Sentences with phrase «other space mission»

The project became really complicated and expensive, like a microcosm of any other space mission.

«Serviceability has been one of the great paradigms in mission architecture that separates the Hubble Space Telescope from all of the other space missions to date.»

Not exact matches

At SpaceX, his steering a company whose mission is to «revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.»

SpaceX's mission statement highlights both its short - term goals (developing the technologies needed to explore space) and long - term aspirations (enabling people to live on other planets, like Mars).

Once in place, vehicles tethered to the massive cable could haul payloads into space — resupplying orbital and long distance missions with fuel, water, food, oxygen and other critical supplies.

The company has produced a stellar sedan — Consumer Reports scored it higher than any other car it has ever tested — and Musk's achievements justify accolades: He co-founded PayPal and has made billions; SpaceX has made multiple missions to the International Space Station.

Seven other U.S. space probes have sailed past the gas giant on brief reconnaissance missions before heading elsewhere in the solar system.

Still, while other companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are planning much of their business around space flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space Staspace flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space StaSpace Station.

Months - long testing of the system began in November at the energy department's Nevada National Security Site, with an eye toward providing energy for future human and robotic missions in space and on the surface of Mars, the moon or other solar system destinations.

i long with you david... and i myself stumble in my own awkward efforts toward freedom, and as you said, we know the fact is that it is scary to move into freedom... because it is unknown... but i see so many on this newfound road to freedom get trapped in the liminal space of wish - fullfillment community (which actually rather looks like affinity rather than the hard - won community that comes from communitas)... i'm sure this is going to come off the wrong way, but i'm going to say it anyway: many of the comments seem to be «all about me», and truly that is what religion is... but not freedom, not the mission of Jesus where you die to yourself by taking up your cross daily... not being centered on the «other» rather than yourself...

«Together, with our national benefactors plus the support of the local business community and volunteers, we can meet our mission of providing a welcoming space that celebrates, nurtures and empowers the LGBT community and our friends and neighbors in South Florida while setting an example for other national organizations.»

«It also provides guidance on the use of existing NASA facilities and other resources to train for future missions, and supports the role and definition of the astronaut corps in connection with the full utilization of the International Space Station.»

Observations from the ground with HARPS and other facilities will be able to continue even after the end of the space mission.

The other potential Kepler successor, the Space Interferometry Mission, or SIM, was canceled in 2010 after NASA had already spent $ 600 million on it.

Other science outlays included $ 46 million over 4 years to create 1500 industrial internships for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows within Canadian business, $ 49 million toward the transformation of the National Research Council into what officials call a «toolbox» for industry, and a commitment to extend Canadian participation in the International Space Station mission to 2024.

That event will feature NASA officials and crew members aboard the International Space Station as they observe the rover anniversary and discuss how its activities and other robotic projects are helping prepare for a human mission to Mars and an asteroid.

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.&rspace station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.&rSpace Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

While the Johns Hopkins team studies the likely effects of radiation on the brain during a deep space mission, other NASA - funded research groups are looking at the potential effects of radiation on other parts of the body and on whether it increases cancer risks.

Micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) with uncanny navigation and real - time mapping capabilities could soon be zipping through indoor and outdoor spaces, running reconnaissance missions that others can not.

Stargazers will have the opportunity to get their hands on photos, charts, models and other space race relics from NASA missions thanks to an auction to commemorate the Apollo 11 moon mission

Its chairman, Representative Lamar Smith (R — TX), wanted to shape NASA's plan for human space exploration, research missions, and other activities at the $ 20 billion agency.

In Russell's proposal, Dawn used the same basic engine design as Deep Space 1 but needed a larger xenon fuel tank and other changes to ensure the system would survive its eight - year mission.

Decommissioned or damaged satellites, fragments of space stations and other remnants of space missions pose a potential threat of collisions with active satellites and spacecraft every day.

Adding wings made of glass or other refractive materials in flight would allow astronomers to better steer future space missions, the team reports online today in Nature Photonics.

Instead, her dozen or so minisatellites, each no larger than a loaf of bread, would be carried into space on rockets being used for other missions.

Reliable space - to - ground communication is critical to all missions — when astronauts venture outside the International Space Station to install new equipment and perform important maintenance, as well as for any other on - orbit nspace - to - ground communication is critical to all missions — when astronauts venture outside the International Space Station to install new equipment and perform important maintenance, as well as for any other on - orbit nSpace Station to install new equipment and perform important maintenance, as well as for any other on - orbit needs.

