Sentences with phrase «space agency»

Space junk is an increasing problem for space agencies.

Given current technology, transporting large - scale structures into space may be feasible only through the cooperation of space agencies on different continents.

International agreements govern planetary protection measures that must be taken by space agencies.

In this way, today's space ambitions are being shaped by entrepreneurs and angel investors as much as by government space agencies.

If we had years of warning time before a possible impact, then we could coordinate with space agencies to try to divert the asteroid.

Space agency used more gentle drilling technique to gather samples.

ESA and the Chinese space agency are running daily updates on the station's location, so check back to see if it will be visible where you are.

Scientists have not found another weather feature exactly like this anywhere in the solar system, space agency officials said.

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

He also revealed that commercial space agencies would pave the path for human settlement in space.

Space agencies around the world have been discussing a need to actively remove aerospace debris.

They also think merging the country's different space agencies could maximize the scientific impact and lead to greater efficiencies.

It takes many space agencies and corporate partners... and one man to manage the massive feat.

Supporters of commercial space stations point to significant cost reductions for state space agencies.

It could also partner with a government space agency, he said.

Chinese space agency, even which is politically difficult but nevertheless possible.

But programming a probe with its trajectory years ahead of time can be a problem, says Ian Carnelli of the European Space Agency in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

The discovery shows that the probe landed successfully, but failed to unfold itself properly on the Martian surface, UK Space Agency officials announced today (Jan. 16).

Join Mat Kaplan and Bill Nye with their guests, Canadian space writer Elizabeth Howell, University of Western Ontario planetary scientist Gordon «Oz» Osinski, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.

It was built and is being operated in collaboration with Penn State University, University Park, Pa., the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, and General Dynamics of Gilbert, Ariz., in the U.S. International collaborators include the University of Leicester and Mullard Space Sciences Laboratory in the United Kingdom, Brera Observatory and the Italian Space Agency in Italy, and additional partners in Germany and Japan.

One of those telescopes is Herschel, a space - based infrared observatory launched in May by the European Space Agency in collaboration with NASA.

The U.S. space agency said that the price tag of the new Mars rover should be about $ 1.9 billion, which is lesser compared with the cost of the Curiosity mission that fetched $ 2.5 billion.

As the US space agency announced on Wednesday, the Van Allen space probes have detected a new, artificial bubble surrounding Earth that was the result of the interplay between very low frequency (VLF) radio communications and high - energy radiation particles.

On July 18, 2011, the Russian Space Agency launched a satellite into orbit that unfolded into a 10 - meter (33 - foot) dish radio telescope called Spektr - R.

The mission, which kicked into high gear when the probe started orbiting comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in August 2014, has officially had its funding extended to September 2016, the European Space Agency announced June 23.

In 1985, I was lucky enough to be selected by the Japanese Space Agency as one of three candidates among 533 applicants targeted for a 1988 Shuttle Flight called the SL - J mission.

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.

Then on 15 July something unexpected happened: perhaps by accident, perhaps in a moment of revolutionary fervour after Bastille Day, someone at the French space agency CNES made public sensational new images of the comet's icy core.

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy performs an ultrasound on European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano at the International Space Station's Columbus laboratory.

All previous resupply flights have been operated by national space agencies such as NASA.

Twinkling stars will be used to produce three - dimensional maps of the ozone layer every three days when the European Space Agency launches ENVISAT in 1998.

Recently, this basic theory of the universe was again confirmed by the Planck satellite, a European Space Agency mission for which NASA provided detector and cooler technology.

But as NASA and other international space agencies plan missions to Mars and beyond lasting more than a year, officials will have to take a position on this.

FRANKFURT, April 17 - More than 100 parts for U.S. space agency NASA's deep - space capsule Orion will be made by 3 D printers, using technology that experts say will eventually become key to efforts to send humans to Mars.

Zoning in on the latter would be a major development, as space agencies have spent more than a billion dollars on probes to retrieve samples from asteroids.

Based at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Paranal observatory in Chile, NGTS is an array of 12 telescopes, each with a mirror 20 centimeters across, built by a consortium of U.K. and Swiss universities and the German space agency DLR.

Johannes Fürst, a researcher at the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg's Institute of Geography in Germany, and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they analysed years of ice thickness data from European Space Agency satellites and airborne measurements.

In about eight years, NASA and the European Space Agency plan to launch the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, called LISA.

The bizarre bright spots have been described as «alien,» but the new images, captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft May 3 and May 4 and posted online by the U.S. space agency on Monday, are providing new clues to what the unexplained lights could be.

Space agencies don't want to invest in a big spacecraft with a whole new technology with large structures and deployable devices without it being proven.

The commission is expected to inform the head of the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin of the preliminary results of the investigation on January 20.

In December 2013, attendees affiliated with NASA, Boeing, Orbital Sciences Corp. and many others at the Affording Mars Workshop arrived at six agreements that could frame the way that space agencies work toward a manned mission to Mars.

The U.S. space agency released a 360 - degree video tour of the In - Situ Instrument Lab, where the team is operating the «testbed» under a variety of different conditions.

Not to be outdone, the European Space Agency hopes to launch an ambitious 12 - year mission in February called Rosetta.

NASA space junk experts have refined the forecast for the anticipated death plunge of a giant satellite, with the U.S. space agency now predicting the 6 1/2 - ton climate probe will plummet to Earth around Sept. 23, a day earlier than previously reported.

A majority of it will burn up into the atmosphere, but since it's a possibility that pieces of this space lab could survive, the European Space Agency needs to give people a warning in the event it could hit a person or cause property damage.

Edgar Martins @ The Wapping Project Bankside A collaboration with the European Space Agency makes science fiction real with seemingly futuristic photographs

The plans would see 800,000 children allocated credits to pay for evening or weekend classes run by universities, or even online courses run by US space agency Nasa.

The AP later noted that both NASA and the Soviet space agency received the same 40 percent discount for buying their pens in bulk.