Sentences with phrase «new spacecraft design»
Other spaceflight companies, including Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Sierra Nevada and Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin, are variously developing new spacecraft designed to carry humans into orbital space as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP).
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While NASA inches ahead with plans for a new Crew Exploration Vehicle, the Russians are racing to replace their aging Soyuz fleet with a futuristic manned spacecraft designed to give Russia the competitive edge in commercial space exploration.
The ESA's new system is designed to counter the force of sunlight on a spacecraft — about the same as the force of gravity on a single human hair.
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft is the first of NASA's new Discovery - class probes, which are intended to show that NASA can operate with cheap and simple designs.
APL designed, built and operates the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
The plan for the RLV, in which new technologies will be demonstrated before a full - scale spacecraft is designed, will avoid those problems, he says.
New pressure - sensitive paint (PSP) and imaging technology is helping engineers design more aerodynamic planes and spacecraft
Doing away with wires could also create new options for interior design and reduce weight in airplanes, cars, spacecraft or any other vehicle that today is laden with heavy power cables.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
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.
The adapter connecting the top of the rocket's upper stage to the spacecraft, for example, is a new piece that has been meticulously designed and must be built with equal care.
Before arriving at Goddard, New Horizons underwent vibration testing at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, which designed and built the spacecraft.