Sentences with phrase «called iridium»

A new currency, called Iridium, will also be introduced and you can be used to upgrade weapons and vehicles.

Last week a new company, called Iridium Satellite LLC, revived the network for at least two years with a $ 72 million contract from the Department of Defense.

Not exact matches

To protect itself from creditors while it reorganized, Iridium had entered Chapter 11 two weeks before Conxus called it quits.

And the Iridium satellite network is launching 66 new satellites that will supply constant aircraft location data via a service called Aireon from 2017.

The plan calls for using four pairs of «test masses» made of at least three different materials — such as beryllium, niobium and platinum - iridium — which would be kept in a vacuum and cooled to just a few kelvins, reducing temperature fluctuations that can degrade measurement accuracy.

In a series of papers, Firestone and his colleagues claimed various kinds of evidence for the hypothesis, including deposits of the element iridium (rare on Earth but abundant in meteorites), microscopic diamonds (called nanodiamonds), and magnetic particles in deposits at sites supposedly dated to about 12,800 years ago.

The iridium spike appeared in sediments 65 million years old, at the so - called K - T boundary between the Cretaceous and the Tertiary periods.

In 1980, however, Nobel laureate Luis Alvarez and others called attention to a thin layer of iridium — possible material from an asteroid — found all over the world in rocks from the time of the dinosaur extinctions.

AMPERE already shares information with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center, and Iridium's next - generation satellite network — called, appropriately, Iridium NEXT — is expected to work more closely with NOAA, NASA and other government entities.

In the same way that iridium marks fallout from the Chicxulub impact, the Deccan volcanism has a calling card of its own.

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The «Spirit of Enderby» is equipped with the Iridium satellite phone for phone calls and for receiving and sending emails.

Iridium phone calls ceased in February 2016, but a «service call,» that is, a helicopter site visit fixed the station.