Sentences with phrase «of spacecraft operations»

The mapping of the near - Earth asteroid Bennu is one of the science goals of NASA's OSIRIS - REx mission, and an integral part of spacecraft operations.

Not exact matches

The Gaia spacecraft was launched in December of 2013 and began scientific operations the next year.

Morse said that the number of NASA astrophysics missions in operation had peaked at 15 in 2010 and was now in decline with the phaseout of spacecraft such as the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.

Solar System ($ 1.60 billion) supports continued operation of the Mars rovers, the Cassini spacecraft, and others.

Ulysses, a solar - orbiting spacecraft launched in 1990, was finally retired a few weeks ago by NASA and the European Space Agency after nearly two decades of operation.

The Italian space agency ASI last week extended operation of the spacecraft, which was due to be shut down for budgetary reasons at the end of the month, to 1 May 2002.

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.

The flagship spacecraft in the search for exoplanets has switched on its emergency mode just prior to a new phase of operations

But getting the minifridge - sized Philae lander to the surface of 67P is not a simple task, said Andrea Accomazzo, the European Space Agency's spacecraft operations manager, in a November 10 press conference.

The currently available spacecraft — Mars Odyssey, Mars Express and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — are each roughly a decade old and may soon be out of operation.

Spilker notes that Cassini has another several years of planned operation at Saturn; the spacecraft could document such a ring disruption if such debris strikes occur often enough.

for the close encounter, the mission's science, engineering and spacecraft operations teams configured the piano - sized probe for distant observations of the Pluto system that start Sunday, Jan. 25 with a long - range photo shoot.

Mission control confirmed end of operations just a few minutes later, at 3:40 p.m., when no signal was detected by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) station in Goldstone, California, at the time the spacecraft would have emerged from behind the planet.

The spacecraft mapped Martian terrain with a laser altimeter, detected traces of magnetic fields with its magnetometer, and mapped at least 20 new impact craters between the time it started operations and the time it fell silent.

«After looking at variations in the intensity of the gyros» internal lasers, we realized last year that, with our current usage, four of the six gyros were trending towards failure,» says spacecraft operations manager James Godfrey.

Four student teams will define the scientific objectives of a space mission and will provide a preliminary end - to - end design of spacecraft, scientific instruments as well as mission and science operations that will meet their stated objectives.

Four student teams will be set up to define the scientific objectives of a space mission and a preliminary end - to - end mission design including the spacecraft, scientific instruments, mission, and science operations capable of meeting the stated objectives.

By comparing their distribution with that of the Kepler Objects of Interest detected during the first six quarters of operation of the spacecraft, we infer the false positive rate of Kepler and study its dependence on spectral type, candidate planet size, and orbital period.

«The team has done a fantastic job of adapting to spacecraft operations in the Martian environment,» said Richard Burns, MAVEN project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

MSSS, a small, privately - owned company of ~ 60 employees located in San Diego, CA provides products and services in three main areas: Cameras for spacecraft; Spacecraft instrument operations; Space science research MSSS cameras include those that were aboard Mars Observer (MO), Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Polar Lander (MPL), Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Odyssey (ODY), Cosmos I, and the Phoenix Mars Lanspacecraft; Spacecraft instrument operations; Space science research MSSS cameras include those that were aboard Mars Observer (MO), Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Polar Lander (MPL), Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Odyssey (ODY), Cosmos I, and the Phoenix Mars LanSpacecraft instrument operations; Space science research MSSS cameras include those that were aboard Mars Observer (MO), Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Polar Lander (MPL), Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO), Mars Odyssey (ODY), Cosmos I, and the Phoenix Mars Lander (PHX).

«In this first practical exercise of the mission's science operations, the mission team learned so much about this spacecraft's capabilities and flight operations that we are now ahead of the game for when we get to Bennu.»

After concluding its operations in Jupiter's environs in June 2007, the spacecraft was placed into the first of four hibernation cycles, with redundant systems shut down, and the computer periodically transmitting signals back to Earth — «green» if all was well, «red» if assistance from ground controllers was necessary — as New Horizons voyaged outwards.

The spacecraft has recently entered its last year of operations, conducting more than 3,000 orbits around the planet, while transmitting more than 200,000 images back to Earth.

On October 12, 2011, the subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology held a hearing to discuss the impact on operations of the International Space Station (ISS) of the failure of Russia's Soyuz rocket on August 24, 2011 when it was attempting to send a Progress cargo spacecraft to the ISS.

Breathtaking in their clarity, the long - awaited images were unveiled in Laurel, Maryland, home to mission operations for NASA's New Horizons, the unmanned spacecraft that paid a history - making flyby visit to the dwarf planet on Tuesday after a journey of 9 1/2 years and 3 billion miles.

Lockheed Martin of Littleton, Colorado, will build the spacecraft based on designs from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and 2001 Mars Odyssey missions as well as perform mission operations.

Managers of NASA's Dawn spacecraft have developed a preliminary schedule for mission operations when the spacecraft reaches the dwarf planet Ceres in early 2015.

To allow simultaneous ground - based observations, flight operations engineers at Ball Aerospace and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder will perform a maneuver turning the spacecraft around to point the telescope in the forward velocity vector.

«After looking at variations in the intensity of the gyros» internal lasers, we realised last year that, with our current usage, four of the six gyros were trending towards failure,» says spacecraft operations manager James Godfrey.

These advances include the near - global three - dimensional sampling by the Argo array of temperature and salinity profiling floats and spaceborne measurements of sea surface salinity using the European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) spacecraft and NASA's Aquarius mission aboard the Argentine SAC - D spacecraft (which ceased operations in June 2015).