Sentences with phrase «sky crane»

The so - called sky crane system is also what the space agency used on the Curiosity rover descent in August 2012.

A rocket - powered sky crane had lowered the 1 - ton rover to the Martian surface on cables, after parachuting through the planet's thin atmosphere.

Our family rented small summer apartments on Long Island and returned each Labor Day to see the city new yet distressed ¯ fresh excavations, more steel frames covered with thin glass skin, sky cranes hoisting tons of stuff forty stories or more.

Intensely realistic physics and awesome high - resolution visuals combined with impressive machinery, such as cranes, skid loaders, dump trucks, forklifts and sky cranes make this game a very appealing and addictive title you will want to try out.

«There are sky cranes everywhere,» says W. John Roberts, senior associate with PMNet Inc., a Herndon, Va. - based construction consulting firm.

Curiosity was finally lowered to the surface on cables by a rocket - powered sky crane, which flew away and crash - landed on purpose after getting the job done.

From the craft, a so - called «sky crane» will be deployed that will lower the tethered rover onto the surface.

Everyone was worried about those seven minutes that I hurtled through the thin Martian atmosphere, with a rocket - powered «sky crane» slowing my descent.

This challenge led to the ambitious «sky crane» manoeuver used to lower Curiosity — the heaviest mission yet sent to Mars — to the surface.

For the larger Curiosity rover, NASA developed a «sky crane,» which hovered above the surface with rockets while the rover was lowered gently to the surface with a winch.

Dangling on cables like a giant spider, the payload is gently lowered by a «sky crane» to the surface.

«The sky crane system is a good engineering solution to the problem.»

The ballet of moves that precedes the sky crane's deployment is also an advance.

To put a lander on Europa, the report proposes using an automated «sky crane» system like the one used to land the Mars Curiosity rover in 2012.

Its job done, the sky crane would crash - land at a safe distance.

While this new gear could handle heavy loads, it would still need some help from a sky crane or other device to slow down a payload to soft - landing speeds, Clark said.

Instead, the Mars Science Laboratory will use the sky crane touchdown system illustrated here, which will be capable of delivering a much larger rover onto the surface.

I don't want to sound too breathless, but the sky crane is exactly what we need to put humans on Mars, too.

The landing featured new technology including a parachute to slow the rover from 13,000 mph and a «sky crane» suspended in the Martian air to ease the impact of the craft's touchdown in the Gale Crater.

Since the 1 - ton rover is too big for airbags to cushion its landing, Curiosity is equipped with a rocket - powered sky crane to lower it to the surface.

So far, the heftiest payload NASA has landed on Mars is the one - ton Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory rover, which touched down in August 2012 via parachutes and an innovative, rocket - powered sky crane.

Once Curiosity touches down, cables will release the sky crane, which will fly off and crash - land a safe distance away from the rover.

Along with the look - up cameras, the descent stage will have look - down cameras to view the rover from above, while the rover will have look - up cameras to see how the descent stage is operating as it is lowered from the sky crane.