Sentences with phrase «on space satellites»

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We do expect to generate pretty decent net cash flow from launching lots of satellites and servicing the space station for NASA, transferring cargo to and from the space station, and then I know that there's a lot of people in the private sector who are interested in helping fund a base on Mars.

Satellites in space are looking down on the disaster, which has left more than 10 people dead.

«We have seen this happen in space with micro satellites and low - cost rockets, on the street with internet - connected vehicles and soon self - driving cars, and in the sky with drones.

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.

WASHINGTON, March 29 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday it had approved an application by Elon Musk's privately held Space Exploration Holdings, also known as SpaceX, to provide satellite broadband services in the United States and globally.

So far this year, the company has successfully completed four launches, including a resupply mission to the International Space Station in February, as well as placing satellites into orbit on behalf of two commercial customers.

On the surface, this all appears laughably ambitious: The satellites Musk and Wyler want to develop and launch into space would be half the size and weight of the current smallest commercial communications satellite, while a network of 700 satellites would be 10 times the size of the current largest commercial fleet.

The companies in the Kensho Space Index are focused on space - related activities as a principal component of their business strategy, building rockets, launch vehicles, satellites and their parts and subsysSpace Index are focused on space - related activities as a principal component of their business strategy, building rockets, launch vehicles, satellites and their parts and subsysspace - related activities as a principal component of their business strategy, building rockets, launch vehicles, satellites and their parts and subsystems.

On the defense side, there are missions in space that can be achieved by launching several smaller, cheaper satellites instead of one big satellite.

George's favorite projects include creating MIT's first ever reality web series, revealing the secret behind white asparagus, explaining why ketchup is so hard to get out of the bottle, helping develop a massive open online course on protein drug development, and giving a friendly satellite - fixing space robot his television debut.

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.

Rocket Lab blasted off into space on Saturday, taking a major step toward opening low - cost access for a new generation of satellites.

The same satellite that's capturing data from clouds is also capturing data about what's going on in space and what's coming from the sun.»

The sole fatality was an Israeli - built satellite, but the accident nevertheless raised questions about SpaceX's mad dash into the solar system — particularly since it plans to use the same rocket, the Falcon 9, to ferry crews to the International Space Station in a few years (SpaceX has in the past supplied the ISS and successfully landed a Falcon 9 back on Earth so it can be reused).

Future Space Leaders is a nonprofit organization focused on developing the careers of young professionals within the space and satellite industSpace Leaders is a nonprofit organization focused on developing the careers of young professionals within the space and satellite industspace and satellite industries.

They're developing a global network of satellite communications ground systems that will provide commercial and startup ventures on - demand access to their space - bound assets.

«The United States believes that communications satellites can eventually play an important role in the expansion and improvement of international communications and the fostering of international understanding...» (Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

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 satelliteOn 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 satelliteon the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to make plans for, inter alia, communications satellites.

The list can grow long very rapidly — atomic energy generating plants, supersonic transport planes (SST), jet aircraft, oral contraceptives, tranquilizers, television, communication satellites, space vehicles that take men to the moon and cameras to Mars and beyond, hundreds of synthetic fabrics, the aerosol can, direct long - distance dialing, heart transplants, advanced computers, and so on and on.

Since the mid 1980's, China has been sending recoverable satellites into space on a 5 day orbit around Earth.

It was the United Launch Alliance sending a communications satellite into space for the US military and it was caught in the distance at Sebring and commentated on during the broadcast.

Covertly, the US is active in several countries relying on space navigation and a vast array of reconnaissance satellites, which can see into other countries from outer space, to assist its activities on Earth.

It has successfully tracked and communicated with several amateur radio satellites in orbit including the International Space Station, receiving slow - scan TV images on 18 and 20 December 2014.

Among the biggest bureaucratic challenges faced by the UK Space Agency is its management of applications for new satellites, which are viewed as critical because of their ability to provide data on the environment, climate, weather, security agriculture, coastal management and disaster mitigation.

