Sentences with phrase «on spacecraft missions»
Experimental gas - based lithium - ion batteries could power instruments in high - altitude drones and on spacecraft missions to Mars and beyond
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In the memo, China said it lost contact with the spacecraft on March 16, 2016, after it «fully fulfilled its historic mission.»
«It conducted six successive rendezvous and dockings with spacecraft Shenzhou - 8, Shenzhou - 9, and Shenzhou - 10 and completed all assigned missions, making important contributions to China's manned space exploration activities,» said a memo that China submitted in May 2017 to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
And when you're tasked with building and launching spacecraft millions or even billions of miles from Earth, on missions that take several years, long - term planning is pretty critical.
If the landing is successful, it will be the first time scientists have landed a probe on a comet, and it will be the completion of a mission that began 10 years ago when the Rosetta spacecraft launched.
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.
Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, is a NASA lander mission to Mars — a spacecraft that will stay stationary on the red planet's surface.
Google calls such projects «moonshots,» so just to be clear, the company is not referring to a spacecraft on a mission to the moon — well, the Google Chrome experiment «A Spacecraft for All» comes pretty closspacecraft on a mission to the moon — well, the Google Chrome experiment «A Spacecraft for All» comes pretty closSpacecraft for All» comes pretty close to that.
Former winners of the awards include Naomi Mitchison, a senior hardware engineer at Selex ES, Abbie Hutty, a spacecraft engineer currently working on Europe's first Rover Mission to Mars and Yewande Akinola, an environmental services engineer with a passion for innovation and sustainable water supply.
On April 30, if all goes well, after running out of fuel to fight off orbital decay NASA's long - running MESSENGER spacecraft will end its mission to Mercury by crashing into the planet's surface at nearly 4 kilometers per second.
«And this mission would be NASA's first mission that is directly tasked with searching for signs of life on another world since the Viking Spacecraft were given that task back in the 1970s on the surface of Mars.»
Mission controllers have yet to receive a signal from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Schiaparelli lander, a smart car — size spacecraft that attempted to touchdown on Mars on Wednesday.
Scientists using the Rosetta spacecraft — which arrived at 67P in August and became the first mission to orbit and land on a comet — now think they may have discovered the source of these patterns on cliff faces and in deep pits: layer upon layer of rounded nodules, 1 to 3 meters across.
This Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth on May 11 carrying, among other things, science samples from the One - Year Mission, in which NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko stayed aboard the station from March 2015 until March of this year.
The spacecraft entered its science orbit around the moon's equator on Nov. 20, and in March 2014, LADEE extended its mission operations following a highly successful 100 - day primary science phase.
As the spacecraft plunged through these orbits, a radio telescope in Argentina, run by the European Space Agency, NASA's partner on the mission, listened for tiny Doppler shifts in Cassini's signal.
After a two - year orbital tour around comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft — carrying Southwest Research Institute's Alice ultraviolet spectrograph — will end its mission this week on Sept. 30.
Before the Cassini spacecraft ends its 20 - year mission by disintegrating in Saturn's atmosphere, we have one last chance for new information on the gas giant
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft exited the vast bubble of particles that encircles the sun and planets on August 25, 2012, mission scientists report September 12 in Science.
A few hours later, however, on - board safety systems turned the spacecraft toward Earth and re-established contact with mission control at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
But recently, NASA spacecraft and new research on samples from the Apollo missions have shown that the moon actually has water, both on and beneath its surface.
New Horizons mission members have worked on the project for longer than it took the spacecraft to get to Pluto
The only previous data on Jupiter's interior came from the Galileo spacecraft, which ended its mission by entering Jupiter's atmosphere at a single point in 1995.
Two NASA and one European spacecraft, including NASA's MAVEN mission led by the University of Colorado Boulder, have gathered new information about the basic properties of a wayward comet that buzzed by Mars Oct. 19, directly detecting its effects on the Martian atmosphere.
«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.»
In the meantime, aspiring female astronauts in search of a role model had to make do with «Astronaut Barbie» or scantily clad Jane Fonda in the 1968 movie Barbarella, who piloted her fur - lined spacecraft on a mission to eradicate evildoers on the planet Tau.
