Sentences with phrase «robotic missions in»

NASA already has four robotic missions in the works, designed to explore the moon's atmosphere, gravity and seismology.

Months - long testing of the system began in November at the energy department's Nevada National Security Site, with an eye toward providing energy for future human and robotic missions in space and on the surface of Mars, the moon or other solar system destinations.

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Now, according to the company mission, «Golden Spike will exploit these advances, and others in the late stages of development, for commercial use, to offer human expeditions to the Moon at prices comparable to robotic flagship missions.»

A robotics company on a mission to revolutionize the hospitality industry by solving the two biggest issues in housekeeping: time and injuries.

Earlier this year, the company unveiled Prospector X, a tiny robotic spacecraft that'll sit in low Earth orbit testing technologies for future asteroid prospecting missions, including water - powered propulsion and optical navigation systems.

Launched in October 1997, the Cassini mission to Saturn included a sophisticated robotic spacecraft that orbited the ringed planet and provided streams of data about its rings, magnetosphere, moon Titan and icy satellites.

Mars, the target of more than a dozen robotic missions to hunt for signs of microbial life, comes in third at 0.59.

In a paper published in EPJ Plus, Marco Tantardini and Enrico Flamini from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) make the case for taking part in the robotic phase of the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARMIn a paper published in EPJ Plus, Marco Tantardini and Enrico Flamini from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) make the case for taking part in the robotic phase of the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARMin EPJ Plus, Marco Tantardini and Enrico Flamini from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) make the case for taking part in the robotic phase of the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARMin the robotic phase of the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM).

In the future, we desire to increase the level of participation in missions and to eventually lead our own robotic missions to MarIn the future, we desire to increase the level of participation in missions and to eventually lead our own robotic missions to Marin missions and to eventually lead our own robotic missions to Mars.

Canada also wishes to lead small, complementary robotic missions to Mars in order to put Canadian scientists and engineers in the «driver's seat» to realize Canadian objectives.

That's why the practice module used in the January Robotic Refueling Mission test has an array of different filler caps studded along its surface.

Here, the engineers can develop the tools, techniques and software that robotic repair / refueling missions could someday use in space.

But the maneuvers, formally known as the Robotic Refueling Mission, represent what could be a revolutionary step in space science and commerce.

Robotic exploration drives our interest in doing follow - up missions with humans.

The ESA Council has recently approved the Aurora program, a plan for a succession of increasingly bold expeditions, including a robotic Mars sample return mission, a manned trip to the moon, and a manned voyage to Mars in 2033.

It was designed to serve as a test bed for future robotic missions, like Spirit's in 2004.

Russia is set to launch a robotic spacecraft to the Mars moon Phobos today (Nov. 8), marking the nation's first attempt at an interplanetary mission in 15 years.

He is the project scientist on a proposed robotic mission called Resource Prospector, which could launch in 2018 to try to extract water from lunar rocks.

In June he backtracked and ordered development of a robotic mission to perform maintenance and install new scientific instruments.

Lunar mining start - up Moon Express is testing robotic moon landers in advance of a 2015 trial mission.

The crew of the final Apollo mission lifted off from the moon's Sea of Serenity on 14 December 1972, and the last robotic Soviet spacecraft to make it to the surface was in 1976.

ARM will demonstrate advanced, high - power, high - throughput solar electric propulsion; advanced autonomous high - speed proximity operations at a low - gravity planetary body; controlled touchdown and liftoff with a multi-ton mass from a low - gravity planetary body, astronaut spacewalk activities for sample selection, extraction, containment and return; and mission operations of integrated robotic and crewed vehicle stack — all key components of future in - space operations for human missions to Mars.

After collecting a multi-ton boulder from the asteroid, the robotic spacecraft will slowly redirect the boulder to an orbit around the moon, using the moon's gravity for an assist, where NASA plans to conduct a series of proving ground missions in the 2020s.

With Dragon securely in the grasp of Canadarm2, the robotics officer at Mission Control remotely operated the arm to install the capsule to its port on the Earth - facing side of the Harmony module.

«Humans were required to carry out much of the experimentation in this study, while life detection missions on other planets will need to be robotic,» says Dr Goordial.

To prepare for human visits, NASA may order additional robotic missions to the martian moons and asteroids in coming years.

In fact, you're working now on a robotic mission that will be done without government funding, right?

A series of robotic missions, from Viking in the 1970s to the Spirit rover still roaming Mars today, have observed ancient riverbeds and polar ice caps storing enough water to submerge the entire planet in an ocean 40 feet deep.

