Sentences with phrase «spacecraft at»

The Blue Marble is an image of the Earth made on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft at a distance of about 29,000 kilometers (18,000 miles) from the surface.

The images were collected by the Dawn spacecraft at about 1,700 miles (2,700 kilometers) above Vesta's surface, and they have been used to determine Vesta's rotational axis and a system of latitude and longitude coordinates.

The Orion spacecraft at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has undergone extensive testing to prepare it for its first flight, currently scheduled to -LSB-...]

To put TRAPPIST - 1's distance into perspective, a spacecraft at the outer edges of the solar system, like the Voyager 1 probe, would still have to travel for over 73,000 years just to get to Proxima b, which is only about 4 light - years from Earth.

They are slated to launch in their Soyuz MS - 08 spacecraft at 1:44 p.m. EDT (05:44 GMT) March 21, 2018, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

If a spacecraft at L3 drifted toward or away from Earth, it would fall irreversibly toward the sun or Earth, «like a barely balanced cart atop a steep hill,» according to astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

This region was also discerned from Earth and from the Cassini spacecraft at radar wavelengths, which can penetrate the haze.

The technique saves fuel, reducing the mass of a spacecraft at launch.

The conjunction disrupts normal communications with spacecraft at the red planet, so managers want to temporarily raise TGO's orbit to a safer altitude before resuming aerobraking at the end of August.

This week, two major components arrived for Boeing's Crew Space Transportation 100 (CST - 100) spacecraft at a processing facility located at KSC.

This view of Saturn's moon Enceladus above the planet's ring plane was captured by the narrow - angle camera of NASA's Cassini spacecraft at a distance of approximately 630,000 miles (1 million kilometres) from the tiny water world.

These images show views of Earth and the moon from NASA's Cassini probe around Saturn (left) and Messenger spacecraft at Mercury (right) from July 19, 2013.

Right from MGS's first moments at Mars, it was a pioneer: it was the first spacecraft at the Red Planet to use the technique of aerobraking to put itself into its final orbit.

The large Goddard MMS clean room can hold all four spacecraft at once, and a detailed schedule keeps track of how the team is moving from task to task.

This clean room was designed and built for MMS to house all four spacecraft at once: Two additional observatories appear in the background.

«Now that we have a spacecraft at Mars,» says Clancy, «we expect to find many more of these storms.»

A massive hangar with 140 - foot - tall doors houses the derelict spacecraft at Baikonur Cosomodrome in Kazakhstan.

«Let's save one spacecraft at a time,» he says.

Scientists there also test parachutes and spacecraft at its wind - tunnel facilities, which can produce supersonic wind speeds faster than 1,900 miles per hour.

Virgin Galactic's model includes a mother ship — the WhiteKnightTwo — which is an airplane that takes off with the rocket - powered SpaceShipTwo attached and releases the spacecraft at a certain altitude.

After a nail - biting day at ESA's mission control, we now know that an alarm clock on Rosetta woke the spacecraft at around 1000 GMT this morning, as planned.

They use electric fields to accelerate a beam of positively charged xenon gas ions, which shoot out of the spacecraft at speeds of up to 90,000 mph.

In late August, Juno's stunning images of stormy Jupiter rewarded astronomers for their patience after more than a decade without a dedicated spacecraft at the planet.

Now Winglee has the go - ahead from NASA to perfect what could be his most promising trick yet: using an 8 - inch magnet to propel spacecraft at speeds of up to 180,000 miles per hour — 10 times as fast as the space shuttle.

The Hubble Space Telescope alone has made more than a million observations since its 1990 launch; spacecraft at Mars, the moon and Saturn produced 120,000 new images during a typical 90 - day period this year.

«Placing spacecraft at these points gives one a high ground, so to speak.»

And no spacecraft at all have landed on the Venusian surface since 1985.

Not exact matches

The heat shield on the Mars 2020 spacecraft would reach temperatures of about 3,800 degrees Fahrenheit (2,100 Celsius) as it speeds at more than 12,100 mph (19,550 kph) towards the Mars surface, NASA said.

At 5 am ET on Wednesday, NASA will fly its $ 3.26 billion Cassini spacecraft where no spacecraft has flown before — in the deepest region of Saturn's rings between the planet and its inner-most ring.

Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems at NASA, says the space agency already uses virtual reality technology in astronaut training and spacecraft simulations, so it was logical to extend that successful model to inspire and educate the next generation of space explorers and scientists.

Although Saturn was visited by three spacecraft in the 1970s and 1980s, my fellow scientists and I couldn't have imagined what the Cassini space probe would discover during its sojourn at the ringed planet when it launched 20 years ago.

At the large relative speed — a maximum of 124,000 km per hour — a hit could be a significant problem for the spacecraft.

He continued: «And then we'll have a next - generation rocket and spacecraft beyond the Falcon - Dragon series, and I'm hoping to describe that architecture later this year at the International Astronautical Congress [in Guadalajara, Mexico, September 26 to 30] which is the big international space event of the year.»

Dennis Tito, who paid a reported $ 20 million for a ride on a Russian spacecraft, is said to be backing a privately funded, possibly manned, shot at Mars.

This means the dead spacecraft could come crashing down in about 5 hours, providing fireworks high in the sky at the start of April.

The Aerospace Corp., a nonprofit spaceflight research company, has released its newest prediction about the derelict spacecraft's doom: Tiangong - 1 should reenter Earth's atmosphere on April 1 at 8:18 p.m. ET, give or take two hours.

The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in the solar system.

Scientists hope the vehicles, known as nanocraft, will eventually fly at 20 percent of the speed of light, more than a thousand times faster than today's spacecraft.

Launched from Florida nearly five years ago, Juno needed to be precisely positioned, ignite its main engine at exactly the right time and keep it firing for 35 minutes to become only the second spacecraft to orbit Jupiter.

These issues will likely delay crewed spacecraft launches for at least three more years from NASA's original 2015 target.

After working on a number of traditional spacecraft programs at NASA, Chris co-created Phonesat, a spacecraft built solely out of a regular smart phone.

According to The Washington Post's report, Amazon aims to develop a lunar spacecraft with a lander that would dock near the Shackleton Crater, located at the moon's south pole, a place with water and sunlight.

The MX spacecraft architecture supports multiple applications, including delivery of scientific and commercial payloads to the Moon at low cost using a rideshare model, or charter science expeditions to distant worlds.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk poses with the firm's manned Dragon V2 spacecraft during an unveiling event at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California on May 29, 2014.

At the same time, the Gateway would also serve as an interplanetary bus stop of sorts; a convenient point from which spacecraft bound for Mars could launch and to which they could return.

The spacecraft reached an altitude of 100 kilometers at its apex — the height where our sky officially «turns into» outer space, known as the Kármán line.

At SpaceX, Elon is the chief designer, overseeing development of rockets and spacecraft for missions to Earth orbit and ultimately to other planets.

She also points to the revolutionary educational possibilities: «Other applications involve things in the classroom, where students are able to not just see a picture of Niagara Falls or some alien world like Venus — we have maps from our various spacecrafts of Mars and Venus that would allow students not just to hear about far - off places, but will allow them to scroll around the world at will.»

In 1969, two years after King spoke at Riverside, humanity saw for the first time a color photograph of the earth, taken from space by the crew of the Apollo 11 spacecraft.

Two of the sport's legacy programs who rarely play each other getting together twice over a couple of seasons — on campus, and not at some glitzy spacecraft of an NFL stadium — is about as fun as it gets.