"It was a perfect spacecraft," said Julie Webster, spacecraft operations chief.
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"We saw the approach, we saw the larger spacecraft come close to the smaller spacecraft, and then we no longer saw the smaller spacecraft," said Graziani.
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Once the spacecraft touches down, the TeamIndus rover will deploy from the parent spacecraft.
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The Juno spacecraft (Credit: NASA)On the 4th of July, NASA's Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter.
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Each one of these new fleets significantly adds to the risk of spacecraft collisions with other spacecraft.
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It's the lowest operational mode the spacecraft has Emergency mode is the lowest operational mode the spacecraft has.
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Spacecraft navigators have become adept at using precise flybys as slingshots to steer spacecraft through the solar system.
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"If the operators of this spacecraft so chose, they could direct it to actually hit another spacecraft," said Graziani.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft, for example, used ion propulsion and achieved the record of highest velocity change of any spacecraft.
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NASA's Juno spacecraft is going closer to the massive and mysterious planet Jupiter than any spacecraft has ever gone.
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An unmanned spacecraft successful docked with it a few weeks later, and manned spacecraft docked in 2012 and 2013.
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Crashed spacecraft: NASA has found pieces of the spacecraft that India attempted to land on the moon in September.
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When humans are on a spacecraft, they either "float" around or use magnetic boots (except when the spacecraft is accelerating).
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Telemetry from the spacecraft has been confirmed and the spacecraft is normal, but the target marker has not been dropped.
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When the DART spacecraft and the asteroid collide, the spacecraft will be traveling at a staggering 3.7 miles per second.
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Aerobraking has helped place interplanetary spacecraft in orbit around Mars and Venus, and to slow down spacecraft returning to Earth.
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These killer electrons can damage spacecraft, and researchers are concerned about what effect they may have on spacecraft traveling to Jupiter.
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"The Osiris-Rex spacecraft is happy and healthy," said Richard Kuhns, the program manager at Lockheed Martin, which built the spacecraft.
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Spacewalks are organized to conduct work outside a spacecraft, do experiments, test new equipment or repair satellites or spacecraft already in space.
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CRANE: Could you theoretically create a spacecraft or 3D printed spacecraft in space if you're able to get your hands on these metals?
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On Sunday, June 4th, the pyromaniacal hooligans at NASA successfully performed their third Spacecraft Fire Experiment (SAFFIRE) inside an Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft.
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The STEREO team believed that the spacecraft was feeding incorrect information to itself about its own rotational speed, causing the spacecraft to spin.
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But now instead of a 1-ton spacecraft, you're effectively launching a 21-ton spacecraft, which means you'll need 420 tons of fuel.
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One of the spacecraft is a large decommissioned telescope, launched in 1983, and the other is an experimental U.S. spacecraft launched in 1967.
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Other instruments aboard the spacecraft also showed an uptick in powerful cosmic rays, which scientists expected to see once the spacecraft entered interstellar space.
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Though the intended use of a spacecraft cannot be discerned based solely on its capabilities, the existence of a spacecraft is difficult to hide.
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This demonstration that one spacecraft could maneuver precisely enough to match the orbit of another spacecraft is what made the act of docking possible.
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Mars spacecraft model from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation / Image courtesy of Xinhua/Zhang Jiansong Mars spacecraft model from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation / Image courtesy of Xinhua/Zhang Jiansong The spacecraft is composed of two main parts: an orbiter and a rover.
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft phoned home on Tuesday morning, confirming that the spacecraft successfully completed the most distant flyby ever conducted of a space object.
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Shortly after landing, the spacecraft used its robotic arm-mounted camera to take a close up of the planet, which showed part of the spacecraft.
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As Cassini gathers data from Titan, the spacecraft will also get a gravity assist from the moon, putting the spacecraft into its Ring-Grazing Orbits.
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Weighing 1,322 pounds (6 kg), it's also the first spacecraft from an Israeli entity and the first privately-funded spacecraft to reach the lunar surface.
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If the spacecraft did stick the landing, India would become the fourth country to make a successful landing on the moon without damaging its spacecraft.
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Its CTO designed and built spacecraft systems for the ISS, and its COO oversaw the build of NASA Orion spacecraft as a former general manager.
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She had to take a landing zone for an orbiting spacecraft, and calculate backwards: figuring out the math for how the spacecraft would arrive there.
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When the experimental spacecraft, called LightSail 2, unfurled its sails nearly a month after launch, it became the first spacecraft ever propelled solely by sunlight.
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First NASA spacecraft named after living person launches The Parker Solar Probe, the first NASA spacecraft named after a living person, was launched in August.
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NASA's Juno spacecraft flew closer to the giant planet than any spacecraft ever, revealing stunning images and gathering detailed information about the planet for NASA scientists.
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Boeing and SpaceX are both developing spacecraft as part of NASA's Commercial Crew program, an initiative to send humans to the ISS on private US spacecraft.
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The second SpaceX launch of 2019 sent a hodgepodge trio of spacecraft into orbit, including an Israeli spacecraft that represents the first privately-funded lunar mission.
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The payload for the launch is the 'Zuma' spacecraft, a top-secret spacecraft for an undisclosed U.S. government customer, commissioned by Northrop Grumman on their behalf.
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That is faster than the current velocity of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which became the first spacecraft from Earth to enter interstellar space in August 2012.
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"We had a failure in the spacecraft," Opher Doron, the general manager of Israel Aerospace Industries' space division, which collaborated on building the spacecraft, said afterward.
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In addition to the spacecraft already mentioned, the ICME was also detected by the ESA's Proba-2, the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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After a maneuver, the spacecraft in NASA's asteroid study mission is orbiting closer to a planetary body than any spacecraft has ever come, the space agency said.
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NASA's Juno spacecraft captures Jupiter's southern hemisphere as the spacecraft performs its 13th close flyby of Jupiter on May 23 in this picture released on July 18.
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When a planet turns spacecraft after spacecraft into a puddle of goo within seconds, it's only natural for people to get frustrated and turn their attention elsewhere.
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The Cassini spacecraft is now feeling the inexorable tug of Saturn's gravity as the bus-sized spacecraft is being pulled down into the giant planet's cloud tops.
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The redesigned spacecraft (or BFS) will be 22018 meters in length, or about 29 feet; just under half of that, 22020 meters, will be the spacecraft itself.
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It can also unlock new capabilities for future spacecraft, including encryption, running multiple operating systems at once, processing extremely high-resolution images, autonomously operating spacecraft and more.
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But here, the spacecraft was looking down at one of the poles, so essentially the same side of Ultima Thule was facing the spacecraft the entire time.
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It was just one of many times the spacecraft has flown through an Enceladus plume, but this flyby brought the spacecraft within 30 miles of the south pole.
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Ever since humans started sending spacecraft into orbit, there have been nearly 200 accidental explosions in space, according to Liou, which can create debris that endangers other spacecraft.
