Sentences with phrase «with space debris»

Sandra Bullock is an astronaut who manages to survive an accident in which her space shuttle collides with space debris.

A ground - based telescope that can scan the skies faster than any other of its size could help to protect satellites from collisions with space debris and each other.

THE risk to spacecraft from a collision with space debris could be reduced by equipping launchers with a gossamer - thin «sail».

«At the moment, there is no evidence of a collision with space debris,» said Saku Tsuneta, director general of JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Sagamihara near Tokyo.

It is one of many possible solutions that have been proposed to deal with space debris (see «Catch»em, drag»em, blast»em «-RRB-.

This substance may originally have been ejected from the small, dark outer moons of Saturn during impacts with space debris.

Not exact matches

The US is responsible for the most space junk with 3,990 pieces of debris as of March 28, 2018.

From donating desperately - needed supplies and funds, to pitching in with hands - on debris clean - up, to offering up space as emergency shelter and beyond, businesses heeded the call to help thousands of individuals displaced and otherwise affected by the devastating massive recent hurricanes and the floods they precipitated.

Over time the constant bombardment of charged particles from the sun, along with space dust, will darken the debris.

Professor Vasile is leading the Stardust Network, an international, EU - funded programme comprising researchers and leaders from 20 different institutions, with the purpose of advancing research into the manipulation of asteroids and space debris, and the aim of protecting the planet and space assets from catastrophic impacts.

«He was well known for filling a bench / desk / glasshouse space with debris from one experiment and then moving on to another... clear area for the next.

Earth is constantly being pelted with debris from outer space.

«Studying the formation and evolution of jets in metals and, more generally, how materials at extreme conditions respond using X-ray phase contrast imaging is relevant to such things as meteorite impacts, the performance of explosives and detonators, understanding crack nucleation and propagation in materials, and the development of new materials with tailored properties whose applications include automotive and airplane components, lighter and more impact - resistant armor, and debris shields in space, to name a few.»

Engineers tested how well a prototype shield for spacecraft would stand up to space debris by shooting it with a solid aluminum pellet.

The prevailing view has been that planets mostly accumulate water only long after they form: If a young planet with water trapped in its rocks collides with another heavenly body or even large debris — common occurrences in the cosmos — the impact would, presumably, drive accumulated water into space, leaving many planets bone - dry.

However, officials with the Air Force's Joint Functional Component Command (JFCC) at the Joint Space Operations Center, which is monitoring the spacecraft, were unsure if the debris was from Progress 59 itself or the craft's upper - stage rocket body.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

Initially the crash left behind some 1,500 pieces of wreckage bigger than four inches in diameter, along with hundreds of thousands of smaller fragments, estimates Nicholas Johnson, chief scientist of the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Several ribbons in full - scale operation will open the heavens for solar satellites that can beam power back to Earth, large - scale zero - gravity manufacturing, space tourism, better global environmental monitoring, orbiting observatories, removal of man - made debris from Earth orbit, asteroid mining, and Mars - colonizing ships filled with hundreds of people.

Encouragingly, the European Space Agency has signed a contract with Spanish company Indra Espacio to develop a radar system to track space deSpace Agency has signed a contract with Spanish company Indra Espacio to develop a radar system to track space despace debris.

Space around Earth is littered with numerous human - made objects that could potentially collide with operating spacecraft and each other (creating more debris).

Together with Berin Szoka of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think - tank also based in Washington DC, Dunstan has created the outlines of an economic model that would see private industry taking responsibility for removing space debris.

A survey using the sharp view of the Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a similar diversity in the debris systems that coincide with the formation of exoplanets.

Researchers looked at 130 single - star systems that the Spitzer Space Telescope had determined to have debris disks around them and compared them to 277 stellar systems that appeared not to have debris disks, making this the largest study to observe stars with debris disks.

cells with high levels of membranous accumulations degenerate releasing cellular debris into the intercellular space and the lumen of the tubules

The European Space Agency's Optical Ground Station on the volcanic island of Tenerife., Spain, is used for quantum communication and teleportation experiments, as well as for laser communication with satellites, space debris tracking and asteroid searSpace Agency's Optical Ground Station on the volcanic island of Tenerife., Spain, is used for quantum communication and teleportation experiments, as well as for laser communication with satellites, space debris tracking and asteroid searspace debris tracking and asteroid searches.

The photodetector array camera and spectrometer (PACS) aboard the Herschel Space Observatory allows imaging observations in the far infrared at unprecedented resolution, i.e. at better than 6» to 12» over the wavelength range of 60 -LCB- \ mu -RCB- m to 210 -LCB- \ mu -RCB- m. Together with the results from ground - based observations, these spatially resolved data can be modelled to determine the nature of the debris and its evolution more reliably than would be possible from unresolved data alone.

