Sentences with phrase «planetary probes»

Next time they should incorporate a cvd diamond heat spreader to iron out the kinks - By the time they get to orbit, all performance enhancing materials are cheap, and anything goes for planetary probes - a major engagement ring died to give Pioneer Venus a peep at the surface.

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.

That's «more than we've gotten back from any other planetary probe,» Mitchell says.

Phobos - Grunt, Russia's most ambitious planetary probe in decades, was launched on 9 November with the aim of depositing a lander on Mars» moon Phobos and bringing back samples to Earth.

Detailed measurements by NASA's planetary probe Cassini, presented at the meeting, have now revealed the predicted snow fields, which measure up to 100 meters thick.

A previous ISAS planetary probe, Nozomi, failed to enter an orbit around Mars in December 2003 after suffering multiple failures and was eventually abandoned.

This will be its first planetary probe.

Hubble resolves Martian surface features with a level of detail only exceeded by planetary probes, such as impact craters and other features as small as 30 miles (50 kilometers) across.

Learn about the era of deep space exploration with the Mariner, Viking, and Voyager planetary probes, and the creation and successful launch of Americas space shuttle fleet.

Venus would seem to be a tempting destination for planetary probes: conveniently close, and an extreme laboratory for atmospheric processes familiar on Earth.

«We look to apply benefits across our programs - missile defence, satellites, planetary probes, especially as we create more and more common products,» said Brian Kaplun, additive manufacturing manager at Lockheed Martin Space.

«As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?»

And planetary probes have uncovered organic molecules in the atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's giant moon Titan, as well as amino acids in meteorites.

They were also celebrating Juno's solar panels — the biggest on any planetary probe — taking the mission farther than any other sun - powered spacecraft.