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If the spacecraft experienced 72 hours of radio-silence (something that shouldn't happen normally), the command loss timer would activate, correcting any communication issues the spacecraft was experiencing.
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Mars has a real habit of killing off spacecraft — it's referred to occasionally as the "spacecraft graveyard" due to the number of missions to Mars that have failed.
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Contact with the spacecraft -- which works in tandem with a second spacecraft STEREO-A to study the sun -- was lost during a test of one of its timers.
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Using rocket engines to lower a spacecraft down to Mars will likely kick up a bunch of rocks and dust on the surface, which could damage the spacecraft.
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Unlike the small tantalum projectile that was fired at the asteroid in February as the spacecraft touched down on the surface, the impactor device detached from the spacecraft.
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A NASA spacecraft will fly closer to our solar system's most well-known star than any other spacecraft in history, thanks to a revolutionary new thermal protection system.
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Boeing has designed a similar spacecraft, and the two companies are racing to fly NASA astronauts on US-made spacecraft for the first time in nearly a decade.
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"We measure the position of the spacecraft with respect to the cube, and then we control that distance to be constant by pushing the spacecraft away," explained McNamara.
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Instead of stiff rectangular bars like on every other spacecraft (including older-model Cygnus spacecraft), the Cygnus now sports a pair of cheery round orange-yellow Ultraflex solar arrays.
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The ISS is currently preparing for some busy weeks ahead, including visits by a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft, and a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule.
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This would consist of two spacecraft millions of kilometres apart that could pick up the teensy-tiny effects of gravitational waves between two test masses, one in each spacecraft.
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The hapless test craft for what is known as the Spacecraft Fire Experiment (Saffire for short) is a cargo-carrying Cygnus spacecraft launching to the Space Station on Tuesday.
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On Wednesday, April 26, the Cassini spacecraft did something extraordinary: It slipped through the gap between Saturn and its rings, becoming the first spacecraft ever to explore this region.
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Quite a few spacecraft have made flybys of asteroids, beginning with NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which passed within 1,000 miles of the asteroid Gaspra in 1991 en route to Jupiter.
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For example, traveling at great speed, it would take about 3 days for the spacecraft to reach Pluto, a destination that took the New Horizons spacecraft 9 years to reach.
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On Friday — about one year after the Messenger spacecraft ended its mission by crashing into Mercury — scientists released the first complete global elevation map produced by the long-lived spacecraft.
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The spacecraft will take up very little room on its Falcon 9, and that will make it easier for the rocket to get this spacecraft where it needs to go.
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So the cubes will live in a little cavity inside the spacecraft, which will be constantly adjusting their position with super small thrusters so the cube and spacecraft don't touch.
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If successful, the lander will be the first Israeli spacecraft to travel beyond Earth orbit, and also the first (mostly) privately funded spacecraft to touch down on the lunar surface.
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Lightsail spacecraft typically use the Sun's light or solar wind for propulsion, but Milner's proposed version would instead use a giant laser array to propel the spacecraft toward Alpha Centauri.
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This year's introduction of a competitive bidding process means that companies would build their own spacecraft, with help from competitive NASA funding awards, rather than build a NASA-specific spacecraft.
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The most bothersome source of interference is unintentional radio noise from spacecraft electronics, which could be avoided by asking moon-bound missions to include strong electromagnetic shielding for their spacecraft.
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LunaH-Map spacecraft with solar arrays deployed LunaH-Map spacecraft with solar arrays deployed It's a relatively tiny thing, weighing just 23 pounds and measuring out to roughly 22 in.
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NASA just awarded the company a $127-million contract to not only make the spacecraft, but supply additional services needed to get the spacecraft into space and then keep it operating.
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The physical size of these rockets may be small but the competition in miniaturized spacecraft is growing steadily, epitomized by Rocket Lab's launch on Thursday evening of a prototype military spacecraft.
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On July 4 last year, the mission controllers of the New Horizons spacecraft that was about to fly by Pluto experienced some nervous moments when the spacecraft stopped talking to them.
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"The spacecraft would take a picture of Pluto, Charon and its moons," said Pelletier, who is president and CEO of KinetX Aérospatiale International, which in part does navigation services for spacecraft.
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It was the motion of the spacecraft needed for a lower resolution camera and the longer exposure times because of low light that caused blurring, not the speed of the spacecraft.
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As of Tuesday, if all goes to plan, the test masses in the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft will be floating in free fall, the spacecraft moving around them thanks to tiny microthrusters.
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For a graphic of the Soyuz spacecraft, see - tmsnrt.
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Orbit — having the spacecraft encircle the Earth — is harder.
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Hinode — A Japanese spacecraft measuring the sun's magnetic fields.
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FRIDAY • Spacecraft that ferried a humanoid undocks from ISS.
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While both errors could have led to risk of spacecraft loss, the actions of the NASA-Boeing team were able to correct the issues and return the Starliner spacecraft safely to Earth.
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If this works, LightSail 2 will demonstrate a way for spacecraft to maneuver through space without the use of conventional propellants, which can take up a lot of room on a spacecraft.
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One of those companies, Moon Express, plans to be the first ever private company to land a spacecraft on the moon and has already secured a launch for their spacecraft in 2017.
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On September 8, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will embark on a seven year mission to do what no other NASA spacecraft has done before: return a substantial amount of asteroid to Earth.
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Moving a little further out, we're going to look at Jupiter, where NASA's Juno spacecraft has delivered some interesting results about the lightning strikes first discovered by the Voyager spacecraft in 1979.
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The United States, Russia, and China all have recently launched specialized "inspection" spacecraft whose main function is to get close to other spacecraft in order to repair, tamper with, or destroy them.
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Only then will they be assigned to one of four spacecraft: the International Space Station, Orion, or one of the two commercial crew spacecraft in development (Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon).
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This past summer, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft that will come within 4 million miles of the surface of the sun (much closer than any spacecraft has been before).
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While the company's first spacecraft Unity has flown to space twice already, this second spacecraft put weight on its wheels for this firs time – signifying it completed all major parts of assembly.
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In August, NASA will launch the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft that will come within 4 million miles of the surface of the sun, much closer than any spacecraft has been before.
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While it was far from the only spacecraft to have approached Venus at that point, its images provided the first-ever glimpses of the planet from the perspective of a visiting spacecraft.
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Juno's 53-day orbit is highly elliptical, taking the spacecraft within 2,600 miles of the atmosphere to five million miles away, which helps the spacecraft minimize its exposure to the planet's radiation belts.
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That means that everything from software to a working spacecraft to a screw on that spacecraft is subject to strict regulations on how these items can be transported and shared with foreign countries.
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The space agency has been trying to get in contact with the spacecraft since October 1st, 2014 STEREO-B is one of two spacecraft that make up NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO).
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Planetary Resources is already receiving telemetry from the spacecraft, and the company believes that the experimental technology is a critical stepping-stone for it to develop its next spacecraft platform the Arkyd-301.
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On LightSail 2's best day so far, the spacecraft raised its apogee by about 900 meters, showing the promise of flight by light for small spacecraft—the main goal of the program.
