Sentences with phrase «operating spacecraft»

K2 will use an innovative way of operating the spacecraft to observe target fields along the ecliptic for the next 2 - 3 years.

Space around Earth is littered with numerous human - made objects that could potentially collide with operating spacecraft and each other (creating more debris).

Only about 1,000 of those 20,000 objects are operating spacecraft.

NASA stopped operating the spacecraft in 1997, but through the years the plucky probe has kept broadcasting a carrier signal.

After many claims and statements over the past few years that Voyager 1, our most distant operating spacecraft, has «left the solar system» (it hasn't, as I explain here), it does now seem that as of August 2012 this extraordinary vehicle has entered the interstellar medium.

There was still interesting information coming back, but it takes several million dollars to operate the spacecraft, says Larry Lasher, project manager at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

APL designed, built and operates the spacecraft.

NASA is looking at using one of them and must determine how much it would cost to build, launch and operate a spacecraft that would incorporate it.

The Astronaut Corps includes those men and women who are qualified to fly into space, but excludes astronauts who have transitioned to management positions within NASA and no longer operate spacecraft.

For example, NASA, with President Obama's approval, set aside $ 6 billion to support private ventures that will compete to build and operate spacecraft, with NASA overseeing quality assurance and safety.

Not exact matches

They operate and maintain equipment used in developing, testing, and producing new aircraft and spacecraft.

«Re-launching a rocket that has already delivered spacecraft to orbit is an important milestone on the path to complete and rapid reusability,» Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, said in a statement.

Musk added that with the ability to carry satellites or interplanetary spacecraft weighing over 53 metric tons or 117,000 pounds to orbit, Falcon Heavy will have more than twice the performance of the Delta IV Heavy, the next most powerful vehicle, which is operated by United Launch Alliance, a Boeing - Lockheed Martin joint venture.

Los Alamos» work on discovery - driven instruments like ChemCam stems from the Laboratory's experience building and operating more than 500 spacecraft instruments for national security.

The crew - carrying Dragon spacecraft will operate, in large part, autonomously, so the passengers would have to train for emergency procedures but would not be in charge of piloting the spacecraft, Musk said.

In the next year, the number of operating sensors on NASA spacecraft will decrease by 40 percent over 2006 figures.

In normal operating mode, Odyssey keeps the THEMIS camera pointed straight down as the spacecraft orbits Mars.

Observations of Neptune from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, operating in its K2 mission, were important in this comparison between the planet and brown dwarfs.

Rosetta is the first spacecraft to orbit and escort a comet, and Alice, developed and operated for NASA, is the first instrument to obtain far - ultraviolet observations at a comet.

Most satellite orbits are chosen to duck below the radiation belts or circle outside of them, and some satellites, such as GPS spacecraft, must operate between the two belts.

At 8:05 p.m., the IRIS team confirmed the spacecraft had successfully deployed its solar arrays, has power and has acquired the sun, indications that all systems are operating as expected.

All of Juno's science instruments and the spacecraft's JunoCam were operating during the flyby, collecting data that are now being returned to Earth.

From a hardware perspective, the Van Allen Probes» most significant challenge was to operate and perform measurements in the severe charged particle environment of the radiation belts, a region of space most spacecraft avoid.

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.

When the spacecraft is at the lowest point closest to Earth at 67,000 miles (17.0 earth radii), it remains well above geosynchronous orbit 22,236 miles above the equator where most communications satellites operate.

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft is the first of NASA's new Discovery - class probes, which are intended to show that NASA can operate with cheap and simple designs.

APL designed, built and operates the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

While NASA's Johnson Space Center manages monitored debris threats for spacecraft related to U.S. manned missions such as the International Space Station, the responsibility for unmanned missions managed by NASA falls to the Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis, or CARA, team operating out of NASA Goddard.

The instruments were mostly ready and paid for, but given ESA's other commitments, the spacecraft would have to be built, launched, and operated for $ 150 million.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory built and operates the MESSENGER spacecraft and manages this Discovery - class mission for NASA.

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.

And, unlike Galileo, which used a nuclear power source, Juno's electricity comes from the sun — a first for a spacecraft operating in the outer solar system.

Los Alamos» work on discovery - driven instruments like ChemCam stems from the Laboratory's experience building and operating more than 500 spacecraft instruments for national defense.

SoHO was launched on Dec. 2, 1995 to study the sun from its core to the outer corona and the solar wind; the spacecraft continues to operate.

Remember, also the Pioneer spacecraft travelled to this region, so there are actually four distinct data sets [about the heliopause] and a fifth one by New Horizons spacecraft, but the latter carries much more sensitive space plasma instruments and the first dust detector to operate this far out, ever.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

MSSS is also currently operating two cameras onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) and the Context Camera (CTX) and is monitoring the health of Junocam, a MSSS - built camera on its way to Jupiter aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft.

Fuel gauges used on Earth work in the presence of Earth's gravity (the liquid fuel must sit at the bottom of a container), so on spacecraft (which operate in microgravity), engineers had to come up with another system.

The spacecraft operated exactly according to plan, and Juno successfully entered orbit today, July 5, 2016, UTC

MSSS operated the Mars Observer Camera (MOC) aboard the Mars Observer spacecraft.

Since 1990, Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) of San Diego, California has been designing, developing, operating, and conducting scientific research with space camera systems onboard various spacecraft.

Operating the two spacecraft that make up BebpiColombo will be harder than rocket science, says a member of its science team.

In addition to the HALCA spacecraft, built, launched, and operated by Japan's ISAS, the participation of a large number of ground - based radio telescopes is also essential.

The first, known as Solar Orbiter, will see a spacecraft operating closer to the Sun than any previous mission with a particular focus on examining the solar wind.

As the spacecraft operates in its 53 - day highly elliptical polar orbit of Jupiter, scientists can study the minute amount of acceleration and deceleration Juno experiences as it moves around Jupiter.

The two spacecraft separated soon after launch and operated independently.

In January, SOHO controllers changed the spacecraft's software so that it could operate without gyroscopes and use other tools on the spacecraft to figure out its attitude.

MGS was launched in 1996 and the MOC was operated by MSSS for 10 years — from calibration and Mars meteorological imaging during the interplanetary cruise phase, through the spacecraft orbit insertion aerobraking period, the MGS primary mission, and multiple extended missions.

CYGNSS, a constellation of eight microsatellite spacecraft built and operated by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), was launched into low - inclination, low - Earth orbit over the tropics in December 2016.