Sentences with phrase «of spacecraft propulsion»

A recent study confirms that the electric sail invented at the Finnish Meteorological Institute is the most effective form of spacecraft propulsion to date.

An ion thruster (or ion drive), one of several types of spacecraft propulsion, uses beams of ions - electrically charged atoms or molecules - for propulsion.

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Instead of sending large spacecraft capable of moving asteroids, the startup wants to send a small craft that could land on the asteroid and 3 - D print a propulsion system and guidance mechanisms — essentially turning the asteroid into its own spaceship that would then drive itself to wherever a crew was located.

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.

However, the neutralizer requires additional power from the spacecraft and increases the size and weight of the propulsion system.

Plasma propulsion is an important and efficient technology used to control spacecraft for Earth observation, communications and fundamental exploration of outer space.

The most likely strategy for returning samples stored on the 2020 rover will involve two more spacecraft heading to Mars, says Charles Whetsel of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

The researchers found between four and 28 viable cells per passport photo — size unit of area — similar to those in clean rooms at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where spacecraft are assembled.

An artist's rendering of Japan's IKAROS solar sail, the first spacecraft to use the sun's light as its main means of propulsion.

Facing limited funds, NASA administrator Michael Griffin slashed many science programs, including astrobiology (down 50 percent in the 2007 request) and the development of nuclear propulsion systems for spacecraft (down 97 percent).

But no spacecraft has used a sail as its primary means of propulsion.

NASA is currently developing concepts for the redirect mission that will employ a robotic spacecraft, driven by an advanced solar electric propulsion system, to capture a small near - Earth asteroid or remove a boulder from the surface of a larger asteroid.

There are many different types of rockets, and a comprehensive list can be found in spacecraft propulsion - they range in size from tiny models such as water rockets or small solid rockets that can be purchased at a hobby store, to the enormous Saturn V used for the Apollo program.

Instead of rocketing astronauts off into deep space, the Asteroid Redirect Mission would send a robotic spacecraft to a small asteroid, secure it (potentially by grabbing it and stuffing it into a giant high - tech bag) and tow it back to orbit the moon using a hyper - efficient kind of rocket engine technology called solar electric propulsion.

In 2014, the spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver; and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California; and the THEMIS team at ASU, developed procedures to rotate the spacecraft for upward - looking imaging of Comet Siding Spring as it passed near Mars.

A 2003 survey found a particularly stubborn strain of the rod - shaped bacteria Bacillus pumilus in even the cleanest of clean rooms at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where Mars - bound spacecraft are assembled.

«We can't see individual continents or people in this portrait of Earth, but this pale blue dot is a succinct summary of who we were on July 19,» said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Cassini's picture reminds us how tiny our home planet is in the vastness of space, and also testifies to the ingenuity of the citizens of this tiny planet to send a robotic spacecraft so far away from home to study Saturn and take a look - back photo of Earth.»

The Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology.

Developed in conjunction with Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, FINDER is based on remote - sensing radar technology developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to monitor the location of spacecraft JPL manages for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

> A propulsion module consisting of four stages, each with four Vulcain 2 rocket engines (now being readied for an upgrade of ESA's Ariane 5 rocket), to propel the spacecraft from low Earth orbit to Mars.

Electric propulsion works by driving a stream of plasma, or electrically charged gas, out the back of a spacecraft.

«We've got a spacecraft on the way to Ceres, so we don't have to wait long before getting more context on this intriguing result, right from the source itself,» said Carol Raymond, the deputy principal investigator for Dawn at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Dawn will map the geology and chemistry of the surface in high resolution, revealing the processes that drive the outgassing activity.»

The spacecraft's view is now three times as sharp as in its previous mapping orbit, revealing exciting new details of this intriguing dwarf planet,» said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

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.

These include building a laser far larger than any we have today, developing techniques to use it as both propulsion and communication for the spacecraft, and protecting a tiny probe from the hostile environment of interstellar space.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, built the twin Voyager spacecraft and operates them for the Heliophysics Division within NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.

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.

Between 1996 and 2003, for example, NASA had a program to explore what it calls Breakthrough Propulsion Physics to build spacecraft capable of traveling at speeds faster than light (299,790 kilometers per second).

