Sentences with phrase «space debris in»

The first goal given to the player is to take his starting asteroid and collide with enough space debris in order to gain enough mass.

She won't have to dodge space debris in this one.

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You can actually also go around and, if you wanted to, collect old satellites or clean up space debris, you could just sort of use chomper over there and collect satellites and space debris... That may be something we have to do in the future.

Space junk is dangerous because one collision could trigger a chain reaction of objects hitting each other, resulting in a thick cloud of debris that would make space travel extremely dangeSpace junk is dangerous because one collision could trigger a chain reaction of objects hitting each other, resulting in a thick cloud of debris that would make space travel extremely dangespace travel extremely dangerous.

This company wants to raise awareness about the environment in space, and is currently developing systems to clean and remove space debris.

«It's not impossible, but since the beginning of the Space Age... a woman who was brushed on the shoulder in Oklahoma is the only one we're aware of who's been touched by a piece of space debris,» he Space Age... a woman who was brushed on the shoulder in Oklahoma is the only one we're aware of who's been touched by a piece of space debris,» he space debris,» he said.

From donating desperately - needed supplies and funds, to pitching in with hands - on debris clean - up, to offering up space as emergency shelter and beyond, businesses heeded the call to help thousands of individuals displaced and otherwise affected by the devastating massive recent hurricanes and the floods they precipitated.

There's a growing volume of debris in orbit around the earth, commonly called space junk, that ranges from old spacecraft down to tiny flecks of paint.

Consequent to the announcement of NASA that seven exoplanets have been discovered, a new study has argued that life forms on one planet can seed life in other planets by riding on space debris to reach other planets.

Tethers Unlimited has been working on a specialized 3D printer that can convert plastic waste — which comprises much of the space debris spinning around in orbit — into filament, or feedstock, or 3D printers.

The original Greek word, kosmos, meant order of harmony and could hardly encompass the post-enlightenment discovery of oceans of cosmic dust and debris floating randomly in space.

-- because the fine motor skills that make for good brushing «don't really develop until about the age when a child can begin to tie shoes or write in cursive,» Miller explains; and start flossing when your child's teeth no longer have space between them, because then the toothbrush isn't able to reach plaque and debris between the teeth.

Most likely, Meech says, the object is an outcast from another star system: a space rock flung out during the star's tempestuous youth when it was surrounded by freshly - formed giant planets embedded in a disk of debris.

These Chandra observations showed that expanding debris from a supernova can accelerate subatomic particles faster than previously thought, and in fact can account for the highest - energy protons that come from outer space and are seen hitting the Earth's upper atmosphere.

A September report by the National Research Council found that the debris field is so dense that collisions between objects in orbit will create additional debris faster than space junk falls out of orbit.

Today debris threatens hundreds of spacecraft and satellites; in fact, last June a space - station crew scrambled into a Soyuz escape capsule because of passing trash.

In June the six astronauts onboard the International Space Station took shelter in escape capsules when a piece of debris came within a few hundred meters of the statioIn June the six astronauts onboard the International Space Station took shelter in escape capsules when a piece of debris came within a few hundred meters of the statioin escape capsules when a piece of debris came within a few hundred meters of the station.

In the debris of the collisions that follow, physicists expect to find evidence of yet another strange component of empty space, one that would explain why particles have mass.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany, which issued the Tiangong - 1 prediction, said the March 30 to April 2 window is «highly variable,» and it will not be possible to determine exactly where the space station will fall to ESpace Agency's (ESA) Space Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany, which issued the Tiangong - 1 prediction, said the March 30 to April 2 window is «highly variable,» and it will not be possible to determine exactly where the space station will fall to ESpace Debris Office in Darmstadt, Germany, which issued the Tiangong - 1 prediction, said the March 30 to April 2 window is «highly variable,» and it will not be possible to determine exactly where the space station will fall to Espace station will fall to Earth.

«All we need to produce narrow rings and other structures in our models of debris disks is a bit of gas, too little for us to detect today in most actual systems,» said co-author Marc Kuchner, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

But those Sprites could not be deployed from the short - lived KickSat due to concerns that they might create (or become) uncontrollable pieces of space debris that could pose grave risks to astronauts who were in a Soyuz rocket en route to the ISS at the time.

Space debris is a massive problem in low Earth orbit space flSpace debris is a massive problem in low Earth orbit space flspace flight.

«Although there is a sort of sandblasting going on in space all of the time, both from man - made and natural debris, we've only had two operational spacecraft ever hit by man - made debris (that we know of) that sustained any major damage.»

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.