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Boeing's new passenger spacecraft suffered a second major software bug during its debut flight to space in December — one that would have ended in a "catastrophic spacecraft failure" had it not been corrected.
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This year, an Israeli nonprofit organization sent a small robotic spacecraft named Beresheet to the moon, but communication was lost near the surface, and the spacecraft appears to have crashed on the moon.
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They now know that the spacecraft is roughly looking down at one of Ultima Thule's poles, so that it is mostly the same side of the body that was always facing the spacecraft.
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That's also helpful in case the spacecraft fails in orbit.
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Meanwhile, the electronics on the spacecraft have to still function.
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The InSight spacecraft was built near Denver by Lockheed Martin.
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One, if you must sneeze, sneeze away from the spacecraft.
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A Russian cargo spacecraft docked with the ISS earlier today.
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Spaceteam has you working together to repair your failing spacecraft.
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But that was based on data transmitted by the spacecraft.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Saturn's northern hemisphere.
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The Dragon spacecraft is on its way to the ISS.
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The spacecraft came within 21,240 miles (81,500 km) of Uranus.
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It canceled those plans, and put the spacecraft in storage.
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SpaceIL confirmed that its robotic "Beresheet" spacecraft was not successful.
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The spacecraft was redesigned so that occupants could wear spacesuits.
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It then solidifies, preserving the wall, and perhaps, the spacecraft.
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Go deeper: NASA spacecraft days away from risky landing (AP)
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NASA probably has one really dizzy spacecraft on its hands.
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By then, the spacecraft had made several important scientific observations.
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It's a place akin to a parking spot for spacecraft.
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Now without fuel, NASA decided to officially retire the spacecraft.
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The spacecraft found traces of methane gas in that material.
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The map came together with data from ESA's Gaia spacecraft.
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That spacecraft is on track to launch in late 2017.
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Why do we still lose rockets, spacecraft, and sometimes crew?
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Yesterday, Russia launched its autonomous resupply spacecraft Progress into space.
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Then that spacecraft had to enter orbit around the moon.
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Solar panel on a new Cygnus spacecraft high over Africa.
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Unless you're a spacecraft with a direct link to NASA.
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By early November, the spacecraft would be running on fumes.
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The two spacecraft will be just a few kilometers apart.
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The spacecraft will orbit the asteroid for approximately 19 months.
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A European Space Agency scientist tests the Bepi Colombo Spacecraft.
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Engineering spacecraft that satisfies human requirements is also very expensive.
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Or spacecraft powered by laser pulses brighter than the sun.
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These can cause lots of damage to an unprotected spacecraft.
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What makes a good landing spot for a Mars spacecraft?
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Each time debris hits new spacecraft, it creates more debris.
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The spacecraft dropped an impactor onto a comet in 2005.
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NASA plans two more Saffire experiments aboard future Cygnus spacecraft.
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The spacecraft is scheduled to reach the Sun in November.
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Those spacecraft would have sails to catch the laser beam.
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The spacecraft should reenter the Earth's atmosphere in September, 2023.
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On its third day, the spacecraft will dock with ISS.
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Accelerators are used for testing parts and materials for spacecraft.
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All three underwent field tests immediately after leaving the spacecraft.
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Lockheed Martin's Orion spacecraft could someday take astronauts to Mars.
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On July 14th, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made history.
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Then the SpaceX spacecraft must undergo a launch abort test.
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Her companion spacecraft, Voyager 2023, accomplished the feat in 2013.
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Our niche is planetary missions, spacecraft going to other worlds.
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The NASA InSight spacecraft will try to land on Mars.
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The Kepler spacecraft has recorded 3,000 to 4,000 planetary transits.
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NASA's Twitter account for its Kepler spacecraft was hacked Wednesday.
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Moments later, spacecraft operators lost contact with its communications systems.
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Nor are spacecraft that could litter the atmosphere with debris.
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It won't be the last we see of this spacecraft.
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To the very end, the spacecraft did everything we asked.
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The previous scene presents model spacecraft landed on another planet.
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NASA uses π to calculate the trajectory of spacecraft orbits.
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In 2004, Cassini became the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn.
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The Soyuz spacecraft will return to Earth later this month.
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What better name for a new spacecraft than "Crew Dragon"?
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NASA worked closely with the companies to engineer both spacecraft.
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To do that, the spacecraft would not fly as close.
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But the revised cargo spacecraft very well see more use.
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The future for the Voyager spacecraft may already be written.
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Initially, officials suggested that a micrometeorite had pierced the spacecraft.
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Meanwhile, Amazon's Project Kuiper aims to deploy perhaps 3,200 spacecraft.
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The spacecraft completed its last major testing milestone in January.
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Boeing would have to successfully fly a crewed Starliner spacecraft.
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The fourth, a United Arab Emirates spacecraft, will enter orbit.
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The astronauts took a photo of earth from the spacecraft.
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"That's why he called the spacecraft Hope," Mr. Sharaf said.
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That spacecraft will return its cargo to Earth in 2023.
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What does the TESS spacecraft look for to identify planets?
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NASA has run out of money to fund the spacecraft.
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Lego is back with another new amazing spacecraft build set.
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It was the first spacecraft to visit the dwarf planet.
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They'll probably be the first to fly any commercial spacecraft.
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SpaceX launched its Crew Dragon commercial astronaut spacecraft on Sunday.
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Finally the spacecraft pivoted, and the moon came into view.
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SpaceX quickly ramped up development of the spacecraft in 2019.
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These two formerly headed up Google's satellite and spacecraft division.
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You're learning how to operate two spacecraft instead of one.
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"I loved putting together the Apollo spacecraft module," says Bennett.
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With this launch, it plans to send up 34 spacecraft.
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The spacecraft is to orbit the asteroid for 20 months.
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If the spacecraft lost control, it could have spelled disaster.
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Another NASA spacecraft, Cassini, achieved new heights that same year.
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When did NASA's New Horizons spacecraft fly near Ultima Thule?
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But there isn't that kind of redundancy for larger spacecraft.
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Pluto is just the beginning for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
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"Most people that work on spacecraft systems these days realize that when you're flying spacecraft these days we're relying heavily on heritage [technologies]," explained Christopher McClean, principal investigator for NASA's GPIM at Ball Aersopace.
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The main spacecraft, or mothership, will observe the comet from a distance, but it will also deploy a pair of daughter spacecraft, which will travel toward the comet to make observations at close range.
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The latest designs for the towering spacecraft show it riding into orbit atop the most powerful rocket booster ever built, and Musk hopes the spacecraft and rocket system will be used to colonize Mars.
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"Scientists and engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will continue to try to analyze the data from the spacecraft to learn more about the state of the spacecraft," NASA said.
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Should the spacecraft travel as planned in the hours and days to come, it will set off on a course that makes it only the third spacecraft to visit the solar system's innermost planet.