Researchers say the spacecraft fleet currently orbiting the Red Planet are aging and there are no replacements in the works, imperiling future Mars landers, rovers and even possible human missions that will depend on orbiters to talk to Earth.
Others have suggested that returning Mars samples would require an entirely separate spacecraft, or series of spacecraft, on the order of a «flagship mission» costing around $ 2 billion.
In the European Space Agency's (ESA's) control room in Darmstadt, Germany, the mood was anxious and all eyes were glued to the mission control computer screens as a spidery, three - legged lander named Philae detached from its parent spacecraft, Rosetta, and made its slow descent to the surface of a comet — and cheers and hugging broke out on 12 November when the control room received confirmation that the lander had arrived.
If you parked a spacecraft in a halo orbit, you could look down on the moon, back at Earth, or in toward the sun and stay there for years with minimal fuel to keep the spacecraft in orbit, a task mission designers call station - keeping.
If mission planners do their math right, says Purdue astronautical engineer Kathleen Howell, once a spacecraft reaches the right velocity and position above Earth's atmosphere, «you'll never have to turn its engines on.
The crowd at New Horizons mission control counts down to the spacecraft's closest approach to Pluto on July 14.
The English mathematician would build on Galileo's law of inertia as he compiled a set of laws so complete that engineers still use them centuries later to navigate spacecraft across the solar system — including NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter.
On some missions, such as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover (now deep into its third Earth year seeking signs of habitable conditions on the Red Planet), the excess heat from the MMRTG can also be used to keep spacecraft systems warm in cold environmentOn some missions, such as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover (now deep into its third Earth year seeking signs of habitable conditions on the Red Planet), the excess heat from the MMRTG can also be used to keep spacecraft systems warm in cold environmenton the Red Planet), the excess heat from the MMRTG can also be used to keep spacecraft systems warm in cold environments.
These systems have been used to power the exploration of the solar system and beyond, from the Viking missions on Mars, to the Voyager spacecraft entering interplanetary space, and most recently powering the Curiosity Mars Rover and the New Horizons spacecraft sailing past Pluto.
Back on Earth, the mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (which built the spacecraft and operates the mission for NASA) along with the Flight Software (FSW) and Radio Frequency (RF) Teams, have recently made some improvements in getting the science teams more data.
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.
Watch engineers assemble spacecraft in a clean room or peer down on mission control, where staff guide active missions, including the Mars rovers and the twin Voyager craft.
Because the launch window was only 30 seconds, mission controllers did not have time to analyze the issue and get the United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 (OCO - 2) spacecraft back on track for launch this morning.
Venkat has found bugs in the spacecraft - assembly facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida; on hardware and in drinking water from the International Space Station; in circuit boards destined for an upcoming mission to Europa; and on the metal surface of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars since October 2001.
Later he served as an investigator on the Magellan mission to Venus, the NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) spacecraft encounter with the asteroid Eros, and the Mars Odyssey mission.
Confirmation of the end of mission is expected from ESA's main control room at 11:20 GMT or 13:20 CEST + / - 20 minutes on 30 September, with the spacecraft set on a collision course with the comet the evening before.
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 will provide spacecraft integration, power, data storage and communication capabilities for selected payloads, which the agency will choose based on contributions to both partner goals and ARM objectives, with consideration for those that may support risk reduction for the mission.
After a nail - biting day at ESA's mission control, we now know that an alarm clock on Rosetta woke the spacecraft at around 1000 GMT this morning, as planned.
The mission will last only two to five years, rather than the original 15, but with instruments on different spacecraft, each will have more observing time.
The Dragon spacecraft, making the company's third operational cargo mission to the station, separated from its Falcon 9 second stage as planned and deployed its twin solar arrays on time.
The spacecraft is on course for an ultra-close flyby of another Kuiper Belt object, 2014 MU69, on Jan. 1, 2019, should NASA approve funding for an extended mission.
The mission also leverages the agency's progress on the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and other cutting - edge technology developments.
In September 2007, the researchers sent two species, Richtersius coronifer and Milnesium tardigradum, on a European Space Agency science mission aboard a crewless Russian spacecraft.