Sentences with phrase «small satellite»

Ultimately, we'll do small satellite offices in the boroughs.

The Coordinators are based in small satellite offices in four locations around the state: St. Johnsbury, Rutland, Brattleboro, and Burlington.

Guildford, UK About Blog Surrey Satellites have been delivering small satellite missions for over 30 years longer than anyone else in the world, giving us the experience to justify our reputation as the world's premier provider of operational and commercial satellite programmes.

To keep a small satellite in very low orbit for any extended period of time, it needs an on - board propulsion system, capable of cancelling out the effect of atmospheric drag.

«By offering low cost and frequent service to space, the team is revolutionizing the small satellite market within the promising space economy,» Branson bragged on his blog.

«I'm thrilled that our small satellite launch service has now progressed to the point it merits the formation of its own company, Virgin Orbit, and a new president in Dan with decades of deep experience and success in a broad variety of space programs.»

Powers Phillips also maintains a small satellite office - in - exile on the cow - covered hillsides near Carbondale, Colorado, where it puts out to pasture some of its aging attorneys.

«Steve McQueen: Drumroll,» a video installation by the British artist and filmmaker, is currently at MOCA's small satellite space at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.

In fact, only MOCA's small satellite space at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood has anything specifically planned beyond its current show, «Steve McQueen: Drumroll,» a video installation by the celebrated British artist and filmmaker whose brilliant «12 Years a Slave» won the best picture Oscar this year.

there was a small satellite exhibition in Richmond worthy of note: a nine - painting exhibition entitled Van Gogh and Gauguin: An Artistic Dialogue in the South of France.

Backed by tall casuarina trees in addition to the coconut palms, Khlong Rahan's curve of soft sand stretches across the channel from Ko Rad, a small satellite island visited on many of the snorkeling tours around Ko Kut.

She then purchased a small satellite clinic from her former boss.

This is no longer acceptable and city authorities are now actively expanding small satellite communities by adding housing, retail opportunities, and dining.

To be transparent, the other car in my garage is a late model German sports coupe with bells, whistles and a small satellite navigation woman living in the dashboard who has never understood me.

Some middle school students are attending a small satellite conference in Utah.

Kojima Productions is setting up a small satellite studio based in Amsterdam alongside Guerrilla Games #PSX16 pic.twitter.com/KTch7 3wfMy

Many small satellite galaxies in the Local Group are actually expected to be dark galaxies.

CSLI provides opportunities for small satellite payloads built by universities, high schools and non-profit organizations to fly on upcoming launches.

Citing delays with its original launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is trying to launch an experimental small satellite mission on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from India.

On the list of programs overseen by BDS Development is also Boeing's 502 small satellite.

This species ecological role has been restored on a small satellite islands to Mauritius — Île aux Aigrettes and Round Island — using Aldabran and Madagascan tortoises.

A small satellite developed by Paris Observatory is currently undergoing final preparations for its exoplanet - observing mission.

NASA's EcAMSat small satellite experiment may reveal how to more effectively fight bacteria in microgravity.

One scenario involves the gradual disturbance of a well - ordered disk of stars as a result of mergers with small satellite galaxies.

He suggests that it was born in a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way in which star formation and the process of metal enrichment proceeded more slowly.

Called FORTE, for Fast On - orbit Recording of Transient Events, the small satellite was developed jointly by Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories and was launched in August 1997.

Galileo also discovered a small satellite in orbit around asteroid Ida; this is now officially called Dactyl.

The unlikely source of much of the recent information comes from data sent back to earth by a small satellite designed to detect clandestine nuclear weapons tests.

«The Budget creates new opportunities for collaboration with industry on space station operations, supports public - private partnerships for deep - space habitation and exploration systems, funds data buys from companies operating small satellite constellations, and supports work with industry to develop and commercialize new space technologies,» OMB officials wrote.

At NPL, we are proposing a low - cost, small satellite mission to help set benchmarks for climate studies and to achieve tenfold improvement over previous measurements.

One is China's first Mars craft, a small satellite called Yinghuo 1 that will orbit Mars.

But a new study shows that most of the 20 or so hypervelocity stars found so far might actually come from outside our own galaxy, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way at nearly 400 kilometers per second.

A recent study led by Hugh Lewis, an aerospace engineer at the University of Southampton in England, reports the growth of small satellite traffic is expected to have a «significant impact» on the space environment.

At first glance, it appeared to have originated in an area of the sky around the Magellanic Clouds, two small satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way at a distance of about 200,000 light - years.

New technology demonstrations aboard the Dragon spacecraft include the Special Purpose Inexpensive Satellite, or SpinSat, to test how a small satellite moves and positions itself in space using new thruster technology and the 3 - D Printing In Zero - G Technology Demonstration, the first 3 - D printer in space.

In recent years, many small satellite missions have opted to use converted Russian ICBMs, such as Rokot and Dnepr, to get into space, but these launchers have sometimes had reliability problems.

In fact, that's a mystery in itself: The F ring is believed to contain many large boulders and moonlets, which would make it hard for a small satellite to survive multiple crossings.

Upcoming instruments like the European Extremely Large Telescopeor the Cheops space telescope might be able to see the new planet, but the best option could be a small satellite dedicated to staring at Alpha Centauri.

«Areas where the UK is already strong, like small satellite technology, would benefit once spaceplane operations are established,» he says.

I had come to Bonn to give a 45 - minute talk on my investigations of the small satellite galaxies surrounding the Milky Way.

If that's so, theory predicts that thousands of dark matter clumps should surround the Milky Way, each holding a small satellite galaxy.

It is the first time scientists have seen the small satellite since 1989, when Voyager 2 first photographed it.

In April 1998, a modified space - launch configuration of the vehicle lifted off with a small satellite onboard; Western observers concluded that the launch failed.

«The Dark Energy Camera is a perfect instrument for discovering small satellite galaxies,» said Keith Bechtol of the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, who helped lead the Dark Energy Survey analysis.

NASA's Near - Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite the size of a shoebox, designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a full - scale solar sail deployment test at ManTech NeXolve's facility in Huntsville, Alabama, Sept. 13.

The Andromeda Galaxy is surrounded by a swarm of small satellite galaxies.

The French MICROSCOPE mission will launch a small satellite into orbit, as in this artist's rendering, to test the equivalence principle.

Now, a team of astronomers has used position and velocity data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as computer simulations of stellar evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, pictured above), a small satellite galaxy near the Milky Way, to show that these speeding stars may come from there.

College officials say there wasn't enough interest in the Marlborough area to justify establishing a small satellite at a former grade school.

The Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs), known as «sound cannon», use small satellite - style dishes to emit harmful, pain - inducing sounds during riots.