Sentences with phrase «sending spacecraft»

For starters, the system is 39 light - years away, and sending a spacecraft there is impossible with today's technology.

The first was the prospect of sending spacecraft through the asteroid belt.

NASA has proposed sending a spacecraft to Europa in 2022.

Looking for such life inside Enceladus will require sending another spacecraft there.

We have spent many billions of dollars sending spacecraft all over the solar system.

Unfortunately, sending a spacecraft to even the closest star (Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light - years away) would take 70,000 years at the speed of today's chemical rockets.

To solve the question once and for all, Orton says researchers need to send spacecraft to plunge through the clouds of Uranus, not unlike how the Cassini probe dove into Saturn.

Scientists wouldn't be able to send spacecraft to find out if there was life on the planets because in the best case scenario, it would take 39 years just to get there.

If Ceres proves to be a possible home for extraterrestrial life and is venting water into space, Sykes says, «this raises the possibility that we could send another spacecraft there in the near future to go down to one of these spots, scoop up soil, take a look and ask whether there are any dead bugs in there.»

«Perhaps more significantly, low - energy pathways lead away from L1 and L2, which can be exploited to send spacecraft to Jupiter, Mars, asteroids, for less fuel.

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.

In the past few decades, Wu says, China has built the capacity to place satellites and astronauts in orbit and send spacecraft to the Moon, but it has not done much significant research from its increasingly lofty vantage point.

In January, NASA announced plans to send a spacecraft to visit Psyche, a metal asteroid that could be a dead planet's core, in 2023.

Scientists are finally preparing to send a spacecraft to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the last unexplored region of our planetary system.

Other nations, including the US, send spacecraft to inspect problem satellites.

NASA has not sent a spacecraft to Venus since 1989, when the Magellan probe made detailed radar maps of the surface hidden under those sulfurous clouds.

Studies of Mars, for instance, have boomed in recent decades thanks to the steady stream of missions sent there; meanwhile, NASA hasn't sent a spacecraft to Venus in more than 20 years.

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.

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.

If that expedition is successful, Stone thinks it will be a crucial milestone in the quest to send spacecraft to swim in alien seas.

Because there typically isn't enough time to design and launch a scientific mission to intercept a first - pass - through - the - solar - system comet before it swoops back into the depths of space, «[i] t's almost impossible to send a spacecraft to one of these comets,» he notes.

This is the first time ion engines have been used to send a spacecraft into orbit around a distant object in the solar system.

NEW DELHI — India has decided to send a spacecraft to orbit the moon and map its surface in detail.

For instance, it would be possible to send a spacecraft round such a naked singularity on a trajectory that takes it into the past, achieving genuine time travel.

ESA also intends to send spacecraft to Venus and Mercury, which are not even on NASA's schedule.

When NASA sent spacecraft to Jupiter in the 1970s and 1990s, those moons proved to be full of surprises.

Unfortunately, it will be difficult to confirm the scenario that Canup and Rufu propose, even if we send a spacecraft to Triton to look.

Bolden was grilled by subcommittee chairman Steve Palazzo (R - MS) and committee chairman Smith on why he was ignoring NAC's advice to (1) obtain an independent cost evaluation (ICE) of ARM prior to the Mission Concept Review (which just took place), and (2) modify it so that its primary objective is demonstration of high power solar electric propulsion rather than obtaining a sample of an asteroid, and to send the spacecraft to Mars and back rather than to an asteroid.

Cassini took nearly a half - million images during its mission, which included more than 13 years in orbit around Saturn, a tour that repeatedly took the probe by the moons Titan and Enceladus, two places scientists are eager to send another spacecraft in the search for microbial life.

When New Horizons roared into a blue Florida sky on 18 January 2006, it was met with excitement and frustration in equal measure: excitement because, after so many fruitless attempts to send a spacecraft to Pluto — ranging from the ill - fated Pluto Fast Flyby (PFF) to the Pluto Kuiper Express (PKE), which breathed their last in ferocious NASA budget cuts in the 1990s and at the turn of the millennium — a mission to explore the last of the nine «traditional» planets in the Solar System was underway, tempered with frustration that it would require such a long period of time in order to reach its quarry.

Mission managers said Phobos - Grunt spacecraft's thrusters failed to fire in a maneuver that would have sent the spacecraft on to Mars.

If we sent a spacecraft there tomorrow, it would take decades for it to get there and send home pictures.

He is also involved with the Webb Telescope (which will launch in 2018 as the successor to Hubble), with efforts to send a spacecraft to Uranus and Neptune, and with other concepts for future space missions.

There is only one hope of saving the planet: Send a spacecraft to land on the meteor, plant an arsenal of warheads deep into its surface, and push the rock off its course.

Not exact matches

April 27 - A heat shield used in a NASA spacecraft designed to send a six - wheeled rover vehicle to Mars in 2020 suffered an «unexpected» fracture during a structural test this month, causing the space agency to build a replacement, the space agency said.

The nuclear - powered spacecraft has orbited Saturn for 13 years, and sent back hundreds of thousands of images.

The spacecraft will be useful until the very moment it burns up — it will be sending back data continuously.

It will be awarded to the first team that lands a commercial spacecraft on the moon, travels 500 meters across its surface and sends high - definition images and video back to Earth — all before the end of 2015.

Instead of sending large spacecraft capable of moving asteroids, the startup wants to send a small craft that could land on the asteroid and 3 - D print a propulsion system and guidance mechanisms — essentially turning the asteroid into its own spaceship that would then drive itself to wherever a crew was located.

So serious, in fact, that the organization's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has put out a call for design proposals of the spacecraft that will eventually land on an asteroid, then send a huge chunk of it over to humans for experimentation.

On May 26, NASA announced a suite of instruments that will accompany the spacecraft they're designing to send to Europa — a moon four times smaller than Earth that scientists suspect could harbor a deep, vast, salty ocean beneath its thick, icy surface.

«Curiosity is the biggest, most complex spacecraft ever sent to the surface of another planet,» says Veronica McGregor, a NASA News and Social Media Manager, in the report.

In 2017, Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to send its seven - seat Dream Chaser spacecraft into orbit, while Boeing will launch the most powerful space rocket ever built — the one that will launch NASA / Lockheed's Orion and crew to an undetermined destination beyond orbit in 2021.

Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $ 100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

He envisions sending a larger conventional spacecraft containing thousands of nanocraft into orbit, and then launching the nanocraft one by one, he said in an interview.

The $ 100 million initiative will deploy thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

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In this case, SpaceX is planning to send the tourists to space in a Dragon 2 spacecraft currently under development, with its first uncrewed test flight planned for this summer, and its first flight to the International Space Station planned for late this year.

Moon Express, a Mountain View, California - based company that's aiming to send the first commercial robotic spacecraft to the moon next year, just took another step closer toward that lofty goal.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $ 100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.