Sentences with phrase «spacecraft designs using»

• Updated aircraft and spacecraft designs using robotics and computer - aided design.

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April 27 - A heat shield used in a NASA spacecraft designed to send a six - wheeled rover vehicle to Mars in 2020 suffered an «unexpected» fracture during a structural test this month, causing the space agency to build a replacement, the space agency said.

The playful 5,000 SF library - inspired restaurant designed and built by Spacecraft Design Group, is dominated by a warm - neutral color palette using green, brown and beige earthy tones.

Early in April, Europe will launch the first satellite in its Copernicus program: a fleet of a dozen environmental monitoring spacecraft designed to study Earth's oceans, changes in land use, and atmosphere.

The team will conduct analyses of spacecraft and mission design, and investigate concepts to support robotic mission objectives, including overall science, planetary defense, asteroid resource use and deep - space capability demonstrations.

Maria Zuber, principal investigator for GRAIL, a mission to measure the Moon's gravitational field, used instrument designs from GRACE, an Earth - science mission with similar gravity - measuring goals, and adapted the spacecraft's design from that of a classified military satellite.

Though the Pluto system will resemble little more than bright dots in the camera's view until May, mission navigators will use the data to design course - correction maneuvers to aim the spacecraft toward its target point this summer.

«This spacecraft would be a reusable vehicle that uses electric and chemical propulsion and would be specifically designed for crewed missions to destinations such as Mars,» agency officials said.

NASA added that it is also committed to designing «a new and powerful transportation» system involving solar electric propulsion, which will use the sun's energy to take spacecraft deeper into space.

While their design started out as a nitrous oxide thruster for spacecraft, they figured out how it could also be used at wastewater treatment plants to turn decompose nitrous oxide gas into nothing but hot air.