Sentences with phrase «spacecraft in»

Virgin Galactic took to the skies today for the first test of its rocket - powered spacecraft in over three years.

GRACE precisely measures the distance between the two spacecraft in order to make detailed measurements of the Earth's gravitational field.

We have now a spacecraft in orbit around Mercury and should shortly have very precise radio ranges.

Here we analyse the difference between the spectra of the outgoing longwave radiation of the Earth as measured by orbiting spacecraft in 1970 and 1997.

This junk circling our planet is now endangering satellites and manned and unmanned spacecraft in orbit.

The solar luminosity is about 0.07 percent brighter during solar maximum than during solar minimum but observations from spacecraft in the 2000s showed that the ratio of ultraviolet to visible light is much more variable than previously thought.

The mission would place a spacecraft in orbit around...

The exhibition will include works employing high - end optical systems to photograph government sites, as well as images drawn from data of amateur astronomers to track and photograph classified spacecraft in earth's orbit.

Villagers gather scrap metal atop a crashed spacecraft in Northern Russia's Altai Territory, while thousands...

Disclosure: The author of this article was given a Steam code for the game through Evolve PR for the purpose of this review Developer: Allen Trivette & Lee Williams Publisher: Night Dive Studios Platforms: PC Spirits of Xanadu is a System Shock 2 - inspired first - person survival horror game set on a derelict spacecraft in an alternative version of the 1980s.

Players take on the role of celebrity pilots commanding combat spacecraft in high - stakes battles for control of warren - like asteroid mines.

Gamers will be treated to a new way to fly spacecraft in the PlayStation 4 version of Kerbal Space Program using the DualShock 4 controller, as the sticks and triggers will allow for more precision in making complicated maneuvers.

«Passengers» is set on a spacecraft in the future, with thousands of passengers making an interstellar voyage to a distant -LSB-...]

Paired with: The Thing from Another World (1951)- Stationed in the Arctic a team of scientists along with a crew from the US Air Force find a crashed spacecraft in the ice as well as the frozen body of the presumed pilot.

Set on a spacecraft in the future with...

The alien spacecraft in «Arrival» arrive by the dozen, each of the looming, egg - sliced - in - half - shaped wonders looking like the latest in KitchenAid gadgetry writ large.

In what instantly becomes one of the series» best aerial action sequences, Rey, Finn and BB - 8 stumble upon a «garbage» spacecraft in a junkyard and use it to take out pursuing TIE fighters.

First, The Thing retells the story takes place in Antarctica in 1982 were scientists found the alien spacecraft in the ice.

I explained the main idea; An exorcism which takes place in a spacecraft in another dimension.

Vast amounts of frozen water were detected at both Martian poles by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in May 2002.

This amazing image, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in 2000, shows Jupiter's closet large moon Io seemingly dwarfed by the planet's famous Great Red Spot.

We looked at old images of Ganymede taken by the Voyager spacecraft in the 1970s that had been completely overlooked, an enormous ice plateau, hundreds of miles across and a couple miles high.»

Here we report measurements of Jupiter's gravity harmonics (both even and odd) through precise Doppler tracking of the Juno spacecraft in its polar orbit around Jupiter.

On June 24, molecular biologist Kate Rubins will be strapped into a spacecraft in Kazakhstan.

One week ago, the MESSENGER spacecraft transmitted to Earth the first high - resolution image of Mercury by a spacecraft in over 30 years, since the three Mercury flybys of Mariner 10 in 1974 and 1975.

There have been other, perhaps even wilder, alternatives for building spacecraft in orbit.

Artist's rendering of the GLAST spacecraft in flight.

Researchers came close to losing the spacecraft in June 1998, less than three years after launch, after a routine gyroscope calibration.

China's space agency lost control of the spacecraft in 2016, five years after the unmanned station was launched.

To filter out those effects, LISA Pathfinder is testing a protective system of thrusters, designed to adjust the spacecraft in a way that compensates for such factors.

Nearly two years after it launched, the US Air Force's reusable, unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle ended its classified mission on Sunday, becoming the first spacecraft in nearly six years to touch down at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing...

According to NASA, the unique orbit will keep the spacecraft in a safe thermal and radiation environment, and maximize the amount of sky TESS can image, allowing its cameras to monitor their targets continuously from a stable orbit for the duration of the mission.

Composite image of Wright Mons, one of two potential cryovolcanoes spotted on the surface of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015.

Artist's conception of the Venera - D spacecraft in orbit around Venus.

NASA's TESS spacecraft in the cleanroom at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, prior to its April 18 flight.

«While this may not be difficult on Earth, it seems unlikely that a transmission electron microscope will be put on a spacecraft in the foreseeable future,» the authors note.

The spacecraft's mission timeline will place the spacecraft in orbit at approximately 6:50 p.m. PDT (9:50 p.m. EDT).

Space Shuttle Atlantis was the fourth operational shuttle built and is one of the three currently operational spacecraft in the Space Shuttle fleet.

Jupiter's auroras were first discovered by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1979.

Radio telescopes can be called into service to receive the transmissions from spacecraft in orbit around the Earth or traveling across the Solar System.

Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada Corporation are hoping to see the first flights of these spacecraft in 2017 — the same year that NASA plans to launch their new heavy - lift booster, the Space Launch System (SLS).

Another rocket burn will raise the low point of the orbit to the same altitude, placing the spacecraft in a circular perch to begin regular scientific observations.

The other images show various views of Pluto as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope beginning in the 1990s and NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015.

On its factory floor in Decatur, Alabama, United Launch Alliance, or ULA, is beginning to fabricate parts for the two rockets that are to launch Boeing's CST - 100 spacecraft in 2017.

Cassini took nearly a half - million images during its mission, which included more than 13 years in orbit around Saturn, a tour that repeatedly took the probe by the moons Titan and Enceladus, two places scientists are eager to send another spacecraft in the search for microbial life.

Regarding Europa, he said he knows the planetary science community wants to launch that spacecraft in 2022, but «it can't be done in that time frame.»

«Currently, NOAA is assessing the short and long - term impacts of the government shutdown to the development of, and launch schedules for, all the spacecraft in its satellite acquisition portfolio, particularly, GOES - R and JPSS,» a NOAA spokesperson told FCW.

An artist's rendition shows the MAVEN spacecraft in orbit around Mars.

Having successfully demonstrated that radar can be used to detect and track spacecraft in lunar orbit, the researchers now intend to use these arrays as a hazard assessment tool in future manned and unmanned missions to the moon.

This photo, taken in October 2017, shows multiple Starliner spacecraft in various stages of production.