Sentences with phrase «firing space satellite»

Then, for no real reason whatsoever, The Federation decides to attack America by hijacking a missile - firing space satellite and raining down terror on all of the USA's most populated cities.

Not exact matches

The smoke, from fires deep in Africa, is nearly invisible to satellites in space, and because the southeast Atlantic Ocean has few islands, the layers are hard to study from below.

The African country has come under fire this week for funding satellites while many of its citizens live in poverty — So what is Nigeria up to in space?

«You're firing an interceptor that costs tens of millions of dollars against a billion - dollar satellite,» says John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense, space, and intelligence analysis firm.

The satellite - based sensor MODIS can detect the signal of fire hot spots, also called thermal anomalies, because the signal measured by the sensor in space in the thermal infrared bands appears to be an anomaly compared to the signal emanated from the background land.

«For Indonesia burning, it was the most significant event that we've seen during the 15 - year satellite record,» according to Robert Field, a Columbia University research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies who specializes in climate modeling and fire science.

Beyond reaching the required altitude the rocket fires into space to deliver small satellites.