Sentences with phrase «of space engineering»

The disappearance of the Mars Observer in August and the Landsat 6 remote sensing satellite this month both emphasise the high risks of space engineering.

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Payload specialist and space station engineer Ravi Margasahayam told Business Insider that each pound of cargo used to cost $ 10,000 to ship into space.

What's more, he and his two coworkers have recruited interns from the university and tapped into the knowledge of both business and engineering professors who regularly visit the space.

Daryl Schuck, principal engineer of human space systems at Honeywell, says he contacted RI in the fall of 2010 after stumbling by chance on a mention of RI's tech in Popular Mechanics magazine.

For years, private space programs consisted of daring engineers in the middle of the desert attempting to launch one rocket after another.

However, given the increasingly competitive nature of software development, the creative problem - solving that empowered engineering teams provide will likely prove the difference between the winners and the losers in your and our respective spaces.

Virgin Atlantic recorded a time - lapse video which showed how a team of engineers replaced a five - tonne aircraft engine in the space of just 24 hours.

In the space of one week, Simo increased the number of engineers working on Live from 10 to 100.

In it, space nerds of all stripes will find a ton of engineering to marvel at, including a 35 - story space vehicle (and even the prospect the intercontinental rockets that could get you from London to New York in under a half an hour), as well as plenty of discussion of the many technical challenges to realize this dream.

That's the goal of the International Space Elevator Consortium, a group of scientists, aerospace engineers and other big thinkers devoted to the development of «inexpensive, safe, routine and efficient access to space.&rSpace Elevator Consortium, a group of scientists, aerospace engineers and other big thinkers devoted to the development of «inexpensive, safe, routine and efficient access to space.&rspace.»

Hastings met me in an open - plan space at HQ, with engineers and other employees milling around us; my interview with Sarandos was behind the closed doors of his spacious office.

U.S. defence contractor Lockheed Martin, 3D printing specialist Stratasys, and engineering firm PADT have developed the parts using new materials that can withstand the extreme temperatures and chemical exposure of deep space missions, Stratasys said on Tuesday.

After selling his engineering business and retiring to the mountains of western North Carolina, Oscar Wong opened Highland Brewing Company in 1994 with three employees in a 4,000 square - foot leased space in the basement of a tavern.

Boeing opened a new factory in Charleston, South Carolina, while decades of federal spending on space and defense programs created a pool of engineers in Alabama.

«This idea started out of our own engineering office where we had extra space and it was a tough time in the economy.

Julia Payne Cooper, senior workplace specialist in the Seattle office of design, architecture and engineering firm HOK, says the majority of her clients who locate their offices alongside their manufacturing spaces have seen benefits, including an increased speed to market for product and faster access to information and decision - making.

Unlike the pontificating Péladeaus of publishing, Coutu never stared down a union; nor has he gone into space like the Cirque du Soleil's Guy Laliberté or engineered transportation breakthroughs like the Bombardiers.

He reports fascinating and important stories in space, physics, engineering, nuclear weapons / energy, medicine, biology, and the potential destruction or salvation of humanity.

Almost every vendor in the space has invested engineering resources in making it easy (or at least easier) to integrate with the rest of the marketing technology ecosystem.

Fixed expenses include everything that doesn't scale with the number of users: office space, management and engineering salaries, insurance, etc..

Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.

The ex-director of mission operations for Space X, Marco Villa, and Patricial Galloway, former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers are spearheading the project.

James E. Oberg, a former NASA space shuttle engineer and the author of 10 books on spaceflight who often debunks U.F.O. sightings, was also doubtful.

Two European engineering firms — the German Dauria Aerospace and the Spanish Elecnor Deimos — recently announced their own constellation of tiny, Earth - observing satellites, but they don't anticipate sending any into space until 2015.

What's certain — that's how we got wind of it — is that Urmson was talking to a number of other top engineers in the space from companies like Uber, Apple and Tesla to join him and could easily attract an A-team of techies who want to strike out on their own.

