Sentence examples for retrieval missions from inspiring English sources

For betting purposes, however, the field contains rather too many horses on similar retrieval missions.

Some crash or collide, forcing American troops to undertake risky retrieval missions before the Taliban can claim the drone's weaponry.

It also trains California sea lions – the animal kingdom's marines – to rush to the scene of the potential danger, though usually retrieval missions are left to the larger mammals who serve as the navy's explosive-ordnance disposal divers.

In particular, this paper surveys the prospects and challenges of detumbling large debris objects near Geostationary Earth Orbit for active debris remediation, and investigates if such electrostatic tractors are suitable for small asteroids being considered for asteroid retrieval missions.

The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg ethics committee approved this study and waived the need for formal informed consent from the patients' legal guardians or relatives due to the urgent nature of the retrieval missions of the critically ill and the purely observational nature of our study (Reg number 328_12 B).

If this retrievable mass is larger than the actual mass of the asteroid, the asteroid retrieval mission for this particular object is said to be feasible.

The agency recently received more than 400 proposals in response to a call for an asteroid retrieval mission; a public workshop for these plans is scheduled for September.

There is a second, overlapping agenda at work: the Nasa human spaceflight programme needs to find a target rock for what is now being called the Asteroid Redirect Mission (formerly the Asteroid Retrieval Mission), or ARM.

Instead, Camelot is on a retrieval mission, in search of the form that took him five lengths clear in the Derby as he lines up against older horses for the first time.

Despite some early dramatic stories hinting at a disaster, and some appalling weather conditions locally, all 26 were found safe and well after a retrieval mission mounted by emergency services, including mountain rescue and the coastguard.

This secret nuclear retrieval mission in Prague, underwritten with $2 million from the United States and completed on Monday and Tuesday, was one element of a newly reinvigorated effort to secure nuclear material marooned by the collapse of the Soviet Union.