Sentences with phrase «robotic lander on»

And Deep Space Industries, another Silicon Valley startup, thinks it can land robotic landers on an asteroid within three years — and wants to build an entire space city within 30.

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On November 12th 2014 the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will eject the small robotic lander Philae on a trajectory that should take it down to the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (or 67P / C - P for shortOn November 12th 2014 the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will eject the small robotic lander Philae on a trajectory that should take it down to the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (or 67P / C - P for shorton a trajectory that should take it down to the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (or 67P / C - P for short).

The resulting data have helped the European Space Agency hone its recent successful robotic missions, including the Huygens lander on Titan and Mars Express.

Beagle 2 will probe deeper, and the six or eight samples that the robotic arm brings back to the body of the lander will undergo a deeper analysis than Viking was capable of, the same analysis Pillinger's team has used on Martian meteorites.

In November, the Rosetta mission's robotic comet lander Philae appeared to score a touchdown, but there was a flag on the play.

Although the lander would remain in place, it had a robotic arm that could scoop samples and take pictures from its perch on the surface.

At that point, the lander's four solar panels would unfold, its robotic arm would spring into action and Beagle 2 would get to work on the Martian surface.

To date, none of the robotic Mars landers and rovers that have operated on the Martian surface have experienced any consequences of this phenomena, including the rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

Science 317 million miles from Earth, a small robotic lander touched down on Comet 67P.