The phrase "a preliminary science" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a field of study that serves as an introduction or foundation for more advanced scientific disciplines.
Example: "Biology can be considered a preliminary science for understanding more complex subjects like genetics and ecology."
Alternatives: "an introductory science" or "a foundational science".
Starting from preliminary science objectives and payload requirements, three reference missions in the small/medium class range are discussed, based on a re-adaptation of the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft.
Preliminary science data will be released after six months, and after one year we need to demonstrate, using ground-truth observations, that the data meet the accuracy requirements agreed upon by the project and NASA sponsors.
The preliminary science results of the dive, which were released at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco, suggest that the team had found many species that are new to science.
According to Figure 3 16 in the Apollo 11 Preliminary Science Report, the distance he covered in this time is 22 meters.
Classification is basic to all science as a preliminary step in reducing data to manageable proportions and in moving toward a systematic understanding of a subject matter.
His book Die modernen Theorien der Chemie (1864; "Modern Chemical Theory"), a lucid treatise on the fundamental principles of chemical science, contained a preliminary scheme for the arrangement of elements by atomic weight and discussed the relation between the atomic weights and the properties of the elements.
Against this view Lask contends that the generalizations carried out by the natural sciences presuppose a preliminary 'devitalization' (Ertötung) and 'quantification' of reality, in which the dimension of significance and value is put out of play (Lask 1924, 244).
After the meeting she said the EPA was still having a "preliminary interim discussion" about climate change science policies.
But Rosetta has continued to operate, and her reports have now been distilled into a series of papers, just published in Science, that give a preliminary assessment of what the two craft have found.The comet's surface, as Nicolas Thomas of the University of Bern has discovered, is surprisingly complex.
The White House released a preliminary budget blueprint this month confirming the science community's worst fears.
A preliminary clinical trial detailed this month in Science Translational Medicine marks a significant advance in creating a fully automated system.
