Sentences with phrase «planned space launch»

Astronauts would then visit — via NASA's planned space launch system and Orion spacecraft — to mine the object and practise techniques for landing on, and deflecting, asteroids.

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To get there, the China National Space Administration has already launched two unmanned orbiters and plans to build a manned space station by Space Administration has already launched two unmanned orbiters and plans to build a manned space station by space station by 2020.

In 2017, Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to send its seven - seat Dream Chaser spacecraft into orbit, while Boeing will launch the most powerful space rocket ever built — the one that will launch NASA / Lockheed's Orion and crew to an undetermined destination beyond orbit in 2021.

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.

It recently launched its first space in London (where AI startup StatusToday has set up shop in Whitechapel) and announced plans to expand into the US.

Elsewhere in the cryptocurrency space, deVere Group, an independent financial adviser with $ 12 billion under advisement, announced plans to launch its own cryptocurrency app.

A Chinese competitor to SpaceX, One Space Technology, plans its first commercial rocket launch in 2018.

It also gives Amazon more of a competitive edge in this space, as Google Home has had this functionality pretty much since its launch a year and a half ago for Chromecast users and with Roku's plans to launch its own voice assistant as part of its Roku Connect Software for OEM brands.

In the coming months a privately backed project called LightSail 2 plans to launch a lunch box — size craft into orbit, where it will deploy a Mylar sail about as big as two parking spaces.

On 28 September, India plans to launch a major space - based observatory that will set a milestone for a developing country — and also mark a first for space science.

The space agency plans to launch a real submarine into Titan seas in the next 20 years.

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

The resulting plan called for two spacecraft — the starshade and an orbital telescope — to launch together and detach in space, or to go up separately.

VIRGIN Galactic has confirmed that it plans to launch satellites, as well as tourists, into space.

Related space biology research continues aboard the space station, including recently selected studies that are planned for future launch to the orbiting laboratory.

Using similar techniques originally inspired by string theory, Strominger's group has computed the spectrum of gravitational waves emitted when compact objects like stars fall into giant black holes — predictions that could be verified by the future Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, planned to launch in two decades (or maybe sooner).

Subsequent observations, such as those planned for the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2013, may tell a different story.

Lu is co-founder of the non-profit B612 Foundation, which plans to launch an asteroid - hunting space telescope in 2017.

«I don't think the stories of science fiction we read in childhood are ever going to happen,» says John Mather, a Nobel laureate who is now the senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, the $ 6.5 billion successor to the Hubble telescope that NASA plans to launch in 2018.

The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to launch its Characterising Exoplanet Satellite late this year.

That's by design, because NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, now planned for a 2020 launch, will also be able to study those regions at any given time.

The news of the day was about plans for the next launch of the space shuttle, which at first glance seems a mark of high - tech modernity.

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.

«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.

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.

But a new architecture study report released on 20 November concluded that the plan could not work without NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), a heavy lift vehicle that is still in development but should be ready to take humans into space by Space Launch System (SLS), a heavy lift vehicle that is still in development but should be ready to take humans into space by space by 2021.

Further ahead, NASA's Orbital Space Plane, planned for a 2012 launch, might be able to travel to lunar orbit, depending on the final design.

On the other hand, physicists are confident enough of eventual success that they have persuaded NASA and the European Space Agency to start planning for LISA, for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, a space - based interferometer consisting of three satellites, now tentatively scheduled for launch in Space Agency to start planning for LISA, for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, a space - based interferometer consisting of three satellites, now tentatively scheduled for launch in Space Antenna, a space - based interferometer consisting of three satellites, now tentatively scheduled for launch in space - based interferometer consisting of three satellites, now tentatively scheduled for launch in 2012.

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.

The patent goes on to give detailed plans for a space module that is launched into near - Earth orbit by rocket, and then blasted into space by onboard solid - propellant engines.

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.

The non-profit B612 Foundation plans to build a space telescope to scan for small asteroids but it won't launch until at least 2017 (see «The people's asteroid defence «-RRB-.

In about eight years, NASA and the European Space Agency plan to launch the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, called LISA.

The European Space Agency is planning on launching the Atmospheric Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) within the next three years, which will be able to better detect both dark and visible lightning from space, said Østgaard, who is part of the team that is building the ASIM gamma - ray deteSpace Agency is planning on launching the Atmospheric Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) within the next three years, which will be able to better detect both dark and visible lightning from space, said Østgaard, who is part of the team that is building the ASIM gamma - ray deteSpace Interactions Monitor (ASIM) within the next three years, which will be able to better detect both dark and visible lightning from space, said Østgaard, who is part of the team that is building the ASIM gamma - ray detespace, said Østgaard, who is part of the team that is building the ASIM gamma - ray detector.

The federal government has plans to build replacement sensors, but the NAS panel says there are lingering questions about the quality of data they will collect and how soon they could launch into space.

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.

Friday's scheduled launch of the space shuttle Endeavour — its last flight, and the second - to - last planned for any shuttle — will be carrying an ambitious and potentially pioneering particle physics experiment.

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 European Space Agency (ESA) has delayed the planned 25 February launch of its CryoSat - 2 spacecraft because of concerns about its launcher, a Russian Dnepr rocket.

Joshua Winn, an associate professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former member of the Kepler team, said that efficient methods to confirm planets will become more crucial as NASA plans and launches more space telescopes, such as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which is expected to find tens of thousands of exoplanets.

According to Zhang, the excess infrared radiation from haze particles in Pluto's atmosphere should be detectable by the James Webb Space Telescope, allowing confirmation of his team's hypothesis after the telescope's planned launch in 2019.

It is planned to launch the CRV within the cargo bay of the space shuttle and dock it to the station where it will stay for up to 2 years.

The cost overrun could delay the planned 2014 launch of the complex spacecraft for as long as 3 years, say space scientists and congressional sources familiar with a report soon to be released by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D - MD).

Japan plans to launch a probe to Mars in 1996, according to the Japanese Space Activities Commission.

A private, non-profit organisation plans to launch a space telescope dedicated to finding deadly asteroids before they find us — a project that governments have been slow to take up.

By TED TURVER Two years ago the Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO), the second of NASA's four planned orbiting observatories, was launched aboard the space shuttle Atlantis.

Uri Koptev, director general of the Russian Space Agency, said that only 14 of the 25 civil satellite launches planned for this year had taken place.

An agency fact sheet mentions support for a Mars rover planned to launch in 2020 and also for the James Webb Space Telescope — though its development costs have been capped at $ 8 billion.