Sentences with phrase «smaller missions by»

The Space Studies Board is investigating how to hold on to the grants and smaller missions by delaying or downgrading the bigger fry.

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«There is an important shift in the industry that is driven by mobile technology at the point - of - sale, integrated with a finance marketplace that is finding innovative ways to help small business get funding for mission - critical equipment, said CEMC founder and currency CEO, Charles Anderson.

On the defense side, there are missions in space that can be achieved by launching several smaller, cheaper satellites instead of one big satellite.

Supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the mission includes over 20 executives representing Canadian multinationals and small and medium - size enterprises that will promote their products and services and explore business opportunities and partnerships...

Credibility Capital is on a mission to help small businesses succeed and grow by providing fair, affordable capital.

By investing in pioneering individuals, non-profits and mission driven companies who dare to re-imagine the possible, PSF has helped to bring about important breakthroughs — from cancer research and small scale agriculture to criminal justice reform and educational opportunities for young people in communities around the world.

Now back to working on our mission: Helping small and mid-sized organizations get control of their business by giving them super-simple, real - time access to their metrics, everywhere they want to see them!

He may be assigned work to do around the mission and, when he is recovered enough to be able, sent out on small jobs obtained by the mission's employment service.

As Journey covers their activities in prayer while providing small business loans to church members and restocking the medical clinic Clerhomme had been running in his community, Mission by Faith prays for their American partner church.

Except in a few small islands in the Pacific, until 1914 the Christian communities which arose from missions from the West were small minorities, Christian enclaves in overwhelming non-Christian populations, dependent on continued infusions from Europe and America and regarded by the non-Christian neighbors as aliens, the religious phase of Western imperialism and colonialism.

Hired by a management company to serve as the nutrition director of a small local school district, Valenza brought his restaurant management skills to the school lunch arena and made it his mission to serve up fresh, healthy meals to New Jersey's kids.

For winning elections is not the mission of the hard left, as a recent tweet by Jon Lansman, head of momentum so beautifully demonstrated, when he said, «Democracy gives power to people, «Winning» is the small bit that matters to political elites who want to keep power themselves».

We specialize in helping small to midsize organizations and businesses, especially with a progressive mission, engage customers and supporters to increase revenue by developing and implementing strategies to succeed online.

«In January the mission was described by the former defence secretary as a small but significant step, yet the increasing violence proves otherwise,» he said.

NASA is currently developing concepts for the redirect mission that will employ a robotic spacecraft, driven by an advanced solar electric propulsion system, to capture a small near - Earth asteroid or remove a boulder from the surface of a larger asteroid.

Instead of rocketing astronauts off into deep space, the Asteroid Redirect Mission would send a robotic spacecraft to a small asteroid, secure it (potentially by grabbing it and stuffing it into a giant high - tech bag) and tow it back to orbit the moon using a hyper - efficient kind of rocket engine technology called solar electric propulsion.

By combining data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gaia mission, University of Groningen astronomers have been able to measure the proper motion of 15 stars in the Sculptor Galaxy, the first such measurement of stars in a small galaxy outside the Milky Way.

«The bottom line is that we're paying a lot more attention to modeling very small accelerations, such as those exerted by solar radiation pressure, than previous missions have had to do,» said Michael Moreau, OSIRIS - REx flight dynamics system manager at Goddard.

Measurements of the afterglow from the Big Bang by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite mission yield predictions for the Hubble constant that are 5 percent and 9 percent smaller, respectively.

By the time Webb is operational, Clampin says, another NASA mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), slated for launch in 2017, will already be producing a short list of other potentially habitable rocky planets around nearby small stars.

Additionally, the thousands of worlds discovered by NASA's planet - hunting Kepler mission strongly suggest that «there should be as many small planets like the Earth as there are stars,» Morse explains, meaning that to see one astronomers should not need to build a gargantuan telescope that could peer clear across the galaxy.

For less than $ 50 million, the effort's planners say, a telescope small enough to fit in the trunk of a compact car could launch by the end of the decade on a historic mission to image another Earth - like planet.

The research is part of the Measurements of 11 Asteroids and Comets Using Herschel (MACH - 11) program, which used Herschel to look at small bodies that have been or will be visited by spacecraft, including the targets of NASA's previous Deep Impact mission and upcoming Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS - Rex).

Scientists on that mission claimed to find protons — perhaps a small radiation belt trapped by Mercury's magnetic field.

NuSTAR is a Small Explorer mission led by Caltech and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washmission led by Caltech and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in WashMission Directorate in Washington.

This collective group of small nanosatellites, known as Flock 1, will be joined by 28 additional Dove satellites, Flock 1b, on the Orbital - 2 mission.

