Sentences with phrase «sending orbiters»

Other factions within planetary - science circles would prefer to send another mission to Titan — maybe even an airborne drone, a sailboat or a submarine — or to reach for farther frontiers by sending orbiters to Uranus and Neptune, the last two planets that remain scarcely explored.

That includes $ 595 million to send an orbiter and lander to Jupiter's moon Europa; Trump's budget had sought $ 425 million to send a spacecraft flying by the moon.

NEW DELHI — The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) may put a lander on Mars in 2021 or 2022 and send an orbiter to Venus shortly thereafter.

NASA is planning to send an orbiter to Europa as part of an international fleet of probes slated to explore Jupiter's environs that may even include a landing on the intriguing moon

Not exact matches

Practically every new rover, lander or orbiter sent to Mars in recent years turns up more evidence of water, both past and present.

NASA would also like to see orbiters that can return to Earth with Martian samples sent up by capsule from a planned rover.

According to a year's worth of data sent back from the European Space Agency's Venus Express orbiter launched in November 2005, the second planet from the sun is nothing like Earth — from its torrid surface to the upper reaches of its acid - laced atmosphere.

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.

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.

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.

Over the past decade, NASA has sent the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the Moon; the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to crash land near the south pole in search of water; the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphere.

It's part of the larger Notional Robotic Servicing Mission (that's Notional, not National, because so far it's only an idea) that would send fully automated repair robots to survey, fix and refuel aging orbiters.

The story begins with a 2008 agreement between NASA and ESA to share the costs of sending the Trace Gas Orbiter to Mars in a 2016 mission, followed by a European rover and a U.S. rover in 2018.

Transmitting readings from all those spacecraft would be difficult with radio signals, so the Telecommunications Orbiter will send information home via beams of laser light.

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scheduled to arrive in 2006, will send back a flood of visual information.

«Handling all the data coming from Mars is becoming a challenge for us,» says Barry Geldzahler, the program executive for space operations in NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C. «The Mars Odyssey is sending back unprecedented amounts of data, and with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we'll have another order of magnitude more.»

When MRO's mission is complete in November 2008, it will have sent back between 30 and 50 terabits of data — 10 times the output of any previous orbiter and twice as much information as in all the words in the Library of Congress.

Named Juno, the NASA orbiter will collect data that could elucidate the planet's origins and evolution, gather details about its long - lived storm (the Great Red Spot) and send back the highest - resolution color images of Jupiter to date.

In addition, a U.K. scientific team is proposing to put a penetrator (pdf), about half a meter long and carrying a small scientific payload, on board either the NASA or ESA orbiter, to be detached and sent crashing into the surface of Europa or Ganymede.

New images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) reveal that the kiddie - pool - sized spacecraft — meant to softly touch down and then send signals home on October 19 — was instead destroyed when it crashed into the surface.

The plan had been for Schiaparelli to send up to an orbiter a more detailed data set on the descent — with higher data sampling rates — once it had reached the ground, but the lander has not so far responded to «hailing» signals.

MISSION TO MARS By the 2030s, NASA and the aerospace industry want to send a crew to explore Mars, seen in this simulated image based on data from the Mars Global Surveyor orbiter.

Mars Odyssey, an orbiting craft launched in 2001, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), sent into space four years later in 2005, paved the way for Phoenix by identifying a safe landing spot from orbit.

The orbiter's sole means of communication with Earth is now its tiny auxiliary antenna, which sends a signal so feeble that receiving stations on Earth must listen long and hard to each digital bit before deciding if it is a 0 or a 1.

The orbiter, however, will continue circling Jupiter for the next two years and slowly send back pictures of the planet and its largest moons.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), circling the moon at an altitude of 31 miles, recently sent back the first global temperature maps of the surface (at right).

As a result, the orbiter now sends data back to Earth at a paltry 8 bits per second instead of the expected 100 000 or more.

One idea would be to reduce the crew size from four to the three of the Apollo days, with the idea that on the Outpost - type fortnight - or - more span expeditions, we'll be able to send the whole crew down to the surface, leaving the Orion (or whichever) orbiter craft, untended in low lunar orbit, to be reached by the crew later.

Indeed, the main reason the Cassini team sent the probe on its suicide plunge today was to ensure that the orbiter would not contaminate Enceladus (or fellow Saturn moon Titan, which also may be habitable) with microbes from Earth.

In anticipation of the encounter, NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), and ESA's Mars Express were sent into orbits timed to place them on the opposite of the planet from the incoming debris of the comet's tail.

Now, it seems as if the planet is sending its love with the this picture from MGS's Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC).

The early probes (Ranger, Lunar Orbiter, Pioneer and Surveyor) were sent to the moon to obtain information necessary for the moon landings of the Apollo program.

«We have reached this orbit for the first time through aerobraking and with the heaviest orbiter ever sent to the Red Planet, ready to start searching for signs of life from orbit.»

Over the past few years, numerous orbiters, landers, and rovers have been sent to Mars, revealing the world as never before.

The rover sends the signals to the orbiters, which then passes them on to Earth.

MARDI and MARCI incorporate an innovative electronics design that enables high - quality scientific data acquisition in a very compact package — each unit weighs about one - half kilogram (one pound), which is less than one - tenth the weight of any previous orbiter or lander camera sent to Mars.

Russian plans to send a lander to Ganymede, the Laplace mission, and an orbiter to Mercury.