Sentences with phrase «year mission around»

The Galileo spacecraft, near the end of its 7 - year mission around Jupiter, witnessed a few of these outbursts but can no longer help.

But he admits that the craft, designed for a two - year mission around Venus, could face various other, as yet unknown, problems.

Not exact matches

Late in July at its new headquarters in San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood, Lyft served pink martinis and prosciutto to around 40 reporters, public relations specialists, driver partners, and Lyft staff at an early - evening happy hour celebrating the ride - hailing startup's four - year anniversary.

Derivatives trading is the culmination of a wild year for bitcoin, which captured imaginations and investment around the world, propelled by its stratospheric gains, and its anti-establishment mission as a currency without the backing of a government or a central bank, and a payment system without a reliance on banks.

Such is the mission of eight - year - old Startup Genome, composed of a group of researchers and entrepreneurs who, every year, interview thousands of founders and investors around the world to get a better handle on what's changing in the regions where they operate, and what remains stubbornly the same.

The number of volunteers supporting the mission and ministry of cathedrals has also risen over the last ten years, currently standing at around 15,200.

It took a two - year journey around the world for Susan Sparks to identify her life's mission - finding the funny in religion.

It is time to break the bonds that are twisted around us, pick up our holy weapons, and struggle on with the mission Jesus gave us, which we abandoned so many years ago.

You see, right around this time every year I embark on a little soul searching mission in an attempt to re-focus and regain my creative muse.

Stopping by to pick up a book, I look around the quiet office, I close my eyes and reflect on the biggest youth and high school sports stories of the year and wonder if we as a nation are any closer to our MomsTEAM mission of making sports safer, saner, less stressful and more inclusive or if we continue to spin wildly out of control in the crazy vortex that is youth sports in the 21st century.

Most people do not realise that the EU has sent soldiers, policemen, monitors, judges, and prosecutors on 30 missions around the globe during the last ten years.

WASHINGTON — An Air National Guard unit based in Niagara Falls will soon be directing unmanned drones on missions around the globe, and that unit also may get to keep at least some of the four C - 130 cargo planes that the Air Force was threatening to take away less than a year ago.

An e-blast advertising the event told Manhattan GOP subscribers, «We need to unite this year in the mission of making Bill de Blasio a one term Mayor... We plan to endorse a candidate around April 1 and we hope to prevent a primary by working with the other Republican county chairs in that effort.»

Shortly after 7:30 am Eastern time this morning, a seven - year space voyage at last reached its final destination: NASA's Dawn mission entered orbit around Ceres, a small, icy world orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.

If the eXTP mission passes a final review next year, it would launch around 2025.

Around the time that TESS compiles a list of nearby exoplanets at the end of its two - year baseline mission, astronomers may have a powerful new eye in the sky to examine the newfound worlds in detail.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

After a two - year orbital tour around comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft — carrying Southwest Research Institute's Alice ultraviolet spectrograph — will end its mission this week on Sept. 30.

Out of the 12 submitted New Frontiers proposals, nearly half targeted Saturn or its moons, hoping to capitalize on the afterglow of the Cassini mission, which ended in a fiery plunge into Saturn's atmosphere in September after a wildly successful 13 years around the ringed planet.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar System.

Next summer, NASA's Juno spacecraft is scheduled to enter into an orbit around Jupiter, kicking off a one - year mission to map and explore Jupiter's atmosphere.

Habbal has studied 14 eclipses around the world over 22 years, and her mission, along with the Solar Wind Sherpas, is to create a temperature map of the sun's corona in order to figure out why it is so hot.

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.

A 27 - year - old Charles Darwin, not yet bearded, fresh from chundering his way around the planet in the poop cabin of the HMS Beagle, disembarked in Falmouth, England, on a mission to cement his growing reputation as a Grand Fromage of Science.

The Cassini - Huygens mission blasted off 10 years ago this week, with the goal of putting a spacecraft in orbit around Saturn.

Battling disease - bearing insects, bureaucratic snafus, and altitude sickness, the scientists took eight years to complete their mission, which did indeed vindicate the Newtonian view that Earth was broad around the middle.

The mood in the Mission Operations Center at APL was both somber and celebratory as team members watched MESSENGER's telemetry drop out for the last time, after more than four years and 4,105 orbits around Mercury.

With Cassini's mission lasting 13 years, this meant that the spacecraft observed almost half of Saturn's seasonal change as the planet went around its orbit.

