Sentences with phrase «on robotic spacecraft»

Although no region of Mars is banned for exploration, international treaties set the allowable levels of microbial contamination on robotic spacecraft destined for other planetary environments.

The VLA is also a high - precision spacecraft tracker that NASA and ESA have used to keep tabs on robotic spacecrafts exploring the Solar System.

Not exact matches

On July 20, 2016, Moon Express became the first company to receive U.S. government approval to send a robotic spacecraft beyond traditional Earth orbit and to the Moon.

Later, using new technologies on the ground as well as robotic spacecraft, scientists like Shoemaker started to track, catalog, and closely examine the objects.

«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.»

Astronauts on board the station are set to grab the spacecraft with the station's robotic arm at about 7 a.m. EDT.

Down the road, the technology could allow large spacecraft, robotic and manned, to pierce through the Martian atmosphere and land on the Red Planet.

Things were not looking so good for alien life in 1976, after the Viking I spacecraft landed on Mars, stretched out its robotic arm, and gathered up a fist - size pile of red dirt for chemical testing.

Other big news included the rise and fall of a claimed detection of gravitational waves, new findings about the history of early humans from analyses of DNA and the spectacular landing of the Rosetta spacecraft's robotic explorer Philae on comet 67P / Churyumov — Gerasimenko.

«Robotic spacecraft are usually radiation - hardened to protect against these kinds of events,» said Chris St. Cyr, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on the study.

Now their multi-pronged plan calls for the robotic spacecraft Chang» e 5 to launch in the second half of 2017 atop a Long March - 5 rocket, land on the moon and collect several pounds of lunar samples, then hurl the specimens back to Earth.

The crew of the final Apollo mission lifted off from the moon's Sea of Serenity on 14 December 1972, and the last robotic Soviet spacecraft to make it to the surface was in 1976.

NASA would receive an additional $ 1 billion in 2011 both to get the new launcher on track and to bolster the agency's fleet of robotic Earth - monitoring spacecraft.

Robotic spacecraft are on their way to Mercury and Pluto.

The robotic Phoenix spacecraft would scavenge parts off derelict satellites to use in new space operations on orbit.

But while Curiosity's nerve - wracking landing is unprecedented, the sophisticated rover is not the first robotic spacecraft to set foot on the Red Planet.

The robotic New Horizons spacecraft is on track to arrive at Pluto in 2015.

«Orbital robotics and AI techniques in general can enable future spacecraft to repair satellites, remove space junk, extract resources from asteroids and comets, and so on,» said study co-author Yang Gao, a space roboticist at the University of Surrey in England.