Sentences with phrase «satellites into»

The most important thing about this reusable spacecraft is that it can carry a payload equivalent to sending five double - decker London buses into space — which will be invaluable for future manned space exploration or in sending bigger satellites into orbit.

In this document, the company has outlined plans to launch 4,425 satellites into space.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is gearing up for its next mission: sending satellites into orbit so they can beam down internet access...

The funding will help the startup expand its automated, 3D - printing process for manufacturing rockets quickly and with greatly reduced complexity, with the ultimate aim of making it easier and cheaper to send satellites into space.

If you understand anything about space, you know that high launch costs are one of the most significant barriers putting the desired number of satellites into orbit.

Say, for argument's sake, that I am giving a presentation about satellites, and I want to talk about the rocket launchers used to get satellites into Earth orbit and the amount of fuel they consume, and I want to talk about why this is a big number.

That's why climate scientists release radiosonde balloons, mount scientific expeditions, launch satellites into orbit, drill into the ice, deploy ocean buoys, as well as make increasingly accurate surface measurements.

French Guiana's Space Centre offers visitors a behind the scenes look at what it takes to launch satellites into space.

Thirteen nations have active space programs, and eight are capable of launching their own satellites into orbit.

Additionally, though, there's also a surging demand for launches by private customers who want to put satellites into space.

Most are doing mundane but essential work carrying telecommunications satellites into orbit.

The United States has thrown hundreds of satellites into space, resulting in over 500,000 pieces of debris orbiting Earth at over 17,000 miles per hour, and has cleaned up nothing.

But this unassuming subcompact promises to dramatically slash the cost of putting satellites into orbit and maybe even resurrect America's moribund space effort.

On October 21st, a Russian Soyuz rocket took flight, ferrying satellites into orbit, as such rockets have done since the 1960s.

Thirty - five years after the US began sending spy satellites into space, Washington has admitted that the capsules contained cameras rather than rodents.

India launched its most powerful rocket to date on 5 June and an Ariane 5 rocket put two communications satellites into orbit on 2 June, which comprised the heaviest and most expensive commercial payload ever.

It also includes spent upper - stage rockets, used to loft the satellites into orbit, and items that have escaped the grasp of butterfingered astronauts, such as the glove Ed White dropped in 1965 as he became the first American to walk in space, and the tool kit that slipped from Heide Stefanyshyn - Piper's hand during a 2008 space walk.

Under an agreement that should be finalised by the end of the month, the US will allow the Russians to launch eight commercial communications satellites into high Earth orbit before the end of the decade.

The possibility of launching small, cheap satellites into orbit may be exciting (25 August, p 42).

The next generation of CubeSat students will get their satellites into space even more efficiently, as improving technology makes launches economically and environmentally easier.

The two researchers claim that their design could get satellites into low Earth orbit for around $ 1,400 per pound.

He hopes to get 100 of his satellites into space later this year, courtesy of a NASA educational program, to test radio communication methods in space.

In partnership with the German space agency, NASA sent the dual GRACE satellites into orbit in March 2002.

The Electron rocket, smaller and cheaper than most of its commercial competitors, has put three satellites into orbit

In what seems to be the first unauthorised satellite launch, a start - up company may have sent four tiny — and potentially dangerous — satellites into space

The Ohio State University has partnered with the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota to turn images captured by DigitalGlobe's Worldview - 1 and 2 satellites into publicly available elevation maps that researchers can use to track the ice.

The mission of the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, scheduled for launch in 2005, is to send two identical satellites into solar orbit, one ahead of Earth and one behind.

It hopes to slash the cost of lofting small 50 - kilogram satellites into low - Earth orbit from $ 10 million or so today to about $ 1 million.

Even further down the road, ballistic capture would be perfect, Belbruno says, for placing satellites into «areostationary» orbits — the same as geostationary, except at Mars (aka Ares).

Assuming all goes well, Chang Díaz says, Ad Astra will then pursue multiple near - term applications of VASIMR, such as periodically nudging the space station and other large satellites into stable orbits.

A company put a number of very small satellites into space, and the US Federal Communications Commission is all over them for doing so despite being denied approval for the launch.

Since the mid 1980's, China has been sending recoverable satellites into space on a 5 day orbit around Earth.

The recent advent of reusable rockets is drastically cutting the cost of sending satellites into space, and the potential for mass production of satellites could slash those costs further.

Three - dimensional printers are letting doctors in Minnesota make simulated body parts in a hospital and a Brooklyn startup create rocket engines designed to put satellites into orbit, executives said Thursday at an event hosted by General Electric Co..

It faces the challenge of living up to the faith of guys like Iridium's Matt Desch, who's counting on SpaceX to put nearly seventy satellites into orbit over the next five years.

As the company's CTO for 5 years, he took the company from the drawing board to having launched more satellites into space than any other company in history, completely transforming the space industry along the way.

«The mind behind this innovation, Greg Wyler formerly worked at Google helping put satellites into orbit to better connect Africa.

And the Pentagon recently qualified the company to compete for lucrative missions to launch national security satellites into orbit.

According to The Washington Post, Elon Musk is waiting for government approval to send 4,000 small satellites into low - Earth orbit.

Musk recently mused about plans to send hundreds of tiny satellites into orbit to provide Internet access to remote parts of the world.

He wants to use this rocket for every launch, be it sending a legion of tiny research satellites into low Earth orbit or intrepid astronauts to Mars.

That means the BFR («Big F *** ing Rocket»), rather than the current Falcon 9 or its Falcon Heavy successor, would be taking satellites into orbit and resupplying the International Space Station.

Some are specializing in unmanned systems to delivery payloads like satellites into orbit.

The headline: «Inside a Startup's Plan to Turn a Swarm of DIY Satellites Into an All - Seeing Eye.»

So far this year, the company has successfully completed four launches, including a resupply mission to the International Space Station in February, as well as placing satellites into orbit on behalf of two commercial customers.

«They can build self - driving vehicles and put satellites into space, but they can't figure out how to sell to the enterprise,» he says.

Relativity Space has created the world's largest metal 3D printer to print its own rockets and launch satellites into space.

In recent years, North Korea successfully put satellites into orbit twice aboard long - range rockets in what the UN called a disguised test of long - range missile technology.

SpaceX is looking to launch several small satellites into a lower orbit than Viasat in order to cut down on latency errors, with the idea being the closer a satellite is to Earth, the less likely there will be hiccups.

Matthew Desch, Iridium Communications CEO, speaks to CNBC's Morgan Brennan about SpaceX's recent launch of Iridium satellites into space, and the «ambitious schedule» to come.