The roadmaps illustrate not only the technology procurement (to TRL-8) paths for specific missions envisaged in the present timeframe, but also the achievement for Europe of technological milestones enabling operational capabilities and building blocks, essential for current and future Exploration missions.
Moving supplies is also a mission envisaged for Boston Dynamic's Big Dog, which has captured public attention for its eerily mammal-like movements.
For this purpose, a set of improved WTC, using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) derived Path Delay (GPD) algorithm, was envisaged for the main six altimetric missions: the so-called reference missions (TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2) and the three ESA missions (ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat).
This article describes the characterisation activities of the landing sites currently envisaged for the Lunar Lander mission of the European Space Agency.
Publishing is an extension of the BBC's mission that was never envisaged, indeed would have been inconceivable, in its founding charter nearly 90 years ago.
The rover was originally envisaged as a small-ish technology demonstration mission which could show that Europe was able to land on the Red Planet, trundle around to interesting places, and drill beneath the surface.
This provides a glimpse into what at the macro and meso levels was considered to be an acceptable micro-level interpretation of the programme, and indicates that the mission that the North West London CLAHRC envisaged for itself was acceptable in terms of the vision of the national CLAHRC programme.
Some of the advisers contend that the counterinsurgency mission being conducted is far broader than what was envisaged by Obama when he authorized the surge.
It is envisaged that the probes would be dispersed by landers or rovers as mission support instruments rather than primary science instruments and would be used in hostile environments and rugged terrains where the lander/rover could not be risked (see Fig. 1).
Nonetheless, to accomplish its challenging scientific objective, the NGGM mission concept envisages a wide range of innovations, with respect to the past or flying missions, both on technological and automatic control side.
