Sentences with phrase «u.s. space satellites»

Beginning in the late 1950s, PV cells were used to power U.S. space satellites.

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Failure now would put thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at risk, and SpaceX has become crucial not just to the U.S. space program but also to countries and companies around the world hoping to put up satellites.

WASHINGTON, March 29 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday it had approved an application by Elon Musk's privately held Space Exploration Holdings, also known as SpaceX, to provide satellite broadband services in the United States and globally.

Over the past year, the FCC has approved requests by OneWeb, Space Norway, and Telesat to access the U.S. market to provide broadband services using satellite technology.

In 2009, after two telecom satellites smashed into each other, the U.S. National Research Council commissioned a team of experts to examine whether NASA was doing enough to address the growing problem of space junk.

The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

The satellite, now in lunar orbit, carried Indian instruments as well as those from the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA and Bulgaria — an arrangement far removed from the nationalist striving of the U.S. — Soviet space Space Agency (ESA), NASA and Bulgaria — an arrangement far removed from the nationalist striving of the U.S. — Soviet space space race.

(The U.S. Air Force uses powerful radars to catalog and track most space debris to provide early warnings for astronauts and satellites, but Sprites are so small that they can slip through that surveillance unseen.)

Technology to jam transmissions, for example, appears to underpin the Air Force's Counter Communications System, the U.S.'s sole acknowledged offensive capability against satellites in space.

Kääb already had before - and - after imagery from Landsat and Sentinel - 2, U.S. government and European Space Agency satellites that have, respectively, 30 - meter and 10 - meter resolution and revisit intervals of 16 and 10 days.

NASA and the Joint Space Operations Center of U.S. Strategic Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., are keeping a close watch on the falling satellite, but will only be able to pinpoint its actual crash zone to within about 6,000 miles (10,000 km) about two hours before re-entry.

Valuable space assets underpin our national security, help us forecast weather and predict natural disasters, enable GPS and satellite TV, spur our economy and industrial base, and keep U.S. troops and allies safe and...

NASA space junk experts have refined the forecast for the anticipated death plunge of a giant satellite, with the U.S. space agency now predicting the 6 1/2 - ton climate probe will plummet to Earth around Sept. 23, a day earlier than previously reported.

The Space Surveillance Telescope (SST), developed by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is to be used to protect U.S. and international assets and commercial and international satellites in orbit around Earth.

The number of space objects has shot up in the past five years because of China's 2007 test of an antisatellite weapon and the 2009 crash between Russian and U.S. satellites.

On October 28, NASA launched the National Polar - orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project, a prototype of the new generation of satellites, Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), that will be the backbone of U.S. space - based weather and climate observations.

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), U.S. — European Space Agency — Canadian satellite observatory proposed as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and scheduled to be launched by an Ariane 5 rocket in 2020 at the earliest.

Using funding from the European Space Agency, the researchers, from Europe, the U.S. and India, concluded that using satellite data in this way may be «the most efficient way to monitor the ocean surface» — yet the «potential capabilities of space - based measurements» in ocean acidification research «remain largely untapped.&rSpace Agency, the researchers, from Europe, the U.S. and India, concluded that using satellite data in this way may be «the most efficient way to monitor the ocean surface» — yet the «potential capabilities of space - based measurements» in ocean acidification research «remain largely untapped.&rspace - based measurements» in ocean acidification research «remain largely untapped.»

Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), U.S. - U.K. - Netherlands satellite launched in 1983 that was the first space observatory to map the entire sky at infrared wavelengths.

WHAT: When their space shuttle is destroyed by hurtling debris from a damaged Russian satellite, U.S. astronauts Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) are left adrift in space with limited oxygen and a minimal chance of survival.

On August 7 that year, the U.S. satellite Explorer VI transmitted the first picture of Earth from space.

During the 1970s, a long - range tracking system for radars that Mr. Stodola invented was used in NASA's Project Mercury, the first - U.S. - man - in - space program, and for the first air force surveillance satellite, Discoverer.

Scientists from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and DOE made satellite observations, which included sea surface height changes alongside data of ocean temperatures accumulated from 1970 to 2004.

The big picture of Indian groundwater comes from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission, launched in March 2002 as a joint effort by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the German Aerospace Center.

Sea - surface height satellite data came from NASA's Seasat (July, August 1978), U.S. Navy's Geosat (1985 to 1988), and the European Space Agency's European Remote Sensing Satellite1 / 2 and NASA's TOPEX / Poseidon (1992 to present).