Sentence examples for upgraded mission from inspiring English sources

In 1999, a revised and technologically upgraded mission proposal, dubbed Deep Impact, was accepted and funded as part of NASA's Discovery Program of low-cost spacecraft.

The last upgrade mission for Hubble in its planned 20-year life is scheduled for 2004.

In 2009, astronauts carried out an upgrade mission that added even better spectacles to Hubble's view.

The next, and last, upgrade mission for Hubble during its planned 20-year life is scheduled for 2004.

Think about how you would explain to, say, a starving Somali refugee that you cut off funding for the UNICEF programme that is keeping her and her children alive because the organisation upgraded its Palestinian mission from "observer" status after the UN recognised Palestinian statehood.

Rather than disappearing like its three counterparts, the Toronto observatory was upgraded, and its mission was expanded as it became a meteorological station (see Meteorological Service of Canada) under the direction of the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries.

Just like others in the Eastern bloc, the Czechoslovaks cut their diplomatic ties with Israelis in the wake of the Six-Day War in 1967.Throughout 1970s and 1980s, Czechoslovakia championed the Palestinian cause; the Palestine Liberation Organization opened an office in Prague in 1981, which was upgraded to a diplomatic mission two years later.

An upgrade programme, Project Cerberus, resulted in the Sea King AEW fleet being upgraded with a new mission system based around the improved Searchwater 2000AEW radar from 2002 onwards.

The depression intensified into a tropical storm at 1800 UTC on August 11; however, operationally it was not upgraded until a reconnaissance mission by the hurricane hunters found flight-level winds of 50 mph.

After launch by in 1990, four subsequent Space Shuttle missions repaired, upgraded, and replaced systems on the telescope.

In a statement on Tuesday, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican of Florida, urged the Obama administration to "make clear that any decision to upgrade the Palestinian mission's status by Unesco or any other U.N. entity will lead to a cutoff of U.S. funds to that entity".