Sentences with phrase «which spacecraft»

This Project aims to determine through numerical simulation the effects which spacecraft launched in Norway have on the peripheral ionospheric plasma environment in the observed region.

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.

The prime mission plan includes 40 to 45 flybys, during which the spacecraft would image the moon's icy surface at high resolution and investigate its composition and the structure of its interior and icy shell.

In fact, one criterion for deciding which design to take to the demonstration stage will be which spacecraft appears to be most commercially attractive.

The overload of activity prompted the spacecraft to temporarily put itself into safe mode, in which the spacecraft points its antenna toward Earth and awaits further instructions.

You briefly describe a technique in which spacecraft could hitchhike to the far reaches of the solar system on the back of a comet (14 June, p 6).

We extract science by carefully modeling all the ways in which the spacecraft and the instruments themselves could have caused the apparent brightness of a planetary system to change over time... We are pretty sure we can trust our models of Spitzer down to about a part in 10,000; we are in uncharted territory as far as detector behavior is concerned.»

At the same time, the Gateway would also serve as an interplanetary bus stop of sorts; a convenient point from which spacecraft bound for Mars could launch and to which they could return.

Not exact matches

Bezos also has interests outside of Amazon, including investments in his privately owned space company Blue Origin, which successfully launched its first spacecraft in 2015, and The Washington Post, the newspaper he bought in 2013.

Mars has a thin atmosphere, which means a spacecraft wouldn't naturally slow down much upon approaching its surface.

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.

To rendezvous with comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko in 2007 — which it will crash into on September 30, 2016 — the Rosetta spacecraft needed a speed boost with the help of Earth's gravity.

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).

When Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of electric - car company Tesla, founded SpaceX back in 2002, he probably didn't envision that his company, which designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, would be responsible for delivering better coffee to astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).

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.

The images were captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft, which is intended to help researchers learn about Jupiter's origins, atmosphere, and other mysteries.

He continued: «And then we'll have a next - generation rocket and spacecraft beyond the Falcon - Dragon series, and I'm hoping to describe that architecture later this year at the International Astronautical Congress [in Guadalajara, Mexico, September 26 to 30] which is the big international space event of the year.»

That would appeal to NASA, which is gearing up to launch several planet - and moon - bound spacecraft in the coming years.

The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in the solar system.

NW of Tahiti - it managed to miss the «spacecraft graveyard» which is further south!

Other winners: Boeing, which picked up $ 18 million for its own seven - person space capsule, and the United Launch Alliance, a Boeing - Lockheed Martin joint project, which received $ 6.7 million to develop a way to monitor the health of unmanned rockets that could be recycled to launch manned spacecraft.

Nicknamed «the planet hunter,» the $ 337 million TESS is a follow - up to NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which spent the last eight years searching the skies for as many planets outside our solar system as possible.

Everything the spacecraft has observed and catalogued so far will eventually help build a detailed 3D map of our galaxy, which will give us a new understanding of its structure and evolution.

After six successful missions to Tiangong - 1 — three of which were crewed — China abandoned the spacecraft in June 2013.

Musk added that with the ability to carry satellites or interplanetary spacecraft weighing over 53 metric tons or 117,000 pounds to orbit, Falcon Heavy will have more than twice the performance of the Delta IV Heavy, the next most powerful vehicle, which is operated by United Launch Alliance, a Boeing - Lockheed Martin joint venture.

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.

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).

In 2008, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft won the NASA contract to provide a commercial replacement for the cargo transport function of the Space Shuttle, which retired in 2011.

After almost 11 years in space and four years of orbiting Mercury, NASA's Messenger spacecraft (which stands for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) has run out of fuel...

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...

Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into point perspective, a view similar to that which one would see from a spacecraft.

And tilting the sail steers the spacecraft by changing the angle at which sunlight reflects off it, Johnson explains.

The types of molecules became less well - mixed as the spacecraft looked deeper into Saturn's atmosphere, which is what would happen if the particles came from the rings and sank at different speeds.

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.

Astronomers this month announced a similar discovery for an even larger gas giant, reporting that the Juno spacecraft, which is orbiting Jupiter, had found that the planet's rotating cloud belts reach roughly 3,000 kilometers below the top of the atmosphere.

The spacecraft found a lot of water, which wasn't surprising — water makes up about 90 percent of the rings.

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).

But Jeffrey Sheehy, chief engineer of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C., and Johnson agree that the technology could potentially pave the way for interstellar missions, in which powerful lasers could accelerate sail spacecraft to a tenth the speed of light or faster.

The most detailed measurements currently available of atmospheric methane concentrations come from a sensor aboard the European Space Agency's Sentinel - 5P spacecraft, which launched in October 2017 (ref.

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.

But freshly analyzed images from NASA's STEREO spacecraft, which blocks out the sun (center) to bring the corona into view, shows unexpected texture.

The Venus Express spacecraft, which orbited Venus from 2006 until earlier this year, detected flashes of infrared light coming from the planet's surface.

The office, which has always been limited by a small budget and staff, continues to gauge a spacecraft's «bioburden» based on a classic measure — the number of cultivable microbial spores it carries.

«Perhaps more significantly, low - energy pathways lead away from L1 and L2, which can be exploited to send spacecraft to Jupiter, Mars, asteroids, for less fuel.

This will allow future crewed spacecraft to dock automatically and is designed to work with SpaceX's Dragon V2 and Boeing's Starliner capsule, both of which are expected to make their first trips to the ISS in the next couple of years.

Atom interferometers might be used in spacecraft as inertial navigation systems that would be more accurate than current devices, which rely on laser gyroscopes.

The Rosetta spacecraft, which ended its 26 - month visit to the comet in September (SN...

The class includes six men and three women who have been training to fly on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft and NASA's new deep space capsule, which is expected to be used for the trip to an asteroid called for by President Barack Obama.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting since 6 March, took the sharpest images yet of the cratered surface, from a distance of 13,600 kilometres.