Sentences with phrase «spacecraft on the asteroid»

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.

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Instead of sending large spacecraft capable of moving asteroids, the startup wants to send a small craft that could land on the asteroid and 3 - D print a propulsion system and guidance mechanisms — essentially turning the asteroid into its own spaceship that would then drive itself to wherever a crew was located.

So serious, in fact, that the organization's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has put out a call for design proposals of the spacecraft that will eventually land on an asteroid, then send a huge chunk of it over to humans for experimentation.

For Planetary Resources, the first wave of development is to culminate in a doughnut - shape spacecraft heading on a prospecting mission to a near - Earth asteroid in 2020.

This involves relying on a spacecraft to deflect a potentially hazardous asteroid that might impact Earth, without physically contacting it.

The class includes six men and three women who have been training to fly on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft and NASA's new deep space capsule, which is expected to be used for the trip to an asteroid called for by President Barack Obama.

Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft launched on the Space Launch System (SLS) would rendezvous with the captured asteroid mass in lunar orbit and collect samples for return to Earth.

Astronauts will travel aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, launched on the Space Launch System rocket, to rendezvous in lunar orbit with the captured asteroid.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Denver -: The «Adapting Commercial Spacecraft for the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle» study will define system concepts for a Solar Electric Propulsion Module based on an existing commercial spacecraft bus and NASA Hall Spacecraft for the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle» study will define system concepts for a Solar Electric Propulsion Module based on an existing commercial spacecraft bus and NASA Hall spacecraft bus and NASA Hall thrusters.

NASA's asteroid sample return spacecraft successfully used Earth's gravity on Friday to slingshot itself on a path toward the asteroid Bennu, for a rendezvous next August.

One is to make precise measurements of the round - trip distance from the spacecraft to the asteroid using the on - board laser altimeter.

After a brush with death last month, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft is back on track for an encounter with a hurtling hunk of space rock.

For any spacecraft landing on a comet or asteroid, being able to slow down enough to arrive safely is critical.

Although cryovolcanoes probably exist on Pluto, and there are hints as well on Titan, this peculiar, 4 - kilometer - tall mountain on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, is the real thing, say researchers with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in one of six papers published today in Science.

At 1 A.M. Eastern time on July 16, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will become the first man - made probe to enter orbit around a so - called main - belt asteroid.

[Photos: Asteroid Vesta and NASA's Dawn Spacecraft] Earlier photos of Vesta have zeroed in on intriguing features on the space rock's surface, including the boundary between the day and night sides.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft has detected organic compounds on Ceres — the first concrete proof of organics on an object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Later he served as an investigator on the Magellan mission to Venus, the NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) spacecraft encounter with the asteroid Eros, and the Mars Odyssey Asteroid Rendezvous) spacecraft encounter with the asteroid Eros, and the Mars Odyssey asteroid Eros, and the Mars Odyssey mission.

After traveling four years and 1.7 billion miles, NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at Vesta last July, the first stop on its tour of the largest asteroids in the solar system.

Conventional spacecraft would need 2.5 tons of fuel to reach Vesta; Dawn carried just 937 pounds of xenon at launch, and it still has enough to go on a 900 - million - mile loop beyond Vesta to its second target, the asteroid Ceres.

Astronauts would then visit — via NASA's planned space launch system and Orion spacecraft — to mine the object and practise techniques for landing on, and deflecting, asteroids.

NASA plans to hone its sample - return skills in 2016 with OSIRIS - REx, a boxy spacecraft that will land on an asteroid, collect chunks of rock and dust, and then return to Earth.

The Dawn spacecraft is on just such a mission: a journey first to the giant asteroid Vesta and then on to the dwarf planet Ceres.

When the spacecraft touched down on asteroid Itokawa in November 2005, there were questions about whether it could get back home because of attitude control device failures and fuel leaks.

In 1999, the NEAR spacecraft showed that a single asteroid, Eros, contains more gold than has ever been mined on Earth.

Forward's laser sailing becomes much cheaper when the spacecraft merely need to be large enough to contain a «seed probe,» a robot capable of landing on an asteroid or planet in the target solar system and building up a new civilization from scratch.

The spacecraft, which launched in 2016, swung back by Earth on September 22 for a quick gravity assist on its way to Bennu, a carbon - rich asteroid that comes within about 300,000 kilometers of Earth every six years (SN Online: 9/8/16).

And if an asteroid is detected hurtling toward Earth, scientists and engineers are still working on ways to use spacecraft to alter its orbit.

In 1991, for instance, the Galileo spacecraft revealed numerous craters on the asteroid Gaspra, a lump of rock between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter measuring all of 15 kilometres across.

In a Physics World special report on Japan, Dennis Normile reports on how the Japanese space agency JAXA plans to land a spacecraft onto an asteroid in 2018 to search for clues of how life began on Earth.

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Those two spacecraft are American and Japanese missions to visit and study asteroids, then carry samples back to scientists here on Earth to examine in the lab a couple of years from now.

Then on October 1991 asteroid 951 Gaspra was visited by the Galileo spacecraft and became the first asteroid to have hi - resolution images taken of it.

Bolden was grilled by subcommittee chairman Steve Palazzo (R - MS) and committee chairman Smith on why he was ignoring NAC's advice to (1) obtain an independent cost evaluation (ICE) of ARM prior to the Mission Concept Review (which just took place), and (2) modify it so that its primary objective is demonstration of high power solar electric propulsion rather than obtaining a sample of an asteroid, and to send the spacecraft to Mars and back rather than to an asteroid.

Although no such asteroids were discovered, the scan demonstrated that a key instrument on board the spacecraft was functioned much better than expected.

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.

On February 12, NEAR Shoemaker becomes the first spacecraft to land on an asteroiOn February 12, NEAR Shoemaker becomes the first spacecraft to land on an asteroion an asteroid.

«Recent spacecraft studies of Comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko with Rosetta and of [asteroid] Ceres... provide evidence that complex organic molecules and even amino acids are ubiquitous on small bodies in the solar system and that water ice is abundant in the asteroid belt.»

«Orbital robotics and AI techniques in general can enable future spacecraft to repair satellites, remove space junk, extract resources from asteroids and comets, and so on,» said study co-author Yang Gao, a space roboticist at the University of Surrey in England.

On July 15, 2011 (probably near 10 pm, PDT), NASA's Dawn spacecraft became the first probe to enter orbit around an object in the Main Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.

On July 14, 2011, NASA announced that its Dawn spacecraft should be captured by Vesta's gravity and into its orbit around 1 AM EDT, on Saturday, July 16, 2011 (10 PM PDT, Friday, July 15th), at a distance of approximately 9,900 miles (16,000 kilometers) from the Solar System's second largest, Main - Belt asteroiOn July 14, 2011, NASA announced that its Dawn spacecraft should be captured by Vesta's gravity and into its orbit around 1 AM EDT, on Saturday, July 16, 2011 (10 PM PDT, Friday, July 15th), at a distance of approximately 9,900 miles (16,000 kilometers) from the Solar System's second largest, Main - Belt asteroion Saturday, July 16, 2011 (10 PM PDT, Friday, July 15th), at a distance of approximately 9,900 miles (16,000 kilometers) from the Solar System's second largest, Main - Belt asteroid.

Yet that's precisely what's happening today at 12:53 p.m. ET to a spacecraft called OSIRIS - REx, which is using a technique called gravity assist to pick up speed on its way to an asteroid.

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