Sentences with phrase «radio antennas across»

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But the real debut for this technology is likely to be the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world's largest radio telescope, whose thousands of antennas will be strewn across the southern hemisphere (New Scientist, 2 June, p 4).

The VLBA, a continent - wide radio telescope system with ten dish antennas distributed across North America, Hawaii, and the Caribbean, can measure the minuscule angles associated with great distances.

In the lab, Hawkes and his colleagues programmed the robot to form 3 - D structures such as a radio antenna, turn off a valve, navigate a maze, swim through glue, act as a fire extinguisher, squeeze through tight gaps, shimmy through fly paper and slither across a bed of nails.

The Curiosity rover's selfies have gained a lot of fans on Earth, but their arrival depends entirely on the Deep Space Network (DSN), an overlooked and overworked collection of 50 - year - old radio antennas installed in remote locations across the world.

Square Kilometer Array What: The world's largest radio telescope, with an array of 150 antennas, each 330 feet across.

SKA will build thousands of radio dishes and other antennas all across southern Africa and at a second site in Australia to tackle a wide range of astronomical questions, from the nature of black holes and galaxy evolution to dark energy, cosmic magnetism, and the birth of the first stars.

Covington had begun the construction of a giant parabolic antenna measuring 46 metres across back in 1959, and it was finally completed in 1966 as one of the largest and most sensitive radio telescopes in the world.

But the antenna's detection of the first FRB — and the subsequent confirmed discovery of nearly two dozen more powerful radio pulses across the sky by Parkes and other radio telsescopes — has sent astrophysicists scurrying to find more of the objects and to explain them.

While zipping around Earth several hundred miles above the planet's surface, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano drove a 220 - pound (100 kilograms) rover across a moon - mimicking landscape here at NASA's Ames Research Center, even ordering the robot to deploy a simulated film - based radio telescope antenna.

There's some neat machining across the bottom for the speakers, colour - matching for the radio antenna breaks across the back, as well as in the camera surround, leading to a cohesive overall look.

I installed antennas on roofs mounting them to a line of sight to radio's across Solano County.