Sentences with phrase «space vehicles as»

In addition, Musk teased the use of the space vehicles as part of a high - speed transportation system around Earth.

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Bringing electric motor production to the Nevada factory allows Tesla to maximize the footprint of its Fremont factory, in which every inch of the hefty 5.3 million - square - foot space will be needed, as the company pushes toward its goal of producing 500,000 vehicles annually.

To make sure that your car stays as current as your co-working space, check out these three high - tech vehicles revolutionizing the way we drive.

Members pay a $ 25 application fee to join and as little as $ 7.50 an hour, or $ 51 a day, for a car, picking up the vehicles from parking spaces in their neighborhoods without ever interacting with a clerk.

It could also additionally serve as space for parking your delivery vehicles or for container storage if you are running a full - scale cargo shipping business.

In it, space nerds of all stripes will find a ton of engineering to marvel at, including a 35 - story space vehicle (and even the prospect the intercontinental rockets that could get you from London to New York in under a half an hour), as well as plenty of discussion of the many technical challenges to realize this dream.

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.

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.

Musk has won legions of vocal fans for his soaring vision and bold promises, from making electric vehicles mainstream to sending rockets into space as the CEO of SpaceX.

The SaaS (software as a service) side of the business uses technologies like machine learning, Big Data analytics, heuristics, and cognitive science for optimisation of route, vehicle, space use and cost.

The move comes as Uber and Google increasingly compete for resources, talent and partnerships in the self - driving vehicle space.

Quite the opposite in fact, as automated vehicles that can adapt distances to each other perfectly is a better use of space than regular buses.

As SpaceX and Boeing race to begin test flights of their crew - rated vehicles by year - end 2018, all eyes are on the commercial launch providers ---- and what their success will mean for the American entrepreneurial space industry.

It stores away flat and there really is no compromise in cargo space (what pro reviewers seem to positively refer to as a «why not» feature) like other models in this class with 3rd row like the Rav - 4 (most people do not take that option for this vehicle for that reason).

If you have multiple car seats in your vehicle, you should also consider how much space is available as a seat may easily fit into a vehicle but may not fit when other car seats are installed in the car.

Members of Congress are allowed to park at «available curb space» and avoid tickets while they're working, as long as they're using vehicles with official plates issued by their home state — not the House or US Senate.

In what he described as an «immense» and global inquiry, he said searches had so far taken place in 69 houses, flats, vehicles and open spaces.

On the exploration front, both the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion Crew Vehicle would be funded at FY 2017 enacted amounts, the same as the House bill, as opposed to the cuts requested by the Administration.

Underground parking conserves space and prevents runoff, and the building's location near public transportation as well as preferential parking for hybrid - vehicle drivers helps to minimize emissions.

The telescoping handle is around when you need and disappears into the cooler when you don't, making it easy to pack into your vehicle so it takes up as little space as possible.

Space Race «The success of Project Mercury's first manned orbital flight on February 20 may have set the stage for international co-operation in the exploration of space, as well as demonstrating through the performance of the astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., that men have a useful function in space vehiSpace Race «The success of Project Mercury's first manned orbital flight on February 20 may have set the stage for international co-operation in the exploration of space, as well as demonstrating through the performance of the astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., that men have a useful function in space vehispace, as well as demonstrating through the performance of the astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., that men have a useful function in space vehispace vehicles.

Lowell Nesbitt camped out on the top floor of the space center's Vehicle Assembly building to capture this perspective, looking down at the specially shaped work platforms that surrounded the Saturn V rocket as it was being built.

In the past, space exploration programs have adopted two main strategies in supplying mission crews with resources: a carry - along approach, where all vehicles and resources travel with the crew at all times — as on the Apollo missions to the moon — and a «resupply strategy,» in which resources are replenished regularly, such as by spaceflights to the International Space Staspace exploration programs have adopted two main strategies in supplying mission crews with resources: a carry - along approach, where all vehicles and resources travel with the crew at all times — as on the Apollo missions to the moon — and a «resupply strategy,» in which resources are replenished regularly, such as by spaceflights to the International Space StaSpace Station.

All of the scenarios that people had developed before the Space Age for going to the moon involved a reusable vehicle that goes to and from Earth orbit and a space station as a jumping - off place to go to the Space Age for going to the moon involved a reusable vehicle that goes to and from Earth orbit and a space station as a jumping - off place to go to the space station as a jumping - off place to go to the moon.