NASA missions will unravel the mysteries of Mars, Jupiter, Europa and worlds around other suns in the coming years.»

Cassini took nearly a half - million images during its mission, which included more than 13 years in orbit around Saturn, a tour that repeatedly took the probe by the moons Titan and Enceladus, two places scientists are eager to send another spacecraft in the search for microbial life.

On November 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI mission flew at a close distance of around 435 miles (or 700 kilometers) by Comet Hartley 2, which was then an active short - period comet with jets of gas and dust coming off its sun - lit end and which completes an orbit in less than 6.5 years.

We all knew this day was coming: 13 years since it entered orbit around Saturn, NASA's Cassini mission has begun final preparations for its grand finale — a spectacular series of dives which will culminate with the probe making one...

The Kepler Mission has detected a rocky super-Earth in a torch orbit around an old star around 560 years away (more).

Its mission is intended to last a nominal five hundred Earth days, or around two Venusian years.

«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.

New high - resolution observations of Vesta by the DAWN mission reveal that the creatr is part of an even larger impact basin that was created by two massive overlapping impacts roughly around one and two billion years ago, which scooped out around one percent of the asteroid's estimated volume and blasted it into space (more from NASA's DAWN Mission and NEO Program; 1997 NASA / Hubble news release; Cornell University; Thomas et al, 1997; Kelley et al, 2003; and Jerry Coffrey, Universe Today, June 15 2009; and Russell et al, 2012; Jaumann et al, 2012; Marchi et al, 2012; and Schenk et al,mission reveal that the creatr is part of an even larger impact basin that was created by two massive overlapping impacts roughly around one and two billion years ago, which scooped out around one percent of the asteroid's estimated volume and blasted it into space (more from NASA's DAWN Mission and NEO Program; 1997 NASA / Hubble news release; Cornell University; Thomas et al, 1997; Kelley et al, 2003; and Jerry Coffrey, Universe Today, June 15 2009; and Russell et al, 2012; Jaumann et al, 2012; Marchi et al, 2012; and Schenk et al,Mission and NEO Program; 1997 NASA / Hubble news release; Cornell University; Thomas et al, 1997; Kelley et al, 2003; and Jerry Coffrey, Universe Today, June 15 2009; and Russell et al, 2012; Jaumann et al, 2012; Marchi et al, 2012; and Schenk et al, 2012).

If everything goes according to plan, the observatory will conduct a two - year mission to survey more than 85 percent of the sky, searching for exoplanets around bright stars in the 300 - light - year distance range.

Standing for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS is a NASA mission to look for planets around bright stars less than 300 light years from Earth.

This is a year to connect with your tribe and join forces with an eclectic group of forward - thinking people around a shared mission.

Having practiced oncology in an academic environment for many years, Hannah realized that her passion for helping patients reduce their fear and anxiety around cancer treatment was her mission.

Over those years it has been my personal mission to help people reclaim their health and our unique approach to healing has helped thousands of people from around the world heal and transform.

USA, Canada, UK, Aus, NZ About Blog Embassy English has 40 years» experience of providing students with quality English language courses and great experiences in amazing locations around the world.Our Mission is to help students create experiences and gather knowledge that will help them live life as a global citizen!

Following the mission we laid over a year ago we are getting closer each day to our long awaited transition to offering a totally free fitness dating site for singles around the world!

The plot of the follow - up for GameCube revolved around Mario, who embarked on a mission to collect the seven Crystal Stars in order to open the mysterious «Thousand - Year Door.»

Make reading visible: Students don't always see the reading that's going on all around them, so I've made it my mission this year to make reading more immediately visible.

Utilizing his twenty plus years of working closely with students as a building leader, Dr. Dillon can work with student groups to build mission, vision, and common language around the needed changes in a school or district.

The school's mission statement «Soaring to achievement together through the lens of creative arts» will be brought to life in a year - long, school wide exploration of other cultures around the globe.

The school creates excitement around college preparation by displaying college pennants and having students develop their own pennant each year to show their college of choice, dream career, and personal mission statement.

Yet there's some worrisome evidence of mission creep in the new machine, which hopefully won't just become a creepy mission when new owner Tata gets around to replacing it one of these years.

It actually would be pretty easy to build a production version of the Mission E Cross Turismo, since it shares its platform with the Mission E. Sources claim that a production version could start rolling off the production line around 2021 — two years after the production version of the Mission E arrives.