Sentences with phrase «plan space missions»

She hopes to someday help plan space missions.

I have also been talking to people who plan space missions.

Rather than try to calculate individual trajectories as though she were planning a space mission, Howell used computers to calculate tens of thousands of trajectories whose initial conditions differed only slightly.

The Science and Technology Facilities Council, which sets research priorities and disburses government monies, said that cost overruns have forced it to withdraw support from experiments, including the International Linear Collider (a proposed follow - up to the Large Hadron Collider) and a number of ground - based telescopes, as well as trim its investments in planned space missions such as the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft (set to study the early universe).

The offered lectures will cover existing and planned space missions, space mission design, and the principles of instrumentation for the required observations, including in - situ measurements.

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It could also serve to aid future space travel, including planned missions to Mars.

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.

Blue Origin is expanding its space tourism plans to accommodate military missions.

Obama has been battling some in Congress over his plans to use more private space companies, like Space X, for getting people to orbit with NASA concentrating on missions to send astronauts to new places, such as nearby asterspace companies, like Space X, for getting people to orbit with NASA concentrating on missions to send astronauts to new places, such as nearby asterSpace X, for getting people to orbit with NASA concentrating on missions to send astronauts to new places, such as nearby asteroids.

In our podcast's inaugural episode, Commercial Lunar Ambitions, Chad interviews John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic — one of the most influential leaders in the entrepreneurial space sector, and who is currently planning the world's first commercial mission to the Moon in 2019.

Emerging commercial deep space companies, therefore, find themselves saddled with unsustainable communications costs, or worse — with no real plans for how they will communicate with their spacecraft during high - stakes long - distance missions.

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Buzz Aldrin has been promoting his new book, Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration, which details his plan to have space travel and a permanent presence on the Red Planet by the 2Space Exploration, which details his plan to have space travel and a permanent presence on the Red Planet by the 2space travel and a permanent presence on the Red Planet by the 2030s.

Return to Mars The UK's involvement with Martian exploration has not ended with Beagle 2 and the British Space Agency is a key participant in the forthcoming ESA ExoMars missions to the Red Planets planned for 2016 and 2018.

NASA's former director of astrophysics plans to revolutionize space science with agile, privately funded missions

The Administration's space exploration plans got off to a controversial start with the Augustine Commission and the decision to end the Constellation program and refocus on robotic science missions.

The CAL and QUANTUS teams plan to join forces on a second space station mission, called BECAL, which would launch in 2020 or 2021.

Investigating how space radiation affects astronauts and learning ways to mitigate those effects are critical to further human exploration of space, and NASA needs to consider these risks as it plans for missions to Mars and beyond.

Golden Spike's plans rank among the most audacious privately funded space exploration missions ever proposed.

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.

At the annual European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, Austria, Blanc suggested NASA and the European Space Agency could join forces to plan and mount the mission, which could launch in the mid-2020s.

Although no NASA mission currently has plans to take a sequencer into space, the agency is supporting several efforts to get the technology ready for exploration.

«And the coronagraph technology this would test will help us plan for future missions, the huge space telescopes we want to launch decades from now.

NASA and the European Space Agency soon began planning the Cassini mission to get a closer look.

The request also calls for canceling five NASA earth science missions, including an operating Earth - facing camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite and the planned Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite, set for launch in 2022, which would assess the ocean's health and its interactions with the atmosphere.

Space agencies have just been presented with a bold plan to search for aliens on Jupiter's icy moon through a joint American - European mission

Astronauts on future missions may nibble on lettuce and grow their own antibiotics, depending on the results of research that student scientists plan to conduct on the International Space Station.

Dave Folta, a senior aerospace engineer with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, says they are planning to use Howell's techniques — which he admiringly calls «highfalutin math» — for at least four missions over the next decade, including the Next Generation Space Telescope, scheduled to replace the Hubble Space Telescope in eight years.

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's visionary plan slates an independent manned space mission and establishment of an international lunar base by 2025.

The aerospace company Lockheed Martin late Thursday (Sept. 28) revealed new details for its Mars Base Camp plan, an architecture aimed at building a crewed space station in orbit around the Red Planet that would support long - term exploration at Mars by astronautson 1,000 - day missions.

The European Space Agency is planning to launch its next radar mission, Sentinel - 1 in early April.

Astronomer Sara Seager at MIT does plan to send telescopes into space, but the appeal of her roughly $ 15 million ExoplanetSat mission is that it does not require a launch of its own.

The NIC Human Space Flight team at Goddard is already planning the communications for Exploration Mission - 1, the first flight of the agency's new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to demonstrate the integrated system performance prior to the first crewed flight.

But according to the head of the RussianFederal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Vladimir Popovkin, a new mission will depend on the outcome of talks with the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA about the possible inclusion of Russia in the ExoMars project, which plans to send missions to the red planet in 2016 and 2018.

Starting in 2020, the world's major space agencies, including NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the China National Space Administration, are planning their first manned missions to our satelspace agencies, including NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the China National Space Administration, are planning their first manned missions to our satelSpace Agency (ESA) and the China National Space Administration, are planning their first manned missions to our satelSpace Administration, are planning their first manned missions to our satellite.

«The moon is the nearest island in space out from the Earth,» says Igor Mitrofanov at Russia's Institute for Space Research in Moscow, the project scientist for two planned Russian - led rover missspace out from the Earth,» says Igor Mitrofanov at Russia's Institute for Space Research in Moscow, the project scientist for two planned Russian - led rover missSpace Research in Moscow, the project scientist for two planned Russian - led rover missions.

With increased funding for planet hunters, NASA's plans to launch the $ 550 million planet - seeking Kepler mission in 2009, and the French national space agency's launch of the alien - Earth - hunting COROT late last year, the exosolar ranks should continue to grow.

Ruslan Belikov and Eduardo Bendek, two scientists at NASA Ames Research Center, have outlined innovative plans for a small space telescope with a half - meter mirror that could launch before the end of the decade on a dedicated mission to obtain basic images of any Alpha Centauri planets.

The president's sweeping endorsement of research, however, carefully avoids the fact that his 2013 budget would cut funding for NASA's Mars exploration program by nearly one - third and end the country's role in two Mars missions planned jointly with the European Space Agency for later in the decade.

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.

The space agency plans 10 more construction missions and two re-supply flights to the space station before the shuttle's September 2010 retirement date.

She also points out that, in order to fully exploit this method and attempt to understand what dark energy actually is, «a much wider survey is necessary,» such as those planned for the future space - telescope missions such as the United States proposed Joint Dark Energy Mission and Europe's proposed Euclid satellite.

Scientists also will compare medical data from Scott and Mark, «to gain insight into how the human body responds to longer durations in space,» information that could prove useful for planning a future mission to Mars, the White House suggests.

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.

«These particle radiation conditions present important environmental factors for space travel and space weather, and must be carefully studied and accounted for in the planning and design of future missions to the moon, Mars, asteroids and beyond.»

In his first major speech to astronomers since his controversial decision in January to abandon a planned space shuttle mission to Hubble, O'Keefe explained why.

While NASA takes the space elevator seriously, the idea is officially just one of dozens of advanced concepts jostling for tight funding, and it was conspicuously absent from President Bush's January 14 address, in which he laid out plans for returning to the moon by 2020, followed by a manned mission to Mars.

That has caught the attention of scientists planning future space missions.

Back in the US, meanwhile, teams work flat out on plans for a $ 650 million space probe called the Joint Dark Energy Mission.

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