Sentences with phrase «larger than the satellite»

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It enables launching of Earth satellites that are significantly larger than anything that we've done before, or significantly more satellites at a time than anything that's been done before.

Falcon Heavy is a large, reusable launch vehicle that will allow the closely held company to bid on heavier payloads than it can with its Falcon 9, such as big commercial satellites and national security missions.

The new hypothesis seems to explain a key commonality among the regular satellites of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — namely, that moons farther from their respective planet tend to have larger masses than their closer - in neighbors.

For more than a decade these Earth - observing satellites have provided some of the first environmental measurements on a global scale, including large - scale changes in the mass of polar ice.

Kallivayalil found that the Large and Small Magellanic clouds are shooting by us at around 200 miles per second, faster than a satellite would.

But corona - graphs, which are installed on satellites and ground - based telescopes, are not ideal; to protect other instruments from potential damage caused by stray sunlight, they obscure an area slightly larger than the solar disk, blotting out a bit of the corona.

But Michael Skrutskie, a University of Virginia astronomer and a member of the WISE science team, is especially interested in the satellite's ability to pick out previously unknown brown dwarfs, objects larger than planets but too small to sustain nuclear fusion of hydrogen.

In November 2014, Jansen assembled images of Larsen C taken by NASA's Landsat satellites and noticed something unusual: One of the cracks had spread past the suture zone and was more than halfway toward breaking off a large section of the ice shelf.

It is more sensitive than other weather radar satellites, in part because it comes equipped with a stronger transmitter and a larger antenna at 1.85 metres long.

As the planet coalesced during the birth of the solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago, the swirling disk of gas surrounding it included several moons about the size of Titan, Saturn's largest remaining satellite, which is about 50 % larger than Earth's moon.

The retreat of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is diminishing Earth's albedo, or reflectivity, by an amount considerably larger than previously estimated, according to a new study that uses data from instruments that fly aboard several NASA satellites.

They form when a large galaxy's gravity pulls one edge of a nearby satellite galaxy more strongly than the other edge, unraveling the galaxy and leaving stars behind.

THE galaxy's empire has a new colony — a dwarf galaxy larger than nearly all the other satellites of the Milky Way.

Weighing in at just 300 kilograms, compared with around 1.5 tonnes for its rivals, Greensat could be launched for less than $ 12 million, compared with the several hundred million dollars that it costs to launch larger satellites.

Of the hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth's orbit, more than 20,000 are larger than 10 centimetres across — big enough to smash a piece off a satellite and create even more orbiting junk.

Using satellites, the researchers determined that «bottom melt rates experienced by large outlet glaciers near their grounding lines are far higher than generally assumed.»

Using satellites from the European Space Agency, scientists have estimated that the iceberg will cover 2,550 square miles, just slightly larger than the state of Delaware.

This is the second lowest winter peak in the 39 - year satellite record — just 60,000 sq km larger than the 2017 record — and 1.16 m sq km smaller than the 1981 - 2010 average.

The primary peaks are usually larger than the secondary peaks, which are called satellites.

This is the second lowest minimum extent in the satellite record, 70,000 sq km larger than the record set in 2017.

First detected in 2003, the 2,500 square - mile hot spot was confirmed by NASA satellite data in October 2014, and is said to be responsible for producing the largest concentration of methane in the U.S., and is more than triple a standard ground - based estimate.

The launch of a Japanese satellite will help create the largest astronomical instrument ever built — a radio telescope more than two - and - a-half times the diameter of the Earth.

The scientists who based their research on the information given by satellites stated that the changes result in the global scale warming, which is bout 30 percent larger than their previous version of the dataset, as Independent noted.

This well - grilled planet, discovered in 2010 with France's CoRoT satellite, lies some 480 light - years away, and has a diameter 70 percent larger than Earth's, with nearly five times the mass.

* Duration of a few weeks * An average dose more equivocal to a «loading» phase than a «maintenance phase» * A larger dose for potential responders who lack natural, dietary creatine * A smaller dose for potential non-responders with a significant amount of existing dietary creatine intake * A training protocol that emphasizes all phases of muscular energetics to take advantage of the ATP - CP, glycolytic, and oxidative effects of creatine supplementation (HIIT is ideal for cardiovascular exercise when supplementing creatine, due to the repeated bouts of high intensity work) * A training protocol that incorporates negatives in order to stimulate satellite cell fusion, as per Dr. Hatfield's theory of holistic training * A training protocol that emphasizes repeated bouts of work per the results of creatine studies * A nutrition protocol tailored to reduce post-workout cortisol levels, which would involve a post-workout shake and possible glutamine supplementation * A nutrition protocol that takes advantage of carb - load (super compensation) near the end of the cycle

Despite adding extra technology like Front Assist with City Emergency Brake, fatigue detection and a large 9.2 - inch touch - screen with Columbus satellite navigation, the fast Octavia is up by only $ 1000 — still $ 2600 cheaper than the 70 - run limited RS 230.

The percentage of the portfolio allocated to the core portion is a variable; there is no set percentage except that the core portion must be larger than the total of the satellites, therefore greater than 50 %.

Humane Canada condemns puppy mills (see definition) and opposes the sale of cats and dogs in markets or pet stores other than satellite adoption centres and also disapproves of large - scale commercial breeders and «backyard breeders».

