Sentences with phrase «second spacecraft»

If a do - or - die rocket burn goes as planned on Monday evening, Juno will become the second spacecraft ever to orbit Jupiter, after the Galileo mission that arrived in 1995.

Launched in 2011 on a nearly five - year interplanetary voyage, Juno is only the second spacecraft to ever orbit Jupiter, after the Galileo mission that explored the giant planet from 1995 to 2003.

Now, as planetary scientists report online today in Science, the second spacecraft to Mercury has found that this magnetic field formed billions of years ago.

The second spacecraft will carry a spectrometer and simple foil mirrors.

«I wish we had a second spacecraft, given the richness of the system.»

Its second spacecraft aims to land in 2019 near the moon's south pole.

Its second spacecraft is to carry a shoebox - size experimental telescope for the International Lunar Observatory Association.

Launched from Florida nearly five years ago, Juno needed to be precisely positioned, ignite its main engine at exactly the right time and keep it firing for 35 minutes to become only the second spacecraft to orbit Jupiter.

«Within 20 seconds the spacecraft is in and out of the plume,» says Kempf.

Not exact matches

On its way to study Jupiter and its moons, NASA's Galileo spacecraft got its second speed boost from Earth's gravity.

The first one launches a holiday lights and music show on the Model X, while the second one transforms the Model X or Model S into a spacecraft to Mars.

It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon's orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth).

But these spacecraft still must squint through the second of the sun's impacts, its bright illumination of icy and dusty particles around it, known as the zodiacal light.

On April 30, if all goes well, after running out of fuel to fight off orbital decay NASA's long - running MESSENGER spacecraft will end its mission to Mercury by crashing into the planet's surface at nearly 4 kilometers per second.

The second mission extension provided dozens of flybys of the planet's icy moons, using the spacecraft's remaining rocket propellant along the way.

Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute spent nearly a decade searching for a second destination for New Horizons after Pluto, starting two years before the spacecraft launched in 2006.

The basin was discovered during Messenger's second flyby of the planet on 6 October 2008, a manoeuvre that allowed the probe to photograph 30 % of the planet's surface not previously seen by spacecraft.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER Five years after an engine misfire, the Akatsuki spacecraft (illustrated) just got a second chance at orbiting the planet Venus.

As a result of the flyby, the velocity change to the spacecraft was 8,451 miles per hour (3.778 kilometers per second).

Those that failed to progress included a proposal to send a spacecraft diving, as Cassini did, into Saturn's atmosphere to study its composition and history, as well as a notional orbiter for Titan and a second plume - diving spacecraft for Enceladus independent of ELSAH.

The Planck spacecraft and a ground - based instrument in the Canary Islands have observed microwaves emitted by an interstellar dust cloud that are consistent with the grains turning on their axis tens of billions of times a second.

When all was said and done, the spacecraft lasted about 30 seconds longer than expected.

The controllers in charge of Apollo spacecraft systems sat in the second row.

The parachute slowed the spacecraft from 400 metres per second to 80 metres per second in less than two minutes.

«The signal from the spacecraft is gone, and within the next 45 seconds, so will be the spacecraft,» Cassini project manager Earl Maize announced from the mission control center at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.

We've caught Jupiter's icy moon spitting into space a second time - which means it could be easy for a future spacecraft to scoop up a sample and find life

NASA's Juno spacecraft (illustrated) is currently in safe mode as it completes second orbit around Jupiter.

Cheers greeted the video from Dragon as the second stage pushed itself away from the orbit - bound spacecraft and a pair of solar array «wings» unfolded to recharge the Dragon's batteries.

Now the Cassini spacecraft appears to have found a ring system around Saturn's second - largest moon, Rhea.

The second idea is to leave the fuel behind as well, and propel the spacecraft solely with light.

Because the launch window was only 30 seconds, mission controllers did not have time to analyze the issue and get the United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 2 (OCO - 2) spacecraft back on track for launch this morning.

«We used this radio link between Juno and Earth to measure the velocity of the spacecraft to exquisite accuracy — to 0.01 millimeter per second or better,» Iess says.

«As Fermi opens its second act, both the spacecraft and its instruments remain in top - notch condition and the mission is delivering outstanding science,» said Paul Hertz, director of NASA's astrophysics division in Washington.

Now their multi-pronged plan calls for the robotic spacecraft Chang» e 5 to launch in the second half of 2017 atop a Long March - 5 rocket, land on the moon and collect several pounds of lunar samples, then hurl the specimens back to Earth.

Conventional spacecraft would need 2.5 tons of fuel to reach Vesta; Dawn carried just 937 pounds of xenon at launch, and it still has enough to go on a 900 - million - mile loop beyond Vesta to its second target, the asteroid Ceres.

The Dragon spacecraft, making the company's third operational cargo mission to the station, separated from its Falcon 9 second stage as planned and deployed its twin solar arrays on time.

A second contracted flight for the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station will be twice as nice for researchers working with investigations on the orbiting laboratory.

TEMPER TANTRUM The sun's magnetic field is responsible for violent outbursts like coronal mass ejections (one of several shown around five seconds into this high - speed video taken by NASA's STEREO spacecraft over several days in April 2013).

During the mere tenths of a second the probe spends within the plume, an on - board detector will count the patter of ice particles hitting the spacecraft.

Normally, we would like to see the wheels hold the spacecraft to within 1 or 2 arc seconds of the target; it was holding at within 10 arc seconds.

A trio of spacecraft called the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or LISA, is designed to be sensitive to low - frequency gravitational waves, with periods of between 100 and 1000 seconds, in the range expected from colliding supermassive black holes.

And with the probe barreling in at nearly 10 miles per second — one of the highest speeds ever achieved by a spacecraft — any encounter with a speck of shrapnel could spell disaster.

The tiny spacecraft would first need to approach the star Alpha Centauri A as close as around four million kilometres, corresponding to five stellar radii, at a maximum speed of 13,800 kilometres per second (4.6 per cent of the speed of light).

Between 1996 and 2003, for example, NASA had a program to explore what it calls Breakthrough Propulsion Physics to build spacecraft capable of traveling at speeds faster than light (299,790 kilometers per second).

Within several seconds of detecting a strong burst of radiation, the BAT calculates an initial position, decides whether the activity merits investigation by other instruments and, if so, sends the position to the spacecraft.

The wave should produce three signals: the first as it passes the spacecraft, and the second as it passes the Earth, because this too will affect the relative speed between the craft and Earth.

This image was taken in 1996, at a range of 677,000 kilometers (417,900 miles) by the solid state imaging television camera onboard the Galileo spacecraft during its second orbit around Jupiter.

The spacecraft is expected to map the Southern Hemisphere in its first year, and the Northern Hemisphere in its second year.

With a little more than a year to go before U.S. astronauts launch aboard a U.S. - built spacecraft, and from U.S. soil, for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle era, NASA has ordered its second Post-Certification Mission (PCM) from SpaceX.

Flight controllers for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express probe halted plans to deploy the second boom in a series of antennas that comprise the spacecraft's subsurface radar instrument after detecting an anomaly on May 7.