Sentences with phrase «kind of radio signals»

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Audio recordings of their transmissions gave no indication that the two exchanged information about the last two signals passed before the wreck, but investigators had not ruled out a radio communication disruption of some kind, Higgins said.

If there were small orbiting satellites carrying sensitive radio receivers that could capture signals from the navigation satellites, those slightly distorted signals would contain a kind of code.

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.

Building the instrument required solving a host of engineering problems, ranging from dealing with a remote, barely accessible site, shielding the dish from radio frequency interference that would drown out the signals from cosmic objects, and developing a first - of - its - kind method to pull a portion of the spherical dish into a gradually moving paraboloid to aim at and track astronomical targets as Earth rotates.

China's awesome Five - hundred - meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, the world's largest of its kind, will be able to peer further into the past than previous radio telescopes to gather weaker and more distant signals that promise to provide clues to the origins and evolution of the universe, probe gravitational waves and dark matter, and listen for transmissions from extraterrestrial civilizations.

Yet 40 years of intensive searching for extraterrestrial intelligence have yielded nothing: no radio signals, no credible spacecraft sightings, no close encounters of any kind.

They're looking in specific areas of the radio spectrum for hints of stray alien signals, kind of like what's seen in Contact.

He was looking for more examples of a kind of rotating star — a pulsar — that emits very short radio signals.

On the moon man is confronted with strong radio signals indicating that there is a monolith on Jupiter, which is the same kind of monolith the apes confronted; and, as the first monolith led to the discovery of tools, so the second leads to the spaceship Discovery.

MarineTraffic.com gets data about ships» positions and movement from AIS (automatic identification system) transponders on board vessels via VHF signals, the kind we use for some radio and TV transmission, and a network of volunteer relayers.