Sentence examples for classes of missions from inspiring English sources

The committee called for three classes of missions: small-scale projects costing under $325 million each, which, it said, should be launched every 18 months; midsize missions costing up to $650 million, to be sent off every two to three years; and a large, "flagship" project once a decade, similar to the current Cassini mission to Saturn, typically costing more than $1 billion.

This results in a combined application of a low-thrust manoeuvre and of a periodical solution in the CR3BP to realize a new class of missions to explore the Earth Moon neighbourhoods in a quite inexpensive way.

Topping that list of plans for NASA's most ambitious new "flagship" class of missions is the desire to bring back a set of carefully selected Martian rock and soil samples for detailed study in laboratories here on Earth.

For each class of mission the paper gives an overview of the major system requirements, the trade-off for the GNC architecture definition, the proposed GNC design and the assessment of the performances.

The first in a new class of large missions (those costing a billion euros or more) will be selected next week.

According to a recent press release from the NASA Ames Research Center: "ChipSats such as the Sprite represent a disruptive new space technology that has the potential to both open space access to hobbyists and students and enable a new class of science missions".

Drag-Free Satellites (DFS) are a class of scientific satellite missions designed for research on fundamental physics as well as geodesy.

A new class of distributed space missions is emerging which requires hundreds to thousands of satellites for real-time, distributed, multi-point sensing to accomplish long-awaited remote sensing and science objectives.

It specifies three classes of heads of mission: (1) ambassadors or nuncios accredited to heads of state and other heads of missions of equivalent rank, (2) envoys, ministers, and internuncios accredited to heads of state, and (3) chargés d'affaires accredited to ministers of foreign affairs.

The L-Class missions of Esa are part of the agency's mandatory programme.

This creates an uneasy mixture of missions.