Sentences with phrase «prototype space station»

A prototype space station launched by Bigelow in 2006 is seen here.

Tiangong - 1, otherwise known as Heavenly Place 1, was China's first prototype space station.

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The company is also collaborating with NASA to build the Archinaut, a prototype 3D printer combined with robotic arms that will perform in outer space, outside of any space station, which will enable additive manufacturing at a low cost and without the risk of having astronauts assemble the pieces.

The eight - ton experimental prototype is designed as a test bed for the technologies China will need for its future space station program

Headed by billionaire Robert Bigelow, the company plans to operate private, inflatable space stations and has orbited a couple of scaled - down prototypes already.

Rather, the 8 - ton experimental prototype is designed as a test bed for the technologies China will need for its future space station program, including docking technology.

Around the same time, scientists will begin testing a prototype of the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket, or VASIMR, which expels searing hot plasma to produce thrust, at the International Space Station.

Glide along with the camera as it pulls back from a character's pupils to show the scope and scale of space ships, stations, vistas, atmosphere, and planets in the seamless WIP prototype.