The combination of our new data with the published 1.1 mi... ▽ More We present Hubble Space Telescope optical coronagraphic polarization imaging observations of the dusty debris disk HD 61005.

When an experimental gene - splicing lab aboard a secretive Energyne space station explosively disintegrates, the debris crashes to earth in the San Diego wildlife sanctuary, along with a sample of the company's powerful pathogen.

A catastrophic explosion on the Moon has filled near - Earth space with billions of tons of rocky debris.

► An astronaut removes six large canisters of genetic research materials from a drifting space station with lights flashing and sirens blaring; a giant spiny rat chases her and pounds on the escape hatch window with paws and tentacles, cracking it (we can not see its face) as the escape pod launches and we see the space station explode into fireballs that fill the screen and soon after we see the cracked pod hatch window break apart and the pod explodes into chunks of flaming debris (the astronaut is certainly dead although we do not see her after the explosion).

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney play astronauts — a newbie scientist and a veteran cowboy — who dodge space debris and the usual narrative expectations while coping with a highly compressed series of crises 372 miles above the...

The usual space battles take a backseat to scenes of controlled chaos (like a shootout between the crew, with the aid of a temporary ally, and a squad of Klingons) and coordinated feats of precision (like a truly thrilling sequence in which Kirk and Harrison dash through debris in the vacuum of space from one ship to another, with the complications mounting at every turn).

WHAT: When their space shuttle is destroyed by hurtling debris from a damaged Russian satellite, U.S. astronauts Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) are left adrift in space with limited oxygen and a minimal chance of survival.

Flotilla — 400msp A hefty price tag for a game that deserves it, a turn based strategy game with a true 3D battle field use strategy flanking and space debris to get the upper hand on enemies for ambushes and cover, a game where the battle field expands above and below your ships allowing so many options, plus alot of comic characters to meet, another game that definitely justifys its hefty price tag with gameplay that you'd expect on a full arcade title.

I spent the demo throwing Stormtroopers out windows into space, bringing TIE Fighters crashing down with extra debris, throwing Stromtroopers one by one into an oncoming AT - ST, using Force lightning to stun my enemies, then cut through them with my lightsaber.

Well you're in luck because there exists a game Called Adrift (Adr1ft) where you are literally drifting in space with nothing but debris and solitude surrounding you.

With that in mind, we've dug through the debris and ranked 25 of the best interactive takes on the Star Wars universe, whether you want to relive famous space battles or build your own Jedi legend.

Some general balancing has been done, most importantly, every player now starts with 5000 BC, to make the early game more challenging, and exploration more rewarding, with valuable space debris having a bigger impact than before.

The first goal given to the player is to take his starting asteroid and collide with enough space debris in order to gain enough mass.

Exhibition: Erika Vogt, «Stranger Debris Roll Roll Roll,» at the New Museum For her first solo museum presentation, Los Angeles - based installation artist Erika Vogt will fill the lobby gallery with «a dense arrangement of cast plaster and found objects that float in the gallery space like a field of debris.&Debris Roll Roll Roll,» at the New Museum For her first solo museum presentation, Los Angeles - based installation artist Erika Vogt will fill the lobby gallery with «a dense arrangement of cast plaster and found objects that float in the gallery space like a field of debris.&debris.»

Two weeks ago, Schad grappled with artist Piero Golia's exhibition at Gagosian's Beverly Hills space, posting a review of the artist's concrete cakes and debris - covered paintings, and questioning whether the art lived up to the artist's ideas.

A homage to the bizarre attraction of kitsch, Detroit Debris establishes a highly sculptural space, with parts of hardly recognizable objects jutting out from the main core of the sculpture.

Debris from the short - lived renovation work reaches the fifth storey and fills the space where architects had planned to build an indoor ski slope, blocking access to the bottom floors that originally offered self - sufficient living with services such as a chemist, a shopping centre and an art gallery.

Almost the entire front space of this two - room gallery was filled to the rafters with debris — wooden crates, old fencing, plywood.

You walk in off the pavement and into an unexpected multi-media experience that cleverly takes over the main exhibition space, utilizing all the nooks and crannies of the high ceiling deconsecrated Church with 3D film, music and a cleverly crafted domestic interior filled with discarded bottles and the debris of everyday life, like a version of Tracey Emin's Bed for the 2000s.

Coexisting with these charms are pieces of rural debris that tumble into the gallery space, creating in a distinctly American cacophony.

Earlier, she convinced the British Army to blow up a garden shed and organized the debris around a light bulb with an awe - inspiring sense of space, movement, shadow, and positive / negative form with Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991).

He transfers rocks and debris from these places into geometric settings, like cartographic landscapes in the exhibition space and provides geological information and photographic documentation to go with them.

That is distressing, disaster experts say, because near - earth objects this size are presumed to be much more common than larger space rocks, and they are too small to be easily spotted long in advance with the telescopes used to track such debris.