Sentences with phrase «space probe»

The next generation of space probes is being powered by highly efficient electric plasma rockets.

Among their uses in a variety of specialized applications: generating power on space probes and cooling seats in fancy cars.

We live longer and in more comfort, and can send space probes to the edge of the solar system.

The last signals from Cassini space probe before it burns up in Saturn's atmosphere will tracked by the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex.

Provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, such RTG's have been included on many past deep space probes such as the Cassini mission to Saturn, the Galileo orbiter of Jupiter, and the Voyager craft now on their way out of the solar system.

These swing - by - manoeuvres have been performed numerous times by space probes in our solar system.

The plot involves the Voyager space probe returning as a semi-deity after being augmented by robotic aliens and in search of its makers, threatening to destroy the earth if need be.

That's why Sascha Kempf grew excited when a NASA space probe named Cassini ran into clouds of dust as it sped toward Saturn in 2004.

Last September, an Atlas V rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., with a 4,650 - pound space probe in its nose known as the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security - Regolith Explorer — or just OSIRIS - REx.

Raman Laser is well used and is the instrument of choice for space probe detectors.

Students recommend which planet in our solar system ought to be explored by the next space probe as they compete for NASA funding.

Locking on also gives you a wonderful way of experiencing the missions of space probes launched from Earth.

Newton, who formulated the universal law of gravity and used it to explain a wealth of phenomena, including the orbits of planets, the tides of the ocean, and the flattening of Earth at its poles, did not need to know the value of G. Nor, for that matter, do NASA engineers who plot the paths of space probes with breathtaking precision.

Robotic space probes on and around Venus measured spikes and dips in the deadly volcanic gas called sulfur dioxide.

RTGs are typically used in remote locations, like space probes, and a solid - state solution offers fewer failure modes than something with moving parts.

[19] Data from space probes subsequently confirmed this view.

These are the wonders that space probes such as Pioneer 10 may encounter as they journey across the galaxy.

Months after the historic Pluto flyby, NASA's New Horizons space probe continues to send data from the dwarf planet.

A ground - based laser array in a high - altitude site like Chile's Atacama Desert, shown in this artist's rendering, could send 100 gigawatts of power to orbiting space probes, enough to accelerate them to a significant fraction of the speed of light.

More than a year after the sun lashed out at Earth with the most powerful set of storms ever recorded, a fleet of space probes continues to track the reverberations.

That level of fascination made sense in the days before telescopes could observe details in planetary atmospheres, before space probes had explored Mars and bulldozed into a comet, and before we understood the history of asteroid and comet collisions, linking celestial bodies large and small.

The latest data from the Dawn space probe points to underground ice flows and a water vapour atmosphere.

The Cassini space probe found molecules integral to the development of life on one of Saturn's moons, according to a new study.

Seven other U.S. space probes have sailed past the gas giant on brief reconnaissance missions before heading elsewhere in the solar system.

Back in 2003 the same team warned in an article published in Nature of the drastic reduction in winds on the cloud level with respect to what had been observed when the Voyager space probes visited the planet.

The researchers are looking forward to testing their predictions with real data from Jupiter, and they won't have to wait long: NASA's Juno space probe is orbiting Jupiter right now, collecting data about its atmosphere, magnetic field and interior.

The surface of Europa is derived from a global surface map generated from combined NASA Voyager and Galileo space probe observations.

These same organic compounds were discovered in the thin atmosphere surrounding Comet 67P / C - G by the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta space probe.

The European space probe Huygens landed on Titan on January 14, 2005, and saw signs of liquid flow on its surface.

Given The Express April 1 lede shift to: NASA SHOCK: Huge «alien herd of animals found in space probe images of Mars», I suspect Gavin will survive his Atlantic adventure:

Fast Radio Bursts or FRBs in outer space may be coming from alien space probes navigating or trying to signal Earth.

On its eight - year data gathering mission, Dawn will be the first space probe to visit and orbit two solar system bodies other than Earth

By contrast, the New Horizons space probe took almost nine and a half years to reach Pluto and cost about $ 700 million.

Space probes using Earth's gravity to get a slingshot speed boost are moving faster than they should.

The plot is triggered by the rescue of the contents from an unmanned space probe hit by a meteor on its return voyage from Mars.

If you assume moderate growth of about 2 percent a year, then the energy equations say that humans will be able to launch a 20,000 - pound space probe to Alpha Centauri sometime in the 26th century.

Sometime in August 2011, a boxy space probe called Dawn will settle into orbit around one of the most underrated and overlooked objects in the solar system, a giant oblong asteroid named Vesta.

The Indian space probe Chandrayaan 1 adjusted its orbit around the moon in one of its final maneuvers before releasing a lunar impactor.

He hopes the question of what constitutes a planet will come closer to a resolution in 2015, when space probes arrive at Ceres and Pluto, perhaps revealing that they are dynamic enough to warrant a whole new definition of planet — and a new mnemonic device for schoolchildren to learn.

The NASA space probe Magellan spent four years mapping the surface of Venus, using a sensitive radar to peer through the sulphurous clouds that shroud the planet.

The story of the magnetars began on March 5, 1979, when radiation monitors aboard space probes near Venus and Earth shot off the scale, saturated by a gamma - ray flash whose properties did not match those of any known phenomenon.

New images from the Cassini space probe show what astronomers are calling «a rubble - pile moon.»

Such planets could be the targets for an eventual launch of miniature space probes by the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative.

Now you have a sense of the slow - motion cliffhanger that is New Horizons, a NASA space probe currently racing toward Pluto and its large moon Charon at 35,000 miles per hour.

We seem to be making progress toward building space probes that can travel near the speed of light and reach...

The Cassini space probe discovered liquid lakes, poisonous gases and the basic elements of life on Saturn's moon, Titan.

The new groove - from - gravitation theory was first posited in the 1970s from images taken by the Viking space probe, but scientists then believed the moon was solid and able to handle the stresses that created the lines.

Almost three years after NASA's New Horizons deep space probe made its historic flyby of Pluto, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has released the first list of official names for features on the face of the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon.

Space shuttles lifting off and landing on run - ways ~ space probes to distant worlds ~ and an international space station ~ all had their beginning with...