Sentences with phrase «researching space flight»

Projects ranged from testing fluid dynamics to researching space flight hardware in structural and environmental testing facilities.»

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Another start - up, Masten Space Systems, with headquarters in Mojave, Calif., is developing rockets designed for unmanned research flights.

The company is now looking at selling space on the rockets during test flights to accommodate experiments and researches.

«Hurricanes live and die by the amount of rainfall they make out of moisture,» said George Huffman, a research meteorologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have published their results online in the Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Planets.

In fact, the findings have already caused astrobiologist Daniel Glavin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to rethink his own research on lunar soils stored at NASA's Astromaterials Acquisition and Curation office, which had detected some α - aminoisobutryic acid.

The team includes Philip Erickson, principal research scientist at Haystack Observatory, as well as Brian Walsh and David Sibeck at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

We find evidence for both models, suggesting that gamma - ray burst jets have a dual, hybrid nature,» said Troja, who is also a visiting research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Planetary scientist Bill Farrell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and colleagues will argue in Geophysical Research Letters that we shouldn't give up the search just yet, however.

Using these new data, a research team led by Charles L. Bennett of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and David Spergel of Princeton University compiled a full sky map that reveals our universe in its earliest stages.

«This new product is a poster child for our research and development efforts,» added Peter Hughes, the chief technology officer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, whose organization funded the development of all three technologies and named the NavCube team as this year's winner of his organization's «Innovators of the Year» award.

When JSC became inaccessible due to dangerous road conditions and rising flood waters, the team at Marshall Space Flight Center's Payload Operations Integration Center in Huntsville, Alabama, who serve as «Mission Control» for all station research, worked to connect Wallace to Whitson using Wallace's personal cell phone.

In Obama's budget the private sector would fill the void left by the cancellation of Ares 1, and a heavy - lift research and development program at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., would provide similar cover for the scrapped Ares 5.

There is no doubt that the 2015 study, led by Jay Zwally, a glaciologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, flew in the face of previous research and even assertions made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

In April 2015, the entire system was flown on a research rocket for a 6 - minute parabolic flight into space as part of the TEXUS program that launches from the Esrange Space Center in Swspace as part of the TEXUS program that launches from the Esrange Space Center in SwSpace Center in Sweden.

Scientists are learning how to detect and recognize those waves by studying supercomputer models run at two NASA campuses, the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The coauthors of the study include graduate student Caroline Morley and professor of astronomy and astrophysics Jonathan Fortney at UC Santa Cruz; Katelyn Allers at Bucknell University; Thomas Geballe at Gemini Observatory; Mark Marley and Roxana Lupu at NASA Ames Research Center; Jacqueline Faherty at the Carnegie Institution of Washington; and Gordon Bjoraker at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

A research team led by Timothy J. Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center analyzed images from NASA's Polar spacecraft and the IMAGE spacecraft taken of both the northern (aurora borealis) and southern (aurora australis) lights.

Astrobiologist Michael Mumma of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, adds that «the research demonstrates that bodies like Murchison likely delivered DNA precursors to planets in the solar system when they were young.

-- Aki Roberge, research astrophysicist focusing on exoplanets at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

«The start of an El Niño is important,» said Robin Kovach, a research scientist with the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

SHPE recently launched their student internship program with the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, allowing seven students to do research with NASA engineers this past summer.

Ricker's winning team also includes NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., which is managing the mission; MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Mass.; Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC), Dulles, Va.; NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.; The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, Calif.; and the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md..

Ahuna Mons is a volcanic dome unlike any seen elsewhere in the solar system, according to a new analysis led by Ottaviano Ruesch of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Universities Space Research Association.

But as she read excited messages from colleagues that a gamma ray burst had also been detected, «I realized this was a breakthrough event,» says Troja, an associate research scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park who works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt in Maryland.

Dust will affect climate and, at the same time, climate change will affect dust,» said lead author Hongbin Yu, an associate research scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), a joint center of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

To appease congressional critics like Shelby, the Administration hopes to ensure that research and development work on the new rocket would proceed without significant job losses at NASA centers like Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

The process could be driving vast amounts of gas and dust toward the coalescing black hole, in turn causing intense energy to billow out from the object, says Neil Gehrels, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a member of the research team.

Solicitations for research, planned for June, will offer $ 3 million of CASIS's own seed money to researchers, although the centre hopes that the attraction of free flights and free space on the station, along with the free labor of station crew members, will be so enticing that proposers will bring their own grant money to the table.

The research, led by Petr Pokorný, Menelaos Sarantos and Diego Janches of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, simulated the variations in meteoroid impacts, revealing surprising patterns in the time of day impacts occur.

