Sentence examples for prospecting mission from inspiring English sources

This paper provides an overview of a rover guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) architecture being developed to support a ground-ice prospecting mission to Mars.

The MVP project was conducted as a field campaign relevant to the RP lunar mission to provide science, payload, and operational lessons learned to the development of a real-time, short-duration lunar polar volatiles prospecting mission.

When two Standard Oil geologists entered Iraq on a prospecting mission, the British civil commissioner handed them over to the chief of police of Baghdad; in 1927 the British takeover paid a handsome dividend when oil was struck at Baba Gurgur, in the northern part of Iraq.

The first prospecting missions with what the company call FireFly and DragonFly probes could hitch a ride into space on the launches of large communications satellites, it said.

The Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen and Lunar Volatiles Extraction (RESOLVE) project aims to verify the presence of water and other volatiles on the Moon, and to serve as a precursor for future prospecting missions.

Foreign investors are already coming down to Latin America in early prospecting missions (many have been in the region before, but were scared off during the several macro-economic shocks that shook the region).

Both asteroid mining companies, Planetary Resources and DSI are currently focused on this exact aspect of the mission: prospecting asteroids to identify the most valuable interplanetary real estate.

Deep Space Industries aims to fly a series of low cost prospecting satellites in 2015 on missions of two to six months, with larger spacecraft embarking on round-trips to collect material a year later.

All of which raises the prospect of "mission creep" if the current campaign doesn't halt their advance.

There is little prospect of either mission ending soon.

But the continuing violence seemed to underscore nagging doubts about the prospects for their mission.