Sentences with phrase «planetary exploration missions of»

It will demonstrate that Canada is a reliable partner in planetary exploration missions of the future, and more importantly, Canadian scientists will benefit from this wonderful opportunity.

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And science has progressively become a bigger part of missions run by both the China National Space Administration (CNSA), which governs lunar and planetary exploration, and the China Manned Space Agency.

«It's frustrating because it should be a golden age of planetary exploration because there's so much data that's coming in, but what's missing is the commitment of funding to interpret the measurements,» says Jim Bell, associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University and a science team member on the twin Mars rover mission.

In Richard Kerr's News Focus article, «Pluto, the Last Planetary First,» Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and principal investigator of the New Horizons mission, called the arrival of the New Horizons probe at Pluto — expected in July 2015 — «an epochal milestone in the exploration of the solar system.»

Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco provides a fantastic survey of what we have learned from the famous exploration mission in «Cassini at Saturn.»

Johnson felt the committee hadn't spent enough time discussing several major NASA programs, including the fate of the International Space Station, the status of several planetary exploration missions, and a proposal by President Donald Trump to kill the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, a $ 3 billion plus instrument under development.

This allows NASA to maintain critical momentum in rebuilding its planetary exploration program, preserve its Earth science missions, and to begin work on the next generation of space telescopes.

This chronology gives a list of known (successful and unsuccessful) lunar and planetary missions including a few historical missions which were instrumental in the development and evolution of space exploration.

The Obama Administration has allocated «a disproportionate increase in the amount of federal funds» for earth science «at the expense of and compared to Exploration and Space Operations, Planetary Science, Heliophysics and Astrophysics which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be central to the core mission of NExploration and Space Operations, Planetary Science, Heliophysics and Astrophysics which I believe are all rooted in exploration and should be central to the core mission of Nexploration and should be central to the core mission of NASA.»

Having traveled a grand total of 25 miles (40 km) over the course of its historic mission of exploration, NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has taken the record for the greatest distance traveled on another planetary body.

Friday's test was the second in a three - part series designed to help engineers and mission planners understand how the activities of humans and robots can be coordinated to maximize the reach and efficiency of planetary exploration missions.

As a member of the engineering staff, her research work encompassed a multidisciplinary approach to the development and testing of analytical instruments for planetary exploration missions with the focus on transitioning fundamental scientific research and early technological demonstrations toward breadboard and brassboard instrumentation development.

Mars Express — ESA's mission to the Red Planet — was launched in 2003, marking the start of a new era for Europe in planetary exploration.

Despite the fact that this rover and MER mission have produced success the likes of which has never before been seen in planetary exploration and that Opportunity is continuing to boldly go where no rover has gone before, still making discoveries and setting new records, the impact of the additional cuts likely will reduce MER's ops staff.

Strategists can make 150 technological advances across 11 scientific categories for each race, and eight different types of spaceship are available for missions involving exploration, reconnaissance, and planetary invasion.