Sentences with phrase «spacecraft does»

NASA has no plans at present to service the JWST as the Hubble telescope was serviced by space shuttle missions, as the Soyuz spacecraft does not have the range or cargo capacity to reach JWST.

This cute little spacecraft does double duty with fun functions for play time and calming ones for bedtime.

Oddly, right up to the last contact with the ships, scientists found that the positions of [the] spacecraft didn't quite match predictions.

No one knows when it formed, but the Galileo spacecraft didn't spot it before the end of its mission in 2003, says Andy Cheng of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

The older idea that acoustic waves flowing out of lower levels heats the corona was abandoned in the 1970s, when the Orbiting Solar Observatory 8 spacecraft did not see such waves in the chromosphere, the layer just above the photosphere (the apparent «surface» of the sun in visible light).

The Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft didn't even have toilets — rudimentary devices were used for docking and capture, ruling out the chances of anybody boldly going.

NASA's Galileo spacecraft did a fly - by of Jupiter's second largest moon in 1996 and 1997 and found that Callisto's magnetic field varied, indicating currents.

The spacecraft did so by staring at roughly 150,000 stars in a celestial patch representing 1 / 400th of the sky, waiting for tiny dips in starlight that would signal a planet was passing by, blocking a little bit of light.

The spacecraft did great.

This is the 9th mission to reach Jupiter, but previous spacecraft did not pass so close due to the radiation.

I Really WANT BF3, Open wide spaces, jets, or spacecraft i don't care.

In October, the Jupiter - bound Juno spacecraft did a flyby of Earth before its long journey.

Rockets that fly to the east from Florida get an extra speed boost, but InSight is fairly small It doesn't need the boost as much as heavier spacecraft do.

Not exact matches

Some of our customers are conservative and they want to see BFR fly several times before they're comfortable launching in it, so what we plan to do is to build ahead, and have a stock of Falcon 9 and Dragon vehicles, so that customers can be comfortable if they want to use the old rocket, the old spacecraft, they can do that, we'll have a bunch in stock.

Then a couple of years later we did the first launch of Falcon 9, version 1, and that had about a 10 - ton - to - orbit capability, so it was about 20 times the capability of Falcon 1, and also assigned to carry our Dragon spacecraft.

«The spacecraft Branson wants doesn't exist yet,» says Futron director Phil McAllister.

When Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of electric - car company Tesla, founded SpaceX back in 2002, he probably didn't envision that his company, which designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, would be responsible for delivering better coffee to astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA's Juno spacecraft capped a five - year journey to Jupiter late Monday with a do - or - die engine burn to sling itself into orbit, setting the stage for a 20 - month dance around the biggest planet in the solar system to learn how and where it formed.

For example, the official Soviet propaganda apparatus has made a very big thing; of the statement by cosmonaut Gherman S. Titov that he looked all around for God while orbiting the earth in his spacecraft, and — «I didn't find anyone out there.»

The premise of a ballistic capture: Instead of shooting for the location Mars will be in its orbit where the spacecraft will meet it, as is conventionally done with Hohmann transfers, a spacecraft is casually lobbed into a Mars - like orbit so that it flies ahead of the planet.

THE WOODLANDS, Texas — It's been six months since NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged to its doom in the atmosphere of Saturn, but scientists didn't spend much time mourning.

In another approach, called aerocapture, an arriving spacecraft dives into the Martian atmosphere and lets friction eat away at some of its excess velocity, rather than relying solely on a big fuel burn to do the trick.

«The Cassini operations team did an absolutely stellar job guiding the spacecraft to its noble end,» said Earl Maize, Cassini project manager at JPL.

Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves, the researchers report today in Nature.

Since then, building and testing the spacecraft have mostly stayed on track, but last September NASA did push back the JWST's planned launch from October 2018 to a date between March and June 2019.

«If advanced civilizations do exist elsewhere in our galaxy, we can speculate that they might develop the capability to launch spacecraft over interstellar distances and that these spacecraft may use radio waves to communicate.»

She must figure out how best to sterilize spacefaring instruments; baking them, as NASA used to do, isn't a good option for the sensitive electronic components on modern spacecraft.

And in doing so, have made headway on research towards creating an electrodeless plasma thruster used to propel spacecraft.

I don't believe that [the FAA's involvement should be so limited]-- the problem is that spacelines will be much more at risk from a lethal liability climate than if they did have FAA approval on their spacecraft safety.

Its discovery proved that the Kepler spacecraft, which was launched in March 2009, could indeed do what its designers had boldly promised: find small, Earth - size planets around distant stars, a task that once seemed so difficult as to border on the absurd.

Steve: And all the conventional explanations like the ones you mentioned, some gas venting — and it could be a tiny, tiny amount of gas venting or this kind of heat radiating off the spacecraft — all the conventional explanations still don't get you the entire error in the position of the spacecraft.

In his reading, the Viking gas chromatograph scooped up soil, heated it, and in so doing activated the perchlorate, which then destroyed the very organics the spacecraft was searching for.

Bowman said the spacecraft is currently taking science data as well as optical navigation data, which is «very important because it is a measure of how well we are doing on that trajectory to hit that specific point at the specific time that the science team wants us to hit.

Do you have any advice for someone coming out of college who wants to design spacecraft?

In the past few decades, Wu says, China has built the capacity to place satellites and astronauts in orbit and send spacecraft to the Moon, but it has not done much significant research from its increasingly lofty vantage point.

The Sept. 29 observation was completed to validate that the spacecraft could safely do so, as the start of a possible series of observations of Phobos and Deimos in coming months.

«As the spacecraft, it was dark inside my fairing & I was eager to launch so I could begin my mission to do science,» it (or its social media officers) wrote.

«The biggest problem we have with sterilizing spacecraft is that we didn't do it again after Viking,» he says.

After many claims and statements over the past few years that Voyager 1, our most distant operating spacecraft, has «left the solar system» (it hasn't, as I explain here), it does now seem that as of August 2012 this extraordinary vehicle has entered the interstellar medium.

«In Comet Hitchhiker, accelerating and decelerating do not require propellant because the spacecraft is harvesting kinetic energy from the target,» Ono said.

With the clock ticking, San Martín and the rest of the team in Pasadena, Calif., had to help NASA figure out a solution: do nothing and risk a crash, or send a special programming command to the spacecraft and hope it doesn't have any nasty consequences.

Those that failed to progress included a proposal to send a spacecraft diving, as Cassini did, into Saturn's atmosphere to study its composition and history, as well as a notional orbiter for Titan and a second plume - diving spacecraft for Enceladus independent of ELSAH.

And yet, despite over four centuries of intense scrutiny, including visits by eight spacecraft, there's still much that scientists don't know about Jupiter.

It did not get as close to Jupiter as the two Voyagers would, but it got near enough to find that the massive planet could wreak havoc on spacecraft.

«Having a dedicated launch vehicle allows you to put your spacecraft in the most optimum position for whatever science you want to do.»

Cassini does not attempt many images of Earth because the sun is so close to our planet that an unobstructed view would damage the spacecraft's sensitive detectors.

When all was said and done, the spacecraft lasted about 30 seconds longer than expected.

For starters, measurements of Jupiter's gravity, determined from the tug of the planet on the spacecraft, suggest that the planet doesn't have a solid, compact core, Bolton and colleagues report in one of the new papers.

«That tells us that the spacecraft is nice and healthy, she's doing just fine.

(One of the goals of NASA's Juno spacecraft, which arrived at Jupiter earlier this month, is to see whether the planet really does have a massive core.)