Sentences with phrase «radio antennas in»

The incident was one of several recent glitches in the Deep Space Network (DSN), NASA's complex of large radio antennas in California, Spain, and Australia.

Lawrence Rudnick, the astronomer who led the team that found the void, was studying data from the Very Large Array, a network of 27 radio antennas in New Mexico, when he spotted a gap in the constellation Eridanus where radio signals from galaxies appear unusually faint.

During the encounter, radio antennas in NASA's Deep Space Network tracked Galileo as the moon's gravity tugged it.

Evolutionary algorithms are often used to help improve things like aircraft wings or radio antennas in ways that humans might not have conceived of.

The team sent the signals from a 70 - metre radio antenna in Goldstone, California, and recorded the returning signals using the Very Large Array (VLA) of 27 radio telescopes in New Mexico to compile a radar map of Mars.

The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th - Century Science Alan Lightman; Pantheon, $ 32.50 Arno Penzias and Bob Wilson cleared a pair of pigeons out of their radio antenna in an attempt to eliminate a faint hum.

But it seems the astronomy community is taking this lead seriously and the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array, an array of 42 radio antennae in California, have been pointed at the star in the hope of replicating the RATAN - 600 observation.

This Cheve Malibu has the radio antenna in the rear window which performs fair on FM but is terrible on AM.

I gallantly volunteer for a year's long - term drive if Jeep wants to send me one of these, though I might add roof racks, «Roo bars and a couple CB radio antennae in that time.

In terms of hardware, the Passport, is a flagship smartphone when it comes to specifications and features, with a stainless steel frame that BlackBerry claims lends it great strength and is also serving as an RF amplifier for the various radio antennae in the device.

Your payment card is «contactless» if it has a radio antenna in the plastic which transmits information to and from the contactless checkout terminal.

Not exact matches

«He financed experiments in wireless telegraphy and radio, including the installation of one of the first antennas in France,» writes Berkun.

And for a radio antenna he had substituted a coat hanger bent double; a friend had grabbed the antenna and snapped it off while falling from the hood in the aftermath of a party.

«Without full deployment, there is no way we could have communicated with it, as the radio frequency antenna was under the solar panels,» explained Prof Mark Sims, Beagle's mission manager from Leicester University in a BBC news interview.

CB (citizens band radio) antennas come in a lot of shapes and sizes so it can be hard to figure out which is the best.

Small radio frequency (RF) coils strategically placed around a patient's head — the twisted copper wires shown in the image at right — act as antennas, detecting that hum and transmitting it to domino - sized green amplifiers, which read the signal and pass it on to an external computer.

The team, led by Alan Kogut of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, took measurements with a radio antenna named ARCADE that dangled from a high - altitude balloon over eastern Texas in July 2006.

Because of the extreme distances and power limitations of the radio antenna, data from the New Horizons encounter, which in July flew within 12,500 kilometers of Pluto's surface, is still being beamed back to Earth.

To find out, Judd Bowman of Arizona State University in Tempe and Alan Rogers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology deployed a small radio antenna called EDGES in Western Australia.

The array began operating in 2007, using low - cost electronics to combine the input from the many radio antennas and to comb through the resulting signal, simultaneously doing conventional radio astronomy and scanning for signals from ET.

And to avoid interference from sources on Earth — like FM radio stations — Bowman and colleagues set up their table - sized antenna far from civilization, at the Murchison Radio - astronomy Observatory in the western Australian outradio stations — Bowman and colleagues set up their table - sized antenna far from civilization, at the Murchison Radio - astronomy Observatory in the western Australian outRadio - astronomy Observatory in the western Australian outback.

In addition, antennas tuned to the right plasma densities can be sensitive to lower radio frequencies while remaining unresponsive to the higher frequencies used by most radars.

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin will soon flight - test a plasma antenna (encased in a tough, nonconducting polymer) that is designed to be immune from detection by radar even as it transmits and receives low - frequency radio waves.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP) has scanned billions of radio sources in the Milky Way by piggybacking receivers on antennas in use by observational astronomers, including AreRadio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP) has scanned billions of radio sources in the Milky Way by piggybacking receivers on antennas in use by observational astronomers, including Areradio sources in the Milky Way by piggybacking receivers on antennas in use by observational astronomers, including Arecibo.

The team shows that a nanoscale metal rod on graphene (acting as an antenna for light) can capture infrared light and transform it into graphene plasmons, analogous to a radio antenna converting radio waves into electromagnetic waves in a metal cable.

