Sentences with phrase «on spacecraft systems»

Hotel guests will also have required exercises on spacecraft systems and contingency training at the company's Houston facility.

So this lightweight Mg - based SMA has great potential in aerospace applications such as self - deployable space habitat frames and damping devises on spacecraft systems.

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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.

Jupiter's atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system's largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant.

Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $ 100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

«So they're perfect for a life support system aboard a spacecraft that's travelling to Mars, or a small colony that's on Mars,» Thirsk says.

Russia's spacecraft have been using automated systems for years, while NASA's spacecraft typically rely on the on - board astronauts to perform tasks related to the flight.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $ 100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

LROC is a system of three cameras mounted on the LRO spacecraft.

In the years since, spacecraft have spotted bursts of lightning elsewhere in our solar system, from the cloud tops of Venus, to Saturn's moon Titan, to an electrical storm so big and bright on Saturn itself that it shone even during the day.

Atom interferometers might be used in spacecraft as inertial navigation systems that would be more accurate than current devices, which rely on laser gyroscopes.

Pluto's first official surface - feature names are marked on this map, compiled from images and data gathered by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its flight through the Pluto system in 2015.

And a pioneering mystery — we will talk with Scientific American editor George Musser about a session here in New York, Monday evening, at which scientists discussed what they thought was going on with the Pioneer spacecraft, which are now out of the solar system.

Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft launched on the Space Launch System (SLS) would rendezvous with the captured asteroid mass in lunar orbit and collect samples for return to Earth.

Astronauts will travel aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, launched on the Space Launch System rocket, to rendezvous in lunar orbit with the captured asteroid.

On June 23, Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative to send spacecraft to another star system, launched half a dozen probes called Sprites to test how their electronics fare in outer space.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Denver -: The «Adapting Commercial Spacecraft for the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle» study will define system concepts for a Solar Electric Propulsion Module based on an existing commercial spacecraft bus and NASA Hall Spacecraft for the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle» study will define system concepts for a Solar Electric Propulsion Module based on an existing commercial spacecraft bus and NASA Hall spacecraft bus and NASA Hall thrusters.

The ESA's new system is designed to counter the force of sunlight on a spacecraft — about the same as the force of gravity on a single human hair.

When the New Horizons spacecraft flies past Pluto on July 14, it will arrive not at the smallest planet but at the brightest and most intriguing member of the Kuiper Belt, the unexplored outer territory of the solar system.

Such fly - bys give spacecraft a whip - crack of extra speed on their tour through the solar system.

The new panoramic mosaic of the majestic Saturn system taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which shows the view as it would be seen by human eyes, was unveiled at the Newseum in Washington on Tuesday.

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.

It is a place human explorers will not visit in the foreseeable future, although the data on the flux of cosmic rays (energetic particles from deep space) into the solar system will allow engineers to better gauge the risk to both spacecraft and humans during extended space voyages.

The Cassini spacecraft took one final round of images on its farewell tour of the Saturnian system.

This image shows a part of the ESA's BepiColombo spacecraft after it has been subjected to temperatures higher than 660 degrees Fahrenheit, which it will face while spying on the solar system's innermost planet.

The binoculars were so they could see [spacecraft system] data on the TV screens.»

Last Friday at ScienceInsider, Eric Hand reported that «[a] group of crowd - funded amateurs, students, and NASA retirees are on the cusp of resurrecting — and possibly taking control of — a disused NASA spacecraft that has been coasting around the solar system since the days of disco.»

New Maps of Mercury Show Icy Looking Craters on the Solar System's Innermost Planet A NASA spacecraft bolsters the case that ice lines the inside of polar craters on Mercury

For humans, that chance began 40 years ago this month, when the twin Voyager spacecraft embarked on their «grand tour» of the solar system.

«One of the great joys of working on Cassini is getting a first look at the beautiful images the spacecraft sends down of the most photogenic planet in the solar system,» said Earl Maize, Cassini program manager.

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.

You briefly describe a technique in which spacecraft could hitchhike to the far reaches of the solar system on the back of a comet (14 June, p 6).

But leaks reported on Russianspaceweb.com suggest the commission will point the finger at design errors and inadequate preflight testing of the spacecraft's flight control system.

After traveling four years and 1.7 billion miles, NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at Vesta last July, the first stop on its tour of the largest asteroids in the solar system.

The New Horizons spacecraft, which buzzed the dwarf planet on July 14, has so far sent back only about 20 percent of the data it acquired from the Pluto system.

ESA's Rosetta spacecraft arrived at Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko on 6 August 2014, following a ten - year journey through the Solar System after its launch on 2 March 2004.

After a flawless launch early today, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is finally on its way to study the history of the solar system.

NASA intends for such high - speed systems to be standard issue on spacecraft starting in 2025, provided the federal wallet can support their data - hungry habits; they'd be able to download that 1.5 - GB video two to 10 times faster.

Images from the Deep Space 1 spacecraft show that Comet Borrelly is the darkest object yet observed in the inner solar system, and several spots on its surface are blacker than anything planetary scientists have ever seen.

The mission also leverages the agency's progress on the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and other cutting - edge technology developments.

Astronauts would then visit — via NASA's planned space launch system and Orion spacecraft — to mine the object and practise techniques for landing on, and deflecting, asteroids.

A few nerve - wracking hours will follow for scientists and controllers on the ground, as the spacecraft's heaters warm up its systems, its startrackers get a fix, it turns its solar arrays towards the sun, and, finally, points its communications antenna toward Earth.

New Horizons, NASA's mission to the outer solar system, has been given a large chunk of time on the Hubble Space Telescope to assist an increasingly desperate search for an icy object the spacecraft can study after it hurtles past Pluto in July 2015, NASA headquarters announced today.

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.

Next week, the spacecraft will release the probe on a five - month collision course for the largest planet in the Solar System.

A group of crowd - funded amateurs, students, and NASA retirees are on the cusp of resurrecting — and possibly taking control of — a disused NASA spacecraft that has been coasting around the solar system since the days of disco.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is doing a little sightseeing on its decadelong cruise through the inner solar system and beyond.

Plans for sending a large spacecraft to the outer solar system were put back on hold.