Sentences with phrase «of space hardware»

Questions swirled around what kind of space hardware China was building, why, and how the United States should respond.

And you can't keep a piece of space hardware under such conditions for its anticipated lifetime of perhaps 10 or 20 years.

It was interesting to see many examples of space hardware that were familiar.

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It's hard to think of a hardware / software or life science technology that dominates its space for years.

«I would call it the perfect storm,» says Mike Stern, the founder of MakeWorks, a new Toronto co-working space where entrepreneurs are busy melding web - connected sensors to pieces of hardware (an Internet - enabled hockey stick that reports back on the speed with which it's handled, among other things).

Founders of IoT hardware solutions provider, Breadware, Daniel Price and Daniel DeLaveaga needed office space in pricey Southern California.

It's here where Valve differs markedly from the consoles whose space it is attempting to enter because historically, one key advantage consoles have had over PCs is that the hardware is of uniform design.

Hosting companies must buy hardware, switches, acquire data center space — the cost of capital is huge.

Most of the costs of space travel come from the hardware, not the propellant, Bezos said.

Upgrades in hardware and the number of investors in the space will continue to drive innovation that improves the entire industry.

«We've pulled together a great community of Bitcoin users, enthusiasts, investors and entrepreneurs, so we feel as though we have a good understanding of the players in the space and the trends we're witnessing from hardware to regulation to new disruptive payment solutions,» Robinson said in a statement.

For example, in the hardware space, a year ago, $ 1M in pre-sales on Kickstarter with a great product idea was sometimes enough to raise a Series A. Now, investors are demanding pre-sales in the millions with a product that's either functional or actually in production given the risk of bringing hardware to market.

More recently, arms of the Chinese government have shown a warmer attitude to «blockchain technology», saying China has natural advantages in hardware and innovation it should leverage to become a leader in the space.

A future which will translate those remaining sci - fi visions of the 1960s into a reality; expandable habitats in space, reusing of existing space hardware, space tourism, a return to the Moon and footsteps on Mars.

However, it is inspiration from the past which is driving forward the future for NanoRacks: «Our vision for the future of space travel is honoring some of the original space station ideas by Wernher von Braun - that is, reusing existing in - space hardware.»

Formed in 2009 with the aim of providing commercial hardware and services for the US National Laboratory on the International Space Station.

NanoRacks is the leading commercial provider of hardware and services in low - Earth orbit for microgravity research and space station utilization.

Ray Zinn, founder of Micrel and the longest serving CEO in Silicon Valley is now investing in technology startups, primarily in the hardware and semiconductor spaces.

Heading the list of hardware is an Omega computer, a space - age navigational system that locks on seven transmitters located around the world and is accurate to within one - tenth of a mile in 5,000.

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Beautiful Hudson rails keep baby safe with silky smoothness of the finish, hidden hardware, no moving parts and expert spacing of spindles.

You will enjoy the quality and safety of the Princess crib that surrounds your child with safely spaced slats, smooth rounded edges and hardware that is hidden away with the trolls.

Since the space age began, the orbital realm has become increasingly littered with the detritus of skyward human striving — spent rocket boosters, dead satellites, stray pieces of hardware.

A source of inspiration for these governance pioneers is the influential game designer Ralph Koster's Declaration of the Rights of Avatars, a document that is a fascinating hybrid of real - world constitutional law and high - tech lingo: «The principle of all sovereignty in a virtual space resides in the inalterable fact that somewhere there resides an individual who controls the hardware on which the virtual space is running, and the software with which it is created, and the database which makes up its existence.»

From a hardware perspective, the Van Allen Probes» most significant challenge was to operate and perform measurements in the severe charged particle environment of the radiation belts, a region of space most spacecraft avoid.

Venkat has found bugs in the spacecraft - assembly facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida; on hardware and in drinking water from the International Space Station; in circuit boards destined for an upcoming mission to Europa; and on the metal surface of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars since October 2001.

If they fail, all those millions of dollars of hardware become instant space junk, sailing right past the moon into infamy and the infinite.

With computer games running on more modern hardware, however, the use of FMV for cutscenes has been drastically reduced as similar quality graphics can be produced in the game engine with much less disc space required for the source data.

Particularly in confined spaces — thin gaps between machine parts, the contact area between hardware and metal plate, behind seals and under gaskets, seams where two surfaces meet — close observation of such electrochemical dissolution had been an enormous challenge, he added.

The manifest for the uncrewed Dragon includes almost 5,000 pounds of material including a spacewalking suit for astronauts plus related hardware and supplies for more than 150 science investigations to be conducted by the space station crews.

The crew will reload the space freighter with about 3,600 pounds of experiment samples and hardware for return to Earth.

Rather than trying to invent everything from scratch, B612 will make heavy use of hardware developed for earlier NASA space telescope missions.

Although no formal agreement was reached, the two sides agreed that NASA would contribute a piece of hardware such as detectors or reaction wheels — which help turn a space observatory in a desired direction — and, in turn, gain a seat on Euclid's 12 - member science team.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon spacecraft loaded with nearly 2.5 tons of supplies and experiment hardware for the International Space Station's Expedition 39 crew, lifted off at 3:25 p.m. EDT Friday from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

During her last Space Shuttle flight in 1998, she served as payload commander, overseeing 23 science and technology experiments, as well as supervising the delivery of 4000 kg of equipment, hardware, and water destined for the Russian MIR space staSpace Shuttle flight in 1998, she served as payload commander, overseeing 23 science and technology experiments, as well as supervising the delivery of 4000 kg of equipment, hardware, and water destined for the Russian MIR space staspace station.

Rodent Research - 1 is the maiden voyage of the new Rodent Research hardware system that provides the capability to conduct repeated long - duration biological research studies onboard the space station.

In her plenary address at the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting, Ochoa described experiments that rely on the unique environment of the first human outpost in space, assembled from one million pounds of hardware over more than 100 space flights.

No one has flown the same hardware to space and back so many times before,» said space history expert Robert Pearlman, editor of collectSPACE.com and a SPACE.com contributor.

This gap, right now estimated to be five and a half years, will be about as long as the gap the nation experienced between the retirement of the Apollo hardware and the launch of the Space Shuttle.

Re-use, recycle The biggest pieces of hardware that NASA will hang onto are the space shuttle main engines, which sit near the orbiters» tails.

«The landing spacecraft... is surrounded by framework and partially cut away, so engineering students can do detailed studies of the design of actual space hardware,» said Daniel Hastings, of MIT.

Had things unfolded a bit differently, we could have seen a Saturn V rocket launch such a manned deep - space mission based on Apollo hardware by the end of the 1970s.

The last major hardware component of Boeing's second CST - 100 Starliner — the truncated cone of the upper dome — recently arrived at the repurposed Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), joining the lower dome and docking hatch, both of which arrived in May.

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(5) encourage and provide for Federal Government use of commercially provided space services and hardware, consistent with the requirements of the Federal Government.»

A National Research Council (NRC) report released today lauds the additional science that could be obtained using hardware transferred to NASA from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for the next large space telescope, but worries about the cost and potential impact on the balance of programs within NASA's astrophysics portfolio, especially if a coronagraph is added.

The last piece of delivered hardware would be the actual Deep Space Transport vehicle that would later be used to carry a crew to Mars, he said.

Board members have decades of combined space involvement, including more than a decade of recent senior leadership experience across NASA developing space hardware and flying in space.