Since CubeSats are usually deployed via «rideshare» or «piggyback» on a larger satellite deployment or other large space mission, even a small margin of risk is unacceptable.

In a new paper in Scientific Reports, FSU Dean of the College of Human Sciences and Professor Michael Delp explains that the men who traveled into deep space as part of the lunar missions were exposed to levels of galactic cosmic radiation that have not been experienced by any other astronauts or cosmonauts.

«Over the next few years, major new astronomical facilities exploring other wavelengths will complement Fermi and give us our best look yet into the most powerful events in the universe,» said Julie McEnery, the mission's project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

Other missions analysed the effects of space travel on people.

Just as FM stations embed songs in radio waves that your car stereo translates into Celine Dion's power ballads, space missions embed data (though typically not voice transmissions) that the DSN antennas convert into images and other spacecraft info.

While the team showed that such a platform could theoretically be used to detect life on other planets, it is not ready for a space mission just yet.

The mission also leverages the agency's progress on the Space Launch System rocket, Orion spacecraft and other cutting - edge technology developments.

If the mission succeeds, astronauts could spend several years potentially being bombarded with cosmic rays — high - energy particles launched across space by supernovae and other galactic explosions.

NASA's big plan for a follow - up space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, has survived a near - death experience and is now on track for launch in 3 years — but at a cost so steep, amid stagnating government funding, that it has squeezed out or delayed other missspace observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, has survived a near - death experience and is now on track for launch in 3 years — but at a cost so steep, amid stagnating government funding, that it has squeezed out or delayed other missSpace Telescope, has survived a near - death experience and is now on track for launch in 3 years — but at a cost so steep, amid stagnating government funding, that it has squeezed out or delayed other missions.

«But over time the making money part really dwindled, and it's become a mission,» a way to change the global standard of living with ubiquitous energy and access to resources such as raw minerals from asteroids, helium - 3 from the moon, or oxygen, water and other lunar materials for space - or Mars - based habitats.

Malcolm Fridlund, European Space Agency project scientist for the mission, says there are «hundreds of other interesting candidate signals» in the COROT data waiting for painstaking follow - up observations with ground - based telescopes.

The announcement is a crucial milestone for the agency's nascent Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), which is intended to set the stage for future missions sending humans to Mars and other deep - space destinations.

Other research measures announced by Flaherty included $ 72.75 million for a forestry and environmental genomics competition at Genome Canada; $ 63.78 million over 5 years for the Canadian Space Agency's plan to develop the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, which proposes to generate radar images using multiple satellites; and $ 17.46 million over 5 years «to commence the pre-construction design phase» for the proposed Canadian Arctic Research Initiative.

There has been a noteworthy increase in the use of CubeSats and other small satellites for a variety of space missions, says George Nield, associate administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportaspace missions, says George Nield, associate administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space TransportaSpace Transportation.

India, Japan, China and the European Space Agency have added to the traffic in lunar orbit, with most of these missions carrying scientific instruments from other countries.

But as NASA and other international space agencies plan missions to Mars and beyond lasting more than a year, officials will have to take a position on this.

In space - based astronomy, and in other areas, we will have to make tough trade - offs between maintaining current missions, and developing new capabilities.

Five hundred registered guests will hear from a panel of space biosciences researchers as they discuss the four life science research missions Ames is sending to the space station, as well as other NASA missions via exhibits and view the night sky using telescopes.

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), launched in 1995 by NASA and the European Space Agency to study the sun and its environs, has delivered an auxiliary benefit — discovering more comets than any other mission in history.

Earlier this year the scientists of NASA's Kepler mission announced that their planet - hunting space telescope had identified more than 1,200 possible exoplanets (worlds orbiting stars other than our own sun) in its first few months on the job.

On its eight - year data gathering mission, Dawn will be the first space probe to visit and orbit two solar system bodies other than Earth

Shape - shifting robots could also be useful in other situations where they must perform a wide range of tasks without packing lots of spare parts, like during natural disaster emergency response operations or on space missions.

William Borucki, of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, has captured the astronomy prize for two achievements: conceiving the observational technique of transit photometry that raised the tantalizing prospect of sighting Earth - like planets orbiting other stars, and leading the 25 - year - long development of the Kepler mission, which in 2009 placed a telescope in space to make those observations.

For a man obsessed with entities long - since expired, it seems cruelly fitting that Still, whom I sat with on that flight two years ago, may soon see the death of his own NASA program: managing the Kepler space telescope, which orbits the sun with a mission to find exoplanets near other stars.