Sentences with phrase «planetary missions since»

Now, Russia is hoping to dispel that pall with its biggest slate of lunar and planetary missions since the early 1970s.

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«My scientific life is tied to this spacecraft, to this mission,» says Luciano Iess, a planetary scientist at the Sapienza University of Rome who has led Cassini's radio experiment since 1990.

Since then, NASA has increasingly played up the search for life when justifying its planetary missions.

«Since its early formulation, NASA has invited mission concept feedback and development ideas from the planetary science community, general public, U.S. and global industry, and international partners,» said Gates.

According to Rummel, this is the first time since the Viking missions to Mars in 1975 that a full - system sterilization — meaning every component of the spacecraft — is planned for a planetary lander.

In the 48 years since it fell to Earth, the meteorite has spurred research into our planetary origins, leading most recently to a NASA mission, launched last fall, to collect more of this primitive material right from the source.

NASA crashed Galileo into Jupiter in 2003, and ever since, scientists and groups such as the Planetary Society have been urging NASA to send a follow - up mission.

Since the K2 mission officially began in May, Kepler has observed more than 35,000 stars and collected data on several planetary objects within the solar system.

But in the three - and - a-half years since then, Planetary Resources has made significant progress towards developing and testing the technology needed to make its dream become a reality, according to Lewicki, who served as flight director for NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, and surface mission manager for the Phoenix Mars Lander.