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That will enable one-way tracking, when paired with data gathered by an onboard camera, using a signal from Earth to the spacecraft, or from the spacecraft to Earth, but with no round-trip needed.
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About the size of a refrigerator, the R3D2 spacecraft is a prototype intended to test a new type of unfolding antenna "to improve radio communications in small spacecraft," Rocket Lab said in a press release.
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The TGO will ignite its main engine to help slow the spacecraft down Tomorrow, things get started a little after 9AM ET, when the TGO ignites its main engine to help slow the spacecraft down.
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He said the spacecraft is likely in a "low power fault" situation, and that if the storm abates, the rover will attempt to charge itself and relay a message to the MRO or another spacecraft.
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They switch back and forth depending on where a spacecraft is in relation to our planet, and you can see which spacecraft are talking to Earth in real time by visiting NASA's DSN Now website.
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In January, the spacecraft will get closer to Bennu, between 21991 and 22000 miles, and be drawn into orbit around the asteroid, which will be the smallest object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft.
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Which means that instead of launching a 1-ton spacecraft to orbit using 20 tons of fuel, you'd need to launch a 1-ton spacecraft and 63 tons of fuel to slow it back down.
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There is not enough air to provide much drag on the spacecraft as it speeds to the ground, although what's there still generates friction that heats the exterior of a spacecraft to thousands of degrees.
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With about $1 billion invested in development, Whitesides said the per unit cost of building additional spacecraft is relatively low, and Virgin Galactic aims to have a fleet of five spacecraft in a few years.
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Launching satellites on the spacecraft would be "overkill," according to Miller.
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That helped pick a spot for the Viking spacecraft to land.
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The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launched from Kazakhstan on October 11.
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The spacecraft uses these images to help calibrate that difficult orbit.
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Which got them thinking: What if other spacecraft recorded this event?
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft snaps a photo of three of Saturn's moons.
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The trash comes from explosions, spacecraft collisions and expendable rocket stages.
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Artist's depiction of a sample-containing spacecraft taking off from Mars.
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The spacecraft is expected to return to Earth in September 2023.
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Fractures in the surface of Europa seen by the Galileo spacecraft.
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Kopf is eager to have her project travel on Musk's spacecraft.
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The spacecraft will return its asteroid sample to Earth in 2023.
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A composite image of Venus as seen by Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft.
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Essentially, the moon can serve as a fueling station for spacecraft.
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This illustration depicts NASA's Juno spacecraft soaring over Jupiter's south pole.
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Even the Sun's energy heating the spacecraft can change its trajectory.
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The spacecraft is slated to return to Earth in September 2023.
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The spacecraft is slated to rendezvous with the station on Monday.
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It's very different — at JPL, we primarily work with robotic spacecraft.
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory designs, builds and operates billion-dollar spacecraft.
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In a shorter orbit, the spacecraft would have completed 33 orbits.
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Here's everything you need to know about the ambitious new spacecraft.
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The ESA has a 20-day window to launch the spacecraft.
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No private entity has safely landed a spacecraft on the moon.
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The spacecraft traveled for nearly seven weeks before reaching the moon.
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Then, spacecraft could navigate and change direction all on their own.
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If all stays on track, the spacecraft should launch in 2018.
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But while there's just the one launch, there are two spacecraft.
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The spacecraft collected data and snapped photos as it flew by.
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EDT, Juno's engine will begin firing to slow the spacecraft down.
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But the spacecraft ultimately missed Hippocamp, and now Showalter knows why.
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You can begin to see the shadow of the spacecraft. pic.twitter.
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The tiny, cramped spacecraft continued racing down toward the moon's surface.
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Two whole days in a spacecraft the size of a van?
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They're also relying on entirely new and as-yet untested spacecraft.
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Voyager 2 isn't the first spacecraft to pass the heliopause landmark.
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The mission, named BepiColombo, consists of two spacecraft in one package.
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It's a harsh environment that can fry an ill-prepared spacecraft.
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"We have a healthy spacecraft," Mission Operations Manager Alice Bowman declared.
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Northrop Grumman has not released any further information on the spacecraft.
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Jupiter and its largest moons, as imaged by the Juno spacecraft.
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It might also help in moving orbiting spacecraft out of danger.
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Getting the spacecraft as close to Jupiter's cloud tops as possible.
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The spacecraft will then land on Mars in February of 2021.
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Private citizens have already been to space on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft.
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Swarm Technologies did initially seek government approval to launch these spacecraft.
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The test is meant to demonstrate another way of capturing spacecraft.
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There's no guarantee we'll ever send a spacecraft back to Saturn.
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Ion engines have long been an attractive option for spacecraft propulsion.
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This will be the final resting place of the Rosetta spacecraft.
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Still, it does a few very smart things, spacecraft design-wise.
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The spacecraft is scheduled to separate itself just after 8 p.m.
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Is Phobos an abandoned alien spacecraft, or a fossilized Cadbury egg?
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The spacecraft is not taking a direct path to the Moon.
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MacKay and Masucci then piloted the spacecraft in a roaring burn.
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Spacecraft flying through the solar system have also observed Io before.
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The spacecraft has two ways of dispatching an asteroid collision threat.
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One solution to this problem is for the spacecraft to accelerate.
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This is the way most spacecraft create "weight" in The Expanse.
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Hayabusa2 isn't the only spacecraft currently studying a near-Earth asteroid.
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The image of Earth the Voyager spacecraft sent back in 1990.
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The Dragon spacecraft took flight just after 6 pm ET Thursday.
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I asked Nvidia why these buildings are named after notable spacecraft.
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The Russians are ponying up to communicate with their science spacecraft.
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A Soviet spacecraft preceded this in 1977, according to Ars Technica.
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The Orion crew exploration spacecraft is being built by Lockheed Martin.
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At 60,000 km (37,000 miles) above Earth the spacecraft will deploy.
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The project involved sending four identical spacecraft into orbit around Earth.
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An artist's depiction of the TESS spacecraft in orbit around Earth.
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But a fully functioning spacecraft, too—engines, guidance, communications, the lot.
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This allows the spacecraft to detect waves with much lower frequencies.
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Virgin Galactic is deep into the development program of its spacecraft.
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Which was the Ranger spacecraft repurposed to go Venus and Mars.
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Stay tuned to find out the fate of the ExoMars spacecraft.
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It follows D-503, a spacecraft engineer living in One State.
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An artist's rendering of the Juno spacecraft firing its main engine.
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That way nothing onboard the spacecraft will interfere with the burn.
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The Juno spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Jupiter on July 222.
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Planets keep falling out of the sky for the Kepler spacecraft.
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As the plutonium diminishes, the spacecraft receive less and less energy.
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft took nearly 10 years to reach Pluto.
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Two suitcase-size spacecraft will be launched on the same rocket.
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To win, a robotic spacecraft must land and explore the Moon.
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NASA's next exoplanet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, is going up this year.
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The spacecraft turned and the mood at NASA shifted to jubilation.
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Rosetta, the first spacecraft to orbit a comet, is now dead.