Ongoing research in the lab includes examining the influence of chronic sleep restriction on human performance, the influence of space flight on sleep and circadian rhythms and the application of his research to night workers - including medical residents and police - through the work of the Harvard Work Hours, Health and Safety Group.

Corey S. Powell graduated from Harvard with a degree in history and science and performed an early stint as a research assistant at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, building and testing gamma ray telescopes.

Twelve of the interdisciplinary team of 20 coauthors are from the University of Maryland, with multiple other universities (Northeastern University, Columbia University, George Mason University, Johns Hopkins University, and Brown University) and other institutions (Joint Global Change Research Institute, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the Institute for Global Environment and Society, Japan's RIKEN research institute, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) also reprResearch Institute, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the Institute for Global Environment and Society, Japan's RIKEN research institute, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) also reprResearch, the Institute for Global Environment and Society, Japan's RIKEN research institute, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) also reprresearch institute, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) also represented.

The UCL - led study also involved researchers from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Boston University, Observatoire de Paris, MIT, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), University of Southampton, University of Leicester, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and University of Michigan.

«If you're spending your research time chatting with your friends or trying to impress people just for the sake of trying to impress people, you're probably not helping your career,» Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland in the United States and author of Marketing for Scientists: How to Shine in Tough Times, writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

You end up with this interesting observation where you get both floods and droughts just by taking the usual precipitation pattern and doing a shift,» said George Huffman, a research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The international team of astronomers in this study consists of L. Roth (Southwest Research Institute, USA; University of Cologne, Germany), J. Saur (University of Cologne, Germany), K. D. Retherford (Southwest Research Institute, USA), D. F. Strobel (The Johns Hopkins University, USA), P. D. Feldman (The Johns Hopkins University, USA), M. A. McGrath (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, USA), F. Nimmo (University of California, USA).

Scientists are salivating over the research potential of flights designed to make joy rides to the edge of space

A study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, led by Charles Ichoku, a senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, seeks to shed light on the connection.

«With our flight software, the SLS program at Marshall partnered with NASA's Engineering and Safety Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards, Calif., and the Space Technology Mission Directorate's Game Changing Development Program to test our algorithm on a NASA F / A -18 airplane,» added VanZwflight software, the SLS program at Marshall partnered with NASA's Engineering and Safety Center, Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards, Calif., and the Space Technology Mission Directorate's Game Changing Development Program to test our algorithm on a NASA F / A -18 airplane,» added VanZwFlight Research Center at Edwards, Calif., and the Space Technology Mission Directorate's Game Changing Development Program to test our algorithm on a NASA F / A -18 airplane,» added VanZwieten.

Coauthors included other scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo..

Other findings were that heart rate and the weight loss on early space flight missions related more to time spent in a space suit, as opposed to time spent in weightlessness,» said Wotring, who also is chief scientist and deputy director of the Translational Research Institute for Space Hespace flight missions related more to time spent in a space suit, as opposed to time spent in weightlessness,» said Wotring, who also is chief scientist and deputy director of the Translational Research Institute for Space Hespace suit, as opposed to time spent in weightlessness,» said Wotring, who also is chief scientist and deputy director of the Translational Research Institute for Space HeSpace Health.

Co-authors of the research paper are Melanie B. Follette - Cook of Morgan State University in Baltimore; Mike Newchurch of UAH; Kenneth E. Pickering of NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; Arastoo Pour - Biazar of UAH; Shi Kuang of UAH; William Koshack of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville; and Harold Peterson of the Universities Space Research Association in Hunresearch paper are Melanie B. Follette - Cook of Morgan State University in Baltimore; Mike Newchurch of UAH; Kenneth E. Pickering of NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; Arastoo Pour - Biazar of UAH; Shi Kuang of UAH; William Koshack of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville; and Harold Peterson of the Universities Space Research Association in HunResearch Association in Huntsville.

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New Mexico State University (NMSU) has a long history of research in space and aerospace beginning with NMSU student teams film projects on the first V - 2 flights at White Sands Proving Ground in 1946.

Dr. Olabisi's current research interests include orthopedic tissue engineering and regenerative medicine for injury, aging, disease, and space flight.

«When it comes to working on and around the issues of space flight, there is endless possibility but no room for error,» said Michael D. Johns, Ph.D., vice president of the Engineering Division at Southern Research.

Support: Aspects of this research were supported by the NASA High - End Computing Program through the NASA Center for Climate Simulation at Goddard Space Flight Center.

The countdown has begun for the first fully operational flight of the Indian Space Research Organization's most powerful rocket to date: the Geostationary Launch Vehicle Mark 3, or GSLV - MK3.

Northern Lights Flights are prepared together with the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, a world leader in research on the aurora borealis with considerable expertise in teaching the science behind this natural wonder, which has fascinated and mystified humanity for over two thousand years.