Sentences with phrase «with orbiters»

Dr. Stern: Let me start by saying that the normal progression in planetary exploration begins with flybys and proceeds with orbiters and more complex missions.

Northrop - Grumman explained that most of the delays and cost growth resulted from problems with the orbiters» sensors.

ISRO scientists caution, however, that the agency has not yet decided whether to go with a lander and rover, or play it safer with an orbiter carrying a more sophisticated set of scientific payloads than its predecessor.

The orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera captured the scene on June 27, 2013, with the orbiter rolled for an eastward - looking angle rather than straight downward.

We also must consider having sufficient line of sight with the orbiter to transmit to Earth.

By October, Stern expects that the team involved with the orbiter concept will have grown substantially, maybe with 100 scientists involved.

«The news is that the community is forming around the concept of going back to Pluto with an orbiter mission that would stay and study the planet for years, and do it in ways that we could not have in a simple flyby like New Horizons.

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They combined data from LEND with lunar topography and illumination maps derived from LRO's LOLA instrument (Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter), and temperature maps from LRO's Diviner instrument (Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment) to discover the greater hydrogen abundance and associated surface conditions on PFS.

With hordes of cheap orbiters filling the skies, researchers and start - ups are promising a powerful new perspective on earthly activities that range from global commerce to perfecting the art of mining landfills for recyclable materials.

NASA would also like to see orbiters that can return to Earth with Martian samples sent up by capsule from a planned rover.

On 18 May, an H - IIA rocket will carry IKAROS into space along with its main payload, Japan's new Venus orbiter (see «Venus orbiter to fly close to super-rotating wind»).

The team found that patterns in radar maps of layers in the ice cap made with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are consistent with flowing ice (Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009je003405).

Fisher and her colleagues found evidence of lunar frost by comparing temperature readings from LRO's Diviner instrument with brightness measurements from the spacecraft's Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or LOLA.

Two hours after its scheduled landing, Schiaparelli was scheduled to establish two - way communication with NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as the satellite passed over the planned touchdown site.

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The country's first lunar forays — orbiters launched in 2007 and 2010 — were more engineering demonstrations than scientific missions, but that changed with the first lander, Chang «e-3.

Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, released in October, show a pattern of cliffy scarps all across the lunar surface (as shown on the map above, with white dots indicating newly discovered scarps and black dots marking previously known ones).

After analysing the moon's wrinkled surface with data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Klimczak thinks that the moon shrank by at least 2 kilometres — previous estimates pegged the contraction at only about 200 metres.

With Benson he spent two years on a sequel of sorts, a lunar orbiter that used an ion engine, but the idea was passed over.

For about a minute, running on half a hair dryer's worth of power, the orbiter - cum - probe beamed direct measures of the planet's atmosphere, along with final probes of its gravity and magnetic field, to mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

The moon may carry material produced by life from Earth dating back to when plants first filled the planet's air with oxygen, according to study of data from a Japanese lunar orbiter.

In this view, one of several images of Melas Chasma released today, a computer has reconstructed 3D images taken with the European Mars Express orbiter's High - Resolution Stereo Camera.

The scarps directly expose bright glimpses into vast underground ice previously detected with spectrometers on NASA's Mars Odyssey (MRO) orbiter, with ground - penetrating radar instruments on MRO and on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, and with observations of fresh impact craters that uncover subsurface ice.

The orbiter will look not only down at the planet, but also across its limb, into the sun, which will make the absorption lines associated with methane stand out sharply.

Set for launch in 2009, the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter will become the hub of a network linking the current Mars Global Surveyor and the Mars Odyssey, along with Europe's Mars Express Orbiter, en route to Mars, and the upcoming Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The story begins with a 2008 agreement between NASA and ESA to share the costs of sending the Trace Gas Orbiter to Mars in a 2016 mission, followed by a European rover and a U.S. rover in 2018.

With astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen on board, the orbiter circled Earth 36 times before landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave desert.

Transmitting readings from all those spacecraft would be difficult with radio signals, so the Telecommunications Orbiter will send information home via beams of laser light.

With such capacities, the Mars orbiter is ripe for extra assignments such as helping to return precious samples from Mars to Earth or sauntering over and investigating Phobos and Deimos, the planet's two moons.

«Handling all the data coming from Mars is becoming a challenge for us,» says Barry Geldzahler, the program executive for space operations in NASA's Office of Space Science in Washington, D.C. «The Mars Odyssey is sending back unprecedented amounts of data, and with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we'll have another order of magnitude more.»

If equipped with radar, NeMO could also serve as a water - witching orbiter.

NASA is following up with the first comprehensive, up - close map of the moon, being created by the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

Originally an ESA - only lander mission, it was merged with NASA plans in 2009 and ended up as a two - craft mission: the first in 2016 will be an orbiter devoted to atmospheric sampling, followed by a large lander in 2018 which would have the capability to dig below the surface.

Meanwhile, the gutted shells of the shuttle orbiters will begin arriving at museums later this month — with the exception of Atlantis, which is to remain at Kennedy.

The orbiter then disintegrated, with the loss of all seven astronauts on board.

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed new software that compares images from the high - resolution imaging science experiment (HiRISE) camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with ground panoramas taken by the rovers to map features on the Martian surface.

Russia's renewed interest in the moon came after a Russian instrument hitched a ride in 2009 with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The shuttle is comprised of three components: the orbiter (the aeroplane - like crew - and cargo - carrying craft that most people think of as the shuttle); a large external tank (ET) that holds the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuel; and two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) packed with powdered aluminium and rubber fuel.

A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona, compares high - resolution images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with surface video taken by the Mars Rover Spirit, which is stuck in the Gusev crater.

«HiRISE gives us 0.3 - meter [one - foot] resolution on the ground, so we can combine those orbital images with ground images to identify rocks from the orbiter and the ground,» Ron Li, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and geodetic science, explained at a recent American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco.

As Curiosity carries on, researchers plan to analyze soil and sediment samples for organic material and to team up with Mars orbiters to search for methane patterns in the atmosphere.

Test satellites launched in April and November demonstrated that the company's engineers can accurately position the orbiters and capture a continuous stream of images with a resolution of three to five meters — fine enough to distinguish individual trees in a rainforest, but not sharp enough to identify a person tending his garden.

The daily image downloads from the Mars rover Opportunity — yes, it's still driving around the Red Planet after more than seven years — and the Saturn orbiter Cassini have been so warmly welcomed that missions with less open policies, such as NASA's current Mercury and Vesta orbiters, let alone the European Space Agency's Venus and Mars orbiters, are often subject to harsh criticism.

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Phobos - Grunt was also carrying China's first attempt at a Mars orbiter, along with an experiment run by the United States - based Planetary Society designed to study how a long journey through deep space affects micro-organisms.

Sanchez - Cano has investigated the interaction of the comet with energetic particles from the Sun, and the effects of the CME and cometary encounter on the martian atmosphere, using data from ESA's Mars Express mission, NASA's MAVEN and Mars Odyssey orbiters, and the Curiosity rover on the martian surface.

It would be stupid to go to Mars in 2003» — after all, America was now working on Pathfinder and a whole suite of follow - ups — «with just an orbiter.

Planetary scientist David Catling of the University of Washington in Seattle says that the Spirit data, in concert with other detections, such as that from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observed in the Nili Fossae region of Mars, present a strong case for carbonates on Mars.

It was launched with the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) in March and has already travelled just under half of its nearly 500 million km journey.

Its Ganymede orbiter must compete with an X-ray telescope and the gravitational wave detector LISA for approval through the agency's Cosmic Vision programme.