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A key part of the mission is developing the Starship spacecraft.
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Juno is just the second spacecraft to enter orbit around Jupiter.
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The Juno spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4.
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NASA plans to launch the next spacecraft to Europa in 2025.
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An image of Saturn's moon Enceladus, taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
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Parker was there in person to watch his namesake spacecraft launch.
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Less successfully, it sought to develop spacecraft propelled by nuclear bombs.
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It is still the only spacecraft to have visited those planets.
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But mission controllers can also steer the miniature spacecraft from Earth.
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The spacecraft and asteroid will have their official rendezvous in December.
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It's all right — spacecraft developing a patina is a charming evolution.
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The spacecraft has changed the way researchers understand Jupiter's inner workings.
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Lost in space Remember Zuma, the supersecret spacecraft that SpaceX launched?
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But in 22, an apparent malfunction ended communications with the spacecraft.
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The dynamics of the falling spacecraft can also affect the timing.
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Spacecraft would ferry astronauts between the Gateway and the lunar surface.
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It is not the only spacecraft from Earth exploring an asteroid.
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Later, the spacecraft may collect another sample from the artificial crater.
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Cassini is a NASA spacecraft that has orbited Saturn since 2004.
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Most spacecraft use a propellant called hydrazine, which is highly toxic.
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The spacecraft also launched a small camera that recorded the explosion.
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In 2015, New Horizons became the first spacecraft to explore Pluto.
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That part of the spacecraft will be discarded before re-entry.
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It landed its Chang'e 3 spacecraft on the moon in 2013.
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But the spacecraft stumbled on the last part of its journey.
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Until last year, the spacecraft was known as Solar Probe Plus.
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The NASA spacecraft is the first named for a living person.
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The orbiter has also provided hints into Mars spacecraft that failed.
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One of the trickiest bits: the spacecraft couldn't just land anywhere.
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The spacecraft remains the same, but it has a new name.
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William Anders, Earthrise, as seen from NASA's Apollo 8 spacecraft, 1968.
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"Building new spacecraft and developing hardware is really hard," Lueders said.
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The spacecraft are scheduled to arrive at Mars early next year.
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There will not be a Blue Origin crew on the spacecraft.
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Despite its name, it is not in fact an interstellar spacecraft.
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The spacecraft eventually splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean using parachutes.
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The competition asked private companies to develop new astronaut-ready spacecraft.
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Shepherd named his spacecraft Freedom 7 after the seven Mercury astronauts.
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The spacecraft will need to make a safe descent on Friday.
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Two suitcase-size spacecraft, called MarCO, followed InSight on its journey.
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Boeing has three spacecraft in progress – Starliners 1, 2 and 3.
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It was the first time two spacecraft ever connected in space.
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In addition to Mariner 10, NASA's Messenger spacecraft launched in 2004.
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Come September 15, 2017, this valiant spacecraft will be no more.
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That ended an era of American spacecraft carrying astronauts to space.
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At one point, the spacecraft even completely rearranged itself mid-flight.
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Two other spacecraft will also watch the transit, according to NASA.
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Cassini, the spacecraft that studied Saturn, ended its mission in 2017.
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I find a small and scarcely inhabited brick of a spacecraft.
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You could see the wires dragging around miniature spacecraft, for instance.
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By a strange coincidence, this is exactly what Vint Cerf and NASA have been working on, using delay-tolerant networking to forward bundles of data from spacecraft to spacecraft as and when they come into range.
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Illustration of Dawn spacecraft with traditional ion propulsion / Image courtesy of NASA/JPL Illustration of Dawn spacecraft with traditional ion propulsion / Image courtesy of NASA/JPL More recently, ion propulsion has been proposed for small satellites.
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These nuclear batteries are currently powering NASA's most far out vehicles, such as the New Horizons spacecraft, which flew by Pluto in 22021, as well as the Voyager spacecraft that are cruising beyond our Solar System.
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Once it tops 100 Celsius [212 degrees Fahrenheit], as soon as early July, the spacecraft won't be able to spend time in close proximity to Ryugu because all that radiated heat is hard on the spacecraft.
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The warp drive would not so much propel a spacecraft as it would manipulate space itself, compressing it ahead of the spacecraft and stretching it behind, riding a "warp bubble" to achieve faster than light speeds.
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To get to Triton, the spacecraft would fly in a fast, straight trajectory after an orbital assist from Jupiter, similar to the flyby that was used by the New Horizons spacecraft to visit Pluto in 2015.
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What we don't know: While we know the spacecraft touched down and sent a "ping" to Earth, indicating it's alive and functioning on the planet, we don't know yet how well the spacecraft survived the rough approach.
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If all goes to plan, the Cygnus spacecraft will get to the Space Station on Tuesday at around 4:30 AM EST, where astronauts on board will capture the spacecraft with the station's robotic arm for docking.
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Non-NASA spacecraft team members will comment on the flyby and for a first briefing scheduled for New Year's Day morning, which should have data on whether the spacecraft survived the encounter without running into 2014 MU69.
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That's all it took for the United States to go from being one of the first countries to launch a spacecraft off this big, blue marble to finally retiring a much more advanced version of that spacecraft.
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As for how that spacecraft is going to get there, that's where things get even wilder: the light from a giant laser beam is meant to propel the spacecraft forward at one-fifth the speed of light.
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The show was over — both spacecraft were performing flawlessly — but behind the scenes, the mission, on a tight budget, lagged in hiring the more than 200 computer engineers needed to shepherd the spacecraft through a planetary encounter.
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Scientists have used sensors aboard various spacecraft to track lightning from above.
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This craft will be the first spacecraft intended to study Europa exclusively.
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The spacecraft should take 27 days to arrive, reports the Planetary Society.
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The spacecraft is technically uncrewed, but there are three passengers of sorts.
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Here's how scientists predict whether a spacecraft will fall and kill you.
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This high-profile failure could bolster demand for U.S.-built crewed spacecraft.
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has a spacecraft orbiting Venus called Akatsuki.
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CRANE (on camera): So, they're actually building your next spacecraft right now?
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Cameras and navigation software will direct the spacecraft into the smaller rock.
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Russian spacecraft are currently the most efficient at making quick cargo deliveries.
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That upgraded spacecraft will soon carry people to the International Space Station.
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The Dragon spacecraft will carry an expandable habitat to the space station.
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A critical instrument needed to stabilize the spacecraft has stopped working properly.
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The rocket fairing will fall away once the spacecraft leaves Earth's orbit.
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To start with, there's the fact that it's two spacecraft, not one.
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In practice, therefore, almost all spacecraft re-enter the atmosphere at random.
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Meanwhile, China's first cargo spacecraft docked successfully with an orbiting space lab.
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There are the obvious costs: the spacecraft, the rocket, and the fuel.
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NASA maintains that all of its spacecraft hardware at Michoud is safe.
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The #X37B #OTV4 is the newest and most advanced re-entry spacecraft.
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The spacecraft is expected to approach the world at 12:33 a.m.
