Sentences with phrase «orbiting lab in»

Three taikonauts successfully linked a spacecraft to the Tiangong - 1 orbiting lab in June, the first time a Chinese crew performed such a docking.

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While the Planet Labs staff ate pancakes that morning in February, two shoebox - size nine - pound pods made in the company's unconventional factory floated from the International Space Station toward a polar orbit of Earth.

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli was aboard the orbiting lab for that call and was also around to chat with Francis, who considered a career in chemistry before becoming a priest.

But it could later switch to satellites like the 28 imaging cubesats that the firm Planet Labs of San Francisco already has in orbit.

Imagine your lab is now in Earth orbit, or even more difficult, on the surface of another planet.

Both SpaceX and Orbital Sciences are interested in carrying more than just cargo to the orbiting lab.

Louis Lanzerotti, a physicist at New Jersey Institute of Technology who spent many years at Bell Labs and worked on space missions such as Voyager, Ulysses and Galileo, was a graduate student in nuclear physics at Harvard University when Telstar 1 went into orbit.

Telstar 1 vindicated the vision of John Robinson Pierce, a famous Bell Labs engineer who had calculated that 25 satellites placed in suitable orbits around the Earth could provide continuous communication between any two points on the globe by bouncing signals.

Finally, the Wet Lab Kit will provide crew members with frequently - used tools and supplies needed to perform in - orbit experiment sample manipulation and analysis.

Six years later, he flew for the first time on a six - day, 96 - orbit mission during which he helped deploy a satellite, conduct experiments in astrophysics, and run an onboard materials processing lab.

Now that Electron has reached orbit and deployed satellites, Rocket Lab may be able to begin commercial operations in earnest.

The ET Lab's new technique uses a coronagraph, optical fibers and a high - resolution spectrometer, all working together to strip out a star's glare while capturing an extremely detailed chemical fingerprint of any worlds in orbit.

He decorates shoebox - sized satellites that Planet Labs in San Francisco releases into orbit.