Sentences with phrase «use space launch»

The Air Force gave SpaceX a license to use Space Launch Command Three West, a rundown Atlas launchpad on the base's west side.

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Shotwell told an audience at a satellite conference that the cost of using a previously launched SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to get to space could be as much as 30 percent less when compared to a new Falcon 9 flight.

Musk believes that if the Falcon Heavy can successfully get its very cool payload into space, it will no longer make sense to use other vehicles certified for heavy lift launches, like the Delta IV Heavy, Russia's Proton, or Europe's Ariane 5.

It was not until 1957, with the Soviet launch of Sputnik - 1 using an R - 7 rocket — a Soviet ICBM also capable of delivering thermonuclear warheads — that the US government began to consider the use of rockets for space exploration.

Ideally, the move would win over customers eager to launch their payloads into space using the Falcon Heavy system.

Now the rocket company, led by Elon Musk, is on the verge of passing another important landmark: launching a used one back into space.

The Falcon Heavy has enough thrust to launch payloads heavier than a car into space and could be used for future manned missions to the moon, and beyond.

The mission will launch using two major parts that have been to the space station before: the first - stage booster and the capsule.

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Last October, Nisha Garigarn, co-founder of Croissant, spoke with us about the back then newly launched app and how they (the founders) hoped to see Croissant change the way people find and use coworking spaces.

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The goal of Ixion (NanoRacks, alongside Space Systems / Loral (SSL) and United Launch Alliance (ULA)-RRB-, will be to create a commercialized space station that is available for use by the private space industry, as well as building and establishing manufacturing facilities beyond Earth's oSpace Systems / Loral (SSL) and United Launch Alliance (ULA)-RRB-, will be to create a commercialized space station that is available for use by the private space industry, as well as building and establishing manufacturing facilities beyond Earth's ospace station that is available for use by the private space industry, as well as building and establishing manufacturing facilities beyond Earth's ospace industry, as well as building and establishing manufacturing facilities beyond Earth's orbit.

NASA has been developing its Space Launch System for quite a while now, which is an extremely powerful rocket that could be used to send astronauts to the moon or perhaps even Mars.

NASA uses an even bigger and more expensive rocket, the Space Launch System.

Mobile launch platforms were used to transport the Saturn V rockets and space shuttles to the launch pad.

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.

Using similar techniques originally inspired by string theory, Strominger's group has computed the spectrum of gravitational waves emitted when compact objects like stars fall into giant black holes — predictions that could be verified by the future Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, planned to launch in two decades (or maybe sooner).

The same technique will be used by the European Space Agency's PLATO mission, expected to launch in 2024.

Astronomers hope to analyze the atmospheres of these and other super-Earths by examining the starlight filtering through them, perhaps using the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2013.

Much as NASA used simulators to test dogs and monkeys before launching them into space to gauge the physiological effects of g - forces and weightlessness, Bond sealed animals, and eventually human volunteers, in pressurized tanks to simulate a deep - sea habitat.

Deep Space 1, an engineering test mission launched by NASA in 1998, demonstrated that an ion engine could be used to move around the solar system.

A: Launching the cooperative offered a way for me to reclaim my skills and scientific expertise and put them to good use at a time when it looked as though academia may have no space for them.

Two detections of gravitational waves caused by collisions between supermassive black holes should be possible each year using space - based instruments such as the Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA) detector that is due to launch in 2034, the researchers space - based instruments such as the Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA) detector that is due to launch in 2034, the researchers Space Antenna (eLISA) detector that is due to launch in 2034, the researchers said.

Looking ahead, the team wants to use the NASA / ESA / CSA James Webb Space Telescope — scheduled to launch in 2019 — to capture an even more complete spectrum of the atmosphere of WASP - 39b.

Putting an Indian in space using an Indian rocket launched from Indian soil is [my] dream.»

But in the near future new large telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2018, will be able to detect the first explosions of stars in the Universe, and may be able to identify them using this method.

Barely a year after Inspiration Mars was announced, Tito went before Congress hat in hand, saying the flight wouldn't be possible without the use of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion space capsule, both still in developSpace Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion space capsule, both still in developspace capsule, both still in development.

Once the families were identified using the chemical DNA, their evolution was studied with the help of their ages and kinematical properties obtained from the space mission Hipparcos, the precursor of Gaia, the spacecraft orbiting Earth that was launched by the European Space Agency and is almost halfway through a 5 - year project to map thespace mission Hipparcos, the precursor of Gaia, the spacecraft orbiting Earth that was launched by the European Space Agency and is almost halfway through a 5 - year project to map theSpace Agency and is almost halfway through a 5 - year project to map the sky.

The MBC architecture would also use of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, currently in development, to get astronauts and components to Mars, the company has said.

The bill also directs that the mission launch no later than 2022, using the agency's still - under - development Space Launch System rocket, a heavy lift vehicle that could power the Europa mission to Jupiter in a launch no later than 2022, using the agency's still - under - development Space Launch System rocket, a heavy lift vehicle that could power the Europa mission to Jupiter in a Launch System rocket, a heavy lift vehicle that could power the Europa mission to Jupiter in a hurry.

ARM will use capabilities in development, including the new Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and high - power Solar Electric Propulsion.

Hundreds gathered last night to watch SpaceX attempt to launch and land an orbital rocket that had already been used — a first in space history.

The year's Chinese checklist also included the first use of a new Kennedy Space Center - like spaceport, the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island off China's southern coast.

The instrument, which launches to the International Space Station in December 2014, will explore new technologies that could also be used in future satellite missions.

On 23 June, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket using a booster that had already been to space, only the second time SpaceX has flown used boosters

The mission capped off a year that saw a series of noteworthy successes in China's blossoming space program, including the country's sixth manned space mission, the launch of a new space lab module and the inaugural use of a new spaceport.

NASA hopes to resume shuttle flights by May and to keep them going long enough to finish building the space station, using no more than 18 launches.

The pulsar was identified by analysing fluctuations in gamma - ray maps of the sky made using the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, which launched on 11 June.

Rocketeers led by Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Stephan R. McCandliss have launched the most sensitive instrument they've ever used to explore outer space, seeking clues to how galaxies grow with the birth of new stars, and how they stop growing.

With Russia's hunger for hard currency, Western launch companies feared that Russia might take a large slice of the market for space launches, using boosters built during the Cold War.

India and Russia both maintained that the engines would have been used only for space launches.

Twinkling stars will be used to produce three - dimensional maps of the ozone layer every three days when the European Space Agency launches ENVISAT in 1998.

They will deploy using the NanoRacks Smallsat Deployment Program to launch from the space station's Japanese Experiment Module airlock.

SpaceX has been flying cargo capsules to the International Space Station since 2014 and has pioneered the use of reusable rockets and capsules, but has yet to launch a crewed mission.

The advantage of using GNSS - R is that it uses the GNSS transmitters already in orbit, and the lightweight, low - power receivers can be launched into space relatively cost - effectively.

The blue ovals (pictured above left) are residue from the main engines of the space shuttle launch vehicle, which used liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (pictured below).

Genetically modified bacteria are scheduled to launch on a satellite in 2017 to test whether we can use them to make food for long space missions

Although all three designs use a traditional vertical launch rocket to get their vehicles into space, Sierra's competitors are building capsules that are designed to land back on Earth using either parachutes and airbags (in the case of Boeing's CST - 100) or thrusters (SpaceX's Dragon capsule).

Second, to find a planet like Earth, and especially to see it directly rather than just detecting it by the wobble caused by its gravitational pull on its sun, the array of telescopes used to create the interferometer would have to be launched into space to get them above our planet's murky atmosphere.