Sentences with phrase «made space satellite»

The new horizon, which first opened fully to view in 1957 with the launching of a man - made space satellite, is the mastery of the whole universe!

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What's more, SpaceX's mission was to send the first exclusively - made Taiwanese satellite to space.

But space posed a unique design constraint on Stearns: solar radiation and extreme environmental temperature shifts would melt and degrade the paint and ink he worked with, making them hazards to the delicate optical hardware in the satellites.

Planet Labs, for instance, makes smaller satellites than Skybox, so while it can send more «birds» into space, its imagery will never be as good.

On the recommendation of the United States and the Soviet Union, the UN created its Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to make plans for, inter alia, communications satellites.

The satellite is the foundation of the $ 100 million Quantum Experiments at Space Scale program, one of several missions that China hopes will make it a space science power on par with the United States and EuSpace Scale program, one of several missions that China hopes will make it a space science power on par with the United States and Euspace science power on par with the United States and Europe.

Pan's paper «shows that China is making the right decisions,» says Zeilinger, who has pushed the European Space Agency to launch its own quantum satellite.

«The wet season has typically 85 to over 95 percent cloudiness from late morning to early afternoon, when NASA satellites make measurements,» said co-author and remote sensing specialist Alexei Lyapustin of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

An Indian - made rocket called PSLV - C37 soared 310 miles into the Earth's ionosphere last February and launched 104 space satellites, spitting them out rapidly from both sides.

Current telescopes such as the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, and future telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an infrared observatory, and the Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope (WFIRST), also could help astronomers make better measurements of the expansion rate.

In fact, NASA had explored the technology as far back as the 1960s but lost interest as the agency's focus shifted to the space shuttle; ion engines had been developed only to make minor adjustments in the paths of Earth - orbiting satellites.

But it also made possible the building and continuous operation of at least a small and creaky space station; the launching and in - orbit repair of hundreds of satellites, telescopes, detectors, and space probes; and the conducting of a slew of space - based experiments that contributed immensely to a range of fields.

Even though 310 miles up is technically outer space, a few air molecules still float around — not enough to make the slightest difference to astronauts on a space shuttle or the space station, which orbit considerably lower, but sufficient to slow the GRACE satellites perceptibly.

But Richard Garwin, a leading expert on military technology and a critical figure in the development of the hydrogen bomb, says that would only incite a space arms race that would ultimately make our satellites more vulnerable.

Bluefield is one of many new companies taking advantage of new «CubeSats,» or tiny satellites that can make inexpensive measurements from space (Climatewire, Jan. 29).

A research team led by Romeiser was the first to accurately measure currents from a space shuttle platform between islands off the Dutch coast and the first to make current measurements using the radar on the TerraSAR - X satellite.

The next generation of CubeSat students will get their satellites into space even more efficiently, as improving technology makes launches economically and environmentally easier.

Italy's interest in space tethers goes back to the 1960s, when Guiseppe Colombo of the University of Padua proposed that a tethered satellite could make measurements of the Earth's upper atmosphere.

The shuttle mission this weekend will also deploy the European Space Agency's Eureca satellite, the world's first reusable satellite for studying the effects of microgravity (see «Making the most of weightlessness», New Scientist, 11 July).

The important thing for the Sirens Project is to make use of the so - called hook echo, which actually looks like the space inside a hook on satellite photos of the supercell storms that lead to tornadoes.

«The new space agency is about making sure that the U.K. fully exploits its competitive advantage in satellites, robotics and related technologies,» Drayson said.

The proposal doesn't list specific products or devices; instead, it focuses on defining capabilities that might make a satellite or space technology valuable to military forces, and not just civilians.

Several ribbons in full - scale operation will open the heavens for solar satellites that can beam power back to Earth, large - scale zero - gravity manufacturing, space tourism, better global environmental monitoring, orbiting observatories, removal of man - made debris from Earth orbit, asteroid mining, and Mars - colonizing ships filled with hundreds of people.

Space junk isn't just made up of dead satellites.

If they could only be corralled, they would make an inexpensive space station or, Dunstan suggests, they could be cut into shielding material to protect other satellites.

To make this idea more tangible, Lewis is treating satellites and space junk as elements in a kind of mathematical network, a network whose connections reveal how many objects a given satellite approaches in orbit (Acta Astronautica, vol 66, p 257).

Last year, a survey by NASA of American industrial and government satellite makers and programme managers identified a number of other factors that make life more difficult for mechanical engineers in the space industry.

«But we do encourage space agencies and satellite groups to make sure that all data sets come as research - friendly, and with as much information on uncertainty, as possible.»

Now, Denis Dilhan at the French space agency and his colleagues have a solution: make metal satellite parts burn up more efficiently as they enter the atmosphere by using thermite.

Last week, the CIA released a sheaf of pictures taken in the 1960s by its Corona satellites, known to the public as the Discoverer series, and hundreds of pages of once - secret documents describing engineers» early frustrations as they tried to make space cameras work.

Genetically modified bacteria are scheduled to launch on a satellite in 2017 to test whether we can use them to make food for long space missions

Sheets of paper or fabric made from carbon nanotubes could prove useful for allowing satellites to safely manage static electricity while in space, particularly because there is no way to provide electrical grounding once they're in orbit, says Karla Strong, a materials engineer for the Thermal Sciences & Materials branch within the ARFL / RX.

His team set out to position a satellite high in space and get it circling Earth's equator at precisely the right speed to stay above a particular point on the ground, thus making it geostationary.

In classic bureaucratic style, NASA diluted the original idea by trying to make the shuttle all things to all people: a satellite launcher for the military as well as a pickup truck to space for the civilian program.

That would make Electron an inexpensive option for small satellites and CubeSats, which will be able to hitch a shared ride to space for just $ 77,000 apiece.

The ability of the material could make it useful for an array of applications, such as inserting medical devices inside veins and arteries, or deploying new satellites that unfold in space.

Finnish Meteorological Institute makes observations of the atmosphere, sea and space at over 400 stations around Finland, and using remote sensing instruments such as radars and satellites.

This historic flight, which lifted off from the first launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, placed in orbit five UK - made satellites having an overall launch mass of 1443 kg.

Though no one has ever been killed by a falling meteorite (mostly due to their tendency to burn up in the atmosphere), the recent Tiangong - 1 falling Chinese space satellite incident has proven that every sizable piece of debris that makes it through the atmosphere is another roll of the dice.

Mankind's first tool is a weapon, and yet, millions of years later, we're still making weapons despite our progress, as evinced by the first satellite we see, a space borne missile platform.

Add in a space tornado full of sharks or make the climate satellites cause every volcano on Earth to erupt, and Geostorm could almost pass for an Asylum mockbuster.

Someone has developed a tool / weapon called the Pandora's Box, which can make satellites fall from space.

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