The net is fitted with sensors that look for light reflecting from
small pieces of debris and automatically aligns itself so that it can attract the material.
A normal day on the road can all of a sudden turn dangerous when you encounter a sudden
piece of debris on the road.
There's
even pieces of debris that sticks to your helmet that you can see if you race with the helmet - view in an open - top vehicle.
In 2009, an accidental collision occurred between an operational communications satellite and a
large piece of debris, destroying the satellite.
17,300 The estimated number
of pieces of debris larger than 10 centimeters in diameter that are being tracked by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network.
Although it has a firearm element, weapons and ammo are few and far between, and attacking enemies by throwing large
pieces of debris with Spencer's super arm, or swinging down to drop kick a few heads is much more rewarding.
A
flying piece of debris strikes one of them (Matt Damon) and pulls him away in an impenetrable swirl of dust.
In addition to their destructive force, collisions also create additional risk creating thousands of
new pieces of debris, which in turn could collide with other objects — a dangerous snowball effect.
The US is responsible for the most space junk with 3,990
pieces of debris as of March 28, 2018.
Two years ago, aerospace engineer Hugh Lewis of the University of Southampton, England, and his colleagues calculated that within a few decades, space agencies would have to begin culling perhaps five
major pieces of debris annually to slow this collision - enhanced growth in the number of orbiting trash particles.
Even a centimeter -
sized piece of debris can cause considerable damage to crucial weather, communication or missile - warning systems.
One particularly spoiled stretch of beach yielded 672
visible pieces of debris per square meter, plus an additional 4,497 items per square meter buried in the sand, Lavers and her colleague reported recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
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.
A small
piece of debris inside the pedal box caused a throttle malfunction and the Corvette to skid and spin out of control.
While cats do a good job keeping themselves clean, they may need a «hand» combing out knots and
little pieces of debris, especially if they have long hair.
We'll talk about the continuing developments in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and what this first
confirmed piece of debris can tell investigators — as well as what it may not tell them.
Equally frustrating is attempting to dodge roll over a
tiny piece of debris that could be easily scaled by an infant, but for some reason manages to thwart your one ton metal body.
Deadpool has to occasionally wall jump to reach higher platforms, double jump across broken bridges and chasms, and make his way across
floating pieces of debris.
Players will most often die because of an unintentional explosion or
pieces of debris crushing them as the level falls down around them.
Chunks of chipped - off shoe and small
pieces of debris lie scattered about, radiant in the light that fills the scene from an unknown source.
It can be deployed from a spacecraft or rocket after a mission is completed, or even attached to larger
pieces of debris with an orbital robot so that the big chunks of space junk can be brought down as quickly as the smaller stuff.
The United States has thrown hundreds of satellites into space, resulting in over 500,000
pieces of debris orbiting Earth at over 17,000 miles per hour, and has cleaned up nothing.
The scientists have been looking at extremely
small pieces of debris, known as micro-particles, which were released into the environment during the initial disaster in 2011.
Here you control Carter through a third - person perspective, guiding him through urban and rural environments that are usually filled with
large pieces of debris or objects that can be used as cover.
Russia is responsible for 3,959
pieces of debris, followed by China with 3,893.
A piece of debris that has been identified as almost certainly being part of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may be able to provide clues as to how the plane went down in the Indian Ocean, sources told Bloomberg.
Putting up a paid for billboard stating an atheist viewpoint is «pushing your belief on other people» Yet putting
a piece of debris in the form of a tool of execution that has been used by a religion for centuries on display on government owned land using government money is somehow «not»?
Surprisingly despite the challenging conditions, the first caution didn't occur until Lap 210, and that was for
a piece of debris.
In the aftermath, rookie Jack Harvey spun trying to avoid
a piece of debris off Daly's car and struck the inside wall.
During a recent NASCAR race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, the aptly named QuickTrip 500 to be precise, an eight - car pileup caused a caution and this unlucky official was caught stumbling over his own feet after probably what he hoped would be a quick and smooth collection of
a piece of debris.
«The personal probability of being hit by
a piece of debris from Tiangong - 1 is actually 10 million times smaller than the yearly chance of being hit by lightning,» according to ESA.
In June the six astronauts onboard the International Space Station took shelter in escape capsules when
a piece of debris came within a few hundred meters of the station.
Once in the tornado, the drone will begin to act like
a piece of debris and will also help to gather information on how debris is accelerated and tossed around in the storms.
The United States now tracks more than 10,000
pieces of debris four inches wide or larger, but tens of millions of smaller fragments are also whizzing through space at speeds that can exceed 17,000 miles per hour, says Mark Matney of NASA's Orbital Debris Program.
In all, about 20
pieces of debris were estimated to fall into the sea, according to South Korean officials monitoring the launch.
Some 25,000 people, from deer hunters on horseback to National Guardsmen, carved the countryside into a grid, wading through briars and swamps to collect more than 84,000
pieces of debris, about a third of the shuttle.
«But organisations have to realise that they can not simply de-orbit
any piece of debris they think poses a risk.