Sentences with phrase «scientific space instruments»

I find the objectives of scientific space instruments inspiring and the mission of designing them fascinating.

I personally would not accept the former on moral grounds, while scientific space instruments tend to be more varied and challenging than the latter.

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Over a career that spans the entire Space Age, he has designed some of the first scientific instruments for satellites, directed searches for life - supporting conditions on Mars and above all managed the science team of the Voyager missions that explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune along with their moons — the single greatest expedition ever undertaken.

«When scientists designed the mission and the instrumentation on the probes, they looked at the scientific unknowns and said, «This is a great chance to unlock some fundamental knowledge about how particles are accelerated,»» said Nicola J. Fox, deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. «With five identical suites of instruments on board twin spacecraft — each with a broad range of particle and field and wave detection — we have the best platform ever created to better understand this critical region of space above Earth.»

Those contract winners — The Boeing Co.; Lockheed Martin Space Systems; Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems; Orbital ATK; and Space Systems / Loral — took four months to appraise the need for Mars telecommunications and global high - resolution imaging as well as assess possible added scientific instruments, optical communications and the use of solar - electric propulsion.

«Other spectroscopic instruments have flown in space before but none have had this programmable multi-object capability that enables observation of up to 100 objects simultaneously, which means much more scientific investigating can get done in less time.

Stephan Ulamec, the Philae project manager for the European Space Agency (ESA), said that the lander's scientific instruments were taking data and that he was confident Philae would live for another day.

For months, the four scientific instruments at the heart of the James Webb Space Telescope have been sealed in what looks like a huge pressure cooker.

NASA built the instrument in the United States but later sent it to Bariloche, Argentina, where crews from Argentina's space agency placed it on the SAC - D satellite framework, which will carry seven other scientific instruments.

NASA will launch a scientific instrument into space next month to measure the salt content of the world's oceans, information that could help confirm scientists» suspicions that climate change is accelerating the world's water cycle.

India, Japan, China and the European Space Agency have added to the traffic in lunar orbit, with most of these missions carrying scientific instruments from other countries.

Eureca carries 15 scientific instruments and is designed to be hauled to and from space repeatedly by the shuttle.

Four student teams will define the scientific objectives of a space mission and will provide a preliminary end - to - end design of spacecraft, scientific instruments as well as mission and science operations that will meet their stated objectives.

Astronaut is a new job title for her, but her experience includes work as an EE for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she contributed scientific instruments on several NASA missions.

Four student teams will be set up to define the scientific objectives of a space mission and a preliminary end - to - end mission design including the spacecraft, scientific instruments, mission, and science operations capable of meeting the stated objectives.

«The SHERLOC instrument is a valuable opportunity to prepare for human spaceflight as well as to perform fundamental scientific investigations of the Martian surface,» said Marc Fries, a SHERLOC co-investigator and curator of extraterrestrial materials at Johnson Space Center.

April 24 will mark a significant milestone in the life of one of mankind's greatest scientific instruments — the 25 - year anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.

«A number of scientific instruments, ground - based and space - based, are being developed and enhanced, which will soon identify and characterize planets around nearby stars.»

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most powerful scientific instruments ever conceived.

Once the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA had decided to embark on this adventure together to explore Saturn, its moon Titan and the Saturnian System, they threw open to the scientific community the opportunity to provide the scientific instruments which are of course the raison d'être for the mission.

Study celestial phenomena, using a variety of ground - based and space - borne telescopes and scientific instruments.

As part of a time - honored tradition, the space agency is calling on scientists and engineers to submit ideas for new ways to prop up the telescope and pull more scientific discoveries out of its still - working instrument.

Institutional critique could expand its focus beyond art spaces to others, like scientific and medical institutions (as in Leonard's photographs of terrifyingly metallic antique gynecological instruments).

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With Space as Substance: Beyond the Scenic Hudson, Matthew Friday relocates a mobile and modular research station that contains a variety of cartographic and scientific instruments.