Sentences with phrase «other spacecraft»

They now are critical for maintaining the space station and docking other spacecraft with the orbiting laboratory.

Hundreds of exoplanets — planets beyond our solar system — have already been detected from the ground and from other spacecraft via transit searches and other methods.

Schwadron and colleagues solved the discrepancies using triangulation of four different datasets gathered by other spacecraft, including the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission that in 2009 discovered a mysterious «ribbon» of energy and particles believed to be associated with the interstellar magnetic field.

While MAVEN and a number of other spacecraft watched the fireworks from orbit, NASA's Curiosity rover recorded a more sinister aspect of the solar storm from the Red Planet's surface.

Most other spacecraft zipped by, using the planet's gravity to speed them along to other destinations.

Other spacecraft also regularly scoot out of the way of rocket and satellite debris.

The only other spacecraft to visit Mercury — Mariner 10, which swung past in 1974 and 1975 — left nearly half of the surface unseen.

Those pieces of flotsam can damage other spacecraft if they collide at high speeds, and bits smaller than about a centimeter are hard to track and avoid, says ESA materials engineer Benoit Bonvoisin in a statement.

In September, scientists for India's Chandrayaan - 1 and two other spacecraft announced the discovery of trace quantities of water over much of the moon's surface, which may be created in this process.

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.

Similarly, other spacecraft proposed in the EJSM will require OKs from their respective governments.

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues answer the question of why NASA's Voyager 1, when it became the first probe to enter interstellar space in mid-2012, observed a magnetic field that was inconsistent with that derived from other spacecraft observations.

Kepler, however, has an advantage over other spacecraft running low on fuel.

And with more than two dozen other spacecraft scattered throughout the rest of the Solar System, planetary exploration has been keeping apace.

the accidental high - speed ejection of a NASA standard initiator from a pyro valve into the MMH tank or other spacecraft system.

The search revealed no new Trojans, but perhaps other spacecraft will look again in the future.

SOHO and other spacecraft helped explain changes in magnetic field Voyager 1 detected, which appeared to shift with changes in the solar wind.

While astronomers have actively monitored the GRS since the early 1800s, and other spacecraft such as Voyager in the late 1970s and Galileo in the 1990s, «there's still a lot of mystery surrounding this massive storm,» said Bolton.

Whilst being able to explore, mine resources, and collect «units» the galaxy's in game currency you are also able to fight other spacecraft and upgrade your own capabilities to survive your epic journey in the vast galaxy.

Therefore, NASA and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, known as America Makes, came up with a novel idea: a 3 - D printed habitat that can employ indigenous materials and other spacecraft materials that might otherwise go to waste.

They're piecemeal in their construction, slapped together from natural elements, chunk of other spacecraft, and just about anything that the Orkish horde can source.

Most other spacecraft have stayed near Jupiter's equator.

The only other spacecraft that has been reusable is the Space Shuttle.

Detecting glints like this from much farther away than in this case could be used by other spacecraft to study exoplanets, he said.

For the last 13 years, it has seen sights on Saturn that no other spacecraft has shown us.

Only one other spacecraft, Galileo, has ever circled Jupiter, which is itself orbited by 67 known moons.

Here are some other spacecraft exploring our solar system, launched by NASA and the world's other space agencies.

SpaceShipOne is different from any other spacecraft ever flown.

Once further studies quantify and confirm detection levels, the new technique may help prevent failures in medical devices such as cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators and also avert electronics failures in satellites and other spacecraft.

For another, scientists regularly monitor the interior of this and other spacecraft, a process that started with the Apollo missions.

It has flown further from Earth than any other spacecraft, but still has not left the solar system, despite multiple claims over the past decade that it was on the brink of doing so.

Other spacecraft were also eyeing Siding Spring from a safe location behind the Red Planet.

Other spacecraft have flown by comets at high speed or orbited asteroids.

First, the coauthors compared the Fermi findings to intensity of X-rays from the same blazars measured by X-ray satellites Chandra, Swift, Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, and XMM / Newton and lower - energy radiation measured by other spacecraft and ground - based observatories.

The LCROSS results will flesh out the surprise announcements in September that three other spacecraft — India's Chandrayaan - 1 and NASA's Deep Impact and Cassini — detected traces of water on the moon's surface by studying reflected infrared light from the sun.

The satellite would have supported communications with the Space Shuttle and up to 23 other spacecraft.

Lucy would visit an asteroid in the Trojan group of asteroids, which no other spacecraft has done yet.

Juno has flown closer to the solar system's most famous storm than any other spacecraft to take the most detailed images to date.

Only one other spacecraft, Galileo, has ever circled Jupiter, which is itself orbited by 67 known moons.

Once the probes have identified asteroids with valuable resources, other spacecraft will be dispatched to stage small - scale tests of the mining technology.

Learn about space shuttles, rockets and other spacecraft.

MAVEN, with an elliptical orbit around Mars, has an orbit that crosses those of other spacecraft and the moon Phobos many times over the course of a year.

In 5000 + mode there are also other spacecraft to dodge meaning things get a little bit tricky.

The team answered specific questions about the ship this past week, including its specs and its comparison to other spacecraft that players might select early on in the game.

Artist Statement «With 27 years of service to the Shuttle Program, Discovery had more spaceflights than any other spacecraft to date at 39 successful launches.