Sentence examples for experimental missions from inspiring English sources

The idea was to combine NASA's focus on experimental missions with NOAA's expertise in providing continuous weather data, translated into payloads to monitor climate.

Staff members working in National Security Space develop and conduct innovative experimental missions, build space instruments, and produce applications to meet warfighter and intelligence community needs.

It expects to launch its first experimental mission in 2017, and send its Prospector 1 autonomous craft to a near-Earth asteroid by the end of the decade, says Meagan Crawford, vice-president of strategic communications for DSI.

Launched in 2009, the satellite is on an experimental mission.

SpaceX has an Air Force launch on the manifest, which is possible pre-validation of the rocket only because it's an experimental mission, coming up later this year.

Local Army veteran Jim Roberts, 87, didn't know enough to be particularly afraid when he was plucked from his base in Fort Jackson to join an experimental mission in Nevada 64 years ago.

Because the whole point of this experimental mission is to find out how quickly the warmer waters around Greenland are melting the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

The plot turns on an experimental space mission in 2029, as humans and genetically altered apes get lost in an electromagnetic storm.

An experimental satellite mission termed atmospheric density detection and precise orbit determination (APOD) was developed by China and launched on 20 September 2015.

We test each FRE retrieval method using both simulated data and imagery from a new experimental space mission, the Bi-spectral InfraRed Detection (BIRD) small satellite, which has sensors specifically designed for the study of active fires.

These surveys began in 1978 with Nasa's experimental Coastal Zone Color Scanner mission.