17 In 1965 astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson scrubbed their Bell Labs radio antenna to rid it of pigeon droppings, which they suspected were causing the instrument's annoying steady hiss.

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.

Using a large antenna from NASA's Deep Space Network of radio telescopes tuned in to a special transponder on Juno provided by the Italian Space Agency, the team repeatedly searched for any unexplained anomalies in the spacecraft's trajectory.

Data collected in space, like video transmission of a spacewalk, travel as radio signals from antennas on spacecraft to much larger antennas on Earth, some with diameters up to 230 feet.

* The data were obtained by ALMA; the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter - wave Astronomy: a millimeter array consisting of 23 parabola antennas in California; the Submillimeter Array a submillimeter array consisting of eight parabola antennas in Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the Plateau de Bure Interferometer; the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m radio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as a suppleRadio Observatory 45m radio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as a suppleradio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as a suppleRadio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as a suppleRadio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as a supplement.

Over the next two years, the institute will turn the Allen Telescope Array — a group of 42 antennas in northern California that are dedicated to SETI research — towards 20,000 red dwarf stars to listen for radio signals that might be signs of life.

Just as FM stations embed songs in radio waves that your car stereo translates into Celine Dion's power ballads, space missions embed data (though typically not voice transmissions) that the DSN antennas convert into images and other spacecraft info.

His antenna was picking up celestial radio sources rotating in and out of view.

In the same way large antennas on rooftops direct emission of classical radio waves for cellular and satellite transmissions, the nano - antenna efficiently directed the single photons emitted from the nanocrystals into a well - defined direction in spacIn the same way large antennas on rooftops direct emission of classical radio waves for cellular and satellite transmissions, the nano - antenna efficiently directed the single photons emitted from the nanocrystals into a well - defined direction in spacin space.

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.

These electrodes, along with a computer chip that contains a radio frequency antenna, are fabricated on a flat substrate made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a transparent polymer commonly found in plastic bottles.

Saints: SETI Donors After eight months of inactivity, the 42 radio antennas of the Allen Telescope Array in Hat Creek, California, resumed their search for signals from extraterrestrial life last December.

«It collects the amplitude and phase information from each of the antennas, and knowing their distances from each other, it lines everything up to produce a coherent picture of the source,» says Jeff Mangum, an ALMA project scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, US.

They found these molecules not with optical telescopes but by tuning in with exquisitely sensitive antenna dishes that can receive the extremely faint radio signals generated by molecular clouds.

HAARP, near Gakona, Alaska, comprises radio transmitters and antennas that are used to heat up the ionosphere — the uppermost region of the atmosphere — creating a laboratory in the sky for scientists.The facility has been used to produce an artificial aurora and to study how charged particles behave in the ionosphere, at a total cost of more than $ 250 million to build and operate.

«The signal you receive via the antenna in digital form is then reconverted back into audible form, just like the principle used in every conventional radio.

Concurrently with the radar imaging, the scientists also used the radar transmitter at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and a portion of the antennas that are part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NRAO) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to perform an observation known as radar speckle tracking.

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.

Circling the South Pole, ANITA's antennas will scan a million cubic kilometers of ice at a time, looking for the telltale radio waves emitted when an ultrahigh - energy neutrino hits a nucleus in ice.

LIG can be written into target materials in patterns and used as a supercapacitor, an electrocatalyst for fuel cells, radio - frequency identification (RFID) antennas and biological sensors, among other potential applications.

The Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster has only three basic parts: a tube holding compressed nitrogen; an antenna (a Coca - Cola can in the most recent prototype) emitting radio waves that ionize the gas; and magnets guiding the plasma.

When astronomers aimed the 66 radio antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array in Chile at the star HL Tauri, 450 light years away, they saw concentric rings around it — the first such sighting for any star.

The most famous example, operating since 1980, is the Very Large Array (VLA) near Socorro, N.M., which has 27 active radio antennas mounted on railroad tracks in a Y configuration (another dish is kept as a spare).

Trying to make the best use of instrument time, Todd R. Pedersen of Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts and Elizabeth A. Gerken of Cornell University trained their radio antennas on a natural aurora event in Alaska.

That is the claim being made by a group of scientists in Italy and Sweden, who have shown how a radio beam can be twisted, and the resulting vortex detected with distant antennas.