A research team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena, Germany, has now especially developed a fiber laser that reliably determines the position and direction of the space debris» movement to mitigate these risks.

There is debris in low Earth orbit — between 400 km and perhaps 1,000 km — where the Hubble Space Telescope, International Space Station and some other satellites reside.

The more debris there is in space, the more likely further debris will be generated through collision.

Researchers have finally published the results of data recovered from a cracked and singed hard drive that fell to Earth in the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke up during reentry on February 1, 2003, killing all seven crew members.

I have not even touched on increasing atmospheric turbulence, vibration, aircraft vapour trails, atmospheric degradation of optical surfaces, trails of aircraft, satellite and space debris on deep - sky photographic plates (one or more trails on one plate in three), sunlight reflectors and much more.

«At the moment, there is no evidence of a collision with space debris,» said Saku Tsuneta, director general of JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Sagamihara near Tspace debris,» said Saku Tsuneta, director general of JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Sagamihara near TSpace and Astronautical Science in Sagamihara near Tokyo.

«Studying the formation and evolution of jets in metals and, more generally, how materials at extreme conditions respond using X-ray phase contrast imaging is relevant to such things as meteorite impacts, the performance of explosives and detonators, understanding crack nucleation and propagation in materials, and the development of new materials with tailored properties whose applications include automotive and airplane components, lighter and more impact - resistant armor, and debris shields in space, to name a few.»

The winds, which travel at up to 500 kilometres a second, are easily strong enough to pick up debris from within a galaxy and deposit it far out in space, says Dopita.

There is only a certain band of space encircling planets in which colliding debris particles can stick together and stay stuck.

The prevailing view has been that planets mostly accumulate water only long after they form: If a young planet with water trapped in its rocks collides with another heavenly body or even large debris — common occurrences in the cosmos — the impact would, presumably, drive accumulated water into space, leaving many planets bone - dry.

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

The nonbinding International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities calls on countries to maintain the area around our planet as a peaceful global commons, and it sets out practical guidelines for avoiding collisions in space and for minimizing and removing deSpace Activities calls on countries to maintain the area around our planet as a peaceful global commons, and it sets out practical guidelines for avoiding collisions in space and for minimizing and removing despace and for minimizing and removing debris.

This lightweight gripper may soon be handling food for the food industry, capturing debris in outer space or incorporated into prosthetic hands.

Batbaatar and co-author Alan Gillespie, a UW research professor emeritus in Earth and Space Sciences, collected samples from moraines, which are long ridges of rocky debris dropped at a glacier's edge.

The orbiting debris has included a glove and a spatula dropped by space - shuttle astronauts, bags of Mir's garbage, and the Russian radio transmitter in a space suit, SuitSat.

«Returning clumps of debris strike the incoming stream, which results in shock waves that emit visible and ultraviolet light,» said acting Swift principal investigator and study co-author Bradley Cenko, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

And besides, in the 54 - year history of the space age, no one has ever been hit by falling debris, despite a steady rain of satellites and rocket bodies.

A theory exists that Mars» large North Polar Basin or Borealis Basin, which covers about 40 percent of the planet in its northern hemisphere, was created by that impact, sending debris into space.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

One chunk of that debris floated around in space for roughly 5 million years — Agee can tell by the traces of cosmic radiation etched into the rock — until it fell to Earth, and ultimately into Agee's lab.

Initially the crash left behind some 1,500 pieces of wreckage bigger than four inches in diameter, along with hundreds of thousands of smaller fragments, estimates Nicholas Johnson, chief scientist of the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The debris clouds, initially distributed along the orbital paths of the satellites, are spreading to enshroud the entire planet, joining the roughly 19,000 large chunks of orbiting space junk (as seen in this image) already tracked by the Department of Defense.

In 1978 Kessler detailed how debris - creating satellite collisions and explosions in orbit could kick off a chain reaction that exponentially increases the amount of space junk whirling around the planeIn 1978 Kessler detailed how debris - creating satellite collisions and explosions in orbit could kick off a chain reaction that exponentially increases the amount of space junk whirling around the planein orbit could kick off a chain reaction that exponentially increases the amount of space junk whirling around the planet.

Asteroid P / 2013 R3 is shattering into a cloud of debris in these images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Since Suomi NPP's launch in October 2011, this recent reposition was the fourth Risk Mitigation Maneuver to avoid space debris.

Satellites at 250 miles — where the International Space Station resides — would come down in a few years without a boost, says Nicholas Johnson, NASA's chief scientist for space deSpace Station resides — would come down in a few years without a boost, says Nicholas Johnson, NASA's chief scientist for space despace debris.