Sentences with phrase «space satellite launched»

Everything from mapping the Great Bay of New Hampshire to helping finished the Comptel space satellite launched in 2001.

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We do expect to generate pretty decent net cash flow from launching lots of satellites and servicing the space station for NASA, transferring cargo to and from the space station, and then I know that there's a lot of people in the private sector who are interested in helping fund a base on Mars.

And so it's steal underpants, launch satellites, send cargo to space station, Kickstarter — of course — followed by profit.

In a March 15 session, startups Planet Labs and Descartes Labs will discuss the potentially big business of launching satellites into space to observe every corner of the world.

Moog's high - performance systems control military and commercial aircraft, satellites and space vehicles, launch vehicles, missiles, automated industrial machinery, wind energy, marine and medical equipment.

And we believe that we can do this with the revenue we receive for launching satellites and for servicing the space station.

Shotwell told an audience at a satellite conference that the cost of using a previously launched SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to get to space could be as much as 30 percent less when compared to a new Falcon 9 flight.

They're typically smaller than rockets that launch satellites and people into space, but structurally, the missiles aren't too different — which is why militaries pay close attention to countries that develop human - spaceflight programs.

«Space - based applications, like imaging satellites, can help people more easily access important information, so we're excited to support SpaceX's growth as it develops new launch technologies,» Google said in a statement.

Matthew Desch, Iridium Communications CEO, speaks to CNBC's Morgan Brennan about SpaceX's recent launch of Iridium satellites into space, and the «ambitious schedule» to come.

Oceanic data is valuable, but for decades the only way to study the world's hostile waters was to deploy a stationary buoy, launch a satellite into space, or send a government research vessel that runs hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to operate — on top of its initial price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Viasat originally signed a contract with SpaceX to launch its ViaSat 2 satellite into space via SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket.

Relativity Space has created the world's largest metal 3D printer to print its own rockets and launch satellites into sSpace has created the world's largest metal 3D printer to print its own rockets and launch satellites into spacespace.

While China has wowed the world with its bullet trains, India is pacing ahead in its space mission, launching valuable communication satellites

So far this year, the company has successfully completed four launches, including a resupply mission to the International Space Station in February, as well as placing satellites into orbit on behalf of two commercial customers.

Traveling to orbital space means the rocket will have the ability to launch satellites, or to take tourists and scientists into orbit.

On the surface, this all appears laughably ambitious: The satellites Musk and Wyler want to develop and launch into space would be half the size and weight of the current smallest commercial communications satellite, while a network of 700 satellites would be 10 times the size of the current largest commercial fleet.

A military satellite launched by Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies appears to have crashed into the sea following a malfunction in the latter stages of its ascent, representing a potential setback for the billionaire's rocket program.

The companies in the Kensho Space Index are focused on space - related activities as a principal component of their business strategy, building rockets, launch vehicles, satellites and their parts and subsysSpace Index are focused on space - related activities as a principal component of their business strategy, building rockets, launch vehicles, satellites and their parts and subsysspace - related activities as a principal component of their business strategy, building rockets, launch vehicles, satellites and their parts and subsystems.

On the defense side, there are missions in space that can be achieved by launching several smaller, cheaper satellites instead of one big satellite.

The companies in the Kensho Space Index design and build rockets, satellites, launch vehicles and their systems.

The resulting space race didn't only get us to the moon — it also helped us launch the satellites that today let us understand the Earth's weather patterns and help us communicate across the world.

To fill the void, he launched Spectrum Astro (# 437), a Gilbert, Ariz., manufacturer of space satellites, in 1988.

Space tourism is just one aspect of our enterprise; we have been simultaneously developing a launch technology that has the potential to handle up to 100 satellites per day.

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.

Wyler was also involved in launching O3b Networks, which already has 12 satellites in space, providing Internet to 40 customers, including Royal Caribbean International, the Republic of Congo and the Papua New Guinea University of Technology, an O3b spokeswoman said.

As the company's CTO for 5 years, he took the company from the drawing board to having launched more satellites into space than any other company in history, completely transforming the space industry along the way.

Smaller, less expensive satellites with short - duration missions — often known as «small satellites» — are being developed and launched into space in increasing numbers.

