Sentences with phrase «communications satellites»

A European rocket will launch two communications satellites today (April 5) in its first action since a Jan. 25 anomaly, and you can watch the flight live.

A European rocket bounced back from a minor January anomaly with a picture - perfect launch of two commercial communications satellites today (April 5).

The FCC has denied a space startup permission to launch a collection of communications satellites after discovering that it had already launched some — after being told not to.

>> Blasting people and equipment into space itself creates GHG's which we don't need any more of in the atmosphere and uses scarcer and scarcer energy resources — such should be mostly restricted to vital research and communications satellites, if that.

Airplanes have provided easy access to almost anywhere in the world, and communications satellites have connected us all in an electronic web.

That is good news for operators of communications satellites.

Communications systems include television stations, communications satellites, telephone networks and the Internet.

They were born, after all, before television, jet planes, and communications satellites.

It also provides an excellent timeline on the evolution of communications satellites.

Includes assessments of the following DOD space programs: Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) communications satellites, Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS), Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIIA, National Polar - orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIF, Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) High, Space - Based Space Surveillance Block 10, and the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT).

In the near future, communications satellites could provide the whole world with broadband internet.

The sun's «weather» is of interest to solar physicists because it can create adverse conditions for space travelers, communications satellites and even electrical systems on Earth.

This is a little over one tenth the distance to the Moon and just above the orbital altitude of communications satellites.

American companies now build about 70 per cent of the world's commercial communications satellites.

Its closest point to Earth (67,000 miles or 108,000 kilometers) is about triple the distance of geosynchronous orbit, where most communications satellites operate.

Steve Dorfman, president of GM Hughes Telecommunications and Space, a leading builder of communications satellites, says American companies should be allowed to use the cheapest rockets to launch satellites, regardless of where they are built.

At AT&T's Bell Laboratories, John Pierce — a scientist «so important he named the transistor the transistor,» Rosen says respectfully — had proposed a fleet of low - altitude communications satellites.

India launched its most powerful rocket to date on 5 June and an Ariane 5 rocket put two communications satellites into orbit on 2 June, which comprised the heaviest and most expensive commercial payload ever.

That happened in 2003, when the unexpected blast knocked out communications satellites and interfered with airplane navigation systems.

Communications satellites in the high - altitude geostationary orbit can not be brought down practically.

A CONSTELLATION of next - generation communications satellites has a surprise in store for the environment.

The expensive, dangerous business of rocketing people and cargo into space would become obsolete as elevators climb the ribbon and hoist occupants to any height they fancy: low, for space tourism; geosynchronous, for communications satellites; or high, where Earth's rotation would help fling spacecraft to the moon, Mars, or beyond.

That star, called Eta Carinae, could explode like SN 2006gy, which «probably wouldn't be good for Earth,» Corcoran says, because the event could destroy communications satellites and damage the planet's healing ozone layer.

Asteroid 2012 DA14 will fly inside the ring of communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit but sail safely above the orbits of the International Space Station and the Hubble space telescope.

Gertner: The line is so fine that at Bell Labs, world - changing ideas like communications satellites were treated as slightly crazy.

Under an agreement that should be finalised by the end of the month, the US will allow the Russians to launch eight commercial communications satellites into high Earth orbit before the end of the decade.

Satellite television is television delivered by way of communications satellites, as compared to conventional terrestrial television and cable television.

When the spacecraft is at the lowest point closest to Earth at 67,000 miles (17.0 earth radii), it remains well above geosynchronous orbit 22,236 miles above the equator where most communications satellites operate.

Hudson, however, insisted that the Roton carry pilots — two of them — in addition to a payload large enough for communications satellites, which will be Roton's bread and butter.

That is key to his plan, announced in January, to enrobe the planet with 4,000 communications satellites — more than triple the number of satellites now in orbit — starting around 2020.

Nonetheless, in 2029 the asteroid, dubbed Apophis — derived from the Egyptian god Apep, the destroyer who dwells in eternal darkness — will zoom closer to Earth than the world's communications satellites do.

But a Carrington - scale storm today would cause far more harm because society now depends so heavily on electrical power grids, communications satellites and GPS.

The technology of communications satellites, however, has developed so rapidly that Hughes Aircraft Corporation (prime contractor for the Comsat Corp satellites) now offers to deliver within two years similar satellites capable of TV and radio broadcast service, to work directly with home receivers equipped with inexpensive special antennas.

Communications satellites involve major national policy considerations.

Communications satellites, however, might be the technological innovation which breaks the impasse.

Despite the euphoric rhetoric of its ambassador's speeches at the UN, the United States has blocked all efforts by uncommitted and socialist nations to bring the problems of organization and policy of communications satellites before that Committee, thus frustrating the Committee and the recommendations of the ITU.16.

Presumably because of the general sentiment outside the United States for some kind of UN «home» for the communications satellites, the agreement provides that by January 1, 1969 the Committee should report to its members

Ambassador Stevenson, speaking to the Committee One of the UN said of communications satellites: «This fundamental breakthrough in communication could affect the lives of people everywhere.

On the recommendation of the United States and the Soviet Union, the UN created its Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to make plans for, inter alia, communications satellites.

In response to the United States policy, the Soviet Union has orbited its communications Satellites and currently it is reported in the press that the Soviet Union and France are negotiating some sort of arrangement for its use.

The Austrian delegation, in General Assembly debate in December 1963 pointedly complained at the American policy of keeping communications satellites out of the UN purview:

Brazil, for example, repeatedly urged that the UN should be made the organizational home of communications satellites and that there should be a prohibition by the UN on the use of the satellites»... for the purpose of encouraging national, racial or class rivalries... «17.

The future, however, is indeterminate and man can make of communications satellites what he wills.

«The United States believes that communications satellites can eventually play an important role in the expansion and improvement of international communications and the fostering of international understanding...» (Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

Communications satellites which became scientifically practicable by the late 1950's will provide an abundance of channel space of high quality and at very low cost.

They have taken the world to the brink of an integrated communications system capped by communications satellites with almost unlimited capacity to integrate mankind organizationally.

More than a decade after Teilhard's phrase «everything that rises must converge» had been on English - speaking lips, the debut of Telstar, the first of a shining silver constellation of communications satellites, established a quotidian engineering footing of sorts for the grand mystic vision.

One highly regulated business that I have experience with is communications satellites.

The Federal Communications Commission regulates communications satellites, and the Department of Commerce regulates commercial remote sensing satellites.

The rocket will carry the EchoStar XXIII communications satellite, which will orbit about 22,000 miles above the Earth's surface and provide broadcast services for Brazil.