Sentences with phrase «other planetary missions»

Starting from the Earth's orbital speed of 30 kilometers per second (km / s), the change in velocity (delta - v) the spacecraft must make to enter into a Hohmann transfer orbit that passes near Mercury is large compared to other planetary missions.

Little money was allocated to initiate other planetary missions.

If Beagle 2 finds evidence of life on Mars, no other result from Mars Express, or from any other planetary mission, will compare with it.

Not exact matches

He worries that younger planetary scientists are starting to look for other opportunities, undermining the prospects of future missions.

Other factions within planetary - science circles would prefer to send another mission to Titan — maybe even an airborne drone, a sailboat or a submarine — or to reach for farther frontiers by sending orbiters to Uranus and Neptune, the last two planets that remain scarcely explored.

McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, ventures to some of Earth's most extreme environments to study the closest facsimiles he can find to Mars and other distant outposts, on a mission to learn how life might exist beyond our planet.

Krimigis, an expert in planetary magnetospheres, had a hand in both missions, as well as in visits to all the other worlds in the solar system.

NASA may have to draw money from other Mars missions as well as the agency's larger planetary exploration programme to pay for the MSL delays, but did not specify which projects would be affected.

Reinstating SOFIA would renew other governments» faith that NASA can maintain its share of international partnerships, says Bell, noting that planetary scientists are still smarting from NASA's departure from the European ExoMars mission, a planned rover.

It was recommended by the 2003 National Academy of Sciences» Planetary Decadal Survey («New Frontiers in the Solar System») that this first mission to the Kuiper Belt should include flybys of both Pluto and other KBOs in order to maximize the science return.

Coming hot off the heels of discoveries made by other observatories, including NASA's Kepler and CoRot (the Convection, Rotation, and Planetary Transits mission, led by France's CNES with contributions from the ESA), this spacecraft is intended to build significantly on our knowledge of the universe, the Solar System, and the formation of life in general.

When planetary scientists started studying the photographs and data from Voyager and the subsequent Galileo mission that studied the Jovian system during the 1990s and early 2000s, they confirmed this notion: these ridges, or lineae, are fructures, or cracks, on Europa's icy surface, caused be the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons.

It really made me feel like they just want to spend money on design and fabricate some test vehicles but not launch them because # 1 it to expensive and # 2 they really don't know where to go or than an asteroid mission because Planetary Resources really doesn't want to spend their own money on R&D... Considering the events in the Ukraine and Iran... The world may end before the SLS / Orion goes anywhere other LEO or maybe just maybe to the Moon!!!

But along with these and other scientifically significant missions, DSCOVR will also have the ability to inspire new ways of thinking about the true nature of the human condition, by showing us new images everyday that give every person on Earth the ability to see his or her home city or village in the context of the planetary whole, reminding us of our obligation to take good care of what Buckminster Fuller described so long ago as «Spaceship Earth.»

What began with climate studies of Venus continued for planets like Mars as new space missions sent back huge amounts of data about Earth's other planetary cousin.