Sentences with phrase «other than a satellite»

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».

Not exact matches

Other companies combining satellites and data analytics include Digital Globe and Orbital Insight, but they use satellite imagery more than tracking data.

Eventually, Jenkins says, Saildrone could have enough drone boats to be able to predict the world's weather with more precision than traditional satellites — something that private companies in shipping, oil, and plenty of other industries would surely want.

Saildrone says that it could eventually have enough drone boats to predict the world's weather with more precision than traditional satellites — something that private companies in shipping, oil, and plenty of other industries would surely want.

Rather than some other online services, which still require people to have a cable or satellite subscription to order a pay - per - view event, Amazon will offer the option to anyone willing to spend $ 64.99 for one night's series of fights.

There are more than 800 channels on TV, thousands of satellite - radio channels and social - media giants such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google +, LinkedIn, Medium, Meerkat, Periscope, Blab, blogging and all of the other platforms.

Some European officials also say their own satellite system Galileo is more resistant to jamming than other receivers.

Consumers will have more reasons to watch entertainment from sources other than their cable or satellite company, potentially motivating a greater fraction of them to cancel those monthly subscriptions.

As the company's CTO for 5 years, he took the company from the drawing board to having launched more satellites into space than any other company in history, completely transforming the space industry along the way.

There are few other figures than the monarchs and their satellites — but that only reflects the character of the age — Roman history, Mediterranean history generally, in that century, was a history of Führers and Duces, strutting about imperiously and wreaking their destructions upon the earth.

As the satellite traces out a 1.5 - hour - long orbit, a characteristic rise and fall in the difference between the two applied voltages would indicate that one of the cylinders is falling slightly faster than the other — and signal a violation of the equivalence principle.

Constellation - X Observatory (target date, 2017; cost, $ 2.5 billion) These four satellites would act as one giant X-ray telescope, 100 times more sensitive than any other.

Consequently, subsurface oceans within Io and other satellites could be even more common than what we've been able to observe so far.»

The hurricane's strongest sustained winds, at 185 mph, blew for more than 65 consecutive hours, something no other tropical cyclone has done in the modern satellite era, which began 50 years ago, according to Philip Klotzbach, a meteorologist at Colorado State University.

Previous work by Hook using satellite data indicated that many lake temperatures were warming faster than air temperature and that the greatest warming was observed at high latitudes, as seen in other climate warming studies.

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.

More than a decade ago, the U.S. Congress passed the Kyl - Bingaman amendment, which prohibits U.S. companies from selling commercial satellite imagery of Israel that is better than similar imagery from other commercial sources; in practice this has meant that imagery of Israel is degraded to two meters, a restriction not imposed on any images of the United States.

Hundreds of thousands of pieces of spacecraft, satellites and other equipment from human spaceflight zip around our planet, some travelling faster than the speed of sound.

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.

Subtracting known influences and comparing their results with satellite records of Earth's day length, they found that elevated temperatures in the pool during El Niño years correlated with days that were a few microseconds longer than in other years.

Over the past few years, balloon and satellite cosmic - ray experiments have found high - energy electrons and their positively charged counterparts, positrons, in concentrations much higher than they would expect to see from the sun and other known sources of cosmic rays within our galaxy.

More than 10 satellites from four countries provided images and other data so the volunteer analysts could map and report the various geological hazards, including landslides, that resulted from the earthquake.

A ground - based telescope that can scan the skies faster than any other of its size could help to protect satellites from collisions with space debris and each other.

«New Horizons is the latest in a long line of scientific accomplishments at NASA, including multiple missions orbiting and exploring the surface of Mars in advance of human visits still to come; the remarkable Kepler mission to identify Earth - like planets around stars other than our own; and the DSCOVR satellite that soon will be beaming back images of the whole Earth in near real - time from a vantage point a million miles away.

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.

Wingo says that the salvaged satellite would provide 10 times more than the minimum requirements outlined in the RFI — enough to service other national programs in Antarctica as well.

Early results from the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey indicate that the Milky Way's satellites are much more tranquil than other systems of comparable luminosity and enSatellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey indicate that the Milky Way's satellites are much more tranquil than other systems of comparable luminosity and ensatellites are much more tranquil than other systems of comparable luminosity and environment.

Of course, solar irradiance measurements from just three years of one solar cycle can not be applied to any other period than the one measured by the Spectral Irradiance Monitor on NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite.

«Together with other results that suggest the Moon may have had more volatiles than previously thought, this research is revolutionizing our thinking about the early history of the planets and satellites,» said Jim Head, professor of geological sciences and a MESSENGER mission co-investigator.

It is now clear that Inmarsat believed other details hidden in the pinged signal gave away the plane's flight path — and its probable crash point — rather than merely its distance either side of the geostationary satellite.

Possibly, but because we searched the space around Pluto very thoroughly, we are confident that if Pluto has any other satellites, they must be much fainter, and therefore much smaller, than either S / 2005 P 1 or S / 2005 P 2.

Measuring in at around half the size of Makemake, RR245 is much smaller than other known dwarf planets in the neighborhood, but still meets the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) criteria of that category: namely, it's in orbit around the Sun, it has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a nearly round shape, and, unlike regular planets, it hasn't cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and it isn't a satellite.

There's no other way to say it: NASA is launching a satellite that will allow us to peer through time, further back than ever before.

Every other character — Li - zhen's philandering boss, Chow's happy - go - lucky friend, the nosy landlady («Young wives shouldn't stay out so late — people will start to wonder»)-- is a satellite, and the husband and wife go almost unseen, their offscreen voices used as rhythmic punctuations in a movie that feels less like a narrative than a beautifully drawn - out musical improvisation — Wong Kar - wai's «Blue in Green.»

The stereo system doesn't have a satellite radio option, but other than that, it's very good.

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We had no problem locating ourselves or getting directions to other places, however a lack of satellite view or anything other than a basic offering does come considerably short when up against Google maps on Android.

The Gen3 is more simplistic than other satellite messengers from a software perspective.

More costly than competitors; additional costs, such as GPS navigation, satellite radio, and car seats, are priced higher than other companies.

By supporting these types of pet stores, you are adopting an animal, saving a life and sending a clear message to other pet stores that the humane option is to operate a satellite adoption centre rather than selling animals.

Internet speeds will be improved through a partnership with O3b Networks, whose satellites will beam WiFi directly to the ship, making internet connectivity almost as good as the one you experience at home and certainly more than on any other cruise ship in the world.

Some items are harder to discern than others, but the overall effect is of black people as satellites floating through the cosmos, transmitting information about the past, present, and future of black culture simultaneously.

From contemporary dance, to writing, to an actual working artist residency, this year's Art POP has programmed over 15 events showcasing more than 30 artists, taking place at POP Quarters (3450 St - Urbain) and other satellite locations from September 13th to the 17th, and delving into areas that have not been explored before.

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.

In their trend from 1998, the two satellite series contradict each other: UAH shows +0.05 ° C per decade (a bit more than HadCRUT4), RSS shows -0.05 ° C per decade.

I will bet Gavin Schmidt or any other author on this website $ 200 on LongBets.org that Michael Crichton's projections for temperature increases are more accurate than the IPCC, assuming that the temperature being projected is average lower tropospheric temperature as measured by satellites.

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).

The problems arise for previous periods, but then we depend on other observations than the continuous measurements of temperature by satellites and CO2 at MLO or other base stations.

The spacecraft's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, an instrument that measures infrared heat radiation as it leaves the atmosphere, is expected to provide vastly more and better temperature and humidity readings worldwide than are available now from weather satellites and other sources.