Sentence examples for class mission from inspiring English sources

Athena is what Esa terms a "Large Class" mission - its biggest and most expensive space science ventures.

The Hera mission is a proposed Discovery class mission to collect three samples from each of three near-Earth asteroids.

The SPC gathering was asked to approve a set of scientific "themes" that will guide the selection of Esa's next Large Class mission opportunities.

This might increase the payload mass fraction (e.g. additional Cubesats and/or additional scientific payloads on the main bus) for the same 100 kg class mission.

On February 17 , 1996 the first NASA Discovery Class Mission to launch, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft, began its journey to the asteroid Eros.

Balloons have been identified as a key element in an ongoing Flagship class mission study at NASA, with an assumed launch date between 2020 and 2025.

The spacecraft for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Discovery class missions, of which these are the first two, carry price tags of up to $150 million each, but this is far less than their recent predecessors cost.

Resistance exercise coupled with vibration (WBV) has prevented muscle atrophy during 56-day bed rest [29] and may provide a simple intervention [28] suitable for exploration class missions.

MDS and WBV afforded the best protection against isolation-induced loss of strength and thus may have virtue in exploration class missions.

Indeed, the advanced resistive exercise device (ARED) on the ISS appears promising [26] but it is unsuitable for exploration class missions because of size/mass.

We discuss the use of the Dragon system to support NASA Discovery class missions to Mars and focus in particular on Dragon's applications for drilling missions.