Sentences with phrase «launched satellites»

In 2002, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) led an effort to develop RGB products from the data collected by newly launched satellites.

Because it's inaccessible by boat and thus only discovered when we launched satellites in the 70's with cameras looking down at the earth.

To find out more about the mysterious light displays, scientists have launched satellites specially designed to study auroras.

Nobody at that point knew how to reach the finish line, but both the Soviet Union and the US had launched satellites, and Yuri Gagarin had orbited Earth.

Since it was formed in 1975, ESA has launched its satellites here, in a corner of South America governed by France.

And so it's steal underpants, launch satellites, send cargo to space station, Kickstarter — of course — followed by profit.

In a March 15 session, startups Planet Labs and Descartes Labs will discuss the potentially big business of launching satellites into space to observe every corner of the world.

And we believe that we can do this with the revenue we receive for launching satellites and for servicing the space station.

They're typically smaller than rockets that launch satellites and people into space, but structurally, the missiles aren't too different — which is why militaries pay close attention to countries that develop human - spaceflight programs.

In December 2015, SpaceX did something no commercial aerospace company had done before: It launched a satellite into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, then safely landed the rocket's lower half, called a first - stage booster, on a launchpad.

In the meantime, SpaceX is generating revenue by booking orders to launch satellites; its first such launch is scheduled for January.

Telesat's constellation is primarily targeted for use by U.S. military, but it did launch a satellite in January to test broadband services.

Oceanic data is valuable, but for decades the only way to study the world's hostile waters was to deploy a stationary buoy, launch a satellite into space, or send a government research vessel that runs hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to operate — on top of its initial price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Relativity Space has created the world's largest metal 3D printer to print its own rockets and launch satellites into space.

Traveling to orbital space means the rocket will have the ability to launch satellites, or to take tourists and scientists into orbit.

In the case of Blue Origin, the company's smallest vehicle can be used to practice flying and landing techniques that can then be applied to larger rockets that can launch satellites, Bezos said.

The resulting space race didn't only get us to the moon — it also helped us launch the satellites that today let us understand the Earth's weather patterns and help us communicate across the world.

Musk said in a speech in 2015 in Seattle that SpaceX planned to launch a satellite - internet business that would help fund a future city on Mars.

With a PhD in astrophysics, having helped build and launch a satellite, and with several patents, I can geek out with the best of them.

«You can't just send money over to another agency and expect them to be able to launch satellites,» said Abdalati, the former NASA chief scientist.

Not only do you need permission to launch satellites but you need agreement of regulators that you can occupy a spot in orbit.

Launching satellites that offer broadband Internet service will help to drive down the cost of data, just as demand for that data explodes.

Satellite transmission was the only logical choice, but launching a satellite was beyond the capabilities of India's technology.

And the rocket, another war technology, was put to use launching satellites that could girdle the earth and provide a remarkably inexpensive way of sending information anywhere on the globe.

In February, Kim Jong - un's regime launched a satellite into space in a movement considered by specialists as a cover up for a ballistic missile test.

The EDF, which is based in New York City, aims to launch the satellite as early as 2020.

VIRGIN Galactic has confirmed that it plans to launch satellites, as well as tourists, into space.

«Kourou is a wonderful place to launch a satellite,» says McNamara.

The Chinese successfully tested a ground - launched satellite interceptor earlier this year, and prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraqi forces tried to jam signals from U.S. navigation satellites by transmitting radio noise in an attempt to overwhelm GPS receivers.

Almost all India's space research is headed up by the Bangalore - based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon mission.

Further cuts are expected, particularly at NASA, which develops and launches the satellites that provide invaluable information on climate change used throughout the world.

On 12 November it launched a satellite carrying its citizens» data

We're launching satellites; it's not a threat,»» Wright told Space.com.

Over the past few years the reclusive country has been active in its efforts to develop nuclear weapons, improve its long - range missiles and launch satellites.

After several failures, North Korea put its first satellite into space with a long - range rocket launched in December 2012, and has since launched another satellite on a similar rocket.

He noted that in January, NASA announced that it hopes to enlarge its data gathering on Earth's emissions in the early 2020s, by launching a satellite it calls the Geostationary Carbon Observatory, or «GeoCarb.»

The former test pilot wants to launch satellites and other payloads with a rocket that takes on its liquid oxygen three to six miles up.

According to a NASA analysis, even if humans stopped launching satellites now, debris will increase after 2055.

Launching a satellite with solar power alone could be highly cost - effective, as well as an inspiring application of green technology.

While Russia is now in a position to earn much needed hard currency by launching satellites for other countries, the US has set tight limits on how competitive its new rival can be.

Russia launched the satellite on July 18 into an orbit that will stretch 200,000 miles from Earth.

An advisory panel has recommended that the European Space Agency (ESA) launch a satellite that would measure the faint fluorescent glow of plants, ScienceInsider has learned.

«All of our resources will then turn to the BFR, and we believe that we can do this with the revenue we see from launching satellites and from servicing the space station,» he said.

The next chance to launch the satellite, championed by Vice President Al Gore, is today at 6:07 pm Eastern

BGI — which is part research institute and part genomics applications developer — has already launched satellite research groups in Europe and the United States and aims to move its talent from city to city, continent to continent, to promote scholarly collaboration.

The military hopes to use scramjets to send missiles around the globe; they could also launch satellites more cheaply.

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.

Today, it develops and launches satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications and astronomy, sends probes to the far reaches of the Solar System and cooperates in the human exploration of space.

A worldwide glut of rockets for launching satellites could drive some rocket companies out of business warn senior officials from the space industry.

On July 18, 2011, the Russian Space Agency launched a satellite into orbit that unfolded into a 10 - meter (33 - foot) dish radio telescope called Spektr - R.