In 2004 Atelier relocated to its current site in the Greensboro Cultural center, acquiring space three times larger than its original site which allowed for program expansion and outreach and a satellite gallery space for Bennett College.

The first live TV transmission between two continents relied on an orbiting satellite, not much larger than a beach ball, which linked America to Europe for less than twenty minutes before moving out of range.

The trends in LW and SW are larger than the trend in NET, but it should be noted that getting decadal trends out of satellite data of this sort is difficult.

At face value, the satellite data is supported by weather balloon data, covers a much larger area of the globe than the surface - based data, and, as you pointed out, is free from the urban heat island effect and other potential flaws of surface measurements.

Large variability reduces the number of new records — which is why the satellite series of global mean temperature have fewer expected records than the surface data, despite showing practically the same global warming trend: they have more short - term variability.

org «The sharp eyed among you will notice that the satellite estimates (even UAH)-- which are basically weighted means of the vertical temperature profiles — are also apparently inconsistent with the selected radiosonde estimates (you can't get a weighted mean trend larger than any of the individual level trends!).»

The sharp eyed among you will notice that the satellite estimates (even UAH Correction: the UAH trends are consistent (see comments)-RRB--- which are basically weighted means of the vertical temperature profiles — are also apparently inconsistent with the selected radiosonde estimates (you can't get a weighted mean trend larger than any of the individual level trends!).

Shell, ostensibly has its top notch instruments working overtime and its satellite forecasting away — if it can't even drop its exploratory drill for more than a few hours without having to abandon ship, it bears an ill omen for the operation at large.

Re # 173 (Dan Allan): Large - scale reasons for the chaos include planetary tilt (= seasons), a high rate of rotation (= major Coriolis effect), much more solar heat applied at the equator than at the poles, unevenly distributed land, air and water, a molten core resulting in tectonic activity including continental drift and volcanos, the occasional hammer from space, a really large satellite creating major tides in addition to minor ones from the sun, plus some stuff I'm probably forgetLarge - scale reasons for the chaos include planetary tilt (= seasons), a high rate of rotation (= major Coriolis effect), much more solar heat applied at the equator than at the poles, unevenly distributed land, air and water, a molten core resulting in tectonic activity including continental drift and volcanos, the occasional hammer from space, a really large satellite creating major tides in addition to minor ones from the sun, plus some stuff I'm probably forgetlarge satellite creating major tides in addition to minor ones from the sun, plus some stuff I'm probably forgetting.

The difference of adding 1998 is greater here than with the surface data, because the response of tropospheric temperature to ENSO is twice as large as that of surface temperatures to ENSO (in other words, the 1998 anomaly is much larger in the satellite data).

We conclude that the fact that trends in thermometer - estimated surface warming over land areas have been larger than trends in the lower troposphere estimated from satellites and radiosondes is most parsimoniously explained by the first possible explanation offered by Santer et al. [2005].

The loss to space of extra energy in the 30N - 30S band in the last two decades is 2.9 W / m2, some three times larger than the «imbalance» found in the Hansen report (but measured by the same satellites!).

org «The sharp eyed among you will notice that the satellite estimates (even UAH)- which are basically weighted means of the vertical temperature profiles - are also apparently inconsistent with the selected radiosonde estimates (you can't get a weighted mean trend larger than any of the individual level trends!).»

For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations.

Criswell discusses more traditional solar power satellites (in geosynchronous orbit); he dismisses them on a number of grounds (for example, their large size would make the number required for his 20 TW electric rather excessive — however, at a smaller scale they make a lot of sense) and I believe we can now do better than some of his numbers for regular satellites.

Various methods collect data at different scales: Chamber measurements collect data over square - meter areas, tall towers and aircraft observe larger areas, and satellites (e.g., Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite, or GOSAT) observe areas larger than a square kilometer.

Citing the work of Dr. John Christy and Richard McNider at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), which compared climate model projections with temperatures measured independently by satellites and weather balloons, he said «the average warming predicted to have occurred since 1979 (when the satellite data starts) is approximately three times larger than what is being observed.»

Our reconstructed GMSL trend of 1.1 ± 0.3 mm ⋅ y − 1 (1σ) before 1990 falls below previous estimates, whereas our estimate of 3.1 ± 1.4 mm ⋅ y − 1 from 1993 to 2012 is consistent with independent estimates from satellite altimetry, leading to overall acceleration larger than previously suggested.

If it has been engulfed by low density suburbia and its piece of «country» has been preserved as a large park around it, the impact will be lower than if a complete satellite city has sprung up around it and it is on the pavement next to a 6 lane expressway.

A Landsat 7 satellite image shows the tongue of the Malaspina Glacier, the largest glacier in Alaska and the largest piedmont glacier — a glacier that ends on flat land rather than in the ocean — in the world.

The higher resolution of E-OBS shows a large positive precipitation anomaly over the Alps and the satellite soil moisture product shows above average soil moisture for a larger region than ERA - Interim.

Between March 20 and September 16, 2012, the Arctic lost ice covering 11.8 million square kilometers — an area larger than the United States and Mexico together, and more than in any year since satellite measurements began in 1979.