Sentence examples for hypothetical missions from inspiring English sources

Back in the university lab, Rico Becker, a software developer with Corsair Engineering, which had written a program for the students, emphasized that the "missing persons" exercise was just one of many hypothetical missions that students would fly, and was purely theoretical.

However, this is not some far future technology for a hypothetical mission to Mars.

So in the early 1970s, he wrote a book about a hypothetical mission to a comet.

In their hypothetical mission, the architects posit a lunar base in the near-perpetual sunlight of the Moon's south pole that would be built by roving 3D printer robots.

One hypothetical mission included in the document, entitled "Expeditionary [Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance]/Strike Sortie Scenario," has the drone flying from a Canadian Forces base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, to scope out an insurgent base near the city.

The success of the team's unit rested on a culminating engineering design challenge wherein students would build a model "rescue vehicle" that needed to travel over varying terrains during hypothetical rescue missions.

NASA had such engines ready for a hypothetical manned mission to Mars to follow the Moon landings.

Instead, the main national security debate involved a nitpicking controversy about whether or not troops conducting hypothetical counter-terrorism missions in post-withdrawal Iraq should (hypothetically) be based in Iraq or somewhere else.

The Science Payload and Advanced Concepts Office (SCI-A) at the European Space Agency ESAA) conducts technology reference studies (TRSs), hypothetical science driven missions that are not currently part of the ESA science programme.

The method was applied to a hypothetical scenario of mission length ranging from 50 to 300 km.

A case study to investigate the fractionated spacecraft for a hypothetical earth observation mission is carried out with the proposed assessment tool, and the results show that fractionation degree and launch manifest have great influence on cost and NPV, and generally fractionated spacecraft is more advanced than its monolithic counterpart under uncertainty effect.