Sentences with phrase «year mission near»

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In January of this year, Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. announced its intention to mine gravel and placer gold from 13 claims covering nearly 1000 hectares in the Chehalis River watershed near Mission.

Police detectives attached to the Delta State Police Command, Asaba on Wednesday arrested the General Overseer «Gospel Christ Mission in OKpanam Community, near Azube for allegedly raping a seven - year - old daughter of his member.

Four years ago, as GRAIL's two spacecraft neared the end of a 1 - year orbital mission with a planned crash into the lunar surface, they measured Orientale from a scant altitude of 2 kilometers.

As the CEO and chief asteroid miner of Planetary Resources, Inc. in Redmond, Washington, the 42 - year - old aerospace engineer is looking to identify how the materials in near - Earth asteroids — namely metals and water — can be used to one day facilitate long - haul space missions and travel, and even save the Earth's resources from being overused.

The space telescope, which was launched in March and began its science mission in May, will spend more than three years observing a patch of 100,000 stars near the northern constellations Cygnus and Lyra.

The Near - Earth Object Program Office reports that, with current asteroid surveys already in place, about two potential candidates suitable for the asteroid redirect mission are discovered every year.

NASA's big plan for a follow - up space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, has survived a near - death experience and is now on track for launch in 3 years — but at a cost so steep, amid stagnating government funding, that it has squeezed out or delayed other missions.

Over Sentinel's 6 1/2 year mission, it will complete NASA's mandate to find 90 percent of the near - Earth asteroids larger than 140 meters wide.

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

For a man obsessed with entities long - since expired, it seems cruelly fitting that Still, whom I sat with on that flight two years ago, may soon see the death of his own NASA program: managing the Kepler space telescope, which orbits the sun with a mission to find exoplanets near other stars.

NASA's Near - Earth Object Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its fourth year of survey data.

For the last few years, the agency's envisioned «Journey to Mars» campaign has included the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), an effort to pluck a boulder from a near - Earth asteroid and drag the rock to lunar orbit, where it could be visited by astronauts aboard Orion.

Cassini, which is nearing the end of its 13 - year mission exploring Saturn and its moons, detected the molecular hydrogen during its final pass through Enceladus» plumes in October 2015.

That's the year when NASA's InSight mission arrives, landing near Mars» equator to drill down into the ground to investigate the planet's interior.

MAVEN's mission will last one year allowing thorough coverage of near - Mars space, according to Space.com.

The intrepid robotic explorer successfully completed its primary scientific objective when it discovered strong evidence early on in its mission that a place called Yellowknife Bay near its landing site, constitutes an ancient dried - out lake bed which was once filled with drinkable liquid water billions of years ago and could have sustained life — if any were present.

The reversal of fortune sent me into a near panic and, like any good beauty blogger, on a two - year mission to make my hair grow faster and solve my hair - thinning woes.

* 2009 Nissan Maxima: Since Nissan moved the Altima up a notch for the 2002 model year, the Maxima has sort of floundered, not really deluxe enough to compete with near - luxury vehicles, but too pricey to compete with the Honda Accord and Toyota Camry, a mission now assigned to the Altima.

This ever - growing problem was so near and dear to this donor's heart that they asked that all of the funds be dedicated to this particular initiative, which will include collaborating with Project Street Dogs on several other rescue missions throughout the year.