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The International Space Station is the largest spacecraft humans have ever built.
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An image of Mars captured by the Mars Express spacecraft in 213.
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Maybe you imagine the ring of satellites and spacecraft circling the planet.
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The MarCO probes won't be the only spacecraft observing the landing, though.
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All the spacecraft had to do was perform as it was told.
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An object with the radar signature of a small spacecraft did, twice.
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LISA is made up of three spacecraft situated millions of miles apart.
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Dawn was the first spacecraft to orbit two targets in deep space.
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That's the kind of spacecraft that Goff is working on at Altius.
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The spacecraft Nostromo has an unwanted guest wreaking havoc on the crew.
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And what happens to the spacecraft after it drops off its sample?
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Spacecraft engineers also use Dr Cooke's data to design better "bumper shields".
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NASA has a spacecraft called NEOWISE that is hunting potentially threatening asteroids.
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NASA is hoping to smash a spacecraft into Didymos B in 2024.
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And when that's done, we'll head out to California with the spacecraft.
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It's just the second spacecraft to lift off from Russia's newest spaceport.
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Not ideal, but the STEREO team expected both spacecraft to pull through.
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And that does limit the types of worlds the spacecraft can find.
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The spacecraft is currently traveling through space at 210,203 miles per hour.
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Designs should include reconnaissance spacecraft and methods to measure the achieved deflection.
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The two spacecraft also provide us with stunning views of our planet.
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Image credit: NASA/Scott KellyThe Cygnus spacecraft was unloaded of its cargo.
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Aurora engulf the planet, backlighting a Soyuz spacecraft attached to the station.
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The spacecraft launched from Earth in 2006 on a mission to Pluto.
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The uncrewed spacecraft will launch early Monday morning, at 12:45 a.m.
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But the spacecraft won't be in communication with Earth for much longer.
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Under NASA's Flight Opportunities program, four experiments flew on board the spacecraft.
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Even with the extra weight, spacecraft Unity perform well, the pilots said.
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Three spacecraft survive in retirement as specimens in museums around the country.
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They also act like mile markers for the cameras attached to spacecraft.
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If the panels were outgassing, they then wouldn't outgas at the spacecraft.
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All they needed was his permission to allow the spacecraft to land.
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So, where is the bridge—the place where they control the spacecraft?
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The spacecraft was still climbing outbound, accelerating on its way to orbit.
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The spacecraft was being prepared for a launch abort test this summer.
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From 1971 to 2016, over 260 spacecraft were dumped at Point Nemo.
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The astronauts can also send other items back via SpaceX cargo spacecraft.
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Our OSIRIS-REx spacecraft begins its journey to asteroid Bennu and back!
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Soon after, the spacecraft will deploy four large parachutes to slow down.
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Juno spacecraft shows the first close-up of the planet's southern lights.
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The spacecraft made its 11th close pass, or perijove, on February 7.
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Europe's space agency has similar plans, though it lacks a crewed spacecraft.
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But the IDA isn't limited to just accepting SpaceX and Boeing's spacecraft.
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In September 2014, it became the first spacecraft to orbit a comet.
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And if it does, the spacecraft is in for a special treat.
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But, but, but: This spacecraft is still far from a sure thing.
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A single small hit could be deadly to astronauts aboard a spacecraft.
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By design, Juno cartwheels as it flies, which helps stabilize the spacecraft.
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At that point, the Vikram lander spacecraft diverged from its expected trajectory.
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Several spacecraft have flown past Jupiter, beginning with Pioneer 10 in 1973.
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Job description: Aerospace engineering and operations technicians operate aircraft and spacecraft equipment.
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Scientists also successfully harnessed the power of sunlight to power a spacecraft.
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Like Apollo, Artemis will fly a spacecraft called Orion towards the moon.
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The spacecraft is healthy and we are working our standard recovery procedure.
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The spacecraft captured the images below as it left the asteroid's surface.
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But the spacecraft also detected hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane and other chemicals.
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In just seven days, the Rosetta spacecraft will smash into Comet 123P.
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The spacecraft departed from the space station Tuesday at 210:2944 p.m.
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Meanwhile, McLinko led mechanical and electrical spacecraft research and development for Planet.
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"Essentially, I do spacecraft investigations, and document the lessons learned," he explains.
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The food had to provide sustenance for astronauts without burdening the spacecraft.
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" Building the fastest spacecraft ever, she said, is "really a mass game.
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It is still the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune.
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If life is deep underground, robotic spacecraft would not find them easily.
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Eastern, the spacecraft put itself into "safe mode" and restarted its computer.
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The ExoMars 2016 spacecraft is to arrive at the red planet today.
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The atmosphere of Mars makes it tricky to land a spacecraft there.
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The Zuma spacecraft was attached to one of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets.
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NASA is paying SpaceX and Boeing to develop new crew-carrying spacecraft.
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The names of most NASA spacecraft are not chosen in essay contests.
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In its final days, the spacecraft has been churning out intriguing discoveries.
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The spacecraft teem with tiny sensors, circuits, lenses, motors, batteries and antennas.
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It will be the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft.
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past the most distant object ever visited.
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NASA has announced plans to send spacecraft to Mars and the sun.
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NASA suggests that its Chang'e-4 spacecraft could launch in late 2018.
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Now, a total of three Soyuz spacecraft are docked with the ISS.
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NASA and other space agencies use spacecraft for one-off exploration missions.
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No other spacecraft have gone so far, or explored so many worlds.
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The spacecraft is scheduled to stay at the space station until May.
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He watched the moon landing from NASA's manned spacecraft center in Houston.
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NASA awarded SpaceX $2.6 billion to build the spacecraft model in 2014.
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Those thruster issues may have caused the spacecraft to fail other tests.
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Two years later, an American spacecraft accidentally collided with a Russian one.
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The spacecraft is slated to lift off at exactly 6:36 a.m.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been exploring Saturn for the past 13 years.
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NASA spacecraft, if they survive to their destination, often just keep going.
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So making a link with the spacecraft will become harder and harder.
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The spacecraft then took a slower, fuel-efficient path to the moon.
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Dead satellites in space instantly become junk that can threaten nearby spacecraft.
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Busy week for SpaceX — across funding, space tourism and next-gen spacecraft.
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The US has been launching spacecraft since 1950 — before NASA even existed.
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Virgin Galactic recently passed a key milestone in manufacturing its second spacecraft.
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If the spacecraft had reached the surface in one piece on Sept.
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NASA hoped at the time both spacecraft would be ready by 2017.
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Boeing officials said Sunday the spacecraft appeared to be in good health.
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NASA astronauts still don't have the option to fly aboard American spacecraft.
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The Parker spacecraft observed about 1,000 of them in just 11 days.
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They're new pics of Jupiter taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft. Pika-who?
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The Dragon spacecraft was loaded down with thousands of supplies for NASA.
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NASA also released new findings from another spacecraft: the Parker Solar Probe.