The engineers at SpaceX are passionate about commercializing and colonizing space; profit is a significant byproduct of their extraordinary effort to achieve that goal but not enough to get them to pull the thousandth all - nighter.

So when we think about Charlie's vantage point and understanding of this stuff it's quite profound because he's worked in this space at the very highest levels from numerous ends of the spectrum from actually designing the code and working on the code of blockchain to you know doing the engineering side over at that coin base which is one of the exchanges.

Chris Lewicki, a former NASA scientist and currently the president and chief engineer of Planetary Resources, chats with Cambridge House Live's Bridgitte Anderson about opportunities for mining in outer space.

A study conducted by the Economic Development Committee of Florida's Space Coast found that 61.9 % of all aeronautical engineers in Brevard County (home to NASA's Kennedy Space Center) are 45 years or older.

It makes coming to school more exciting,» said Jason Candreva, a PhD candidate in chemical engineering, as he headed up to gleaming new lab space at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering.

This aging trend is not limited to Florida (a state, incidentally, which is dealing with an entirely different type of «aging trend»): According to the U.S. Space Industry Deep Dive Assessment, compiled annually by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Bureau of Industry and Security), a similar proportion of the nation's space engineers, researchers, and R&D staff are above the age of fortySpace Industry Deep Dive Assessment, compiled annually by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Bureau of Industry and Security), a similar proportion of the nation's space engineers, researchers, and R&D staff are above the age of fortyspace engineers, researchers, and R&D staff are above the age of forty (pg.

In order to stimulate connectivity, creativity, and productivity, the aesthetics of our alternative coworking spaces in Dallas, Plano, and Fort Worth were engineered with a splash of quirkiness to make every day at the office a memorable one.

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Behlendorf says «the regulators there, like the political leaders, are former engineers... they understand scale better than regulators in other parts of the world», citing this as evidence that they will be among the leaders in this space.

Elio has over 18 years of engineering and executive management experience and has spent much of his time in the automotive space focused on technology development.

I was in an engineering class the first time I watched the tragic explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Nature scholarship comes in the form of medicine, aeronautics, engineering, physics, etc, and results in things like medicine, electricity, and space travel.

And when you get right down to it, her description of the science was not really that great either (which is not surprising, considering her experience in the space program was as an engineer, not a scientist), so it's wrong to say there is nothing wrong with her synopsis.

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I spent 35 years in the space business with some of the brightest scientists and engineers.

A life - support system is analogous to the engineering system that maintains the environment inside the space vehicle to support the life of the cosmonauts.

Since we were the first to introduce single - serve cupcake and muffin containers, our in - house team of experienced engineers continues to push thermoforming design capabilities to make specialty packaging and plastic clamshell containers in a variety of sizes — delivering better presentation, increased sales, and space utilization results.

Marc Ratner, Streetsense's Founder and CEO commented, «With the addition of Streetsense Capital, the Streetsense team's ability to provide operational insight, enhance brand positioning, value - engineer spaces, and implement sound real estate expansion strategies provides an excellent resource and competitive advantage for Streetsense Capital's investors and the concept founders.

The Dabney is an amazing achievement of value engineering, with locally sourced antique and reclaimed materials transporting guests into a rustic and historic feeling space with modern accents.

«It wasn't an easy task to find the right personality who can strengthen our experienced group of engineers, give our talented young team members the space to develop and also bring his own vision to this role.

That ability also tied in with our title wins and whilst the game changes and formations go in and out of fashion, the principles of engineering space when attacking and narrowing space when defending have existed as long as football has existed.

A NASA chief in charge of deciding whether to launch the Space Shuttle despite concerns from engineers.

Math and engineering are clearly at the forefront at this one - of - a-kind think space... just be sure to not step on those pesky blocks!

In 1996 I was asked by Dr. Kenneth J. Cox, an administrator at Johnson Space Center and the founder of SATWG (see above) to conduct an oral history project with those engineers and administrators still alive (most are in their 70s and 80s) who played pivotal roles in the formation and early days of NASA.