Sentences with phrase «space missions like»

Long - duration space missions like Cassini also have lifechanging impacts on the scientists and engineers involved, often in surprising ways.

The poles are nearly invisible from Earth, making a specialized space mission like Juno necessary to capture such rare images.

Not exact matches

SpaceX's mission statement highlights both its short - term goals (developing the technologies needed to explore space) and long - term aspirations (enabling people to live on other planets, like Mars).

Still, while other companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are planning much of their business around space flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space Staspace flights for the super wealthy, SpaceX's model is primarily to serve as a vehicle for scientific missions, satellite launches, and trips to the International Space StaSpace Station.

Unlike more consumer - focused space exploration missions, like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — which will take passengers into sub-orbital spaceflight for $ 200,000 — Golden Spike's founder says its company's clientele will be comprised mainly of governments and corporations.

Obama has been battling some in Congress over his plans to use more private space companies, like Space X, for getting people to orbit with NASA concentrating on missions to send astronauts to new places, such as nearby asterspace companies, like Space X, for getting people to orbit with NASA concentrating on missions to send astronauts to new places, such as nearby asterSpace X, for getting people to orbit with NASA concentrating on missions to send astronauts to new places, such as nearby asteroids.

i long with you david... and i myself stumble in my own awkward efforts toward freedom, and as you said, we know the fact is that it is scary to move into freedom... because it is unknown... but i see so many on this newfound road to freedom get trapped in the liminal space of wish - fullfillment community (which actually rather looks like affinity rather than the hard - won community that comes from communitas)... i'm sure this is going to come off the wrong way, but i'm going to say it anyway: many of the comments seem to be «all about me», and truly that is what religion is... but not freedom, not the mission of Jesus where you die to yourself by taking up your cross daily... not being centered on the «other» rather than yourself...

The UK Space Agency's Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut programme won a Specialist Team Bronze Award and Jeremy Curtis, Head of Education & Skills at the UK Space Agency said: «The UK Space Agency is delighted to receive this award from the RAeS.

At this point in history — with moon landings in the distant past, the space shuttle recently retired, and manned missions to Mars decades off — these may seem like mere theoretical concerns.

Danchi, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is running simulations for the Fourier - Kelvin Stellar Interferometer, a proposed space mission that could lay the groundwork for the search for Earth - like worlds in the next deSpace Flight Center, is running simulations for the Fourier - Kelvin Stellar Interferometer, a proposed space mission that could lay the groundwork for the search for Earth - like worlds in the next despace mission that could lay the groundwork for the search for Earth - like worlds in the next decade.

Using common but sophisticated software like Adobe Photoshop, combined with open access to literally millions of raw images taken by publicly funded space missions of the past and present, many amateurs are finding few technical barriers to creating stunning images.

Like a modern space mission, the expeditions had to be entirely self - sufficient.

Using common but sophisticated software like Adobe Photoshop — combined with open access to literally millions of raw images from publicly funded space missions — many amateurs are finding few technical barriers to creating stunning images.

«The dominance of a single mission like Webb can be a bad thing,» says astrophysicist Martin Elvis, a noted critic of budget - busting space missions at the Harvard — Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Astronauts can train for space missions in underwater environments like the enormous Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, located in NASA's Johnson Space Cespace missions in underwater environments like the enormous Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, located in NASA's Johnson Space CeSpace Center.

Along with Mars 2020, STMD is hard at work, advancing promising technology for potential infusion into these Mars missions including: Heat - shield for Extreme Entry Environment, a tailorable, woven thermal protection system that would reduce entry loads and greatly reduce heat - shield mass; Deep Space Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likeSpace Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likespace to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likeSpace Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likespace travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks likespace navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks like GPS.

Future missions like the James Webb Space Telescope, which NASA will launch in 2019 to peer into the early history of the universe, will therefore «be essential for getting more information on stellar winds and exoplanet atmospheres,» the authors say, «thereby paving the way for more accurate estimations of stellar - wind induced atmospheric losses.»

«Down the road,» said Tappan, «I would really like to see this actually flying on important missions in space.

The Space Agriculture Task Force, affiliated with the Japanese space agency, is looking for ways to feed astronauts on extended missions, like on a stint to Space Agriculture Task Force, affiliated with the Japanese space agency, is looking for ways to feed astronauts on extended missions, like on a stint to space agency, is looking for ways to feed astronauts on extended missions, like on a stint to Mars.

The analysis also lends more support to the idea that such detection systems could be useful in measuring seismic activity from space, as would be the case for infrasonic detection missions like those envisioned for the atmosphere of Venus.

After taking another look at data from the Kepler space telescope's original mission we have spotted 20 possible Earth - like worlds that could host life

It's almost like launching a mission into space.

Fazekas talks to Isabelle Tremblay, the systems engineer for the Canadian part of the mission, about what it's like to work in space exploration and what the future may hold for early career space scientists.

He likes America, having spent a few years at the University of California at Los Angeles; he cooperates with the American space program every day on all sorts of joint missions.

