Sentences with phrase «spacecraft on»

I think the test will be when we put those spacecraft on the launch pad and are ready to light them off and send them to the space station.

I still trust the actual data as measured by the Russian spacecraft on the surface of Venus rather than your fanciful extrapolations.

I'm sure that's not important if you're trying to put a spacecraft on the moon, build the next - generation transistor, or write software for self - driving car sensors.

Unidentified Photographer Two photographs of the Aurora 7 spacecraft on top of its Atlas Booster and its recovery in the Atlantic Ocean after three orbits, Mercury - Atlas 7, May 1962.

The main character lands his spacecraft on an alien planet in order to replenish the supplies lost due to a technical malfunction.

Description: When Colonel George Taylor (the fabulous Charlton Heston) crash lands his spacecraft on what seems to be an unfamiliar planet, he is captured and held prisoner by a dominant race of hyperrational, articulate apes.

And he's right: an alien spacecraft on a scientific mission mistakenly left behind an aging botanist who isn't sure how to get home.

«The Europa Lander Science Definition Team Report presents the integrated results of an intensive science and engineering team effort to develop and optimize a mission concept that would follow the Europa Multiple Flyby Mission and conduct the first in situ search for evidence of life on another world since the Viking spacecraft on Mars in the 1970s.

This image was captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft on Nov. 13, 2011.

Saturn looms in the foreground of this mosaic of Cassini images, taken by the spacecraft on May 28, 2017.

Liftoff of NASA's planet - hunting TESS spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket April 18, 2018.

Composite, enhanced - color image of Pluto (lower right) and its largest moon Charon (upper left) taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015.

Back in October 1997, NASA and its partners, the European Space Agency and Italian space agency Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, launched the Cassini spacecraft on a billion - mile, seven - year journey to Saturn.

A spacecraft on a quest to discover Earth - like and potentially habitable worlds in other solar systems around other stars took to space on April 18, 2018, riding atop a shiny new SpaceX Falcon 9 ro...

NASA has been sending probes toward Mars since November 1964, when the agency launched the Mariner 3 spacecraft on an attempted Red Planet flyby.

In the coming weeks, TESS will conduct a set of engine burns as it travels on a series of phasing loops out toward the Moon's orbital path, culminating in a lunar flyby and gravitational assist that will place the spacecraft on a lunar transfer orbit that will be inclined 37 degrees from the Moon's orbital plain.

A spacecraft on a quest to discover Earth - like and potentially habitable worlds in other solar systems around other stars took to space on April 18, 2018, riding atop a shiny new SpaceX Falcon -LSB-...]

The Planetary Society announces LightSail project, a plan to sail a spacecraft on sunlight alone

August Physics News Roundup August 27, 2014 Speckled asteroids, spacecraft on comets, and an atomic clock on the International Space Station roundup this month in physics news.

This planetary system was picked up by NASA's Kepler spacecraft on Aug. 26, 2010.

On May 25, 2008 NASA landed the Phoenix spacecraft on Mars» arctic plains to study whether liquid water may have existed there, creating an environment habitable to life.

The three other crew - members currently on the ISS are: Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Kimiya Yui, representing the Japanese space agency (JAXA), who arrived aboard the Soyuz TMA - 17 spacecraft on July 23.

Mission managers said Phobos - Grunt spacecraft's thrusters failed to fire in a maneuver that would have sent the spacecraft on to Mars.

«Observing the effects on Mars of the comet's dust slamming into the upper atmosphere makes me very happy that we decided to put our spacecraft on the other side of Mars at the peak of the dust tail passage and out of harm's way.»

The landing of the NEAR - Shoemaker spacecraft on asteroid 433 Eros J. Veverka, B. Farquhar, M. Robinson, P. Thomas, S. Murchie, A. Harch, P. G. Antreasian, S. R. Chesley, J. K. Miller, W. M. Owen Jr., B. G. Williams, D. Yeomans, D. Dunham, G. Heyler, M. Holdridge, R. L. Nelson, K. E. Whittenburg, J. C. Ray, B. Carcich, A. Cheng, C. Chapman, J. F. Bell III, M. Bell, B. Bussey, B. Clark, D. Domingue, M. J. Gaffey, E. Hawkins, N. Izenberg, J. Joseph, R. Kirk, P. Lucey, M. Malin, L. McFadden, W. J. Merline, C. Peterson, L. Prockter, J. Warren, and D. Wellnitz Nature 413, 390 — 393, doi: 10.1038 / 35096507, 27 September 2001.

