Sentences with phrase «on planetary resources»

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Planetary Resources, a Redmond, Washington - based company founded by Peter Diamandis and commercial spaceflight pioneer Eric C. Anderson, is currently working on its own asteroid mining technology.

(Other startups, like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, are trying to achieve similar ends by landing on asteroids.)

For Planetary Resources, the first wave of development is to culminate in a doughnut - shape spacecraft heading on a prospecting mission to a near - Earth asteroid in 2020.

From left, Chris Lewicki, Planetary Resources's chief executive and president; Étienne Schneider, deputy prime minister of Luxembourg; and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg on a tour of Planetary Resources in Washington State.

Back in April, Luxembourg's crown prince, his wife and government officials paid a visit to Planetary Resources, putting on white gowns, gloves, wispy caps and baby blue bootees — a distinctly unroyal outfit sometimes called a «bunny suit» — to take a close look at where the company is assembling small satellites.

Hard as it might be to imagine, a paradise of peace, plenty, and planetary purity is just as achievable as walking on the moon or carrying the world's informational resources in your pocket.

The fact that people around the world expect the UN to deliver (which is why they are, so often, disappointed when it fails); the fact that we now expect states to work collectively on global problems; the fact that almost every aspect of human endeavour and planetary resource is addressed by international laws or bodies — all this reflects the transformative impact of the UN on our world and our lives.

It really made me feel like they just want to spend money on design and fabricate some test vehicles but not launch them because # 1 it to expensive and # 2 they really don't know where to go or than an asteroid mission because Planetary Resources really doesn't want to spend their own money on R&D... Considering the events in the Ukraine and Iran... The world may end before the SLS / Orion goes anywhere other LEO or maybe just maybe to the Moon!!!

When Planetary Resources actually begins sending its first robotic prospectors to asteroids, the company will concentrate on space rocks that are relatively close to Earth, rather than heading out into the more distant Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.

In December, Planetary Resources will launch the Arkyd 6, which will provide the first demonstration of the sensing technology that the company plans to use to detect resources on aResources will launch the Arkyd 6, which will provide the first demonstration of the sensing technology that the company plans to use to detect resources on aresources on asteroids.

Eric Anderson, co-founder and co-chairman of Planetary Resources Inc., said in a statement, «This key technology for determining resources on asteroids can also be applied towards monitoring and managing high - value resources on our homResources Inc., said in a statement, «This key technology for determining resources on asteroids can also be applied towards monitoring and managing high - value resources on our homresources on asteroids can also be applied towards monitoring and managing high - value resources on our homresources on our home planet.

Contribute to real Science Citizen Science — List of projects on the Planetary Society website Zooniverse, Galaxy Zoo — popular citizen Science platforms Resources for citizen scientists — tools for citizen scientists from NASA

My Moon is an irreverent co-moon-ity from the Lunar Planetary Institute that is focused on connecting those «under 35» to resources, experts and other information about lunar exploration.

With its focus on strategy Planetary Annihilation is less about micromanaging resources and individual units, and more about grand sweeping plans.

These AI factions should be constantly competing for the persitent resources around them through war, asassinations, spying, family mergers (marriage), colonial planetary expansion, tech development, and so on.

My limited time and resources have failed to find an attempt to quantify the effects the missing ice will have on the planetary radiation budget.

You and you alone can «re-center» our national debate on issues like the unsustainability of increasing conspicuous per - human over-consumption of limited resources; the unsustainability of skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers; and the soon to become patently unsustainable, seemingly endless growth of large - scale industrial / corporate activities, now threatening to engulf the surface of the planetary home God has blessed us to inhabit and, I suppose, not to overwhelm.

If per human overconsumption of scarce resources; unbridled economic globalization overspreading the surface of our planetary home; and the skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers could be occurring synergistically in our time and could have something to do with the distinctly human - driven predicament which looms ominously before humanity, does it make sense to consider, just for a moment, what might to done to set limits on these overgrown human activities?

This, they say, points to the profound scale of global inequality, which means that the benefits of the so - called Great Acceleration in consumption of resources are unevenly distributed, and this in turn confounds efforts to deal with the impact of this assault on the planetary machinery.

The unrestricted consolidation of filthy lucre and political / military power, the unbridled expansion of economic globalization, the unrestrained per - capita overconsumption of limited resources and the unchecked human overpopulation on the relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home God blesses us to inhabit, could soon become unsustainable.

while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

The short answer is No, and this despite the fact that it draws attention to planetary limits, and to the great resource crunch that's now rising on the horizon.

The Rockefeller Foundation - Lancet Commission on Planetary Health recognizes that human health and the health of our planet are inextricably linked, and that our civilization depends on human health, flourishing natural systems, and the wise stewardship of natural resources.