Sentences with phrase «space agency now»

And the space agency now plans to visit it much sooner than originally planned.

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.

The explosion could delay SpaceX's 2017 plans to ferry NASA astronauts to the ISS, which the space agency now expects won't happen until 2018 — a deadline that's already been postponed twice.

Not exact matches

Space critics such as the CBC's Wendy Mesley and Now are usually opposed to the billions spent on agencies, largely because of their ties to the military - industrial complex and because they feel it's money that could be spent on better things, such as education or social programs.

Now retired from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), he recently published his first children's book, The Darkest Dark, about his own fear of the dark as a kid.

Another problem is that NASA earth science is more than people — it's buildings, systems, and machines that are now woven into the framework of the space agency and could not cheaply or efficiently be extracted.

Benjamin Dyett was co-founder of Grind, a coworking space founded in 2010 and is now with Open Work Agency, a coworking consulting and advising company.

This shift in motivations also denotes a significant change in the end goals of modern space companies and agencies alike, especially as concerns the Moon: Rather than visiting our celestial neighbor to prove we have the ability, we're now going back to the Moon with the intention of maintaining an extended presence of the lunar surface.

I've been extoling the virtues of innovation in the agency space for a few years now.

In a context where millions in our world are either excluded or have been rendered invisible by callous and inhuman policies and actions of international financial institutions and agencies (which are supposedly there to regulate trade and create the space for the powerless), to talk of ethical engagement of Christians in struggle for life, is more urgent now then ever before.

The company now ranks among the nation's largest PR agencies in the foodservice space, representing such blue - chip brands as Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, Cicis, Nestle Toll House Café, Farmer Bros., Walk - On's Bistreaux & Bar, Zoup!

Through a new web - based portal set to go live July 1, the state Office of General Services will take control of allocating more than 10,000 parking spaces now controlled by individual agencies, which use different standards to award spots based on lengthy waiting lists.

The announcement from the UK Space Agency of the successful sites had been delayed because of the local elections in England and it is now expected in May.

Following the loss, a Commission of Inquiry was set up by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the forerunner of what is now the UK Space Agency.

Now, cosmologists using CMB maps from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite have pinned down the timing for one key event in that story — the end of the universe's «Dark Ages,» the epoch that lies between the CMB's creation and the formation of the first stars.

«It is exciting that now Space agencies realize how studies of early Earth and early life evolution are relevant for the search for life beyond Earth.

Those pictures, some of which are sharp enough to spot features 10 centimeters across, were taken by the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which has been orbiting the comet (seen here in July from a distance of about 160 kilometers) for more than a year now.

The satellite, now in lunar orbit, carried Indian instruments as well as those from the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA and Bulgaria — an arrangement far removed from the nationalist striving of the U.S. — Soviet space Space Agency (ESA), NASA and Bulgaria — an arrangement far removed from the nationalist striving of the U.S. — Soviet space space race.

But now astrophysicists have mapped its thermodynamics using X-ray data caught by the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton satellite in a high - speed camera chase.

The European Space Agency's Venus Express has survived its month - long dive into the planet's thick atmosphere and is now on the climb.

Now, under the auspices of its own space agency, Canada is partnering with other countries to help explore the Red Planet.

The best launch site in the world right now is the spaceport that the European Space Agency has in French Guiana, about five degrees north of the equator.

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.

Now the Italian Space Agency's AGILE satellite and NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope have together detected three outbursts of much brighter gamma rays.

Now, the European Space Agency's Herschel telescope has detected heat from five of these dusty galaxies, opening a window into the universe's biggest stellar construction boom.

The Red Planet now has seven robots studying it, following the arrival of two new orbiters in September: NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) and MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission), the Indian space agency's first Mars spacecraft.

«Now you're seeing not just student projects, but CubeSats deployed by the military, by space agencies — doing real jobs,» he says.

The valuable cooling effects of large urban green spaces has been established; now scientists from Forest Research, the research agency of the Forestry Commission, have studied small and medium sized parks in London to determine the optimum size, distribution and composition of urban green spaces needed to achieve urban cooling.