Mr. Musk has also served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer and Chairman of Space Exploration Corporation, a company which is developing and launching advanced rockets for satellite and eventually human transportation, since May 2002, and as Chairman of SolarCity, a solar installation company, since July 2006.

Literally putting a foothold in the Bay Area, the City of San Diego officially launched a five - desk satellite office at WeWork's bustling San Francisco coworking space, right in the heart of the Financial District.

Mr. Zuckerberg traveled to Kenya in 2016 for the launch of a Facebook - affiliated satellite called Amos - 6, which was set to go to outer space in a SpaceX rocket.

The commercial space industry has taken enormous strides in recent years, with much of the buzz centered around private launch companies, reusable rockets, and innovative satellite applications.

Vector provides affordable and reliable access to space by combining dedicated microsatellite launch and software - defined satellites.

The cost of the space segment of such a system would be low, as compared with ground - based TV systems: launching, rocket and satellite would cost about $ 10 million, including allowance for possible launch failure, to which should be added not more than $ 5 million for the ground station «up - link».

The new horizon, which first opened fully to view in 1957 with the launching of a man - made space satellite, is the mastery of the whole universe!

It was the United Launch Alliance sending a communications satellite into space for the US military and it was caught in the distance at Sebring and commentated on during the broadcast.

A company put a number of very small satellites into space, and the US Federal Communications Commission is all over them for doing so despite being denied approval for the launch.

In February, Kim Jong - un's regime launched a satellite into space in a movement considered by specialists as a cover up for a ballistic missile test.

The Ghana Space Science and Technology Centre (GSSTC) and Ghana Space Agency (GhsA) oversees the space exploration and space programmes of Ghana and GSSTC and GhsA officials are to have a national security observational satellite launched into orbit in Space Science and Technology Centre (GSSTC) and Ghana Space Agency (GhsA) oversees the space exploration and space programmes of Ghana and GSSTC and GhsA officials are to have a national security observational satellite launched into orbit in Space Agency (GhsA) oversees the space exploration and space programmes of Ghana and GSSTC and GhsA officials are to have a national security observational satellite launched into orbit in space exploration and space programmes of Ghana and GSSTC and GhsA officials are to have a national security observational satellite launched into orbit in space programmes of Ghana and GSSTC and GhsA officials are to have a national security observational satellite launched into orbit in 2015.

Growing up in Costa Rica, Chang Díaz became fascinated with all things space in 1957, when the Soviets successfully launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite.

If the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) succeeds at launching its probe, it could be the first environmental group to send its own satellite into space.

Those future surveys include the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, set to kick off in 2019 at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson; the European Space Agency's Euclid satellite, launching in 2021; and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile, which is set to begin collecting data in 2023.

Sputnik Planitia is a large plain named after Sputnik 1, the first space satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.

To fulfill the true promise of cold atoms in space, physicists eventually hope to launch a dedicated satellite mission.

Pan's paper «shows that China is making the right decisions,» says Zeilinger, who has pushed the European Space Agency to launch its own quantum satellite.

Earth is surrounded by a cloud of debris, both natural — such as micrometeorites and comet dust, which create meteor showers — and unnatural, including dead satellites and the cast - off detritus of space launches.

The eLISA mission, a space observatory consisting of three miniature satellites, will hunt for waves with frequencies under 1 hertz when it launches in the 2030s.

If the Milky Way has dark matter satellites, and if they do emit gamma rays, the Gamma - Ray Large Area Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in February, might detect them.

The $ 4 billion allotted for security and space will allow for closer cooperation with the European Space Agency, especially on the Galileo project to launch a fleet of global positioning satellites (Science, 25 April 2003, p. space will allow for closer cooperation with the European Space Agency, especially on the Galileo project to launch a fleet of global positioning satellites (Science, 25 April 2003, p. Space Agency, especially on the Galileo project to launch a fleet of global positioning satellites (Science, 25 April 2003, p. 571).

An Indian - made rocket called PSLV - C37 soared 310 miles into the Earth's ionosphere last February and launched 104 space satellites, spitting them out rapidly from both sides.