Sentence examples for sample mission from inspiring English sources

It will match speed with the asteroid and perform a touch and go sample mission sometime in late 2019.

It will match speed with the asteroid and perform a touch and go sample mission sometime in late 2019, grabbing surface regolith or soil from Bennu.

Another U-2, on a "routine" air sampling mission to the North Pole, got lost over the Soviet Union.

When the sampling mission is done, the sample can be pulled back to the spacecraft with the anchor.

The mission, Asteroid Sampling Mission (ASM), consists of two parts: (i) flyby and remote sensing of a Q-type asteroid, and (ii) sampling of a V-type asteroid.

An unmanned sampling mission to the moon is pencilled in for 2017, with the objective of gathering lunar soil and returning it to Earth.

The approach was first used in a project called Stardust@home, in which more than 30,000 amateur scientists have carried out more than 100 million searches to identify interstellar dust in collectors returned by the NASA Stardust comet sampling mission.

Hayabusa 2 is, as you might guess, a sequel to the original Hayabusa, which like this one was an asteroid sampling mission.

The agency also has a number of missions under development, such as the OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sampling mission due to launch in 2016.

Two oceanographic sampling missions are devised to help determine the relative benefits of each configuration.

That means they can be used for sampling missions, and to collect data from remote areas.