The work will be performed in the context of a new NERC - funded consortium led by the British Antarctic Survey (Rad - Sat) whose goal is to model the acceleration, transport and loss of radiation belt electrons to protect satellites from space weather.

The robotic Phoenix spacecraft would scavenge parts off derelict satellites to use in new space operations on orbit.

The main objectives of the mission include obtaining new data on solar activity to help to better forecast space - weather events like solar flares which can directly impact Earth and orbiting satellites, trace the flow of energy from the Sun, better understand how the Sun's outer atmosphere is heated, and explore the physical mechanisms which accelerate the solar wind.

The new ORS - 5 SensorSat satellite is fulfilling a critical need for situational awareness in space.

The 1,830 - pound satellite will be launched from ISAS» Kagoshima Space Center, at the southern tip of Kyushu, one of Japan's main islands, and will be the first launch with ISAS» new M - 5 series rocket.