Sentences with phrase «space agencies began»

Meanwhile, the world's space agencies began to bring their expertise to bear on the problem.

The dream telescope could head for the skies as soon as the early 2030s, the report authors say, but only if NASA and other space agencies begin planning for it now.

StemRad, a developer of revolutionary technology that shields first responders, astronauts and soldiers from harmful radiation exposure, announced today that NASA and the Israel Space Agency have signed an agreement for the launch of StemRad's AstroRad radiation protection vest aboard NASA's EM - 1 mission around the moon, the last test flight before the space agency begins deep space manned missions.

On Sunday, the total amount of sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean was 1.58 million square miles, the smallest size ever observed by NASA satellites since the space agency began monitoring earth's polar ice caps 30 years ago.

In late August, just 1.58 million square miles of sea ice covered the Arctic Ocean, the smallest such area ever observed by NASA satellites since the space agency began monitoring the Earth's polar ice caps 30 years ago.

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With a more established presence in orbit, companies and space agencies will begin to explore experimental technologies, like in - orbit manufacturing.

Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis Passed Mini Stimuli Began Asia «Pivot Increased Support for Veterans Tightened Sanctions on Iran Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants Passed Credit Card Reforms Eliminated Catch - 22 in Pay Equality Laws Improved Food Safety System Expanded National Service Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission Improved School Nutrition Expanded Hate Crimes Protections Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill Pushed Broadband Coverage Expanded Health Coverage for Children Helped South Sudan Declare Independence Killed the F - 22

Altogether, if Elway sticks to what he says and there's no surprise moves out of left field, the Broncos stand to have somewhere around $ 35 million in space when free agency begins March 14.

Those future surveys include the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, set to kick off in 2019 at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson; the European Space Agency's Euclid satellite, launching in 2021; and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile, which is set to begin collecting data in 2023.

The prospective development of a space shuttle — endorsed by a presidential task force in 1969 — had begun diverting attention at the agency, as well.

He agrees with other scientists who think that the U.S. must begin a series of talks with the European Commission and the European Space Agency as well as with counterparts in India, China and Japan to find a way to develop an international climate observing system.

Sonic Boom «Last year Congress appropriated $ 11 million for the Federal Aviation Agency to begin the development of a prototype supersonic transport, with technical support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

NASA and the European Space Agency soon began planning the Cassini mission to get a closer look.

Two years ago, aerospace engineer Hugh Lewis of the University of Southampton, England, and his colleagues calculated that within a few decades, space agencies would have to begin culling perhaps five major pieces of debris annually to slow this collision - enhanced growth in the number of orbiting trash particles.

«Our comet is coming out of its deep - space slumber and beginning to put on a show for Rosetta's science instruments,» said Matt Taylor, Rosetta's project scientist from the European Space Agency's Science and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlspace slumber and beginning to put on a show for Rosetta's science instruments,» said Matt Taylor, Rosetta's project scientist from the European Space Agency's Science and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The NetherlSpace Agency's Science and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

Beginning next year Sune Toft and his colleagues will gain access to equipment of hitherto unknown strength and precision when ESA, European Space Agency, CSA, Canadian Space Agency and NASA, the US space organization, put James Webb Space Telescope into orbit 1,5 million km from ESpace Agency, CSA, Canadian Space Agency and NASA, the US space organization, put James Webb Space Telescope into orbit 1,5 million km from ESpace Agency and NASA, the US space organization, put James Webb Space Telescope into orbit 1,5 million km from Espace organization, put James Webb Space Telescope into orbit 1,5 million km from ESpace Telescope into orbit 1,5 million km from Earth.

The aim of the Cassini - Huygens mission, a joint project of NASA, ESA, and Italy's ASI space agency that began in 1997, was to gain new insights into the gas planet Saturn and its moons.

The agency has just 56 astronauts on the payroll, down from 109 in 2007, but last November it began accepting applications to recruit a dozen or so more, touting opportunities to «support missions to the space station» and eventually embark on «missions beyond low Earth orbit.»