The $ 100 million is only enough for research, not to fund the full mission, which Milner says will be a decades - long, multibillion dollar project on the scale of the world's biggest scientific experiments, like the James Webb Space Telescope or the Large Hadron Collider.

The project became really complicated and expensive, like a microcosm of any other space mission.

Earth's magnetic barrier in space acts more like a sieve than a shield, two satellite missions have revealed.

Shape - shifting robots could also be useful in other situations where they must perform a wide range of tasks without packing lots of spare parts, like during natural disaster emergency response operations or on space missions.

William Borucki, of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, has captured the astronomy prize for two achievements: conceiving the observational technique of transit photometry that raised the tantalizing prospect of sighting Earth - like planets orbiting other stars, and leading the 25 - year - long development of the Kepler mission, which in 2009 placed a telescope in space to make those observations.

The Kepler space telescope, which simultaneously and continuously measured the brightness of more than 150,000 stars, is NASA's first mission capable of detecting Earth - size planets around stars like our sun.

To Casey Dreier, director of space policy at The Planetary Society, supporting such ambitious yet unsanctioned missions while acting to undermine ones like WFIRST makes little sense, particularly because Congress has proactively provided hundreds of millions of dollars for that mission already on a bipartisan basis.

Commemorative pins are a ubiquitous part of the space agency's culture - contractors hand out these mementos like cigars before every launch, and multiyear missions earn serial souvenirs.

Rules like this are accepted as the norm for ground and space - based astronomical observatories and some interplanetary missions, mainly those performing in - depth mapping of planets that have been visited before.

«When you have this enormous field of view you can address scientific problems that really are not practical with missions like Hubble or Webb,» says Jeffrey Kruk, the WFIRST project scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Although the prospects are much more favorable for using the station as a staging base for a further deployment of spacecraft that leave Earth's orbital environment — like the Webb telescope and missions to the moon or Mars — such outfitting would need to be done in the vacuum of space with the spacecraft docked to the station.

The data collected by the Kepler space telescope this year may reveal more, Mendez said, referring to the sun - orbiting telescope launched in 2009 and whose mission was to detect Earth - like planets in the Milky Way.

Like the long - duration space missions that came before it — the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the twin Voyager probes and, more recently, the European Rosetta mission, for example — Cassini irrevocably changed our perspectives, become ingrained in the lives of the people who worked with the mission and had tangible impacts on society.

Even though no concrete evidence of extraterrestrials has ever been confirmed, it seems like every space probe ever launched and scheduled to launch has a «FIND LIFE» stamped in its mission.

Its costs, estimated to be around $ 1 - 2 billion, were hoped to be mostly covered by private donations, while commercial space companies like SpaceX were mentioned as possible providers for the needed hardware.Yet, during a hearing of the space subcommittee of the House Science Committee in November, Tito stressed that Inspiration Mars should essentially be a NASA mission, calling for Congress to provide most of the funding.

This is good news for future space missions wanting to take detailed pictures of planets like Earth and seek out possible signs of life.

Private space agencies like Mars One and SpaceX might have the best chances of pulling off a mission on that timeline, but NASA, Roscosmos, the ESA and the world's other government space agencies will not be idle in the mean time.

The group in which he works is involved in the instrumental development for the LISA PathFinder mission (ESA), a technology precursor mission for a future space - based gravitational - wave observatory, LISA, which will detect the gravitational radiation from low frequency sources like massive black hole mergers, inspiraling stellar compact objects into massive black holes, and galactic binaries.

From groundbreaking technology like LightSail ®, to policy that shapes historic missions, the global group explores space together through four core enterprises: Human Space Exploration, Robotic Exploration, Planetary Defense and the Search for space together through four core enterprises: Human Space Exploration, Robotic Exploration, Planetary Defense and the Search for Space Exploration, Robotic Exploration, Planetary Defense and the Search for Life.

Cooperation between NASA's space - based telescopes, like the Kepler mission, and ground - based telescopes funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has enabled astronomers to expand their star gazing capabilities.

While many in Congress and the space community call for stability and continuity at NASA — no big changes like those imposed by President Obama — an exception is made for the prospect of restoring lunar surface missions.

«With missions like the James Webb Space Telescope to help us study the details of these planets, we are ever the closer to discovering whether we are alone in the universe.»

The main objectives of the mission include obtaining new data on solar activity to help to better forecast space - weather events like solar flares which can directly impact Earth and orbiting satellites, trace the flow of energy from the Sun, better understand how the Sun's outer atmosphere is heated, and explore the physical mechanisms which accelerate the solar wind.

Normally, NASA watches for this wild space weather using solar observatories like SOHO and the STEREO mission, a pair of solar - orbiting satellites pointed at the Sun from two different angles.

Some CAA members wanted to know if NASA should now reconsider its participation in the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission, apparently on the assumption that with the gift of the telescopes NASA might be able to move out more quickly with a WFIRST - like mission.

«Other missions like NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton looked at the Perseus cluster before, but their instruments didn't have sufficient energy resolution to study the dynamics of the intergalactic medium,» said Stanford University postdoctoral researcher Irina Zhuravleva in a press release.