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spacecraft is a vehicle designed to travel in outer space. It carries astronauts or robotic instruments to explore celestial bodies like the moon, planets, or stars.
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These sculptures envision another aspect of humanity's future: a fleet
of spacecraft designed for human exploration of distant worlds.
The sphere - packing problem in 24 dimensions has applications in wireless communication, and has been used to communicate with
spacecraft in the distant solar system.
But unfortunately all of us are passengers on a very large
spacecraft on which we have no option but to fly.
But the early data —
from spacecraft and ground - based telescopes — were controversial.
That's generally the rule, anyway, certainly
for spacecraft that have fulfilled their purpose and have no way to stay in orbit.
They now are critical for maintaining the space station and docking other
spacecraft with the orbiting laboratory.
Aside from sports equipment, potential applications include hard - to - repair devices such
as spacecraft parts and medical implants.
It hopes the rockets, which are currently used to send
spacecraft into orbit, can be «man rated» to launch humans as well.
It was also the
first spacecraft to detect methane in the planet's atmosphere from orbit.
The game uses actual physics and aerodynamics to prove that you know nothing about
building spacecraft, but then throws in cute aliens to make it all a bit less devastating.
The fan forums are chock full of amazing
spacecraft designs, from gigantic orbiting capital ships to incredibly minimalist single - seat vessels.
When spacecraft and satellites travel through space they encounter tiny, fast moving particles of space dust and debris.
But can a commercial
spacecraft take off on its own from the ground, travel into outer space and land again on a runway?
The team answered specific questions about the ship this past week, including its specs and its comparison to
other spacecraft that players might select early on in the game.
If it is an
alien spacecraft, perhaps we might detect some radio signals from it.
During its mission, the
robotic spacecraft detected flashes of infrared light coming from the planet's surface.
These machines could even be used to
power spacecraft and generate high - energy beams to treat cancer.
The fourth parameter, needed to complete the interior model, will be obtained from
future spacecraft missions.
The team also found that the planned Commercial
Crew spacecraft are not being designed for any missions beyond low earth orbit.
She developed a software navigation system to help improve
spacecraft travel through the solar system from her research on gravity and planetary movement.
The $ 100 million initiative will deploy thousands of
tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.
This cute little
spacecraft does double duty with fun functions for play time and calming ones for bedtime.
«I don't understand why the push for [launching the capture
spacecraft] in 2017 - 18,» he said.
My broad experience base also
includes spacecraft and launch vehicle configuration design, and performance analysis.
Following this, the planet -
hunting spacecraft was able to continue its search of the universe for other worlds.
In fact, one criterion for deciding which design to take to the demonstration stage will be
which spacecraft appears to be most commercially attractive.
It may be hundreds of years before we begin to answer some of the profound questions raised by the superb
spacecraft images of the 20th century.
Private spacecraft have reached the edge of space, and a new generation are being developed for space tourism.
One alternative is to launch all the parts of a
large spacecraft into space and then assemble them in orbit.
The
Viking spacecraft had an array of sophisticated experiments to detect metabolism and organic molecules.
High - energy electrons can
damage spacecraft and satellites and can even harm astronauts doing work outside their craft.
So the
fastest spacecraft would need about 15 million years to make even a one - way trip.
The washing - machine - sized
spacecraft measures some 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) tall and is 3.9 feet (1.2 meters) wide.
This flexibility far exceeded any other
ESA spacecraft built up to then.
We tried to get the appropriate textures of what this kind of
spacecraft needed to be.
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