Sentences with phrase «spacecraft flight operations»

-- Principal Investigator: Dr. Christopher Russell, UCLA — Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA (Project management, system engineering, ion propulsion subsystem, science operations and spacecraft flight operations)-- Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida (Launch services via NASA Launch Services Contract).

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NASA's Ames Research Center will perform ground commanding and flight operations and receive science data and spacecraft telemetry.

Back on Earth, the mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (which built the spacecraft and operates the mission for NASA) along with the Flight Software (FSW) and Radio Frequency (RF) Teams, have recently made some improvements in getting the science teams more data.

Every spacecraft deploys valves and other instruments using pyrotechnic mechanisms once they reach orbit, to prepare for further flight operations.

«The team has done a fantastic job of adapting to spacecraft operations in the Martian environment,» said Richard Burns, MAVEN project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«In this first practical exercise of the mission's science operations, the mission team learned so much about this spacecraft's capabilities and flight operations that we are now ahead of the game for when we get to Bennu.»

Science operations for the SOHO spacecraft are being conducted by a NASA - ESA team from the Experiment Operations Facility at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

To allow simultaneous ground - based observations, flight operations engineers at Ball Aerospace and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder will perform a maneuver turning the spacecraft around to point the telescope in the forward velocity vector.