Sentences with phrase «bounces radio signals»

The lab will be running an experiment where it bounces radio signals off the ionosphere and then back down to the sea, hundreds of kilometers over the horizon.

15 To communicate over long distances, NATO and the National Weather Service still bounce radio signals off the ionized trails left by meteors when they enter Earth's atmosphere.

Beginning on April 6, 1965, radio astronomers Gordon Pettengill and Rolf Dyce used the large 305 - meter (1,000 - foot) radio telescope at Arecibo in Puerto Rico to bounce radio signals off the planet.

It's nice to know about for things like explaining the northern lights to your kids, but even the finicky old ionosphere we used to bounce our radio signals off of to get wireless communication past the horizon is quaint nowadays.

Not exact matches

Known as a passive communications satellite because it carried no electronics but rather acted as a giant signal reflector, it was used by Bell Labs engineers to successfully bounce telephone, radio and television signals off it.

A radio signal bouncing back and forth between the mirrors furnishes a reliable measurement of the distance between them.

Your process of elimination is fascinating: You initially considered that the pulse could be a satellite, radio interference, a signal bouncing off a corrugated steel building?

The signal bounced off the asteroid, and its radar echoes were received by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NRAO) 100 - meter (330 - foot) Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.

NASA scientists have used two giant, Earth - based radio telescopes to bounce radar signals off a passing asteroid and produce images of the peanut - shaped body as it approached close to Earth on 25 July.

NASA scientists used giant, Earth - based radio telescopes to bounce radar signals off the asteroid as it flew past Earth on 31 October at 17:00 UTC (~ 5 pm GMT) at about 1.3 lunar distances (302,500 miles, or 486,800 kilometres) from Earth.

On May 3, 2007, team of astronomers (including Jean - Luc Margot; Stan Peale; Igor V. Holin; Raymond F. Jurgens; and Martin A. Slade) announced new evidence that Mercury has a partially molten core using new observations of fluctuations in Mercury's spin obtained with radar signals bounced off the planet from Earth (with the 305 - meter Arecibo, the 34 - meter Goldstone, and the 100 - meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank radio telescopes).

Just like radar systems here on Earth, scientists instead actively produce a radio signal directed at an object like the asteroid Phaethon, then wait for that signal to bounce back and be detected like any other signal.

It can get better signal by using radar [and sending and bouncing a stronger radio signal off the target].

Radar, like lidar, sends out a signal and waits for it to bounce back, but it uses radio waves instead of light.