Sentences with phrase «better than satellite»

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Current broadband satellites, such as those from DirecTV and Dish Network, offer latency speeds around 600 milliseconds at best — many times slower than the 25 to 30 millisecond speeds SpaceX is expected to offer, according to FCC documents.

«It's not obvious having lots of small satellites is better than having a big satellite,» he said.

We think the combination of satellite and IP is better than any single solution, whether it's Spotify or Pandora and so on.

In one well - publicized deal Motorola was pumping more than a billion dollars into Iridium, a satellite - based phone and paging company aiming to span every inch of the earth.

Planet Labs, for instance, makes smaller satellites than Skybox, so while it can send more «birds» into space, its imagery will never be as good.

Simple, inexpensive media such as radio, local telephones, and newspapers may suit the needs of a developing nation far better than television, satellites and big - city newspapers.

Many satellite players can not afford to use gut, which gives a better «feel» than cheaper nylon stringing.

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However, Ling notes that Pan's team recovered only about one photon out of every 6 million sent from the satellite — far better than ground - based experiments but still far too few for practical quantum communication.

A separate analysis of Israel was not possible since the Kyl - Bingaman Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 prohibits private companies from selling high - resolution satellite imagery of locations in Israel at better than 2.5 meter resolution.

GeoEye's IKONOS, currently its premier satellite, provides resolution at better than one meter, but the company plans this August to launch GeoEye - 1, a polar orbiting satellite equipped with a camera that can capture up to 700,000 square kilometers of black - and - white and 350,000 square kilometers of color imagery a day.

More than a decade ago, the U.S. Congress passed the Kyl - Bingaman amendment, which prohibits U.S. companies from selling commercial satellite imagery of Israel that is better than similar imagery from other commercial sources; in practice this has meant that imagery of Israel is degraded to two meters, a restriction not imposed on any images of the United States.

Indeed, while the U.S. government prohibits sale of satellite imagery with ground resolution better than a half - meter, no such rule applies to images from nonsatellite sources.

These so - called electro - optical satellites produced images at resolutions better than 1 meter (about 3 feet)-- detailed enough to show individual cars and revealing such secrets as a new Soviet aircraft carrier under construction at a Black Sea shipyard.

New Scientist magazine reports that Jet Propulsion Lab researcher Adrian Stoica told a meeting in England last month that gait analysis from satellites should make it possible to identify people by their walk and because of the angle of the satellite you have a better chance of getting the image of the shadow than of the actual walk.

He and his team used InSAR satellites to study surface changes following wastewater injection at two sets of east Texas wells separated by less than 15 kilometers.

«The weird thing that we're finding is if we actually go out and measure the masses of the satellites that we can see, little satellite galaxies, dwarf galaxies that we can see, if we measure those masses, those masses are actually smaller than a good number of the dark matter clumps that we predict should be there.»

JPSS - 1 would acquire a «much better quality» temperature and moisture profile than those of geostationary weather satellites, says JPSS Deputy Director Ajay Mehta.

To determine just how well satellites capture the big picture of forest damage, Nepstad and colleagues at Brazil's Amazon Institute for Environmental Research in Belém convinced more than 1300 sawmill owners in the Amazon to estimate how much wood they harvested in 1996 and 1997.

Daytime satellite images, like this one of the border between rich and poor neighborhoods in Nairobi, do a better job of predicting poverty than images taken at night.

As the team reports online today in Science, daytime satellite images are dramatically better than nighttime images for mapping African poverty.

With the proliferation of satellite - based communications that enable global positioning systems (GPS) as well as certain Internet, television and phone services in the past few decades, «we're more reliant on space technology now than we ever were before,» says APL scientist and principal AMPERE investigator Brian Anderson.

A new study using data from NASA satellite missions finds that, although the long - term water picture for the Aral Sea watershed in Central Asia remains bleak, short - term prospects are better than previously thought.

Wingo says that the salvaged satellite would provide 10 times more than the minimum requirements outlined in the RFI — enough to service other national programs in Antarctica as well.

The company's involvement could be good news for people in remote parts of the world, because O3b satellites provide a superior (and cheaper) way to deliver high - speed Internet than do conventional satellites, the MIT Technology Review said.

