Sentences with phrase «spacecraft uses»

The experiment with the three spacecraft uses a similar approach.

The European Space Agency announced that on July 27 it would shut off the equipment that the Rosetta spacecraft uses to listen in on communications from Philae.

While nearly all spacecraft use chemical rockets for launching, once the hardware is in space, propulsion is still needed to manouvere the craft for orbital station - keeping, supply missions and space exploration.

The NEA Scout solar sail will deploy from the spacecraft using four arms — called booms — to hold the sail, much like a sail on a ship.

In missions that use conventional propellant, spacecraft use a lot of fuel just to accelerate enough to get into orbit.

At 3:04 p.m. EDT (12:04 p.m. PDT) on September 11, the spacecraft used a gravitational nudge from Saturn's largest moon to set itself on a collision course with the giant planet's atmosphere on September 15.

Now, proponents of technology that seeks to propel spacecraft using the pressure exerted by photons from the sun on thin «solar sails» look set for another chance to get their idea off the ground.

As a protective measure, the spacecraft used its large, dish - shaped high - gain antenna (13 feet or 4 meters across) as a shield, orienting it in the direction of oncoming ring particles.

The Dawn spacecraft used an efficient ion engine to visit Vesta (left) and Ceres (right) in this artist's rendering.

Rene Heller of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and independent researcher Michael Hippke have an answer: we can slow a spacecraft using the stars themselves.

The Stardust spacecraft used giant tiles made out of aerogel and aluminium foil to collect the dust samples.

The Voyager spacecraft use 23 - watt radios.

Dawn Spacecraft used solar electric ion propulsion to first rendezvous and orbit Vesta and then travelled to Vesta.

SpaceShipOne also went on to serve as the basis for the spacecraft used by Richard Branson's spaceflight company Virgin Galactic.

Not exact matches

It starts with building up a revenue stream using SpaceX's current fleet of reusable Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft.

April 27 - A heat shield used in a NASA spacecraft designed to send a six - wheeled rover vehicle to Mars in 2020 suffered an «unexpected» fracture during a structural test this month, causing the space agency to build a replacement, the space agency said.

Some of our customers are conservative and they want to see BFR fly several times before they're comfortable launching in it, so what we plan to do is to build ahead, and have a stock of Falcon 9 and Dragon vehicles, so that customers can be comfortable if they want to use the old rocket, the old spacecraft, they can do that, we'll have a bunch in stock.

Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems at NASA, says the space agency already uses virtual reality technology in astronaut training and spacecraft simulations, so it was logical to extend that successful model to inspire and educate the next generation of space explorers and scientists.

«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.

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).

They operate and maintain equipment used in developing, testing, and producing new aircraft and spacecraft.

He said that in September of this year, he would reveal details about a new rocket and spacecraft beyond the current Falcon and Dragon series, which may be used for Mars missions.

«It conducted six successive rendezvous and dockings with spacecraft Shenzhou - 8, Shenzhou - 9, and Shenzhou - 10 and completed all assigned missions, making important contributions to China's manned space exploration activities,» said a memo that China submitted in May 2017 to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

The ATV was an expendable spacecraft that used to resupply the ISS.

So that's basically saying that the New Horizons spacecraft is powered, computationally speaking, by an aging processor that's been «radiation - hardened» for use in space.

«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.

Russia's spacecraft have been using automated systems for years, while NASA's spacecraft typically rely on the on - board astronauts to perform tasks related to the flight.

The spacecraft was the same one used in another simulation in November where it was able to land vertically on its target site.

The MX spacecraft architecture supports multiple applications, including delivery of scientific and commercial payloads to the Moon at low cost using a rideshare model, or charter science expeditions to distant worlds.

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.

Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, is a NASA lander mission to Mars — a spacecraft that will stay stationary on the red planet's surface.

It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon's orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth).

NASA used the Saturn V to send astronauts to the moon in the Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 spacecraft.

NASA has awarded a new grant worth $ 330,000 that supports the development of an autonomous spacecraft that could make decisions using Bitcoin - like technology without human intervention, news outlet Space.com reported...

The playful 5,000 SF library - inspired restaurant designed and built by Spacecraft Design Group, is dominated by a warm - neutral color palette using green, brown and beige earthy tones.

«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.

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.

«The spacecraft is now on a ballistic path, so that even if we were to forgo future small course adjustments using thrusters, we would still enter Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15 no matter what.»

In the spacecraft's first record - breaking accomplishment, reported June 16 in Science, the satellite used onboard lasers to beam down pairs of entangled particles, which have eerily linked properties, to two cities in China, where the particles were captured by telescopes (SN: 8/5/17, p. 14).

DEEP VIEW This movie was made using three days of data from NASA's STEREO spacecraft, which blocked out the sun (center) to see the outer corona better.

Juno team member William Kurth offers an exclusive tour of the instruments the spacecraft will use to study Jupiter's intense magnetic waves.Produced with support from Explore Scientific

Plasma propulsion is an important and efficient technology used to control spacecraft for Earth observation, communications and fundamental exploration of outer space.

After five years of searching, researchers using data from NASA's exoplanet - hunting Kepler spacecraft have discovered what look to be two of the most Earth - like worlds yet.

The robotic spacecraft would cruise in deep space towards a near - Earth asteroid, using a technology called advanced Solar Electric Propulsion.

The second mission extension provided dozens of flybys of the planet's icy moons, using the spacecraft's remaining rocket propellant along the way.

To enable the spacecraft to remain charge - neutral, a «neutralizer» is used to inject electrons to exactly balance the positive ion charge in the exhaust beam.

Scientists have found the first direct evidence for explosive releases of energy in Saturn's magnetic bubble using data from the Cassini spacecraft, a joint mission between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency.

«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.»

The semiconductor gallium arsenide (GaAs) is widely used, for instance in infrared remote controls, the high - frequency components of mobile phones and for converting electrical signals into light for fibre optical transmission, as well as in solar panels for deployment in spacecraft.