Sentence examples for mission duration from inspiring English sources

"Experience has shown that it is extremely difficult to train, select and evaluate a crew team without those individuals having had experience living and working in an isolated confined environment for an extended period of time, preferable for the full mission duration, but for at least six months," the study says.

The short overall mission duration reduced program costs.

The mission duration will be one Martian year.

The initial mission duration, before any extension, would be three years.

Pareto fronts for fuel burn, NOx emissions and mission duration are obtained.

GEOSTEP could be launched in 2002; the nominal mission duration is at least four months.

However, for mission durations longer than twenty-six days the Stirling engine power system may require less total mass than batteries.

Space food development began with highly engineered foods that met rigid requirements imposed by spacecraft design and short mission durations.

In the mission architecture proposed in this study, the crew vehicle directly commutes between Earth and the asteroid in order to keep mission durations for the crew short.

With the continued expansion of human presence into space, typical mission durations will routinely exceed six months and extend to distances beyond the Moon.

A lithium combustion based power system has been proposed to increase landed mission durations for Venus and other extreme environment targets.