Sentences with phrase «send space probes»

We live longer and in more comfort, and can send space probes to the edge of the solar system.

It's not simply a matter of sending a space probe or pointing Hubble toward the nearest exoplanet.

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If the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) succeeds at launching its probe, it could be the first environmental group to send its own satellite into space.

On June 23, Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative to send spacecraft to another star system, launched half a dozen probes called Sprites to test how their electronics fare in outer space.

While we humans have only set foot on the planet we sprang from and one solitary moon, we've constructed probes, orbiters, and rovers to saunter out into space and send back their reports.

15 In space, no one can hear you sneeze: Streptococcus mitis, a bacterium that infects the nose and throat, was inadvertently sent to the moon aboard the Surveyor 3 probe.

While space agencies are planning to send more orbiters to study Jupiter and its moons in the next decade, probes remain impractical because the gas planet has no solid surface to land on.

This story follows the trek of a space rock from its discovery in an ice field to a lab, where researchers probe the rock's origins (perhaps some asteroid or the moon) and then send bits of the meteorite to a library.

A ground - based laser array in a high - altitude site like Chile's Atacama Desert, shown in this artist's rendering, could send 100 gigawatts of power to orbiting space probes, enough to accelerate them to a significant fraction of the speed of light.

To measure these minor deformations, scientists sent four gyroscopes into space in a mission called Gravity Probe B. And they found that after circling the Earth some 5000 times the gyroscopes» angle of spin had changed, ever - so - slightly, in response to the Earth's gravitational pull.

Yuri Milner stunned space fans everywhere with his proposed Starshot project to send probes to Alpha Centauri.

What's more, no longer do you have to wait for an age to see the bewitching vistas these space probes send home.

It's the first climate satellite NASA has launched since a faulty rocket sent the space agency's Glory probe crashing into the ocean in February.

And if sending a probe across the trillions of kilometers of space to visit a nearby star system ever becomes feasible, engineers have their first target.

Today, it develops and launches satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy, sends probes to the far reaches of the Solar System and cooperates in the human exploration of space.

The Voyager space probes sent back some amazing images of the planets in the outer Solar System, and they're still talking to Earth every day via Australia's tracking station.

In 2005, NASA's Cassini probe spotted plumes erupting from the Enceladus» south polar terrain, sending water vapor and solid particles from that subterranean ocean off into space.

Technicians are gearing up for the cosmic send - off within a Lockheed Martin Space Systems high - bay cleanroom, hurriedly equipping and testing the Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolitionN - or MAVEN - space probe for its 2013 misSpace Systems high - bay cleanroom, hurriedly equipping and testing the Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolitionN - or MAVEN - space probe for its 2013 misspace probe for its 2013 mission.

Now the Dawn space probe has sent back a bumper harvest of findings, summarized in six new research papers published in a special issue of the journal Science.

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It couldn't send back images because the space probe was too busy focusing on collecting information.

When the probe launched in January 2006, it was the fastest probe ever sent into space.

Donald Trump wants to focus more on space exploration and send human mission to Mars and probes to Europa.