Sentence examples for robotic mission from inspiring English sources

The Curiosity landing is the "hardest NASA robotic mission ever attempted," Dr. Grunsfeld said.

How will your robotic mission with Lockheed lay the ground for a future manned mission?

(A servicing mission could attach rockets for eventual controlled re-entry far more easily and cheaply than a robotic mission).

The robotic mission will demonstrate some of the technologies that are required for permanent settlement on Mars.

Underfinancing, including an unanticipated bill for Katrina damage, left the program with a clear goal (the Moon) but weak technology and robotic mission foundations.

It will be a robotic mission designed to land on the lunar surface and send back samples of moon rock to the Earth for Chinese scientists to analyse.

A proposed robotic mission would be "highly complex" with inherent difficulties" associated with conducting delicate operations by remote control that have never been tried, it said.

But if a robotic mission could not install the new instruments, which is the hardest task, "I would be disappointed," he said.

Dr. Steven Beckwith, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs the telescope's science program, said a robotic mission appeared to be technically feasible.

"The proposed robotic mission to Hubble will essentially be an experimental test program that is expected to accomplish specific programmatic objectives at the same time," the panel wrote.

For decades, Britain steered clear of human space missions, investing instead in robotic missions and satellites.