Jindong Zhang, a post-doctoral research associate in CSIS, spent several months over a period of four years in Wolong dodging landslides, mudslides and rubble strewn roads to survey forest recovery at a finer scale than can be observed from satellites and getting a better handle on the nuances of tree species, height and soil conditions.

The high - decibel, screeching roar of this gas flare blasting from a pipe at an oil well is repeated at more than 1,500 wells across the Bakken — throwing off enough light to be seen from orbiting satellites.

These spacecraft have better instruments than previous satellites for observing waves.

The mysterious origins of cosmic rays that slam into the Earth?s atmosphere could soon be revealed, thanks to a better ground - based sensor that costs less than balloons or satellites.

The test satellite performed even better than the scientists and engineers expected.

Overall, HiSeq2000 performs better than SOLiD 4 and 5500xl SOLiD in nearly all categories except for satellite regions (p - value 0.005 HiSeq2000 vs. SOLiD 4), and even outperforms Complete Genomics (both at full and at 30x coverage) in simple repeat regions (p - value 0.0386).

Howarth places heavy weight on the value of an analysis of satellite measurements, saying it provides better data than aircraft measurements over a longer period of time.

This well - grilled planet, discovered in 2010 with France's CoRoT satellite, lies some 480 light - years away, and has a diameter 70 percent larger than Earth's, with nearly five times the mass.

By the film's climactic sequence, a frantic and deadly affair that is observed in part through the impassive eye in the sky that governments deploy via satellite and in part out the window of a speeding SUV, Syrianahas become as deeply disturbing as any conspiracy thriller, even if it's less satisfying than most of the good ones.

More than just reading about the technology, there are science projects that allow students to understand the science behind satellites, as well as interactive online exploration that are a part of these lessons.

As a value proposition, it's hard to ignore the LT. Sure it is over three grand more than the LS +, but you do get satellite navigation, rain - sensing wipers, button entry and engine start as well as self - parking and side blind spot alert.

The stereo system doesn't have a satellite radio option, but other than that, it's very good.

It doesn't get much better than this 2014 RAM 1500 Big Horn, which boasts a Bluetooth, braking assist, hill start assist, stability control, traction control, Sirius satellite radio, anti-lock brakes, dual airbags, side air bag system, and digital display.

It doesn't get much better than this 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited, which boasts a push button start, remote starter, a leather interior, heated seats, stability control, traction control, and Sirius satellite radio.

Maybe a good, nine - speaker stereo with wireless headphones, satellite radio and perhaps a hard drive of, say, 30 gigabytes that can store more than 4,000 songs?

It doesn't get much better than this 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Altitude, which boasts a push button start, a navigation system, stability control, traction control, and Sirius satellite radio.

While lesser variants miss out on MZD Connect and Active Driving Display, the Genki flagship is better - specified than VW's Polo, all versions of which come with a smaller five - inch touch - screen but no satellite - navigation.

Still, the satellite - navigation, now by TomTom, is better than before, and the Mirror Screen feature allows decent smartphone integration through MirrorLink, Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.

The sound system delivers much better digital sound than before, such as when playing music from a smartphone via the USB connection, but satellite radio still sounds a bit muddy despite JBL's early involvement in the car's gestation.

Given their expertise in speakers and their Clari - Fi technology, which excels at improving the quality of compressed music (satellite radio being the worst offender), Harman in - car audio routinely sounds better than anything else in the market.

The «core» portion deploys strategies that should at least match the performance of the stock market, while the «satellite» portion of capital deploys strategies that can provide higher returns than mainstream stock market indices, and hence better than the «core.»

Internet speeds will be improved through a partnership with O3b Networks, whose satellites will beam WiFi directly to the ship, making internet connectivity almost as good as the one you experience at home and certainly more than on any other cruise ship in the world.

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All rooms include air - conditioning, ceiling fan, IDD phone for international calls and satellite TV with more than 50 international channels including the best in news, sport and drama.

With more than $ 3 billion worth of art on display at last year's Art Basel and a host of «satellite» art shows taking place all over town, there are treasures to be had at this year's fairs, but knowing a good «get» when you see one sometimes requires a little help.