Sentences with phrase «of spacecraft designed»

These sculptures envision another aspect of humanity's future: a fleet of spacecraft designed for human exploration of distant worlds.

The restaurant was designed by Kristofer Keith of Spacecraft Design Group, and includes an outdoor patio with custom picnic tables with built - in heaters, power outlets and phone charging stations.

«It's a basic principle of spacecraft design that you have to harden electronics against electrostatic discharge,» he says.

Not exact matches

So serious, in fact, that the organization's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has put out a call for design proposals of the spacecraft that will eventually land on an asteroid, then send a huge chunk of it over to humans for experimentation.

On May 26, NASA announced a suite of instruments that will accompany the spacecraft they're designing to send to Europa — a moon four times smaller than Earth that scientists suspect could harbor a deep, vast, salty ocean beneath its thick, icy surface.

When Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of electric - car company Tesla, founded SpaceX back in 2002, he probably didn't envision that his company, which designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, would be responsible for delivering better coffee to astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).

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).

The company, started by Elon Musk (founder of electric - car company Tesla), designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

The Spacecraft Design Group team has created a space inspired by the luxury and pace of the transcontinental train travel.

While the United States celebrated a banner year of Mars exploration, Russian scientists were mourning the loss of a $ 160 million spacecraft designed to retrieve soil from Mars's moon Phobos.

This will allow future crewed spacecraft to dock automatically and is designed to work with SpaceX's Dragon V2 and Boeing's Starliner capsule, both of which are expected to make their first trips to the ISS in the next couple of years.

Spacecraft orbiting other planets won't be any help this time around for the same reason, but another set of instruments will step up: solar observatories like SOHO, STEREO and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, all of which are designed to stare straight at the sun's surface.

The current boom in private spacecraft designs (for example) shows the kind of inventiveness and flexibility that NASA could have practiced or at least funded for the past few decades if not for the shuttle.

Do you have any advice for someone coming out of college who wants to design spacecraft?

The shield is designed to keep the probe's scientific instruments at a comfortable average of 86 °F and to constantly adjust its orientation while the spacecraft races along at up to 450,000 miles per hour.

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.

Even as far away as Mars, one of the instruments aboard the Odyssey spacecraft — an instrument designed to assess radiation risk to humans — was damaged.

Centre analysts have begun testing the inclusion of sea - ice data from a Japanese satellite, but that spacecraft — designed to last five years — is now five years old.

«Every element of the spacecraft is designed to dissipate heat.»

In six months NASA will launch one of the most ambitious spacecraft ever conceived — designed to look back through time and tell us the greatest secrets of the universe, including how it will end

The spacecraft will in coming years be plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere, bringing the mission to a fiery end designed to avoid contaminating any of the planet's astrobiologically interesting icy moons.

Analysis of these samples by the spacecraft's Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer designed and developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, detected eight different types of metal ions, including sodium, magnesium and iron.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

However, the Europa mission is currently being designed as a spacecraft that will pursue a series of flybys.

However, none of these are designed to provide 24/7 data, necessary for accurate and timely forecasts and all the spacecraft are ageing rapidly, with some of them having spent more than two decades in space.

Because there typically isn't enough time to design and launch a scientific mission to intercept a first - pass - through - the - solar - system comet before it swoops back into the depths of space, «[i] t's almost impossible to send a spacecraft to one of these comets,» he notes.

Next month the European Space Agency will launch the Gaia spacecraft, which is designed to create a 3D map of the stars in the Milky Way and their motions.

Reedman graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in mechanical engineering and has now been working at MD Robotics — formerly SPAR Aerospace — designing and building spacecraft for over 17 years.

The $ 700 - million spacecraft is designed to test two predictions of Einsteins general theory of relativity, which he proposed in 1916.

But leaks reported on Russianspaceweb.com suggest the commission will point the finger at design errors and inadequate preflight testing of the spacecraft's flight control system.

News of the landing was greeted with universal surprise — everywhere, that is, except at the Johns Hopkins lab, which designed, built, and monitored the spacecraft.

After repeated streamlining, they have come up with a $ 2 - billion spacecraft design that could carry a range of instruments to the moon (see`Eye on Europa»).

Early in April, Europe will launch the first satellite in its Copernicus program: a fleet of a dozen environmental monitoring spacecraft designed to study Earth's oceans, changes in land use, and atmosphere.

The team will conduct analyses of spacecraft and mission design, and investigate concepts to support robotic mission objectives, including overall science, planetary defense, asteroid resource use and deep - space capability demonstrations.

A sort of miniature space shuttle, Dream Chaser is based on a plane - like spacecraft that NASA itself designed in the 1980s, inspired by spy photos of a Soviet prototype.

Maria Zuber, principal investigator for GRAIL, a mission to measure the Moon's gravitational field, used instrument designs from GRACE, an Earth - science mission with similar gravity - measuring goals, and adapted the spacecraft's design from that of a classified military satellite.

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.

The focus of Phase B will be to further refine the mission objectives, and eventually make preliminary design plans for the spacecraft, Joan Salute, the Europa mission program executive, told Space.com in an email.

Devin Kipp is an entry, descent, and landing systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has spent the past 7 years working on the design, development, testing, and operation of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft.

They designed this «sky - crane» — along with a beefed - up heat shield and parachute — to slow 3 tons of spacecraft from bullet speeds to a gentle stop on the surface in 7 minutes.

A trio of spacecraft called the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or LISA, is designed to be sensitive to low - frequency gravitational waves, with periods of between 100 and 1000 seconds, in the range expected from colliding supermassive black holes.

His Field Emission Electric Propulsion (FEEP) system produces the smallest thrust of any space engine ever: It is designed to counter the force of sunlight on a spacecraft — about the same as that of a single falling human hair.

Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft.

The homemade appearance of the instrument — a wooden tube covered with brown paper and fitted with two small lenses — cut an impossible contrast to the remote sensing devices and future spacecraft designs that dominated the scientific presentations.

The ESA plans to build FEEP into the LISA Pathfinder, a spacecraft designed to detect gravitational waves while stationed at Lagrange point L1, where the gravitational fields of Earth and the sun cancel each other out.

Thirty million kilometers away, trailing the pale blue dot that is Earth as it orbits the sun, is a spacecraft designed to find some of the countless other pale blue dots that may speckle the galaxy.

Cassini wasn't designed to detect signs of life in the Enceladus plume — indeed, scientists didn't know the plume existed until after the spacecraft arrived at Saturn.

The plumes on Enceladus are far bigger and probably less uniform on the inside than a spacecraft's simple metal waste tube, but Lorenz says this method could still help us validate our models of the moon's jets and to design future missions.

None of these spacecraft were designed to detect gravity waves, but in a three - week experiment running until 11 April they will form part of a detector.

«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.