Sentences with phrase «orbiting space»

JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to have the orbiting space solar system operational some time in the 2030s.»

«Without thermal controls, the temperature of the orbiting Space Station's Sun - facing side would soar to 250 degrees F (121 C), while thermometers on the dark side would plunge to minus 250 degrees F -LRB--157 C).

gang - type techno - and futurephiliac myself (the future I'd like to see has humans colonising the solar system and billions living in orbiting space habitats, as per The High Frontier by Gerard K O'Neill) I'm puzzled by the Uncivilisation concept.

After an apocalypse leads to the collapse of civilization as we know it, the rich and powerful flee to an orbiting space station.

Players can dynamically build offensive and defensive structures anywhere on the battlefield in real time by calling them down from a drop ship orbiting space.

With space ships and hyper travel directly to planets, from orbiting Space...

Take control of a rail - riding, laser - shooting young hero on a perilous quest to rescue his pet cat, Scram Kitty, kidnapped and imprisoned in the depths of the World's biggest orbiting space laboratory, along with all of Earth's cats.

Floating through an orbiting space station in zero gravity, swimming with the sharks in the ocean, and even manning a tank makes for a visually intriguing contrast to the been - there - done - that feeling of the repetitious and cover - centric on - foot battles.

Mace has been convicted and taken to an orbiting space station prison.

This time Blomkamp has Matt Damon playing the unlikely hero in a future where the wealthy citizens of Earth reside on an orbiting space station that can cure any disease.

He tests his plan on Mike Nelson, the sole human aboard an Earth - orbiting space station known as the Satellite of Love.

In a great transitionary, associative image to the next segment many eons later, the tossed bone (tool / weapon) instantly rotates and dissolves into a white, orbiting space satellite from Earth - a technological instrument, tool, weapon (orbiting nuclear platform) or machine from another era that was ultimately derived from the first tool - weapon.

The Wydens have spent many billions building and launching an orbiting space - station laboratory, to keep CRISPR gas away from Earth.

Particularly outstanding examples of illogic were the administration's decisions to cancel the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) while proceeding with a lunar - orbiting space station dubbed Deep Space Gateway.

One significant aspect of this discovery is the fact that it's the first of its kind to be made by an orbiting space telescope.

Beginning in 1979, orbiting space observatories began to detect sungrazing comets using instruments called coronagraphs.

The Aragoscope would consist of an orbiting space telescope sitting behind an opaque disc up to 0.5 miles (0.8 kilometers) wide.

The Apollo program fit into a sweeping vision of human space exploration — sometimes called the «von Braun paradigm» after rocket scientist Wernher von Braun — that included not just lunar expeditions but winged spaceships, orbiting space stations and piloted missions to Mars.

By PETER BOND Russia and the US have pooled their expertise to design a new orbiting space station.

The debris clouds, initially distributed along the orbital paths of the satellites, are spreading to enshroud the entire planet, joining the roughly 19,000 large chunks of orbiting space junk (as seen in this image) already tracked by the Department of Defense.

Now, the telescope is under new management by SRI International, and is supported by a contract from the U.S. Air Force that tasks it with searching for orbiting space trash.

Some U.S. defense analysts are likely to claim the orbiting space lab has a military purpose,» said UCS's Kulacki.

RCT Consortium telescope The Robotically Controlled Telescope was built in 1965 as a test bed for future orbiting space telescopes.

A ground - based laser array in a high - altitude site like Chile's Atacama Desert, shown in this artist's rendering, could send 100 gigawatts of power to orbiting space probes, enough to accelerate them to a significant fraction of the speed of light.

The MBC also relies on the use of NASA's Deep Space Gateway at the moon, which is likely to be a small orbiting space station.

If so, an orbiting space telescope could upstage the Large Hadron Collider in the search for the elusive particle.

He's even looking beyond, sketching designs for orbiting space hotels.

Space debris is a massive problem in low Earth orbit space flight.

«But make it work and you have a new era in access to low Earth orbit space.»

Logsdon says two commercial companies have expressed interest in a long - term low - Earth orbit space station: Axiom Space, a company planning to build a replacement for the ISS for space tourism, manufacturing and advertising purposes among others, and Bigelow Aerospace, which already has an inflated habitat module attached to the ISS.

It not only orbited the space rock for an entire Earth year but also landed on it.

Your mission is to get key personnel to safety by restoring power to the shuttle and then launching it to a low Earth orbit space station.

Not exact matches

Because in»69 we were able to go to the moon, and the space shuttle could get to low - earth orbit, and then obviously the space shuttle got retired, but that trend line is down to zero.

Canada's favourite space cadet went into orbit for six months and rediscovered his love for David Bowie

The Tesla is well into space now and is headed towards an orbit that will put it in close proximity to Mars.

For much of the history of space exploration on Earth, the powerful rockets used to propel people and cargo to orbit or beyond typically end up in a watery grave at the bottom of the ocean or eventually burning up in the atmosphere.

«The commercialization of LEO (low Earth orbit) is an exciting prospect, but it will be an exercise in determining what ideas are more real than others,» said Phil Larson, a former space policy adviser to President Barack Obama who worked for Elon Musk's SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Cspace policy adviser to President Barack Obama who worked for Elon Musk's SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies CSpace Exploration Technologies Corp..

«The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit.»

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.

spent 218 hours in space, orbited the Earth a total of 137 times, and racked up over 3.6 million miles» worth of space travel

He also wants to be the man who designs a vehicle capable of not just brushing the edge of space, but actually going into orbit.

While his company became the first privatized space company to return a spacecraft to Earth from low orbit; it had some bumps in the road.

Translation: It's a space craft that can orbit for hundreds of days and then glide back to Earth so that it can be relaunched to save money.

The Air Force sent a secret space plane into orbit from Florida on Thursday just ahead of Hurricane Irma's expected arrival this weekend.

The Air Force has not disclosed many details about the space craft other than to say it's designed for «low Earth orbit altitudes where it can perform long duration space technology experimentation and testing.»

Jupiter is about 0.001 as massive than the sun, but it's sizeable enough that both the sun and Jupiter orbit that point in space.

When a small object orbits a big object in space, the less massive one doesn't travel in a perfect circle around the larger one.

NASA launched the Juno spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems (lmt), in August 2011, and it finally reached Jupiter's orbit in July 2016.

Though China superseded Tiangong - 1 in 2016 with Tiangong - 2, space experts hailed the first space station as a major achievement for the nation, since it helped pioneer a permanent Chinese presence in orbit.

If everyone on Earth jumped at the same time, we wouldn't change the Earth's orbit in space, but we could cause a lot of damage on Earth.