Sentences with phrase «own robotic missions»

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.

Mars, the target of more than a dozen robotic missions to hunt for signs of microbial life, comes in third at 0.59.

Called ballistic capture, it could help open the Martian frontier for more robotic missions, future manned expeditions and even colonization efforts.

But all this could be done more cheaply with a robotic mission, says Sykes.

In the future, we desire to increase the level of participation in missions and to eventually lead our own robotic missions to Mars.

With twin rovers still making tracks on Mars, plans are already underway for the next robotic mission to set foot on the Red Planet.

Canada also wishes to lead small, complementary robotic missions to Mars in order to put Canadian scientists and engineers in the «driver's seat» to realize Canadian objectives.

«We know very little about that ocean,» says Steven Squyres, an astronomer at Cornell University who has been involved with many robotic missions.

That is less than many robotic missions launched by national space agencies, Alan Stern, president and CEO of the new company, said during a press conference here.

Stern, who is also the former head of NASA's Science Mission Directorate and the principal investigator of the New Horizons robotic mission now en route to Pluto, said he believed tourists and commercial businesses (such as mining companies) would also be potential customers.

Two Congressmen expressed concern that the 2013 budget proposal takes away from NASA's robotic missions to Mars

Two more robotic missions would then follow.

So why not skip all these incremental robotic missions and throw that money into a dedicated program to send humans to Mars?

It was designed to serve as a test bed for future robotic missions, like Spirit's in 2004.

NASA already has four robotic missions in the works, designed to explore the moon's atmosphere, gravity and seismology.

The resulting data have helped the European Space Agency hone its recent successful robotic missions, including the Huygens lander on Titan and Mars Express.

He is the project scientist on a proposed robotic mission called Resource Prospector, which could launch in 2018 to try to extract water from lunar rocks.

In June he backtracked and ordered development of a robotic mission to perform maintenance and install new scientific instruments.

The team will conduct analyses of spacecraft and mission design, and investigate concepts to support robotic mission objectives, including overall science, planetary defense, asteroid resource use and deep - space capability demonstrations.

To prepare for human visits, NASA may order additional robotic missions to the martian moons and asteroids in coming years.

In fact, you're working now on a robotic mission that will be done without government funding, right?

A series of robotic missions, from Viking in the 1970s to the Spirit rover still roaming Mars today, have observed ancient riverbeds and polar ice caps storing enough water to submerge the entire planet in an ocean 40 feet deep.

Second, the space agency needs to respect the firewall between robotic missions and human missions, because the goals of these two wings of the space program are, for now, so distinct.

Most robotic missions to Mars have failed, but future astronauts headed for the Red Planet will have more than an imagined martian jinx to worry about.

This Way to Mars: How Technologies Borrowed from Robotic Missions Could Deliver Astronauts to Deep Space

Is «unlocking the mysteries of space» a tacit endorsement of what some influential Republicans hope will be a costly robotic mission to find life on a watery moon of Jupiter?

GRAIL and many of the other current robotic missions were planned in the expectation that humans would soon be returning to the moon.

Before every successful manned or robotic mission has ever flown to space countless man - hours were devoted for extensive and rigorous testing on the -LSB-...]

«CaSSIS images will also be used to not only plan future robotic missions, but also human - led missions to Mars.»

Last year, Yuri Milner, the benefactor behind all the various Breakthrough efforts, said he was considering a private, robotic mission to Enceladus.

These rich worlds beyond Neptune I think are each worthy of a dedicated robotic mission.

In a rather intriguing twist, it appears that NASA is now mandated by law to fly a robotic mission to Jupiter's watery moon Europa.

Project Description: Science Mission: NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a robotic mission that is gathering high - resolution data about the lunar surface and surrounding environment.

On Wednesday, NASA announced two new potential robotic missions: one to the comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, and one to Saturn's moon Titan.

She then worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Mars Program Office where she served as the Mars Sample Return Science System Engineer and worked on formulation of sample science and astrobiology investigations for future robotic missions, as well as long - term planning for potential human missions to the red planet.

Since then, a total of 15 robotic missions led by various NASA centers have laid the groundwork for future human missions to the Red Planet.

Asteroid Redirect Robotic Mission (ARRM)- first robotic mission to collect boulder from asteroid - launch (estimated for mid-2020's)

Dawn Mission is a NASA robotic mission to explore asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres in the Asteroid Belt.

The next robotic missions to the Moon and Mars will be rovers, with wheels, because guess what?

NASA's next robotic mission to Mars should provide researchers their first look into the Red Planet's interior.

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I would like to see a robotic mission to measure temperature and salinity variations in Thermohaline circulation.

Since then, I have expanded my bailiwick to take in robotic missions, space stations and Space Shuttle development Frequency about 3 posts per month.

Not exact matches

The robotic system may sound contrived and gimmicky, but for Eatsa founder Dave Friedberg, the tech - driven approach is a means to support a bigger mission: selling nutritious and sustainable food at a reasonable price.

Now, according to the company mission, «Golden Spike will exploit these advances, and others in the late stages of development, for commercial use, to offer human expeditions to the Moon at prices comparable to robotic flagship missions.»

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — From Launch Complex 17 here at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, many of NASA's robotic planetary missions blasted off.

Our robotic spacecraft systems will collapse the cost of access to the Moon, introduce a new commercial paradigm for government missions, democratize lunar research and exploration, and blaze the trail for commercial space transportation and exploration beyond Earth's orbit.

A robotics company on a mission to revolutionize the hospitality industry by solving the two biggest issues in housekeeping: time and injuries.

Earlier this year, the company unveiled Prospector X, a tiny robotic spacecraft that'll sit in low Earth orbit testing technologies for future asteroid prospecting missions, including water - powered propulsion and optical navigation systems.

Launched in October 1997, the Cassini mission to Saturn included a sophisticated robotic spacecraft that orbited the ringed planet and provided streams of data about its rings, magnetosphere, moon Titan and icy satellites.