The lander is wrapped in deflated airbags, cocooned within a protective aeroshell. |
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Rosetta is the first probe ever designed to enter orbit around a comet's nucleus and release a lander onto its surface. |
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The mission will send a lander and a rover to the red planet to carry out exobiology and geophysical analysis of the Martian environment. |
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The lander will return close-up pictures of the comet's nucleus, drill into the dark organic crust, and sample the primordial ices and gases. |
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The tiny lander has not been heard from since it was ejected from a European Space Agency orbiter in mid-December. |
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This set includes toy models of Sojourner, the Pathfinder spacecraft, and a lander. |
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Atop the external tank would sit a rocket stage and a 40-ton automated cargo lander covered by a streamlined shroud. |
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The new space vehicle will use a capsule similar to Apollo's and lander capable of carrying four astronauts to the moon's surface. |
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The new millennium begins with the launch of a new orbiter and a lander, ideally with a rover payload. |
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A future mission should treat a Mars lander as an integral part of the whole spacecraft rather than one of its instruments, the report said. |
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Radio silence is now being kept until January 22 when the lander if it is still functioning is programmed to send out signals automatically. |
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The cargo lander would include an aerobrake heat shield and a nuclear reactor on a robot truck. |
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Twenty seconds later, it will jettison the bottom half of its aeroshell, exposing the lander. |
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But, once again, the orbiter failed to pick up a signal from the lander, ESA officials announced. |
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It comprises a large orbiter, which is designed to operate for a decade at large distances from the Sun, and a small lander. |
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Rosetta will reach the comet in 2014, enter into orbit and deliver a lander, Philae, onto the surface. |
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The Beagle 2 team has revised its plans for trying to communicate with the lander, postponing the date for the end of radio silence by two days. |
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The team also filmed wolf fish and deep-sea sharks, which fought over mackerel bait attached to the lander. |
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The command ship accommodated three astronauts and the lunar lander only two. |
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Researchers reviewed features seen in several images that they believe could be the lander and its protective aeroshell. |
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These clamps are extra attachments that ensure the lander stays perfectly fixed to the spacecraft during the launch and is not affected by launch vibrations. |
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The initial covariance matrices of each lander were set to correspond to a 15 by 8 kilometer landing ellipse with a semimajor axis in the East-West direction. |
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You can see the lander in a fish-eye view that goes all the way out to the entire horizon. |
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However, the lander lost contact with mission control and its mother ship after touching down on the Martian surface at Christmas and has not been heard from since. |
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The unmanned lander, called Philae, was launched from Rosetta, a European probe in orbit around the comet. |
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In November the mother ship released its lander, Philae, which appeared to descend to the surface successfully. |
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Lack of administrative staff has been causing delays in the modernization of rural areas and the food industry in the five new lander. |
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A recent Mars lander scraped the ground and under a couple of centimetres of dust it found a smooth white, icy surface. |
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Measuring their speed will reveal information about the wind high above the lander. |
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In that mission, Philae follows the Deep Impact probe, which did not include a lander. |
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The solar-powered robotic lander will manipulate a 2,35 metre arm to scoop up samples of underground ice and soil lying above the ice. |
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There's little chance that the lander could ever conduct scientific observations, says Callas. |
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A good lunar lander or Pong-type game was all you needed to strike it rich! |
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One of the main instruments on the Phoenix lander is a small but powerful scoop that can be used to scrape away the surface sand to see what is buried underneath. |
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Phoenix entered the Martian atmosphere at a speed of nearly 5.8 kilometers per second, kicking off a seven-minute series of events designed to slow the lander to 0.002 kilometers per second before it reached the ground. |
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Now the lander is busy meting out its power to analyze soil samples, collect atmospheric data, and conduct other activities before fall and winter stop Phoenix cold. |
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Nexans' electrical harnesses were also installed on the Mars Express probe, which visits Mars and deploys a lander to analyze ground samples for signs of life. |
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The ExoMars 2016 lander ejected its parachute too early and its three clusters of retrorockets fired for about three seconds before switching off. |
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The orbitor will make a general cartography of the nucleus, then the lander module will carry out a phase of close observation before landing on the comet nucleus. |
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One of these is the Phoenix lander, which analyzed Martian polar soil for water, chemical, and mineralogical constituents related to biological processes. |
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In 1830 Lander solved the vexed question of where the Niger debouched into the sea. |
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Their toe-to-toe battle set off mayhem around them, and when things eventually died down, Lander yellow-carded both players. |
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I was told that they shot down myalls up and down the Lander River for many miles. |
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Lander just stared at her openly and played with the third strawberry in between his fingers before taking a nibble of the fruit. |
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But the effect of her forgetfulness was that her successor, Stephen Lander, took the heat of some searing criticism for decisions for which he had no responsibility. |
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The designated leaders so far include superstars like Harold Varmus, a Nobel laureate, and Eric Lander, genome meister. |
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