Sentences with phrase «says spacecraft operations»

«After looking at variations in the intensity of the gyros» internal lasers, we realised last year that, with our current usage, four of the six gyros were trending towards failure,» says spacecraft operations manager James Godfrey.

«After looking at variations in the intensity of the gyros» internal lasers, we realized last year that, with our current usage, four of the six gyros were trending towards failure,» says spacecraft operations manager James Godfrey.

Not exact matches

«The Cassini operations team did an absolutely stellar job guiding the spacecraft to its noble end,» said Earl Maize, Cassini project manager at JPL.

Morse said that the number of NASA astrophysics missions in operation had peaked at 15 in 2010 and was now in decline with the phaseout of spacecraft such as the Wide - Field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe.

Data from WISE may generate proposals for telescope time on Herschel for more detailed follow - up observations, says Paul Goldsmith, project scientist for Herschel at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Goldsmith's JPL colleagues will manage ground operations for WISE; Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, designed and built its instrumentation, and Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft itself.)

But getting the minifridge - sized Philae lander to the surface of 67P is not a simple task, said Andrea Accomazzo, the European Space Agency's spacecraft operations manager, in a November 10 press conference.

«The team has done a fantastic job of adapting to spacecraft operations in the Martian environment,» said Richard Burns, MAVEN project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

At this point the craft is deep in the assembly phase, and is being tested along with its launch operations, a critical period called ATLO, says Tim Priser, Lockheed Martin's chief engineer for the spacecraft.