In response to the 1993 failure of the Mars Observer mission — a billion - dollar, decade - in - the - making probe that mysteriously lost contact with ground controllers just before it was scheduled to go into orbit around the planet — NASA administrator Daniel Goldin decided to shift to smaller, less expensive spacecraft and create a sustained exploration campaign by sending one or two probes to Mars at every launch opportunity.

Future missions such as the Joint Astrophysics Nascent Universe Satellite — a small explorer mission being considered by NASA — could give astronomers their first look at gamma - ray bursts produced by these first - generation stellar objects.

«TESS is expected to find more than a thousand planets smaller than Neptune, including dozens that are comparable in size to the Earth,» added a team led by TESS principal investigator George Ricker, who is an MIT astrophysicist, in a 2015 journal article about the mission.

The theory will hopefully be put to the test in the not - too - distant future by an ambitious Japanese mission, that will seek to visit both of the small moons with the aim of retrieving a surface sample for return to Earth.

Curiosity had been shooting for a 12 - by -15-mile (20 - by -25-kilometer) ellipse - shaped landing zone — already much smaller than the target area for any previous Mars mission.

NASA currently envisions the first two SLS flights, EM - 1 and 2, as part of the agency's Asteroid Initiative mission proposal, which aims to robotically redirect a small Near - Earth Asteroid into orbit around the Moon by the end of the decade, to be later visited by human crews.

The discovery of hundreds of exoplanet candidates by NASA's Kepler mission enables astronomers to characterize the eccentricity distribution of small exoplanets.

The latest findings are expected to help scientists characterize many small planets that are likely to be discovered by future space missions over the next few years.

A small satellite developed by Paris Observatory is currently undergoing final preparations for its exoplanet - observing mission.

If the approaching spacecraft has to avoid plowing into smaller fragments, it would be a rather more graceful version of the famous asteroid - dodging sequence in Star Wars — fitting for a mission led by a jet jockey.

A third mission, called PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars), proposed using a number of small, optically fast, wide - field telescopes to detect and characterize a large number of close - by exoplanetary systems.

Here we apply the light - curve modeling tech... ▽ More The Kepler Mission has recently announced the discovery of Kepler - 10 b, the smallest exoplanet discovered to date and the first rocky planet found by the spacecraft.

The K2 mission allows us to increase the number of small, red stars by a factor of 20 for further study.»

SBIR and its companion Small Business Technology Transfer program were designed to spur small businesses and research facilities to produce innovative concepts and designs meant to benefit the federal government, and is managed by the Science Technology Mission Directorate at NASA's Ames Research Center in CalifoSmall Business Technology Transfer program were designed to spur small businesses and research facilities to produce innovative concepts and designs meant to benefit the federal government, and is managed by the Science Technology Mission Directorate at NASA's Ames Research Center in Califosmall businesses and research facilities to produce innovative concepts and designs meant to benefit the federal government, and is managed by the Science Technology Mission Directorate at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.

«NASA is proud of our investment in the success of small businesses and its long - term impact on our economy,» said NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate acting Associate Administrator Jim Reuter in a release issued by the space agency.

On the other hand, by reframing the near - impossible feat as a Marine mission, he could divide it into more manageable smaller goals, so he imagined reaching a checkpoint with every 1,000 pull - ups, where he was able to resupply fellow Marines with food and ammo.

About Blog Our mission is to eradicate small business overwhelm by simplifying the offshore outsourcing process and facilitating cost - effective business scalability.

There are nods to previous Mission: Impossible movies, including the famed wire - drop from the first film when Hunt and company decide to... get this... infiltrate the Vatican (a scene that is accompanied by a charmingly amusing performance of Cruise going all Italian), and even a small homage to «Top Gun».

But the game never offers any interesting way to intercede, and the irony is that by breaking things down into smaller missions the scale of action actually seems smaller than before — not larger.

Completing story missions and side missions for resistance members is the most efficient way to do so, but you can also viably achieve your goal by performing smaller tasks that you might stumble across during your journeys through the county: rescuing civilians in random encounters, finding and destroying cult structures or supply vehicles, and liberating occupied compounds, seized as cult outposts.

On October 24th, 2014, a secret three - year mission by a small crew of engineers came to fruition deep in the desert of New Mexico.

If the objective is to storm and retake a castle, you might be encouraged to complete some smaller missions along the way that will help your forces further expand, or you can always try to run in solo and take on everyone all by yourself.

Blake is so excited and invigorated by his plan to take down Gunther that he hires a small film crew to document the mission, thus resulting in the movie that we're watching.

It comes by way of Vivi (Amber Heard), a top - shelf CIA femme fatale who wants Ethan to complete the mission from the prologue in exchange for the drug and a small fortune.