Sentence examples for discovery class from inspiring English sources

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.

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

While the targets accessed via the scheme shown are limited, this strategy enables even a NASA DISCOVERY class, small spacecraft to perform the valuable CNSR mission.

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.

This study recognizes the variety of worlds that have been opened up to NASA and its partners by small, relatively inexpensive, missions of the Discovery class, as well as the reshaping of our ideas about life in the solar system that have been occasioned by the Galileo spacecraft's discovery that an ocean under the ice on Jupiter's moon Europa might, indeed, exist.

A combination of class discovery, class distinction and class prediction approaches was used to analyze gene expression in microdissected epithelial and stroma samples.

Putative nuclear SNPs were sampled from a range of discovery classes defined by differences in depth of coverage and observed minor allele count (Table 1), with efforts to avoid clustered SNPs and those predicted within or proximal to homopolymers.

It will be the first solar-powered, Discovery-class mission to the outer planets.

The new rule is a response to a current Discovery-class mission with no major U.S.-made instruments.

The mission design enabled sample return from two bodies at the relatively low cost of a Discovery-class mission.

The instruments selected represent a careful balance between focused scientific goals, and programmatic restrictions imposed by a Discovery-class mission.