In August, engineers at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., sent out a call for ideas on how they could use the two reaction wheels and Kepler's thrusters together — rather like using a cane to help the spacecraft as it hobbles around on two wheels — and what resources it would take to get the spacecraft on its feet, however shakily.

This sequence of images of the the Sun in ultraviolet light was taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft on Feb. 11, 1996 from its unique vantage point at the «L1» gravity neutral point 1 million miles sunward from the Earth.

Although a deadline for a new agreement has not been specified, orders would need to be placed no later than this fall to ensure the first spacecraft on the list would be ready for launch in time.

Ceres viewed by the Dawn spacecraft on May 4, 2015, at a distance of 8,400 miles.

One possibility, raised in a 2009 paper by New York University - trained physicist Jia Liu, might be using dark matter as an energy source to power spacecraft on extremely long missions.

In 2012, when SpaceX was still certifying its Dragon cargo ship for supply runs to the ISS, NASA opted to carry cargo with the spacecraft on its first demonstration flight to berth with the outpost.

This is a raw image, taken Jan. 13, 2015, showing the dwarf planet Ceres as seen from the Dawn spacecraft on its approach.

A spacecraft on a quest to discover Earth - like and potentially habitable worlds in other solar systems around other stars took to space on April 18, 2018, riding atop a shiny new SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

«We commanded the spacecraft on Christmas day once because we had an issue.

This raw, unprocessed image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on May 20, 2012.

Twenty - five years ago, next week, shuttle mission STS - 34 and the crew of Atlantis rocketed into orbit to launch NASA's Galileo spacecraft on a lengthy odyssey to Jupiter.

One of MGS» first targets was the «Face on Mars,» an infamous feature snapped by the orbiting Viking 1 spacecraft on July 25, 1976.

Less than two years after placing the 1 - ton Curiosity rover gently on the Martian surface, NASA is already dreaming up ways to land even bigger spacecraft on the Red Planet.

With images of Kerberos transmitted from the spacecraft on October 20, the Pluto family portrait is complete.

And in 2007, the New Horizons spacecraft on its way to Pluto imaged two wave sets spiraling through each other in the faint, dusty ring of Jupiter.

Six minutes later, mission managers will know whether they have joined the select club of agencies that have successfully landed a spacecraft on Mars.

Data from this first dive will help engineers understand if and how they will need to protect the spacecraft on its future ring - plane crossings.

This animation of the dwarf planet Ceres was made by combining images taken by the Dawn spacecraft on January 25, 2015.

One day, giant magnetic bubbles could protect spacecraft on long voyages.

«We've got a spacecraft on the way to Ceres, so we don't have to wait long before getting more context on this intriguing result, right from the source itself,» said Carol Raymond, the deputy principal investigator for Dawn at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Dawn will map the geology and chemistry of the surface in high resolution, revealing the processes that drive the outgassing activity.»

Between 1966 and 1976, only the US and the Soviet Union successfully placed spacecraft on the lunar surface.

The Google Lunar X Prize is offering $ 20 million to the first private team to land a spacecraft on the moon, make it travel 500 metres and send back video by the end of 2015.

BABY FACE Saturn's rings (shown in an image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on August 12, 2017) are relatively young, a few hundred million years old at most, astronomers say.

Ground stations have intermittently picked up signals apparently from the spacecraft on four occasions, raising hopes that the main body of the craft might be intact.

Over the next decade, Southwood's «cosmic vision» program calls for, among other goals, landing spacecraft on Mars, Mercury, Saturn's moon Titan, and a comet; observing the birth, evolution, and death of stars and galaxies at gamma ray and infrared wavelengths; studying the afterglow of the big bang; and mapping the positions and motions of nearly every star in the Milky Way.