Sentences with phrase «space flight instrument»

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«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

OSIRIS - REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS)-- An instrument provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and designed to measure visible and infrared light from Bennu to identify mineral and organic material.

«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.

X-ray and gamma - ray astronomers use the Crab Nebula as a standard, says astrophysicist Colleen Wilson - Hodge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, so «we need to rethink how we calibrate our instruments.»

Sporting new instruments, as well as refurbished versions of detectors originally used on balloon flights over Antarctica, the refrigerator - sized, 1.4 - ton (1,300 kilogram) ISS - CREAM experiment will be delivered to the space station as part of the 12th SpaceX commercial resupply service mission.

To investigate the layers and composition of clouds and tiny airborne particles like dust, smoke and other atmospheric aerosols,, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland have developed an instrument called the Cloud - Aerosol Transport System, or CATS.

Webb's instruments have already undergone three «cryo - vacuum» tests at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to simulate operations in the cold vacuum of sSpace Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to simulate operations in the cold vacuum of spacespace.

According to Paul Mahaffy of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the principal investigator of Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument package, these three chloromethanes were most likely generated in SAM.

Its instrument was built by a consortium including Caltech; JPL; the University of California, Berkeley; Columbia University, New York; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.; the Danish Technical University in Denmark; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif.; ATK Aerospace Systems, Goleta, Calif., and with support from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) Science Data Center.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the MAVEN project and provided two science instruments for the mission.

NASA hopes to install a duplicate of the OCO - 2 instrument (originally built as a flight spare) on the International Space Station in 2017, at a cost of roughly $ 120 million.

So is Paul Mahaffy at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who leads the team responsible for the rover's onboard lab, the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument.

Flight controllers for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express probe halted plans to deploy the second boom in a series of antennas that comprise the spacecraft's subsurface radar instrument after detecting an anomaly on May 7.

Astronaut is a new job title for her, but her experience includes work as an EE for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she contributed scientific instruments on several NASA missions.

«The whole time Cassini is descending, we'll be on the ground, taking data and learning about conditions on Saturn,» said Don Jennings, a senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a co-investigator for a Cassini instrument called the Composite Infrared Spectrometer.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center manages the project and provides two of the science instruments for the mission.

The GEDI instrument, which is designed to capture the vertical structure of forests even in Earth's densest forests, being built in a cleanroom at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md..

Working at Goddard Space Flight Center's Planetary Environments Laboratory as a bio-geochemist and geologist with an interest in astrobiology, Dr. Eigenbrode is part of the research team working with MSL's Science Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument testing the chemistry of Martian rocks, sediments and ice and looking for organic and inorganic compounds.

In 2016, the mirrors and science instruments are being connected and tested, then shipped to Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston, Texas.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the project and also provided two science instruments for the mission.

Physicists are gearing up to send a re-engineered science instrument originally designed for lofty balloon flights high in Earth's atmosphere to the International Space Station next week to broaden their knowledge of cosmic rays, subatomic particles traveling on intergalactic routes that could hold the key to unlocking mysteries about supernovas, black holes, pulsars and dark matter.

An astronomer's work can be pure science — gathering and analyzing data from instruments and creating theories about the nature of cosmic objects — or the work can be applied to practical problems in space flight and navigation, or satellite communications.

The Particles and Fields Package, provided by the University of California at Berkeley with support from CU / LASP and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., contains six instruments to characterize the solar wind and the ionosphere of Mars.

Through a pilot cooperative agreement notice or CAN the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) and the Office of Education (OE) National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program (Space Grant) awarded more than $ 8 million through the competitively selected Undergraduate Student Instrument Project (USIP) to 47 teams of undergraduate students to conduct hands - on flight research.

The images were produced by researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who work in concert with others at the space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center to process data from ozone - monitoring instruments on the EOS - Aura satelspace agency's Goddard Space Flight Center to process data from ozone - monitoring instruments on the EOS - Aura satelSpace Flight Center to process data from ozone - monitoring instruments on the EOS - Aura satellite.