But on an early fly - by in February 2005, the spacecraft's magnetometer «sensed something unusual going on with its magnetic field», says Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

During the teleconference, problems that had arisen with the propulsion system, and tears in the spacecraft's sunshield were cited as examples of issues that had caused delays.

Aerojet Rocketdyne announced on Monday, Nov. 23, the signing of a contract with Boeing valued at nearly $ 200 million to complete the design, development, qualification, and certification production of the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 «Starliner» spacecraft service module propulsion system.

Electric propulsion has already proven its worth on commercial satellites, culminating in the 2015 launch of the world's first all - electric spacecraft, said Mitchell Walker, chairman of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics» Electric Propulsion Technical Committee, who also presented testimony during thpropulsion has already proven its worth on commercial satellites, culminating in the 2015 launch of the world's first all - electric spacecraft, said Mitchell Walker, chairman of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics» Electric Propulsion Technical Committee, who also presented testimony during thPropulsion Technical Committee, who also presented testimony during the hearing.

In 2014, the spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver; and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California; and the THEMIS team at Arizona State University, Tempe, developed procedures to rotate the spacecraft for upward - looking imaging of a comet passing near Mars.

Bolden was grilled by subcommittee chairman Steve Palazzo (R - MS) and committee chairman Smith on why he was ignoring NAC's advice to (1) obtain an independent cost evaluation (ICE) of ARM prior to the Mission Concept Review (which just took place), and (2) modify it so that its primary objective is demonstration of high power solar electric propulsion rather than obtaining a sample of an asteroid, and to send the spacecraft to Mars and back rather than to an asteroid.

Crossing the huge distance between the Sun and Alpha Centauri using current spacecraft technologies would take several millennia, though the possibility of nuclear pulse propulsion or laser light sail technology, as considered in the Breakthrough Starshot program, could reduce the journey time to a matter of decades.

A 30 - year veteran at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mr. Hoffman has supported a number of major flight projects, including working on software for the Voyager spacecraft's encounter with Neptune, testing computer hardware for the Cassini mission to Saturn, participating in the STARDUST mission to the WILD - 2 comet as a member of the project systems engineering team, contributing to the Mars rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) as Avionics Systems Manager and serving as Deputy Project Manager for the GRAIL mission to the Moon.

To celebrate the spacecraft's accomplishments and illustrate the mission's final moments, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory created a video animation of Cassini's final months.

The telescope is comprised of two parts: the Optical Telescope and Integrated Science (OTIS) instrument module housing all the scientific equipment, and the spacecraft that provides power, propulsion and other systems, including a «sunshield» to protect the instruments from the Sun.

«No spacecraft has ever been this close to Saturn before,» Earl Maize, Cassini Project Manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, said in a statement «We could only rely on predictions, based on our experience with Saturn's other rings, of what we thought this gap between the rings and Saturn would be like.

Scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are using a replica of the upcoming InSight Mars lander to simulate conditions the spacecraft might face on the Red Planet's surface.

Metallic hydrogen propellant in pulse propulsion systems could give us spacecraft with an Isp of over 1,700.

This mission is low - cost at $ 20 million, and according to Johnson, «It is the only propulsion system that will let us take a spacecraft the size of a bootbox into interplanetary space and observe the asteroids we want to observe.»

«The spacecraft will burn up and disintegrate like a meteor in the upper atmosphere of Saturn,» Preston Dyches, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), told Space.com via email.

«If you deploy it in deep space,» he continued, «there's no other propulsion system to date that can match it pound for pound of spacecraft mass in terms of the thrust that it can give you.

In 2014, the spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the THEMIS team at ASU developed procedures to rotate the spacecraft for upward - looking imaging of Comet Siding Spring as it passed near Mars.

His second book, The Darkest Side of Saturn, was inspired by watching images of the night side of Saturn from the Voyager spacecraft as they arrived for the first time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he worked.

Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (the leading robotics and spacecraft design and manufacturing NASA center), Art Center College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, California School of Culinary Arts Pasadena and the Norton Simon Museum of Art.

I'm traveling with a few members of the InSight team from Lockheed and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as well the crew tasked with handling the spacecraft.

Resourceful professional with extensive experience in systems engineering / integration with expertise in all aspects of rocket / spacecraft technology, including dynamics, propulsion, flight control and sciences, software, design reviews, mass properties, and test equipment.