While private space companies were making their move, NASA began testing the J - 2X rocket engine, one of the powerhouses behind the agency's Space Launch System that could drive the next stage of manned space exploraspace companies were making their move, NASA began testing the J - 2X rocket engine, one of the powerhouses behind the agency's Space Launch System that could drive the next stage of manned space exploraSpace Launch System that could drive the next stage of manned space exploraspace exploration.

Building work will begin in the spring and the radar should be ready by 1995, when the European Space Agency's CLUSTER satellite system is due to be launched.

Shortly before 5 A.M. Eastern time on Friday, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will gently fire its thrusters for a few minutes and begin a 14 - hour descent to Comet 67P, a mountain - size, snowy dust ball drifting through the darkness that reigns more than half a billion kilometers from the sun.

The mission, perhaps the most ambitious one ever undertaken by the European Space Agency, will now join the comet as it begins a lap around the sun, heats up, and releases stores of ice in a cloud of dust and gas.

As NASA's Curiosity rover celebrates one year on Mars, the space agency has begun final preparations for the launch of its next Red Planet mission later this year.

In a Physics World special report on Japan, Dennis Normile reports on how the Japanese space agency JAXA plans to land a spacecraft onto an asteroid in 2018 to search for clues of how life began on Earth.

The American space agency's Curiosity Rover has been exploring the surface features of Mars since the beginning of August 2012.

NASA will wake New Horizons on Saturday, the last of 18 different hibernation periods, but the space agency will conduct a series of tests before the spacecraft begins exploring Pluto on Jan. 15, according to NASA's The PI's Perspective blog.

The 10 - month journey to Mars means that if all goes well, the probe will arrive in late September 2014, and will begin its year long orbiting mission in November, space agency scientists said.

In 1975, the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA began drafting the initial plans for it, and in 1977, Congress approved the necessary funds.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has been delivered to an Astrotech Space Operations - owned facility in Titusville, Florida, to begin final preparations before its launch this summer, the U.S. space agency Space Operations - owned facility in Titusville, Florida, to begin final preparations before its launch this summer, the U.S. space agency space agency said.

The new telescope is named after NASA's second administrator, James E. Webb, who oversaw the space agency from the beginnings of the Mercury program through the beginnings of the Apollo program in the 1960s.

GlobCover is a European Space Agency (ESA) initiative which began in 2005 in partnership with the Joint Research Center, European Environmental Agency, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, UN Environment Programme, Global Observation of Forest Cover and Land Cover Dynamics, and International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme.

Thus began a decadelong collaboration with the European Space Agency's Cryosat program.

Space agencies around the globe have been tracking the school - bus - sized space station as its orbit decays, and the most recent forecast from the Aerospace Corporation predicts it will begin to break up at 8:10 pm Eastern Time (0010 GMT Monday, April 2), plus or minus a couple hSpace agencies around the globe have been tracking the school - bus - sized space station as its orbit decays, and the most recent forecast from the Aerospace Corporation predicts it will begin to break up at 8:10 pm Eastern Time (0010 GMT Monday, April 2), plus or minus a couple hspace station as its orbit decays, and the most recent forecast from the Aerospace Corporation predicts it will begin to break up at 8:10 pm Eastern Time (0010 GMT Monday, April 2), plus or minus a couple hours.

It was noted that the regulator has recently begun expanding its footprint in the cryptocurrency space, with the agency previously allowing two U.S. exchanges to list bitcoin futures contracts.

Travana Inc., an online travel - agency startup, began operating in November with five employees and quickly outgrew its space at San Francisco's Pier 5 as its workforce expanded to about 75.

To begin with, the chain has too much dead space inside its full - line stores, according to David Slavick, vice president of retailing consulting with Customer Communications Group, a Lakewood, Colo. - based customer relationship marketing agency.

The push by institutions into the single - family housing space began in earnest early in 2012 as a result of the Federal Housing Finance Agency's program to sell foreclosed residential properties in bulk so investors could convert the housing into rentals.