To get the biggest picture now available, Paolo and his colleagues stitched together satellite radar altimetry data from three consecutive and overlapping missions: the European Space Agency's (ESA's) ERS - 1 and ERS - 2 (which flew from 1991 to 2000 and 1995 to 2011, respectively), and ESA's ENVISAT mission, which collected data from 2002 to 2012.

With NASA's announcement that the 30 - year - old space shuttle program would end after the touchdown of Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center this summer, the iconic agency has, for now, abandoned the concept of government - built manned spacecspace shuttle program would end after the touchdown of Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center this summer, the iconic agency has, for now, abandoned the concept of government - built manned spacecSpace Center this summer, the iconic agency has, for now, abandoned the concept of government - built manned spacecraft.

The president wants to scrap NASA's space shuttle successor, now in development, and relax the agency's focus on returning to the moon

Furthermore, the space advocacy group claimed the space agency's robotic program for the Red Planet is on a «troubling path of decline... and decisions must be made now in order to stop it.»

«I»M FEELING relief, elation and now excitement,» says the European Space Agency's Mark McCaughrean.

On the other hand, physicists are confident enough of eventual success that they have persuaded NASA and the European Space Agency to start planning for LISA, for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, a space - based interferometer consisting of three satellites, now tentatively scheduled for launch in Space Agency to start planning for LISA, for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, a space - based interferometer consisting of three satellites, now tentatively scheduled for launch in Space Antenna, a space - based interferometer consisting of three satellites, now tentatively scheduled for launch in space - based interferometer consisting of three satellites, now tentatively scheduled for launch in 2012.

In its decision in May on DDVP — now the poster child for the agency's failure — the EPA added some restrictions to household use, saying the pest strips could be placed only in garages, cupboards, attics and crawl spaces.

The team used radar data from satellites, such as the European Space Agency's now - defunct Envisat, to study ground motions in the Taupo Volcanic Zone.

Those ripples are now reverberating through NASA, nudging the agency to mend fences with the European Space Agency (ESA) and rejoin an ambitious mission, called the Laser Interferometry Space Antenna (LISA), to study gravitational waves from agency to mend fences with the European Space Agency (ESA) and rejoin an ambitious mission, called the Laser Interferometry Space Antenna (LISA), to study gravitational waves from sSpace Agency (ESA) and rejoin an ambitious mission, called the Laser Interferometry Space Antenna (LISA), to study gravitational waves from Agency (ESA) and rejoin an ambitious mission, called the Laser Interferometry Space Antenna (LISA), to study gravitational waves from sSpace Antenna (LISA), to study gravitational waves from spacespace.

Now, two orbiting telescopes, the Italian Space Agency's AGILE telescope and NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, have detected gamma rays emanating from Cygnus X-3, some more than 1000 times more energetic than previous measurements.

But it is far from clear whether government agencies will still be calling the tune come 2020: the raft of commercial space firms now vying to put their stamp on the final frontier could have a big say in how long the station is kept in orbit.

The US space agency is now offering a leg - up in the commercial race to the moon.

Right now the station is home to three space residents, Commander Max Suraev of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agspace residents, Commander Max Suraev of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space AgSpace Agency.

Citizens the world over were engaged by the astronomical achievement, and now the European Space Agency and NASA are eager to learn as much as possible about the critically important celestial body of ice.

While earthbound scientists have been observing Comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko for years now, the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, which was dispatched in 2004 to map and study the comet, caught the first glimpse of its target in only the last few weeks.

After two days of speculation and investigation, the fate of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Schiaparelli lander is now clear.

An elaborate choreography of multiple spacecraft will play out among Jupiter and its Galilean moons in the decade of the 2020s, if plans now taking shape at NASA and other space agencies get the go - ahead in the next several years.

NASA's recently launched GLAST gamma - ray observatory has made its first map of the sky, and now the agency has given it a new name: the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope.

The new BSL - 3 spaces now under construction at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California would enable the agency to work with agents such as anthrax and plague.

Now a team has used data from the Integral satellite, run by the European Space Agency (ESA), to study an entirely different effect: the polarisation of light of different energies from a GRB.

Second, the space agency needs to respect the firewall between robotic missions and human missions, because the goals of these two wings of the space program are, for now, so distinct.

Now, Denis Dilhan at the French space agency and his colleagues have a solution: make metal satellite parts burn up more efficiently as they enter the atmosphere by using thermite.