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Both probes have been flying longer than any other spacecraft in history.
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The spacecraft then angled down into the planet's clouds and burned up.
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Above, an engineer monitored the spacecraft from NASA's lab in Pasadena, Calif.
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"I was extremely confident in the spacecraft and our team," he said.
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The steel is sterile, like aliens made a Dan Flavin-inspired spacecraft.
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The spacecraft is designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station.
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To send and receive data, orbiting spacecraft depend on radio-frequency communications.
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Since those two fatal accidents, the spacecraft has never lost a passenger.
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Those two accidents were critical in making the Soyuz a better spacecraft.
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The spacecraft is currently 75 million miles away from Earth right now, according to NASA, so any communications signal traveling at the speed of light will take up to 13 minutes to travel to and from the spacecraft.
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Cassini Spacecraft Begins Dramatic, &aposRing-Grazing&apos Orbits TodayNASA's Cassini probe is nearing the end of its lifetime, and the little spacecraft is going out…Read more ReadA collage of images of Saturn's stormy north pole was captured by Cassini on December 2nd, from a distance of approximately 400,000 miles (640,000 kilometers), as the spacecraft was plunging toward the outer rim of the F-ring.
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However, there's a whole other view of space that we mere mortals can't see, and astronomers have been piecing it together — telescope by telescope, spacecraft by spacecraft, map by map — over the decades to unlock the universe's deepest secrets.
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Each spacecraft contains a "Golden Record," a 12-inch phonographic gold-plated copper capsule containing Earth sounds, pictures, and messages designed to give any possible alien who encounters the spacecraft an idea of what life on Earth is like.
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The role of these geosynchronous spacecraft is to provide data back to Earth from the Hubble space telescope, the International Space Station, and a range of other spacecraft set out on exploratory missions in relatively close proximity to Earth.
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"We also did some fine-tuning of the sail control algorithm to refine the turn rate of the spacecraft, and reduce the tendency of the spacecraft to overshoot the targeted orientation at the end of a turn," said Spencer.
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"The signal from the spacecraft is gone and, within the next 27 seconds, so will be the spacecraft," Earl Maize, the program manager, announced in the control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory here, just after 19803:21980 a.m.
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The spacecraft also sends a monthly status update about its health and safety.
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The spacecraft, known as the DMSP-F173, was dismantled beginning in October 2016.
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It also kind of looks like the inside of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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Attack by service spacecraft is certainly not the only threat to orbiting satellites.
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These in turn power spacecraft and other vehicles, such as Mars' Curiosity rover.
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Seubert noted that her job — Deep Space Navigator — is essentially a spacecraft pilot.
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Israel's commercial SpaceIL plans to land a spacecraft on the Moon next year.
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For years, scientists have been studying how isolation affects astronauts inside a spacecraft.
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Immediately, some people speculated that this interstellar visitor could be an alien spacecraft.
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Those are speeds and distances no spacecraft of any size has gone before.
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It could derail plans to fly astronauts aboard the spacecraft later this year.
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Image: NASANASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is one of the universe's only unproblematic faves.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been ready to die for a very long time.
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While there, she performed two space walks and helped dock two additional spacecraft.
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Like Juno, the little spacecraft capturing the Earth-sized tempests while orbiting Jupiter.
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It'd be hard to invent a more Star Wars-esque spacecraft than Dawn.
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The spacecraft has four instruments: the camera, two spectrometers, and a neutron detector.
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What kind of mass would a spacecraft need to pull things off Earth?
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Armed with its surface samples, the spacecraft should return to Earth in 2023.
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The spacecraft is expected to return its Bennu sample to earth in 2023.
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These U.S. astronauts previously flew aboard Russian spacecraft to get to the ISS.
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Up until now, though, the vast majority of commercial spacecraft have been uncrewed.
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The Dragon spacecraft is due to arrive at the space station on Sunday.
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NASA has always relied on commercial contractors to construct the agency's spacecraft, though.
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We have looked at all of the common links between the two spacecraft.
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NASA originally predicted both companies' spacecraft would be up and running by 2017.
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Before this harpoon test, the spacecraft successfully deployed a net for grabbing debris.
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Out of the millions of cosmic particles the spacecraft collected, 36 were special.
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In late January of next year, the spacecraft will slowly approach Intelsat 901.
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It is all newly built — except for one piece of vintage spacecraft hardware.
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NASA won't be making the entire Restore-L spacecraft on its own, though.
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SOHO is one of several spacecraft that keep an eye on the sun.
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Freed from such constraints, LISA's lasers will travel between spacecraft 2.5m km apart.
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The year 2029 may seem far off, but spacecraft take years to develop.
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However, it's not clear exactly how much sample material the spacecraft scooped up.
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And apparently the spacecraft around Mars have to deal with the same problem.
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Currently, the spacecraft is vertical at the launch pad awaiting the launch window.
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This debris poses a massive risk to working satellites, spacecraft, and even astronauts.
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The US Air Force confirmed that the spacecraft touched down with a tweet.
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And since then, the spacecraft has boasted one major discovery after the next.
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The spacecraft will then send a message to Earth nearly a day later.
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Satellites in densely packed constellations may crash into each other or other spacecraft.
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SpaceX plans to send a Dragon spacecraft to Mars as soon as 2018.
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As with Pluto, the spacecraft will be travelling far too fast to stop.
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Orbital developed the Cygnus spacecraft that delivers cargo to the International Space Station.
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The technique cannot be used to lift a spacecraft into a higher orbit.
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Its goal is not to find meteorites, but to protect spacecraft from collisions.
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In 2017, the Cassini spacecraft caught an image of Enceladus setting behind Saturn.
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Photo: NASA Earth, seen here from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit.
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The spacecraft hasn't been heard from since it tried to land on Mars.
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Prototype of Milner's "Starchip," the miniature spacecraft behind the billionaire's proposed interstellar voyage.
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How exactly does one move a spacecraft across the country, you might ask?
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It's funny the extremes that this spacecraft gets to experience during its lifetime.
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Falcon 9 second stage and THAICOM 8 spacecraft in nominal orbit and coast.
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But until then, the spacecraft still has a lot of work to do.
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It's a device that many spacecraft use to maintain their orientation in space.
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"For years, you would not find commercial logos on NASA spacecraft," says Pearlman.
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Others were taken when the spacecraft was flying thousands of kilometers from Mars.
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Bean was spacecraft commander of Skylab Mission II & devoted his retirement to painting.
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It's launching a spacecraft to the exotic black rock named Bennu (BEN-oo).
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Companies are also making spaceflight safer by building extra fail-safes into spacecraft.
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There aren't any cameras on Mars to record spacecraft coming in for landings.
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The heavier a spacecraft becomes, the harder it is to land on Mars.
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Hence the better panels are used in specialist roles, such as powering spacecraft.
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Juno broke the interplanetary distance record for solar-powered spacecraft on Wednesday morning.
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The ESA isn't waiting to receive a triumphant victory signal from its spacecraft.
