Sentences with phrase «orbiting space lab»

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

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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.

International Space Station Commander Randy Bresnik has told Pope Francis his greatest joy working on the orbiting lab is being able to «see God's creation maybe a little bit from his perspective».

Then there are space station spacewalk repairs to train for, software systems to learn and docking procedures for the international fleet of robotic and crewed spaceships that visit the orbiting lab.

Since then, the country has notched up a series of successes, including sending Chinese astronauts into orbit and launching two space labs.

The space lab will make dozens of orbits between March 30 and April 3, making it extremely difficult to determine where the station will fall.

On its fifth flight, for instance, Rocket Lab is scheduled to carry 10 NASA - funded CubeSats that will include experiments to monitor space weather and Earth's radiation belts, and conduct technology demonstrations for solar sails and on - orbit repairs.

On September 29, the flames of a Long March - 2FT1 rocket lit the night sky over the Gobi Desert as China launched its Tiangong - 1 space lab, a first step toward the construction and deployment of an orbiting manned space station by 2020.

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.

HOUSTON — NASA's last space shuttle ever to visit the International Space Station cast off from the orbiting lab early Tuesday (July 19) to begin one final trip back to Espace shuttle ever to visit the International Space Station cast off from the orbiting lab early Tuesday (July 19) to begin one final trip back to ESpace Station cast off from the orbiting lab early Tuesday (July 19) to begin one final trip back to Earth.

For the first time, US space flight startup Rocket Lab has launched its Electron rocket into orbit.