Sentences with phrase «power space satellites»

The element has been used to power space satellites and navigation beacons.

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However, a few satellites with high - power cameras and special sensors offer unique and detailed views of the evolving disaster from space.

Earnings power is being underestimated, says Mo, because Canadians don't understand the commercial satellite space.

Chang Díaz also wants VASIMR, in its interim role, to become a «space tug» that could power the rockets that haul provisions to space stations and carry satellites to their designated orbits.

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.

Space weather events such as geomagnetic storms can disturb Earth's magnetic field, interfering with electric power grids, radio communication, GPS systems, satellite operations, oil and gas drilling and air travel.

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.

Tides in our ocean of air have surprising power, reaching down to trigger landslips and up into space to jam radio links and snare satellites

It also floods the space around our planet with radiation that can incapacitate satellites and sicken astronauts, and can trigger electric currents on Earth capable of knocking out power grids.

However, when a tornado prominence erupts, it can cause what's known as space weather, potentially damaging power, satellite and communication networks on Earth.»

He relies on some impressive gadgets: miniature flying robots, advanced satellites, highly sensitive surveillance devices, memory - erasing milk, self - assembling toys, and a warp - drive - powered sleigh that's capable of bending and twisting space - time to such an extent that it slips Santa and his reindeer out of the observable universe.

The newly available data gives researchers a treasure trove of measurements they can use to better understand how space weather works and how best to protect critical infrastructure, such as the nation's satellites, aircraft, communications networks, navigation systems, and electric power grid.

The sun is a tempestuous place prone to proton and electron particle storms that can speed across a 150 - million - kilometer space chasm to bash into Earth's atmosphere, potentially disrupting satellite service, damaging telecommunications networks, causing power grid blackouts and endangering high - altitude aircraft as well as astronauts on board the International Space Staspace chasm to bash into Earth's atmosphere, potentially disrupting satellite service, damaging telecommunications networks, causing power grid blackouts and endangering high - altitude aircraft as well as astronauts on board the International Space StaSpace Station.

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.

It takes huge blasts of rocket power to free spacecraft of Earth's gravity, but only a tiny nudge to correct a satellite's orbit, dodge space debris, or counter the slight but pernicious force of sunlight.

SUVI will allow the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center to provide early space weather warnings to electric power companies, telecommunication providers and satellite operaSpace Weather Prediction Center to provide early space weather warnings to electric power companies, telecommunication providers and satellite operaspace weather warnings to electric power companies, telecommunication providers and satellite operators.

But even a mildly active sun could still generate its fair share of extreme storms that could knock out power grids and space satellites.

The solar cycle is no mere astronomical oddity: so - called space weather that originates from solar activity can have very tangible effects on Earth and its environs, disrupting power grids, upsetting satellite communications and causing pipelines to rust.

The only issue related to the flip of the sun's magnetic field is that it corresponds with the peak of the sunspot cycle, when the sun is prone to launch flares and bursts of plasma into space that can effect satellites and power grids.

NASA researchers wish to improve our understanding of CMEs and how they move through space because they can interact with the magnetic field around Earth, affecting satellites, interfering with GPS signals, triggering auroras, and — in extreme cases — straining power grids.

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Safety and convenience features — Autonomous Emergency Braking — City — Driver Attention Alert — Forward Collision Warning — Lane Keeping Assist System — Seven airbags — Electronic Stability Control (ESC)-- Vehicle Stability Management (VSM)-- Hill - start Assist Control (HAC)-- Auto dusk sensing headlights — Tyre Pressure Monitoring System — Rear park assist system — Rear view camera — LED daytime running lights (DRL)-- LED headlights and front indicators — LED side repeaters in mirrors — LED tail - lights — Temporary space saver spare wheel — 8.0 - inch satellite navigation system — DAB + digital radio — Apple CarPlay compatibility — Android Auto compatibility — Bluetooth connectivity — Cruise control — Dual zone climate control — Driver's seat cushion extension — Driver's seat 4 - way power lumbar — Height adjustable front seats — Tilt & telescopic steering column — Luggage power outlet — Rear seat centre fold - down armrest

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Priced within hundreds of dollars of similarly - equipped Mazda, Honda and Toyota competitors, the Cruze has more interior and trunk space, a longer warranty and more standard equipment, including, satellite radio, more airbags, power locks and remote keyless entry.

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The cozy features include electrically powered steering wheel with mounted audio controls, advance AC unit with air cons in the second row, LCD touchscreen audio unit with USB / Aux - In connectivity while there will be Bluetooth, satellite navigation and reverse parking sensors options in some of the other variants and a number of storage spaces for passenger's comfort.

The remaining animals and staff of Escondido Humane Society were inundated with support in the form of monetary and in - kind donations, temporary satellite adoption centers, donated offsite office space and volunteer power.

Both require a separate facility to be built, which means two fewer spaces for vital workshops, power generators and satellite uplinks - but you'll be hard pressed to resist the temptation to create a handful of super soldiers.

The Cassini Project, a space exploration satellite, used 74 pounds of encased plutonium to power its batteries.

Recent breakthroughs to > 50 % efficient high - power diode lasers can provide continuous illuminated spots on surface receivers from kilowatts to terawatts from satellites injected to geostationary orbit (GEO) in payloads of a few metric tons each without in - space assembly.

Scientists can combine these observations with empirical models of Earth's space environment and thus forecast space weather for the government, power companies, airlines, and satellite communication and navigation providers and users from around the world.

Variations in space weather can cause geomagnetic storms that interfere with the operation of satellites and even systems on the ground such as power grids.

In space, the big satellite, built by TRW Inc., will deploy antennas and booms to measure 16 feet by 26 feet, with solar power panels unfurling to stretch 55 feet across.

Beginning in the late 1950s, PV cells were used to power U.S. space satellites.

Since its initial development in the 1950s as a technology to power US satellites in space, solar photovoltaics have truly come of age.

The satellites also track lightning as well as space weather that can interfere with GPS systems and power grids here on Earth.

Smartphone innards powering low - cost satellite Of all the various Android phones to have been blasted into space, the humble Nexus S is perhaps the most prolific.