Sentences with phrase «spacecraft someone»

These sculptures envision another aspect of humanity's future: a fleet of spacecraft designed for human exploration of distant worlds.

The sphere - packing problem in 24 dimensions has applications in wireless communication, and has been used to communicate with spacecraft in the distant solar system.

But unfortunately all of us are passengers on a very large spacecraft on which we have no option but to fly.

But the early data — from spacecraft and ground - based telescopes — were controversial.

That's generally the rule, anyway, certainly for spacecraft that have fulfilled their purpose and have no way to stay in orbit.

They now are critical for maintaining the space station and docking other spacecraft with the orbiting laboratory.

Aside from sports equipment, potential applications include hard - to - repair devices such as spacecraft parts and medical implants.

It hopes the rockets, which are currently used to send spacecraft into orbit, can be «man rated» to launch humans as well.

This was the second asteroid to be visited by spacecraft.

It was also the first spacecraft to detect methane in the planet's atmosphere from orbit.

The first was the prospect of sending spacecraft through the asteroid belt.

«Let's save one spacecraft at a time,» he says.

The game uses actual physics and aerodynamics to prove that you know nothing about building spacecraft, but then throws in cute aliens to make it all a bit less devastating.

The fan forums are chock full of amazing spacecraft designs, from gigantic orbiting capital ships to incredibly minimalist single - seat vessels.

When spacecraft and satellites travel through space they encounter tiny, fast moving particles of space dust and debris.

But can a commercial spacecraft take off on its own from the ground, travel into outer space and land again on a runway?

The team answered specific questions about the ship this past week, including its specs and its comparison to other spacecraft that players might select early on in the game.

If it is an alien spacecraft, perhaps we might detect some radio signals from it.

During its mission, the robotic spacecraft detected flashes of infrared light coming from the planet's surface.

The experiment with the three spacecraft uses a similar approach.

No surprise, astronomers are desperate to land spacecraft there.

What the hell would an efficient commercial spacecraft be like?

These machines could even be used to power spacecraft and generate high - energy beams to treat cancer.

We send up a significant number of tractor spacecraft over many years.

The fourth parameter, needed to complete the interior model, will be obtained from future spacecraft missions.

The team also found that the planned Commercial Crew spacecraft are not being designed for any missions beyond low earth orbit.

Many will also provide opportunities for longer - duration robotic spacecraft missions.

Only about 1,000 of those 20,000 objects are operating spacecraft.

She developed a software navigation system to help improve spacecraft travel through the solar system from her research on gravity and planetary movement.

The $ 100 million initiative will deploy thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

This cute little spacecraft does double duty with fun functions for play time and calming ones for bedtime.

«I don't understand why the push for [launching the capture spacecraft] in 2017 - 18,» he said.

It's one of the primary science goals and an integral part of spacecraft operations.

My broad experience base also includes spacecraft and launch vehicle configuration design, and performance analysis.

Following this, the planet - hunting spacecraft was able to continue its search of the universe for other worlds.

In fact, one criterion for deciding which design to take to the demonstration stage will be which spacecraft appears to be most commercially attractive.

It may be hundreds of years before we begin to answer some of the profound questions raised by the superb spacecraft images of the 20th century.

Private spacecraft have reached the edge of space, and a new generation are being developed for space tourism.

One alternative is to launch all the parts of a large spacecraft into space and then assemble them in orbit.

The two spacecraft separated soon after launch and operated independently.

Its second spacecraft aims to land in 2019 near the moon's south pole.

The Viking spacecraft had an array of sophisticated experiments to detect metabolism and organic molecules.

High - energy electrons can damage spacecraft and satellites and can even harm astronauts doing work outside their craft.

So the fastest spacecraft would need about 15 million years to make even a one - way trip.

Some 20 years earlier, a vast spacecraft appeared in the skies above the city.

The washing - machine - sized spacecraft measures some 4.9 feet (1.5 meters) tall and is 3.9 feet (1.2 meters) wide.

This flexibility far exceeded any other ESA spacecraft built up to then.

We tried to get the appropriate textures of what this kind of spacecraft needed to be.