Sentences with phrase «spacecraft over»

I think the idea is to make sure all of the bugs are worked out as much as possible and be able to turn those spacecraft over to anybody in the astronaut office to be able to fly.

Earth's full North Polar auroral oval, in an image taken in ultraviolet light by the U.S. Polar spacecraft over northern Canada, April 6, 1996.

Trevor Paglen, STSS - 1 and Two Unidentified Spacecraft over Carson City (Space Tracking and Surveillance System, USA 205), 2010, chromogenic print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, © 2010, Trevor Paglen, Gift of Mike Wilkins and Sheila Duignan, 2012.24.1

That has taken our Voyager spacecraft over thirty years to achieve.

The 3D model was created from data harvested by the agency's Dawn spacecraft over the course of its year - long stay in orbit around the asteroid between July 2011 and September 2012.

NASA created the map by tracking small fluctuations in the orbits of three spacecraft over 16 years using the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

This sequence of three images, obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft over the course of about 10 minutes, shows the path of a newly found moonlet in a bright arc of Saturn's faint G ring.

The flyover of Juno spacecraft over the Great Spot would be the first up - close and personal view of the giant storm.

Many of these tiny thrusters packed together could propel a spacecraft over great distances, maybe even to the nearest exoplanet, and they are particularly useful for Earth - orbiting nanosatellites, which can be as small as a shoe box.

TEMPER TANTRUM The sun's magnetic field is responsible for violent outbursts like coronal mass ejections (one of several shown around five seconds into this high - speed video taken by NASA's STEREO spacecraft over several days in April 2013).

Data from the first pass of NASA's Juno spacecraft over the incessant storm show that its clouds stretch at least 350 kilometers down into the planet's atmosphere.

Engineers also will have to decide whether to focus on protecting today's operational spacecraft over the next decade or two or protecting craft that may orbit a century from now.

«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.»

«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Not exact matches

Instead of landing, NASA's spacecraft will fly by Europa 45 times over a period of three years.

«Over the past several years, NASA has been funding a group of psychologists to develop a software program astronauts could use, while aboard spacecraft, to help them work through depression and conflicts with their fellow space - goers.

A team of Virgin executives scrambled to Seattle to meet with him and open negotiations over a spaceliner successor to the spacecraft.

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.

In an amazing feat of precise planning and dedication, the small spacecraft traveled 3 billion miles over nine and a half years to reach our most distant celestial neighbor.

NASA and Apple collaborated on the project to celebrate the Juno spacecraft's expected trajectory over Independence Day weekend.

Each time NASA's Juno spacecraft flies over Jupiter's clouds — roughly once every 53.5 days — it takes some of t he most incredible and unprecedented images of the planet ever seen.

Since 1971, over 263 spacecraft from four nations have crashed here.

Musk added that with the ability to carry satellites or interplanetary spacecraft weighing over 53 metric tons or 117,000 pounds to orbit, Falcon Heavy will have more than twice the performance of the Delta IV Heavy, the next most powerful vehicle, which is operated by United Launch Alliance, a Boeing - Lockheed Martin joint venture.

Two of the sport's legacy programs who rarely play each other getting together twice over a couple of seasons — on campus, and not at some glitzy spacecraft of an NFL stadium — is about as fun as it gets.

The spacecraft has been spinning around the Red Planet for just over one Martian year of 687 days.

Hurricane - like clouds spiral over Jupiter's poles, new photos taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft reveal.

Part of the responsibility for mothballing TPF lies with exoplanet hunters themselves, who split over three competing versions of the spacecraft.

In September, scientists for India's Chandrayaan - 1 and two other spacecraft announced the discovery of trace quantities of water over much of the moon's surface, which may be created in this process.

For over 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft has orbited Saturn, beaming back dazzling images from the ringed planet and its diverse moons.

Over the next few years, the spacecraft will map the

The most nerve - racking parts were over, and the next step to watch would be the deployment of the spacecraft's giant antenna 11 days hence.

We extract science by carefully modeling all the ways in which the spacecraft and the instruments themselves could have caused the apparent brightness of a planetary system to change over time... We are pretty sure we can trust our models of Spitzer down to about a part in 10,000; we are in uncharted territory as far as detector behavior is concerned.»

In the next year, the number of operating sensors on NASA spacecraft will decrease by 40 percent over 2006 figures.

While Skylab is the most famous spacecraft to fall in an uncontrolled fashion back to Earth, there are many others that have attracted attention over the years.

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.

Even the Ulysses spacecraft, which was headed toward the sun, went the long way around, using Jupiter in 1992 to get thrown over the poles of the sun.

On July 19, 2013, in an event celebrated the world over, NASA's Cassini spacecraft slipped into Saturn's shadow and turned to image the planet, seven of its moons, its inner rings — and, in the background, our home planet, Earth.

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.

Just over a year after launch, the spacecraft fired its engines to loop back to Earth and use our planet's gravity to pick up some speed for the home stretch to Jupiter.

Data from the Cassini spacecraft, in orbit since 2004, may help resolve a decades - long debate over the age of...

Scientists believe that these ions, which the SELENE spacecraft (better known as Kaguya) detected, drifted over geologic time from the outer layers of Earth's atmosphere and became embedded in the moon's regolith, a loose top layer of soil and rock.

A spacecraft could simply approach a satellite and spray paint over its optics, or manually snap off its communications antennas, or destabilize its orbit.

On July 10, NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly directly over it, providing the first intimate views of Jupiter's most famous feature.

But that's hardly all there is to Falcon's efficiencies over present - day spacecraft.

Once regular contact has been achieved, and engineers better understand the spacecraft's daily thermal and power cycles, they will consider uploading new science commands that were developed over the past month — commands that can be performed quickly, in 2 - or 3 - hour - long bursts, and which do not require Philae's batteries to be charged.

Frisch and colleagues gathered historical data from several other spacecraft and found a definite change in the wind's direction over the past 40 years (Science, doi.org/nqh).

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.

Over its 10 - year life span, the spacecraft observed the Martian surface and atmosphere repeatedly, exposing details — like the shrinking carbon dioxide ice cap on the south pole — that would have been lost to onetime measurements.

So Fu and her colleagues observed water vapor over the Amazon with NASA's Aura satellite, a spacecraft dedicated to studying the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere.

The team chose spots that the spacecraft has passed over more than once, each time approaching along a different flight path.