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A "chipsat," an early version of the brain behind our future interstellar spacecraft.
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This is the second time India has sent a spacecraft to the Moon.
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NASA's Galileo spacecraft also observed the moon during its 1990s mission to Jupiter.
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NASA's Ranger spacecraft were designed to orbit the moon and document the surface.
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Many of the people now manning the screens actually helped build the spacecraft.
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Called Comet Interceptor, the mission will include a mothership and two "daughter" spacecraft.
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Warning lights were illuminated, and the spacecraft guidance system lost its attitude reference.
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The spacecraft accomplished its main goal by 2012, after finding nearly 5,000 exoplanets.
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The goal: to protect our satellites and spacecraft from cyberwarfare and missile attack.
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The spacecraft will skim a kilogram or so of material off the surface.
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A spacecraft left Baikonur in March in the first stage of the program.
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" Regulations will discourage "unauthorised access and interference with spacecraft, spaceports and associated infrastructure.
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There was no way to stop the spacecraft from crashing after passing Titan.
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Previous spacecraft have seen the far side, but none has landed on it.
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The NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by the dwarf planet in July 2015.
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Virgin Galactic's spacecraft holds up to six passengers along with the two pilots.
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This time around, the contracts include mass and volume requirements for each spacecraft.
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They are model airplanes, flying cameras, and alien spacecraft all rolled into one.
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This technology could eventually be used in lieu of rockets in future spacecraft.
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The other side, however, wants increased commercialization and increased use of reusable spacecraft.
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The basic problem with using light to drive a spacecraft is low efficiency.
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It's set to be the smallest spacecraft to ever land on the Moon.
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Previously, only the U.S., U.S.S.R, and China have landed spacecraft on the moon.
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These rockets push against the Earth's surface, reducing the speed of the spacecraft.
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Moon Express hopes to launch a small spacecraft with no crew in 2017.
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The second rule is not messing with other nations' spacecraft or space operations.
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Learn more about how these two spacecraft will pull off their stunts here.
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In June 2015, the lander started communicating sporadically with the Rosetta spacecraft again.
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A 42-year-old spacecraft is still sending us data about the sun.
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That spacecraft and its instruments have inspired future missions to these ocean worlds.
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Some believe Area 51 is researching and experimenting on aliens and their spacecraft.
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However, NASA does have the option to use the spacecraft for future missions.
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The adapter will allow future commercial spacecraft to automatically dock with the ISS.
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This is the most distant and most primitive world ever explored by spacecraft.
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After that, it will be a while before the spacecraft grabs its sample.
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She touted her work to better protect spacecraft when they reenter earth's atmosphere.
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The first is when the spacecraft takes its first clear photograph of Bennu.
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Rosetta, the first spacecraft to orbit a comet, flatlined at 7:19 a.m.
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So tech companies are experimenting with ways to grow food onboard a spacecraft.
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Next, they loaded the vials onto the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft in Kazakhstan.
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And it's an incredible feat for a spacecraft designed to last five years.
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So you have to be really creative about how you build your spacecraft.
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As it gets very close to the surface, the spacecraft must slow down.
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The Huygens remains the most distant landing of any human spacecraft in history.
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The spacecraft has slowed down enough to be captured into orbit around Jupiter.
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The spacecraft is slated to fly close to the icy moon 45 times.
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He has since worked with Boeing to develop and test the Starliner spacecraft.
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NASA is designing other spacecraft to search for life in these hidden oceans.
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As light particles reflect off that sail, they transfers momentum to the spacecraft.
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Nearly every spacecraft that has gone to Jupiter and beyond has used RTGs.
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But ESA has a plan to keep the two spacecraft nice and cool.
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Blue Origin's spacecraft is decked out with plush leather seats and massive windows.
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Elon Musk wants to launch a spacecraft to Mars as soon as 2018.
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A 180-day trip to Mars will only expose the spacecraft to about .
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This multivolume compendium of images taken by NASA Ranger spacecraft sold for $21,2750.
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NASA stated that the spacecraft checkout is expected to continue through the week.
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Its second spacecraft aims to land in 2019 near the moon's south pole.
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The Starliner spacecraft, launched on top of an Atlas 5 rocket on Dec.
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I'd rather design a spacecraft, submarines, commercial crafts, and crazy hotels and resorts.
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Ultima Thule will be the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft.
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The article also misstated the number of crew aboard the Apollo 7 spacecraft.
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The MarCO spacecraft relayed InSight's telemetry to Earth flawlessly, enabling the immediate celebration.
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"I think it's great," Dr. Squyres said afterward about the Blue Moon spacecraft.
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The spacecraft will eventually pass within 2000 million miles of the sun's surface.
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That will allow the spacecraft to collect some material from beneath the surface.
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Project Lyra's new mission proposal suggests launching the spacecraft as soon as 2030.
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Those are just some mysteries NASA's Juno spacecraft has picked up about Jupiter.
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The mission will also advance SpaceX's efforts to reuse parts of its spacecraft.
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The spacecraft became the first to enter interstellar space from Earth in 2012.
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These will not be spacecraft owned by NASA, but by SpaceX and Boeing.
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The Crew Dragon is the spacecraft designed to take human passengers to space.
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He became deputy director of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston in 22.
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All that debris poses a threat to astronauts and spacecraft, according to NASA.
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The spacecraft would be automated, but the travelers would undergo training for emergencies.
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NASA's two Voyager spacecraft flew through the Saturn system in 1980 and 1981.
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Any spacecraft, even one launched two decades ago, has unwanted microbial hitchhikers aboard.
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The spacecraft will have to take care of itself for stretches of time.
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Intriguing new findings from data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggest the possibility.
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Regolith measurements across the moon's surface could help future spacecraft avoid those problems.
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The SuperDracos can propel the spacecraft up and away from the decaying rocket.
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Most recently in 2019, testing revealed powering issues with two important spacecraft components.
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Starlink spacecraft are designed to link to four other satellites using laser beams.
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The Starliner spacecraft is designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station.
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The US has been launching spacecraft since 1950, but NASA formed in 1958.
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NASA scientists noted that the spacecraft might have been hidden in the shadows.
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Moses will advise on how to get around on board the spacecraft, too.
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The more complex a spacecraft, the more likely it will be to fail.
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But sending spacecraft to visit planets, of course, gives us far better photos.
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They can reach Earth in under half an hour and damage spacecraft electronics.
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When the spacecraft looked at the same region again, the smile had disappeared.
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SpaceX will next develop and flight-test orbital prototypes of its Starship spacecraft.
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The first spacecraft to fly past Jupiter was NASA's Pioneer 10 in 1973.
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Titan was investigated by NASA's Cassini spacecraft before its mission ended in 2017.
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Mission control was able to remotely rescue the spacecraft after its launch, though.
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In short, everybody's favorite spacecraft has just turned into one big galactic Frisbee.
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Previously, we could only see views like this if a spacecraft visited Saturn.
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The spacecraft had a successful trip to the International Space Station last year.
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