Sentences with phrase «for radio signals»

It takes more than two hours for radio signals to travel from the spacecraft to Earth from such distances.

The possibility, however remote it might have seemed, didn't escape the attention of the SETI Institute which swiftly focused the Allen Telescope Array on KIC 8462852, in the search for any radio signals of artificial origin that could have potentially been emitted by an advanced alien civilisation native to the neighboring star system, with initial results finding no such detection to date.

Astronomers jumped on the chance to check Oumuamua for radio signals that would indicate it was communicating with aliens, but the search has so far found only quiet.

On February 19, 2006, Turnbull named HR 483 A as a Sun - like star that is old enough to qualify as a top - five candidate for those listening for radio signals from intelligent civilizations, such as the SETI Institute.

Researchers with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) looked for radio signals coming from the star's galaxy (which could be a sign of alien life) but failed to find any.

Being able to tackle obstacles on its own was vital because interplanetary distances make control from Earth impossible: it takes 45 minutes for radio signals to reach Mars.

Perhaps the best known example is SETI@home, in which volunteers» PCs comb tiny chunks of data for radio signals from alien life.

Congress cut off funding to listen for radio signals from extraterrestrials in 1993, and these days much of the research is supported at the whim of Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft.

While O3b users have to contend with a 150 - millisecond delay in their Internet coverage (the time it takes for radio signals to go back and forth between the base carrier station and the satellite), those with other services might experience 600 - millisecond delays for the same service.

Up until now, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has primarily involved listening for radio signals deliberately or inadvertently sent by alien cultures into space.

Over the next two years, the institute will turn the Allen Telescope Array — a group of 42 antennas in northern California that are dedicated to SETI research — towards 20,000 red dwarf stars to listen for radio signals that might be signs of life.

Since January, temperatures on the comet have been too chilly for Philae's electronics; mission scientists stopped listening for radio signals from the lander in July.

Breakthrough Listen's search for radio signals of extraterrestrial origin is using a new telescope at Green Bank that's vastly bigger and more sensitive.

It's a long shot, but scientists are about to listen very closely for radio signals from our solar system's first known interstellar visitor

The sound quality from the speakers is good, though we found that it took a while to find the perfect spot for a radio signal.

Not exact matches

It was, in a way, worst for people in East Germany, who lived tantalizingly close to their wealthy European cousins, where radio and TV signals easily carried information about the latest consumerist luxuries.

«We have a Signal 7 in Room 229,» Hollywood Fire Rescue units said of 92 - year - old Miguel Antonio Franco, using their code for a deceased person, according to emergency radio calls provided by the audio streaming website Broadcastify.

David Axelrod, a key Obama political adviser, signaled Tuesday on television and radio that the Obama administration might be up for a compromise of some sort on the birth control issue, but none of these bedroom issues is going away, at least not until the 2012 presidential election is over.

If a monitor with FHSS is too expensive for your budget, go for a model that offers multiple radio frequencies, which will allow you to switch it to a different one if you're finding that your neighbors have a similar monitor and you are picking up their signal and vice-versa.

It was the FCC that beat this US based company over the head for putting up satellites that transmit radio signals over the US without approval, because there are no other laws, international or otherwise, regarding what can be put up into space.

Senate Democrats on Thursday blasted the chamber's number two Republican after he signaled his support for Donald Trump's presidential campaign in a radio interview.

The search for neutron stars has intensified because of a relatively small area, low in the northern midnight sky, from which the strangest radio signals yet received on Earth are being detected.

For more than a decade, scientists at Haystack Observatory have studied plasma plume phenomena using a ground - based technique called GPS - TEC, in which scientists analyze radio signals transmitted from GPS satellites to more than 1,000 receivers on the ground.

News leaked this weekend of a spike in radio signals coming from a sun - like star that could fit the profile for an intelligent, extraterrestrial source.

With scans for alien radio signals drawing a blank, three teams are now searching for signs of extraterrestrial engineering, as Stephen Battersby reports

It includes all the basic car functions - a radio tuner for AM / FM signals and Bluetooth hands - free capabilities.

The SETI Institute has now trained a telescope array on the mysterious star for 2 weeks in search of alien radio signals.

But the transmitter pinged an hourly signal to an Inmarsat satellite and those radio pulses were used to work out a rough flight path for the missing plane.

With further refinements, he found a way for ships to talk to each other using Morse code — the quintessential pulsed signal — and in 1896, just 21, he traveled to England and set up a radio company, British Marconi.

Phiar's technology is optimal for building radios because metal - insulator electronics can detect higher frequency signals than silicon - based semiconductors can.

Earth has also been accidently leaking radio and TV signals for the past century, which may have already been picked up.

Underwritten by a $ 26 million donation by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, the array currently consists of 42 dishes, each 20 feet in diameter, which can be used to listen for signals from several stars in many different radio bands simultaneously.

As the spacecraft plunged through these orbits, a radio telescope in Argentina, run by the European Space Agency, NASA's partner on the mission, listened for tiny Doppler shifts in Cassini's signal.

At the end of the fibre, those signals are broadcast using a radio antenna, providing 3G and Wi - Fi access simultaneously, for instance.

Radio astronomers search instead for the gravitational signals from these binaries.

There are about 60 radio telescopes scanning the skies for these signals right now.

For this year's solar eclipse, they will observe radio signals using an existing network of GPS receivers in Missouri, and intersperse it with small, cheap GPS receivers that are similar to the kind in most phones.

For astronomers who observe the universe through radio waves generated by stars and galaxies, interference from an Earth - based source can easily drown out any far - off signal.

Originally developed by the US government for military navigation, satellite navigation systems are now widely used by anyone with a GNSS device, such as an in - car SatNav, mobile phone or handheld navigation unit, which can receive the radio signals that the satellites broadcast.

An international research project led by Kazuyuki Takeda of Kyoto University and Koji Usami of the University of Tokyo has developed a new method of light detection for nuclear magnetic resonance — NMR — by up - converting NMR radio - frequency signals into optical signals.

The array began operating in 2007, using low - cost electronics to combine the input from the many radio antennas and to comb through the resulting signal, simultaneously doing conventional radio astronomy and scanning for signals from ET.

-- No earlier than around midnight PDT on April 26 (3 a.m. EDT on April 27): Earth has its first opportunity to regain contact with Cassini as the giant, 230 - foot (70 - meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, listens for the spacecraft's radio signal.

We've only been advertising our presence with radio signals for less than a century.

Radar satellites come equipped with an antenna that sends radio waves to Earth; after hitting the planet's surface, the signal is reflected and scattered back toward a detector that generates an image without the need for visible light.

We need to widen the way we listen for broadcasts from alien civilisations — looking for short pulses packed with information as well as simpler radio signals

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The Eindhoven system has so far used the light rays only to download; uploads are still done using radio signals since in most applications much less capacity is needed for uploading.

Such regions include areas where molecules of water and methanol act as natural amplifiers of radio signals — masers, the radio - wave equivalent of lasers for light waves.

Most SETI researchers look for signals sent by sentient beings in radio waves, because these waves traverse galaxies without interference from gas and dust.

Its time was set by a radio signal that we would never have dreamed of inventing were it not for James Clerk Maxwell's four equations of electromagnetism.