Sentences with phrase «m altitude of»

This is why ALMA's antennas are assembled and tested at the lower 2900 m altitude of the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF).

Sea level is an altitude of 0m.

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One interesting aspect to the Thursday sell - off is that Netflix — one of the main beneficiaries of the cord - cutting movement by millennial audiences — also lost altitude, dropping by almost 8 %.

Cruising altitudes between 35,000 - 40,000 feet are the sweet spot where pilots can fly as fast as possible while burning the least amount of fuel.

Guidance Aviation, a company that specializes in high - altitude helicopter flight training, was honored today as the U.S. Small Business Administration's 2013 National Small Business Person of the Year.

On top of things like people chatting and rattling service carts, engine noise levels inside the cabin can be as loud as 85 dB at cruising altitude — that's nearing levels that can be dangerous with extended exposure.

In theory, the company's SABRE engine will be capable of operating as a jet at take - off and transitioning to a rocket at higher altitudes.

High - altitude winds can make it sprinkle over hundreds of square miles, though it's most intense near the blast site.

Arizona - based World View Enterprises Inc. is developing a fleet of high - altitude platforms, called stratollites, carried by balloons to the edge of space.

It can be a pressure - cooker of a job, but if you've got the nerves for it you can be well - compensated, with average salaries of $ 87,000, with paycheques gaining altitude in bigger markets with busier airports.

Space is generally delineated at an altitude of 62 miles.

The Asian giants were locked in a 73 - day military stand - off in a remote, high - altitude stretch of that boundary last year.

«It's a matter of time before someone makes high - altitude wind energy a commercial success,» Griffith says.

Here's Earth as seen from #Orion during its flight out to a peak altitude of 3,600 miles away from the planet.

Alphabet, which announced its Project Loon in 2013 to use solar - powered, high - altitude balloons to provide internet service in remote regions, said in an FCC filing it was working to «support licensed mobile carriers» restoration of limited communications capability» in Puerto Rico.

The Asian giants were locked in a 73 - day military stand - off in a remote, high - altitude stretch of their Himalayan border last year.

Any large spacecraft that dips below an altitude of about 125 miles has just a few days left in orbit, Gossner said — and that's roughly where Tiangong - 1 is drifting.

These small and relatively inexpensive satellites are in polar orbit and rotate around the earth every 90 minutes at an altitude of approximately 800 km.

Lotte Group is suffering snowballing losses after becoming the target of Chinese ire over the stationing of a Terminal High - Altitude Area Defense battery from the U.S. in Korea.

Prior to joining us, Mr. Straubel was the Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Volacom Inc., an aerospace firm which designed a specialized high - altitude electric aircraft platform, from 2002 to 2004.

Lotte Mart wants to inject more than W400 billion in emergency funding into its supermarket chain in China, which has been hit hard by an unofficial boycott over the stationing of a Terminal High - Altitude Area Defense battery in Korea (US$ 1 = W1, 128).

By being loyal to a particular airline, your odds of being upgraded by that carrier gain altitude, says Sullivan.

There hasn't been a lot of change in our indicators since the last update and therefore, despite my discomfort with the altitude of this stock market, there are no changes to the Global Asset Allocation this month.

The upcoming flights are designed to reach altitudes of more than 65 miles above Earth, high enough to see the curvature of the planet set against the blackness of space.

A flurry of good news lifted airline stocks higher last week, reversing a drop in altitude that's weighed on the industry so far in 2016.

Google X's lab is welcoming two new moonshots into the fold: The company's assemblage of futuristic robotics projects and its unit for high - altitude satellite drones.

The technological challenge faced by Druker's team and Mafat (the Ministry of Defense R&D department) was like hitting a marble in the air with another marble, at high altitude and inconceivable speeds.

The reusable rocket and capsule is designed to carry passengers to an altitude of more than 100 miles (62 km) above the planet so they can experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of Earth set against the blackness of space.

But despite the long history of flying car failure, it seems that the concept may finally be gaining altitude.

If you're not a gym member, you can walk or run outside, provided you're in a safe area and are up to the challenge of the local climate / altitude / potholes.

I knew he intended it as a challenge to the regnant secularism of the time, but you had to wonder: What else had this distinguished scholar, and his colleagues at the higher altitudes of German theology, been speaking about, these many years?

By this word, in the New Testament as in the Old, the noblest altitudes and attributes of the human spirit and the saving influences of the divine spirit were expressed.

The very fact that six historically influential ideas are presented in terms of development, with their later formulations on an altitude immeasurably higher than the lowlands from which they came, may produce the illusion of constant ascent, as though being posterior in time always meant being superior in quality.

Despite the slogan («Peace Is Our Profession») of the Strategic Air Command of the U.S. Air Force, which has been in charge of strategic nuclear weapons as well as the high altitude bombing of Vietnam, having more and fancier weapons will not make us more safe, and these weapons will not prevent war or save lives.

This makes primary for God what is secondary for humane people, and limits the scope of intrinsic importance to human beings as the only beings capable of moral altitudes.

In view of the obsessing immediacy of national disaster, it is the more amazing that the high altitude of international vision and goodwill, surpassing all that had preceded it and standing solitary long afterwards, should have been reached in the desperate years of the Exile — «Yea, he saith, It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.»

The message sent out at last was inevitably a sort of «common for all» which by no means reflects the moral and spiritual altitudes reached by the conference.

Will the environment be damaged by hundreds of these aircraft flying at high altitudes and throwing their exhausts into the stratosphere?

We are then invited to participate in several rounds of rambunctious games that leave us breathless from both the altitude and laughter.

What all these Calabrian varieties have in common is that they thrive in this particular climate characterized by a certain altitude, ocean air, and lots of sunshine.

The consistency of the batter will also be affected by weather, humidity - and possibly altitude as well.

These strains have been cultivated at high altitudes in the Andes Mountains of South America for more than 5,000 years, and are locally referred to as the «mother grain.»

I live at altitude which requires a constant state of ingredient flux from what is read to get results like «flatlanders.»

I do live in Colorado and was wondering if this could be because of the altitude.

I'm not at high altitude, so I'm not 100 % sure of the adjustments on the recipe.

I'm in sorta high altitude Mexico City but didn't make any changes to the recipe (except using the smaller amt of sugar) and it turned out fine (although they are a leetle on the flat side, but the flavor is great, so I don't care).

I've never baked at high altitude, so I'm unsure of the effects on macarons — my initial thoughts were that you can't tweak the ingredients too much because then ratio would be off, but the meringue may take longer to beat up, the sugar will probably boil more quickly, and baking time or temperature may need adjusting.

I had to add an extra spoon full of cornstarch, I think it might be an altitude thing?

I live in Denver so I'm familiar with trauma of baking at a high altitude.

For items that are going to be in the oven longer than cookies, like muffins or cakes, I also add a little moisture (maybe an extra 2 Tbsp per cup), to counteract the drying effect of the extra time things have to spend in the oven to finish cooking at high altitude (lower boiling point, and all that).