This year, he said, «I was trained as a software developer for KSC's new firing room, where they will launch future manned and unmanned space vehicles, and spent most of my time developing code to test the various software displays for the liquid oxygen tank that is out at the launch pad.»

«We're committed to safely transporting U.S. astronauts on American - made spacecraft and ending the outsourcing of this work to foreign governments,» Bolden said last year as he announced payments of up to $ 92 million to four companies, including Blue Origin and Boeing, that are working on commercial space - crew vehicles.

Passengers on amusement park rides and the International Space Station experience microgravity — incorrectly known as zero gravity — because they fall at the same speed as the vehicles.

Over the years, Easley produced code that went on to be used in renewable energy research, including batteries for early hybrid vehicles, as well as for the high - thrust liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen Centaur rocket used to get space capsules into orbit.

Some fear that the rift is bad news for shared space projects, particularly the ISS as the US relies on the Russian Soyuz vehicle to get its astronauts there.

This idea was shelved after nearly 10 years of development, and NASA agreed to use the Russian Soyuz capsule as the rescue vehicle for the space station.

The Expedition 40 crewmembers hope to document Cygnus» reentry Sunday as part of an engineering exercise to study the mechanics of the breakup of a space vehicle.

In particular, the new vehicle is not designed to carry heavy equipment, such as laboratory modules, to the International Space Station.

These efforts range from basic research about how polymers and other materials will react during the heating and deposition process to more industrial applications, such as developing a lower - cost, high - temperature process for working with thermoplastics used to make air and space vehicle components.

Obama now wants NASA to develop a stripped - down version of the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle — which was part of Constellation — as a lifeboat for the international space station.

The following year, he and Colozza wrote a paper for the now - defunct NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) about the use of electrohydrodynamics, or ionized particles, as an alternative to liquid fuel for powering space vehicles.

A deployment booster, carried aloft in pieces by a vehicle such as the space shuttle and assembled in low Earth orbit, will unfurl two thin strips of ribbon stretching from Earth to deep space.

To sell the project to the Air Force, the Orion team dreamed up missions such as Deep Space Force: a fleet of 4,000 - ton vehicles, bristling with 25 - megaton retaliatory warheads, that would keep the Soviet Union in check, orbiting between Earth and the moon.

As NASA gains experience dealing with the hazards of deep space, it will be in a better position to design vehicles for Mars surface missions.

NASA is already developing a Space Exploration Vehicle (SEV) that can be used as a pod at asteroids, and the same design could later be adapted for a surface rover for the moon and Mars.

Blue Origin intends to use the New Shepard vehicle for suborbital space tourism and as a microgravity science laboratory.

«The Space Launch System, or SLS, will be designed to carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, as well as important cargo, equipment and science experiments to Earth's orbit and destinations beyond.

NASA awarded five companies a total of nearly $ 50 million through the first round of funding in 2010 to develop spacecraft, launch systems and support equipment, including Blue Origin, Paragon Space Development Corp. and United Launch Alliance as well as those involved in manned vehicle development like Boeing and Sierra Nevada.

«I must admit there's a question about whether business as usual is even plausible, because many cities are going to run into infrastructure constraints and space constraints at some point,» he said of rapidly growing vehicle adoption.

As a possible fallback plan, Shannon said he had asked three NASA employees in the space shuttle programme to study a potentially cheaper alternative, called the Heavy Lift Vehicle.

NASA's new software algorithm will make real - time adjustments as the vehicle pushes toward space, helping improve performance and enhancing crew safety in the particularly stressful parts of the flight.

The US plans to retire its space shuttles in 2010 and develop new vehicles that can fly people to the International Space Station as well as the space shuttles in 2010 and develop new vehicles that can fly people to the International Space Station as well as the Space Station as well as the Moon.

However, the design for Orion was carried forward as the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (Orion MPCV) as part of NASA's new plans to explore beyond low Earth orbit and into deep space.

«NASA plans to invest in a number of new approaches to exploration, such as robotic networks, modular systems, pre-positioned propellants, advanced power and propulsion, and in - space assembly, that could enable these kinds of vehicles.»

Hence, while they could be used to get the crew to orbit, they could not be used as living space or reentry vehicles.

Both have another distinguishing characteristic from other Atlas V launch vehicles, as well — since no previous Atlas V has carried people into space, these will be the first to be certified to launch humans.