Sentences with phrase «spacecraft with»

This game is an endless runner, of sorts, that puts you into a spacecraft with enemies hot on your tail.
The word he uses is technocrat, and one example of his dangerously brilliant and impractical ideas was to fuel early spacecraft with nuclear, before they knew about the consequences of fallout.
The Aqua satellite is a large spacecraft with sensors designed to follow the cycle of the earth's water in its many forms to determine whether it is being affected by climate change.
The missions in Shadow Fall are varied and interesting, specifically the various destinations that you visit like a severely damaged spacecraft with zero gravity.
It talks about Constellations and ends with a dramatic entrance from a spacecraft with a «mini» Neil Armstrong emerging and discuss about the 1st landing on the moon.
Alien initially presents a mundane commercial spacecraft with crew members like Yaphet Kotto bitching and moaning about wages and working conditions.
«One key thing about Rosetta is the matching of the orbit of the spacecraft with that of the comet.
A small but talented UK team is building Twinkle, a small spacecraft with a big mission — exploring the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars.
u «Such events were detected, for example, at the crossing points of the spacecraft with the orbit of the martian moon Phobos.»
Bertotti, B., Comoretto, G. & Iess, L. Doppler tracking of spacecraft with multifrequency links.
«Oftentimes you design a spacecraft with everything you want to do but inevitably, at some point, something won't work.
«Such events were detected, for example, at the crossing points of the spacecraft with the orbit of the martian moon Phobos.»
Metallic hydrogen propellant in pulse propulsion systems could give us spacecraft with an Isp of over 1,700.
The seven Descent Imaging Cameras will provide the spacecraft with four views including look - up cameras from the descent stage which will record images and video of a parachute deploying and inflating on another planet for the first time.
LeoStella is developing a Seattle - based facility to manufacture the low - cost, high - performance BlackSky satellites and is tasked with building the next 20 spacecraft with the Comet propulsion technology between now and 2020.
The European Space Agency's unprecedented Rosetta mission is over, so here and in the above video, we wanted to highlight all it uncovered about comet 67P before ESA scientists intentionally collided the spacecraft with its icy subject this morning.
ESA plans to pack the solar - powered spacecraft with a suite of instruments, which will collect high - resolution pictures as well as data on the moons» chemical compositions, magnetic environments, and surface features.
Alcubierre's design called for an American football - shaped spacecraft with a flat ring attached to the ship.
When the researchers compared the X-ray absorption data gathered by the spacecraft with computer models of distribution of normal matter across the Milky Way, they discovered that their observations couldn't be explained by a smooth, uniform distribution of gas.
Based on early plans, Europa Clipper will be a larger spacecraft with two 29 - foot solar panels and a main body the size of a school bus.
NASA developed the Apollo spacecraft with the help of companies like Boeing, North American Rockwell, McDonnell Douglas, IBM and Grumman.
He'll board a Soyuz spacecraft with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko, and the two will spend 12 months at the ISS.
The spacecraft is currently flying in «late cruise mode,» which positions the spacecraft with the fixed high gain antenna pointing directly at Earth as MAVEN gets farther from our home planet.
Shenzhou 10 also tested the docking capabilities of the spacecraft with a module that's a precursor to China's own full - size space station.
The European Space Agency readies Planck and Herschel, astronomical spacecraft with distinct but equally lofty goals
Scientists comparing radar images from the Cassini spacecraft with geophysical models say that the three ridges in this image, released yesterday, were created when Titan's gradual cooling after its formation caused partial freezing of the moon's subsurface ocean of water and ammonia.
It was going so slowly that Vesta was able to gently reach out and tenderly take hold of the spacecraft with its gravity and draw it into orbit.
WHETHER it's showering spacecraft with lethal radiation, filling the sky with ghostly light, or causing electrical surges that black - out entire cities, space weather is a force to be reckoned with.
They now are critical for maintaining the space station and docking other spacecraft with the orbiting laboratory.
Surround the entire Mars spacecraft with an artificial electromagnetic field — an expensive solution that Cucinotta called «pie in the sky» and one that will not stop all cosmic rays.
I did some work in 2011 and 2012 as part of the 100 Year Starship symposium and discovered ways to reduce the energy requirements by many orders of magnitude, so for a 10 - metre diameter spacecraft with a velocity of 10 times light speed, I can reduce the negative energy needed.
«Even just on a sounding rocket experiment looking at the Sun for about six minutes, we had much better sensitivity than a spacecraft with indirect imaging.»
These selfies are taken by a camera on board Rosetta's Philae lander craft, but they are a bit of a cheat, combining a short exposure picture of the spacecraft with a long exposure of the comet.
Space agencies don't want to invest in a big spacecraft with a whole new technology with large structures and deployable devices without it being proven.
Imagine a phone you could hurl against the ground and have bounce back to you intact, or a spacecraft with a strong but springy surface that easily deflects debris.
Although the rocket provided the spacecraft with the all the momentum required to propel it forward to Bennu, OSIRIS - REx needed an extra boost from the Earth's gravity to change its orbital plane.
Astronauts on board the station are set to grab the spacecraft with the station's robotic arm at about 7 a.m. EDT.
These are European spacecraft with U.S. nanosatellite payloads launching on an Indian booster — you can't get much more international than that.»
An ocean might lurk under the ice of Saturn's moon Dione, seen in this 2015 image from the Cassini spacecraft with Saturn and its rings in the background.
According to The Washington Post's report, Amazon aims to develop a lunar spacecraft with a lander that would dock near the Shackleton Crater, located at the moon's south pole, a place with water and sunlight.
In a bold but scientifically sound proposal, a NASA - founded research has laid out a roadmap toward spacecrafts with relativistic speeds for the exploration of nearby stars.
Destroying a flock of thousands and thousands of spacecrafts with a rock song?

Not exact matches

CNBC's Morgan Brennan talks exclusively with ULA's Tory Bruno about competition, new spacecraft, rocket engines and launch prices.
It starts with building up a revenue stream using SpaceX's current fleet of reusable Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft.
As much as we learned from the first spacecraft to reach Saturn, nothing prepared us for what we would find with Cassini.
These vary from micron - sized grains (a millimeter is equal to 1,000 microns) to mansion - sized chunks — and they could all collide with the spacecraft.
«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.
And when his Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down a few hours later, the first American to orbit the Earth reminded us that with courage and a spirit of discovery there's no limit to the heights we can reach together.
That smaller module would then rendezvous with the main spacecraft, the Command / Service Module, in lunar orbit and the crew would return home.
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