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

If the shell is thin, it could mean the moon's ocean receives sunlight and radiation from cracks in the surface, boosting the energy available for life and the chances that future missions could be sent to explore the ocean, potentially with a robotic submarine.

The established approach in robotic exploration is incremental: develop a technology portfolio that enables increasingly ambitious missions to take place.

I hope we will begin to show some of the greater boldness that we showed in the 1960s and 1970s, with missions more like Voyager, Pioneer, and Apollo, using robotic spacecraft where appropriate, where the risk to life can be prevented, and confining our human missions to areas where we can make a special contribution.

The additional funds would support the administration's directive to reinvigorate human and robotic exploration of Earth's moon and other planets in the solar system but would also come at the expense of several other big - ticket items in NASA's portfolio — namely the International Space Station (ISS) as well as the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), a «flagship» - class mission next in line for launch after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

I propose to advance the search for life on Mars by approaching the microbiology of ground ice in the Antarctic Dry Valleys as an analogue to ground ice on Mars, and by introducing a new mission concept for the robotic exploration of Mars that would allow to drill to a depth of several meters and search for life in ground ice.

To encourage future interest and mass participation in future missions, NASA could incorporate Web - based interactivity into robotic landers from the start.

GRAIL and many of the other current robotic missions were planned in the expectation that humans would soon be returning to the moon.

The letter from the Coalition for Space Exploration thanks the committee for its support of human and robotic exploration programs (specifically mentioning the James Webb Space Telescope as an «exploration science mission»), but «we remain concerned that by flat funding SLS, Orion and other Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - 1] imission»), but «we remain concerned that by flat funding SLS, Orion and other Exploration program levels... the bill would unintentionally constrain progress toward accelerating program content from Exploration Mission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - 1] iMission - 2 [EM - 2] to be included in Exploration Mission - 1 [EM - 1] iMission - 1 [EM - 1] in 2018.

The soft landing of the robotic probe Philae on the surface of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko as part of the Rosetta mission was «the first time anybody's landed on a comet and it's going to be the first time anyone's stayed in orbit as long as Rosetta's going to do,» said Science's deputy news editor Robert Coontz.

The use of robotics and advanced SEP technologies like this concept of an SEP - based spacecraft during a NASA mission to find, rendezvous, capture and relocate an asteroid to a stable point in the lunar vicinity offers more mission flexibility than would be possible if a crewed mission went all the way to the asteroid.

Ground - based radars using large antennas including the GBT could be used as a collisional hazard assessment tool and as a safety mechanism for spacecraft that encounter navigation or communication issues, in future robotic and human missions to the moon.

«The gateway could move to support robotic or partner missions to the surface of the moon, or to a high lunar orbit to support missions departing from the gateway to other destinations in the solar system,» Gerstenmaier added.

The soft landing of the robotic probe Philae on the surface of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko as part of the Rosetta mission was «the first time anybody's landed on a comet and it's going to be the first time anyone's stayed in orbit as long as Rosetta's going to do,» said

Even though as a launch vehicle SLS is capable of opening up the Solar System to human access, allowing for an endless list of opportunities for both robotic and human missions, as showcased in an earlier AmericaSpace article, only a couple of definitive missions has been officially announced for its launch schedule.

Fifty years into the Space Age, we are still in the golden age of robotic exploration of our solar system, when each mission is unprecedented in some way as we push the limits of what is possible.

In a rather intriguing twist, it appears that NASA is now mandated by law to fly a robotic mission to Jupiter's watery moon Europa.

She then worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Mars Program Office where she served as the Mars Sample Return Science System Engineer and worked on formulation of sample science and astrobiology investigations for future robotic missions, as well as long - term planning for potential human missions to the red planet.

The first United States mission in history to launch a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid, retrieve samples, and return those samples back to Earth for study just passed a big milestone in its development this -LSB-...]

Dawn Mission is a NASA robotic mission to explore asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres in the AsteroiMission is a NASA robotic mission to explore asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres in the Asteroimission to explore asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres in the Asteroid Belt.

The intrepid robotic explorer successfully completed its primary scientific objective when it discovered strong evidence early on in its mission that a place called Yellowknife Bay near its landing site, constitutes an ancient dried - out lake bed which was once filled with drinkable liquid water billions of years ago and could have sustained life — if any were present.

Before they can sabotage the forests, Freeman does what he must, and spends the remainder of his mission with three robotic «drones» as his only companions, struggling to maintain his sanity in the vastness of space.