Sentences with phrase «spacecraft travel»

The two players (or the single player and an AI) will frantically move in the small interior of the spacecraft they travel in, shooting a gun at a cluster of enemies before re-orienting the shield to gain a moment of respite to then fire the superweapon and get a chance to use the drive to get away.

This new set of observations adds key information to the models needed to track how material moves and changes throughout space in the solar system — crucial to understanding the medium through which our spacecraft travel, as we venture farther and farther from home.

Though far past the planets, the mission continues to send back unprecedented observations of the space environment in the solar system, providing crucial information on the environment our spacecraft travel through as we explore farther and farther from home.

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.

In discussing the Phoenix mission, Smith indicates the spacecraft traveled 600 million kilometers to Mars and estimates «the light travel time to Earth» as «about 15 minutes.»

Between 1968 and 1972, nine Apollo spacecraft travelled to the moon, most famously Apollo 11, crewed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

High above Earth, two giant rings of energetic particles trapped by the planet's magnetic field create a dynamic and harsh environment that holds many mysteries — and can affect spacecraft traveling around Earth.

Remember, also the Pioneer spacecraft travelled to this region, so there are actually four distinct data sets [about the heliopause] and a fifth one by New Horizons spacecraft, but the latter carries much more sensitive space plasma instruments and the first dust detector to operate this far out, ever.

The New Horizons spacecraft traveled 4.8 billion kilometers (3 billion miles) over 9.5 years to reach Pluto.

The spacecraft traveled for nearly five years and 2.8 billion kilometers (1.74 million miles) through space.

What It's About: «A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers.

Not exact matches

It will be awarded to the first team that lands a commercial spacecraft on the moon, travels 500 meters across its surface and sends high - definition images and video back to Earth — all before the end of 2015.

Fuel that originates in space would conceivably be cheaper to use, and would extend the distance that spacecrafts could travel before returning to earth.

The 22 - lb suit is pretty similar to the space shuttle flight suit, though it's used to protect people who fly inside Russia's Soyuz spacecraft (which NASA pays an increasingly hefty sum to use for its own astronauts» travel to and from the space station).

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.

Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $ 100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

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

Instead, I could join Hawking on fantastical adventures to the edges of black holes and inside time - traveling spacecraft; shrink down to the infinitesimal scale of subatomic particles; and journey to the birth and eventual death of the universe.

«So they're perfect for a life support system aboard a spacecraft that's travelling to Mars, or a small colony that's on Mars,» Thirsk says.

The perfect spot to land giant chunks of spacecraft that are traveling more than 180 mph upon impact.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Billionaire Internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $ 100 million initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

Haiyin Capital also invested an undisclosed amount in XCOR Aerospace, a Mojave, Calif., commercial space - travel company that makes spacecraft and engines and has worked with NASA.

I received the information in my book from a group of Beings who travel to Earth in spacecraft who are evolve spiritually.

The Spacecraft Design Group team has created a space inspired by the luxury and pace of the transcontinental train travel.

The cloud is expanding at around 367,000 miles per hour, or 10 times as fast as the fastest man - made object in the universe, the New Horizons spacecraft, is traveling.

Some extremophile bacteria could survive the a crash - landing of a meteorite or spacecraft, helping them travel between worlds

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

The spacecraft have traveled farther than any other objects humanity has made, and they are still sending back data 34 years after their launch.

More wildly, future iterations of Sprites could become Breakthrough's hoped - for «StarChips» — spacecraft integrated with gossamer - thin, meter - wide «lightsails» that would travel at 20 percent the speed of light to Alpha Centauri or other nearby stars, propelled by high - powered pulses of photons from a gargantuan ground - based laser array.

One day, Cola hopes the devices will help accelerate space travel, producing power for electric thrusters that will boost spacecraft.

Hundreds of thousands of pieces of spacecraft, satellites and other equipment from human spaceflight zip around our planet, some travelling faster than the speed of sound.

In honor of the spacecraft MESSENGER, which ends its mission today with a planned collision with Mercury, here's a look back at the craft and its travels, as illustrated by Don Foley for the March 2011 issue of Scientific American.

The spacecraft had to travel 2.2 billion miles in getting to Saturn, using four roundabout gravity boosts involving flybys of Venus, Earth, and Jupiter.

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

His text begins at the centre of the Earth and travels to the most distant Galaxy, and his timescale stretches from the all - creating big bang to the present day, with its large powerful telescopes and orbiting spacecraft.

Data collected in space, like video transmission of a spacewalk, travel as radio signals from antennas on spacecraft to much larger antennas on Earth, some with diameters up to 230 feet.

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.

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.

Musk's architecture for this human Mars exploration effort does not employ cyclers, reusable spacecraft that would travel back and forth constantly between the Red Planet and Earth — at least not at first

For instance, it would be possible to send a spacecraft round such a naked singularity on a trajectory that takes it into the past, achieving genuine time travel.

In 1996, a NASA spacecraft named Polar appeared to travel directly through a tear in the cocoon.

Spacecraft in low - Earth orbit, such as the shuttle and the International Space Station, are protected from these particles by the Earth's magnetic field, but astronauts travelling farther afield would not benefit from this protection.

The popularity of the burgeoning commercial space travel industry may come down to economics: Companies will have to attract investors and build spacecraft that can easily, inexpensively and repeatedly be launched to and return from suborbital altitude.

Representative John Culberson (R — TX) wants agency to envision a spacecraft that can travel at 10 % light - speed

In addition to providing a backup to the traditional exercise devices aboard the station, Hybrid Training may be useful in keeping astronauts fit as they travel beyond low Earth orbit aboard smaller spacecraft.

Cowing says that the money pays for radio transmission equipment, rental time on radio telescope networks to track the spacecraft, and travel for team members.

He leaves his spacecraft — and again this is all based on the latest research — he jets off and tries to form a triangle; he brings a laser pointer with him, so he knows he is traveling in a straight line, and also some shaving cream and he realizes when he measures that...

Since its launch in 1997, the Cassini spacecraft has traveled more than 3.85 billion miles.

Between 1996 and 2003, for example, NASA had a program to explore what it calls Breakthrough Propulsion Physics to build spacecraft capable of traveling at speeds faster than light (299,790 kilometers per second).

Using four spacecraft will provide MMS with the multipoint measurements needed to determine whether reconnection events occur in an isolated locale, everywhere within a larger region at once, or by traveling across space.