He said, it was a space - based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force, explaining,» It is a global navigation satellite system that provides geo - location and time information to a GPS receiver anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS 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.

The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

The $ 4 billion allotted for security and space will allow for closer cooperation with the European Space Agency, especially on the Galileo project to launch a fleet of global positioning satellites (Science, 25 April 2003, p. space will allow for closer cooperation with the European Space Agency, especially on the Galileo project to launch a fleet of global positioning satellites (Science, 25 April 2003, p. Space Agency, especially on the Galileo project to launch a fleet of global positioning satellites (Science, 25 April 2003, p. 571).

These observational improvements also extend into space, all the way to the sun, where scientists have used satellite data to better understand the amount of solar energy — and its impact here on Earth.

The academy's efforts were eventually rewarded with a pot of money: the five - year Strategic Priority Program on Space Science kicked off in 2011 and provided $ 510 million for the development of four science satellites.

New research zeroes in on one supernova, called SN 2017egm, which exploded May 23 within view of the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite, which monitors star positions.

Send up some 3D - printing devices, and you invest in the ability to build everything on demand in space: space - station parts, astronaut tools, satellites, even spacecraft.

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Kargel is the international coordinator of Global Land Ice Measurements From Space, a satellite program dedicated to photographing each glacier on Earth every year.

On December 3 from a launchpad in French Guiana, the European Space Agency successfully launched the LISA Pathfinder mission, a satellite that will test technologies needed for a future space - based gravitational wave deteSpace Agency successfully launched the LISA Pathfinder mission, a satellite that will test technologies needed for a future space - based gravitational wave detespace - based gravitational wave detector.

That's what researchers from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore expected to find when they combined data on 458 GRBs discovered by satellites since 2007, a painstaking chore that no one had undertaken before, says Melissa Nysewander, a former STScI astronomer and a co-author of the study submitted for publication to The Astrophysical Journal.

Over a career that spans the entire Space Age, he has designed some of the first scientific instruments for satellites, directed searches for life - supporting conditions on Mars and above all managed the science team of the Voyager missions that explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune along with their moons — the single greatest expedition ever undertaken.

Whether peering into deep space or checking on human activity, spacecraft and satellites from days gone by are still on the job

The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.

To the left, taken Dec. 5, the Multi Spectral Imager on the European Space Agency's Sentinel - 2 satellite collected data to build a false - color image of the burn scar in Ventura County.

The request also calls for canceling five NASA earth science missions, including an operating Earth - facing camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite and the planned Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite, set for launch in 2022, which would assess the ocean's health and its interactions with the atmosphere.

After the ban, space - based surveillance became a crucial component of the Cold War, with satellites serving as one part of elaborate early - warning systems on alert for the deployment or launch of ground - based nuclear weapons.

In an effort to keep the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) focused on its expensive, flagship weather satellites, the Senate, in its version of the spending bill, had given NASA control of two smaller missions, Jason - 3, an ocean altimetry satellite, and the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space weather satelSpace Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a space weather satelspace weather satellite.

He gained research experience at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and also acted as a project manager and system engineer on the first UA student team charged with building a miniaturized satellite for space research.

Satellites can help deliver such information, and in 10 years» time, global biodiversity monitoring from space could be a reality, but only if ecologists and space agencies agree on a priority list of satellite - based data that is essential for tracking changes in biodiversity.

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.

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

One ambitious Air Force project involves a constellation of space - based radar satellites that would surround the planet, providing full coverage with the kind of granular detail thus far available only through aircraft or vehicles on the ground.

For the first time, an optical clock has traveled to space, surviving harsh rocket launch conditions and successfully operating under the microgravity that would be experienced on a satellite.

That's not just a hypothesis for our satellite's origins: the latest space racers want to build a lunar staging post for exploration, and settlement, of the solar system (see «China lands on moon, kicks off next lunar space race «-RRB-.