Sentences with phrase «spacecraft take»

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

If it's the distances of artefacts from Earth that interests you, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft take the prize.

NASA's nuclear - powered Cassini spacecraft took 165 different photos in the shadow of Saturn to make this backlit mosaic of the gas giant.

It has disappeared before: in 1973 when NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft took the first close - up images of Jupiter, and in the early 1990s.

NASA's Juno spacecraft took this image on 7 February from more than 8000 kilometres above Jupiter's northern cloud tops.

The Cassini spacecraft took one final round of images on its farewell tour of the Saturnian system.

NASA's Juno spacecraft took this image on 7 February from a spot more than 8000 kilometres above Jupiter's northern cloud tops

FOND FAREWELL The Cassini spacecraft took this last look at the Saturn system two days before plunging into the giant planet's atmosphere.

Two days before plunging into Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft took one last look around the planet it had orbited for more than 13 years.

The European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft took off from Kourou, French Guiana at 01:04 local time on 3 December, one day later than planned due to a technical issue with the Vega rocket that carried it into orbit.

A research team led by Timothy J. Stubbs of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center analyzed images from NASA's Polar spacecraft and the IMAGE spacecraft taken of both the northern (aurora borealis) and southern (aurora australis) lights.

The Galileo spacecraft took brief «snapshot» measurements of the magnetic field in 20 - minute intervals, but its observations were too brief to distinctly catch the cyclical rocking of the ocean's secondary magnetic field.

A time - lapse video from the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft takes us on a spin around the planet.

This image is one several images NASA's Dawn spacecraft took on approach to Ceres on Feb. 4, 2015 at a distance of about 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers) from the dwarf planet.

But Griffith and Lorenz agree that the final confirmation will have to wait until the Cassini spacecraft takes a close look at Titan in 2004.

The far side of the moon — sometimes referred to inaccurately as the «dark side» — was hidden from view until 1959, when Soviet Union's Luna 3 spacecraft took the first photos of the region.

A dynamical interplay between Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and its rings is captured in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on Sept. 20, 2009 and released Dec. 23, 2013.

Four years later, on October 10, 1976, the Viking 2 spacecraft took this picture of the Martian north polar cap.

The Voyager 1 spacecraft took the Earth's photo in 1990, titled «Pale Blue Dot,» which was captured from about 4 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away.

Located 3.4 billion miles away, the piano - sized spacecraft takes its time to beam signals back to Earth.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft took these images of dwarf planet Ceres.

Ahead of Juno's arrival, the Hubble Space Telescope took some stunning new images of bright, colorful auroras in Jupiter's northern hemisphere, and the spacecraft itself took images of the planet and its four brightest moons.

The Cassini spacecraft took a photo of two moons of Saturn, Tethys and Enceladus, beautifully aligned with each other.

On July 24, 2011, NASA's Dawn spacecraft took its first full - frame image of Vesta from about 3,200 miles, or 5,200 km (more).

On July 24, 2011, NASA's Dawn spacecraft took a detailed full - frame image of Vesta's south pole from about 1,700 miles (or 2,700 km) showing lots of craters, hills, and cliffs (more).

The Cassini spacecraft took one last, lingering look at Saturn and its splendid rings during the final leg of its journey.

On July 24, 2011, NASA's Dawn spacecraft took its first full - frame image of Vesta from about 3,200 miles (5,200 kilometers).

On July 18, 2011 NASA's Dawn spacecraft took an image of Vesta from about 6,500 miles (10,500 kilometers) away, where details as small as 1.2 miles (2.0 km) were visible.

Not exact matches

Then SABRE will flip to rocket power, taking the spacecraft to low Earth orbit and reaching speeds of Mach 25 — more than 19,000 miles per hour.

A combination of two photos (one of Earth and one of the moon) taken by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft, which journeyed to Mercury, Venus, and the moon after launching from a repurposed Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.

Despite astronomers» long - standing interest in it, however, it's mysterious: It's hundreds of millions of miles away, and only a handful of spacecraft have taken detailed images of it.

The Aerospace Corp., a nonprofit spaceflight research company, has released its newest prediction about the derelict spacecraft's doom: Tiangong - 1 should reenter Earth's atmosphere on April 1 at 8:18 p.m. ET, give or take two hours.

By the end of the next decade, neither spacecraft that take off and land from a runway like a conventional jet airliner nor reusable rockets will be outside the realm of possibility, and either could change the calculus of human space travel.

And when you're tasked with building and launching spacecraft millions or even billions of miles from Earth, on missions that take several years, long - term planning is pretty critical.

It was particularly interesting for me to note how often Cooper takes manual control of his spacecraft.

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.

«That makes it practical to refuel them in space and use them for other purposes, or simply use them as a shuttle to run down and grab a spacecraft that you might be so heavy you could only get it to [low - Earth orbit], and then take it literally anywhere else in the solar system,» Bruno added.

Moon Express, a Mountain View, California - based company that's aiming to send the first commercial robotic spacecraft to the moon next year, just took another step closer toward that lofty goal.

Boeing has revealed plans for its new CST - 100 Starliner spacecraft, which will take astronauts to and from the ISS.

A still image taken from a video rendering shows a nanocraft which could be used on Breakthrough Starshot, a $ 100 million research and engineering program aiming to demonstrate proof of concept for light - propelled spacecrafts.

Taking the bible and all of its lousy followers and packing them all into a spacecraft and then launching that spacecraft into the sun.

It took 10 years for the Rosetta spacecraft to reach a position near the comet so that its robot module, Philae, could then separate and make the seven - hour journey to the comet's surface.

Scientists wouldn't be able to send spacecraft to find out if there was life on the planets because in the best case scenario, it would take 39 years just to get there.

So far, the company has said that nearly 700 people have already booked flights (which cost $ 250,000 per seat) on the Virgin spacecraft, which Branson says will begin taking passengers later this year...

The Hubble spacecraft ventures into outter space, should of put the religious myths out of business by now and we have enough problems taking care of our own Nations.

In 1969, two years after King spoke at Riverside, humanity saw for the first time a color photograph of the earth, taken from space by the crew of the Apollo 11 spacecraft.

To put that in some context it took the Pioneer II spacecraft...

The spacecraft's first finale dive will take place on April 26 at 2 a.m. PDT (5 a.m. EDT).

The latest study uses a new calibration of data taken from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which flew aboard India's Chandrayaan - 1 spacecraft, to quantify how much water is present on a global scale.

Quickly analyzing many images of stationary objects taken from different angles as the spacecraft descends can create a 3 - D rendering of the ground.