Sentences with phrase «radio beacon»
A "radio beacon" refers to a device that emits radio signals to help guide or locate objects, such as ships, aircraft, or even wildlife. These signals act as a sort of signal or marker, allowing the recipient to determine their location or navigate towards a specific point. Full definition
GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — A pair of cosmic radio beacons known as pulsars keep switching off and on, suggesting that there might be vast numbers of undiscovered pulsars hiding in our galaxy.
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A foldable, paper - based, urine - fueled, microbial fuel cell system that powers an emergency radio beacon has been developed by researchers at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol).
So the Pentagon set up a deal with Hiramine: He would continue to provide aid to North Korea, but smuggled inside that aid would be things like sensors and small radio beacons that could provide the U.S. military with intel.
FIA race controllers will police the rule by tracking car positions using radio beacons.
As gas spirals toward the neutron star, it spins faster and faster until some unknown trigger produces powerful, coherent radio beacons.
The variations we see from Earth may be due to a process called «scintillation,» where interstellar gases make an intrinsically steady radio beacon appear to flicker, just like Earth's atmosphere makes light from stars twinkle.
Now that its roving days are done, Spirit will act as a stationary radio beacon, tracing Mars's orbit through space in three dimensions.
Cruising through the Milky Way in your reconnaissance craft, your sensors pick up a powerful radio beacon.
Astronomers are using the Cassini probe as a distant radio beacon to better pin down the orbit of the giant planet
«That floating radio beacon can be picked up by a number of the aircraft on this search, including the P - 3C and MH - 60s,» says Marks.
Gilster points out that for this to be a SETI signal, the hypothetical civilization would need to be a «Kardashev Type II civilization» if it's blasting radio in all directions (an omnidirectional radio beacon) to get cosmic attention.
This includes not going out alone, wearing a life jacket and carrying a PEPIRB (personal emergency position indicating radio beacon).
Electronic equipment sends out a continual radio beacon signal with a range of 12 miles (19 km).
Meanwhile Cry for Help tasks you with stealing the other teams batteries while they attempt to activate radio beacons.
But with only an emergency radio beacon and a single Comsat - C satellite - tracking signal, the margin of error for locating the distressed ship was approximately seven miles.
Then in 1999, astrophysicists detected a steady buzz of x-rays flowing from an object called Sagittarius A *, a radio beacon at the galaxy's core — additional evidence for a black hole.
One is a radio beacon known as 4M.
Or you could run across a military installation where a radio beacon must be destroyed, or perhaps looted to find an Exo suit.
Next, he was met by the most beautiful girl in the world, who saved his life at least twice and sent him to make a call from the emergency radio beacon...
The diaphone when operating is synchronized with a radio beacon every three minutes for distance finding.
The Port Shepstone Lighthouse was retired of its duty in 1905 and replaced with an 8m high circular cast iron tower (now equipped with a radio beacon) at the Umzikulu River mouth.