Sentences with phrase «planetary missions including»

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.

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Within NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD), the budget provides Planetary Science with a 4.5 percent increase, including a $ 150 million boost above FY 2017 omnibus funding, to $ 425 million total, for a planned mission to Jupiter's moon Mission Directorate (SMD), the budget provides Planetary Science with a 4.5 percent increase, including a $ 150 million boost above FY 2017 omnibus funding, to $ 425 million total, for a planned mission to Jupiter's moon mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.

In the agency's latest competition for future Discovery missions — its line of low - cost planetary probes — two out of five final candidates targeted Venus, including a mission Glaze would have led.

Possible candidates for robotic planetary exploration missions include Venus, Mars, asteroids, comets and Titan

At the same time, he added, some NASA programs would get a boost, including a planetary mission to a moon «of either Saturn or Jupiter, I can't remember.»

«She has reached any number of «first woman to...» milestones, including principal investigator on a NASA planetary mission and head of an MIT science department,» but, Zuber told ScienceInsider, «I've never realized I was first until after the fact.

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.

The B612 Foundation, which includes two former NASA astronauts, Edward Lu and Rusty Schweickart, and a team of planetary science veterans, now intends to raise $ 450 million to launch a mission by July 2018.

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.

Almost all planetary landing missions now in the design stage include seismological instrumentation and some even include sample return.

NASA's planetary science division would receive $ 1.9 billion in 2018 under Trump's budget, a plan that includes funding for the 2020 Mars rover and the Europa Clipper mission to explore Jupiter's icy, ocean - harboring moon.

It was recommended by the 2003 National Academy of Sciences» Planetary Decadal Survey («New Frontiers in the Solar System») that this first mission to the Kuiper Belt should include flybys of both Pluto and other KBOs in order to maximize the science return.

Coming hot off the heels of discoveries made by other observatories, including NASA's Kepler and CoRot (the Convection, Rotation, and Planetary Transits mission, led by France's CNES with contributions from the ESA), this spacecraft is intended to build significantly on our knowledge of the universe, the Solar System, and the formation of life in general.

In the last couple of months, NASA has appeared to put a greater emphasis on the role its overall asteroid initiative, including the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), could play in planetary defense.

The project may involve the following topics: — Interaction of the solar wind with magnetised and unmagnetised planets — Space weather forecasts — Numerical (HPC) and analytical modelling of MHD wave processes and jets in solar and astrophysical plasma — MHD wave observations and solar magneto - seismology — Application of advanced data analysis to solar system science — Physics of collisionless shocks (including planetary and interplanetary shocks)-- Analysis of multi-point measurements made by space missions, e.g Cluster (ESA), THEMIS (NASA), MMS (NASA)

Over the past decade, major breakthroughs in planetary geophysics have been made by spacecraft missions, space - based telescopes, and ground - based observatories including Keck.

New images were taken, including a global view centered on relatively bright Kuiper Crater, previously identified on images from the Mariner 10 mission (during planetary «encounters» between March 1974 and March 1975.

Immediately travel to Planetary Missions (which include Heroic and Daily Area missions) as well as Story Mode FlasMissions (which include Heroic and Daily Area missions) as well as Story Mode Flasmissions) as well as Story Mode Flashpoints.

About $ 1.5 billion is for (non Earth) planetary science, including spending on Mars missions and development of a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.