Sentences with phrase «space satellites»

Dependable accuracy in counting and measuring the strength of hurricanes didn't begin until the 1960s, with the launch of space satellites.

Giacconi outlined a methodical program to investigate this new X-ray universe and, working with his research group at American Science and Engineering, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, developed the first space satellite dedicated to the new field of X-ray astronomy.

A commercial space satellite operated by DigitalGlobe managed to capture before - and - after photos of the watery devastation.

In a great transitionary, associative image to the next segment many eons later, the tossed bone (tool / weapon) instantly rotates and dissolves into a white, orbiting space satellite from Earth - a technological instrument, tool, weapon (orbiting nuclear platform) or machine from another era that was ultimately derived from the first tool - weapon.

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

Everything from mapping the Great Bay of New Hampshire to helping finished the Comptel space satellite launched in 2001.

The new horizon, which first opened fully to view in 1957 with the launching of a man - made space satellite, is the mastery of the whole universe!

Airbus Defence & Space satellite imagery shows that there were four [Russian] Ka - 52 Alligator and three Mi - 28N Night Hunter helicopters deployed to Al - Shayrat Air Base, 30 km southeast of Homs city, on 31 March.

Brussels could be putting lives at risk if the UK is shut out of a $ 10bn space satellite project, David Davis has warned.

Kats says such technology could conserve energy on space satellites, which control their temperature solely through absorbing and radiating light.

«At first, we didn't know if our setup would require constellations of futuristic space satellites, or 1,000 - meter telescopes on the dark side of the moon,» Friedman says.

$ 143.31 billion The revenue amassed worldwide in 2006 by the global commercial space satellite industry, according to Project Ploughshares» Space Security 2008 report.

The Trump budget also includes funding for several technology - research programs covering supersonic transportation, in - space satellite servicing and cybersecurity.

In the future, flexible batteries could power devices built into everything from clothes to tiny space satellites, Rogers says.

Though no one has ever been killed by a falling meteorite (mostly due to their tendency to burn up in the atmosphere), the recent Tiangong - 1 falling Chinese space satellite incident has proven that every sizable piece of debris that makes it through the atmosphere is another roll of the dice.

At the height of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union space satellite is being discussed by parents and teenagers alike.

Air Force veteran Brian Gilcrest (Bradley Cooper) is an inscrutable military contractor working for a shady billionaire industrialist (Bill Murray) who is launching a privately - funded space satellite.

Sputnik moments On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first manned space satellite, Sputnik 1.

Then, for no real reason whatsoever, The Federation decides to attack America by hijacking a missile - firing space satellite and raining down terror on all of the USA's most populated cities.

To give these contrarians equal time or space in public discourse on climate change out of a sense of need for journalistic «balance» is as indefensible as, say, granting the Flat Earth Society an equal say with NASA in the design of a new space satellite.

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

Most city planners agreed, and America adopted a completely new way of life, one that was different from anything that had come before, by directing all new construction «away from congested central areas to their outer fringes and suburbs in low - density continuous development,» and «the prevention of the metropolitan core's further spread by directing new construction into small, widely spaced satellite towns.»

To fill the void, he launched Spectrum Astro (# 437), a Gilbert, Ariz., manufacturer of space satellites, in 1988.

Instead, in 2015, I have a phone that talks on its own and orbiting space satellites that keep trying to beam «Duck Dynasty» into my family room.

Sputnik Planitia is a large plain named after Sputnik 1, the first space satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.

But he adds that Saildrone has the potential to be bigger than Google Maps and bigger than the space satellite program.

An Indian - made rocket called PSLV - C37 soared 310 miles into the Earth's ionosphere last February and launched 104 space satellites, spitting them out rapidly from both sides.

These observations can be a real challenge, especially when attempting simultaneous observations from ground - based telescopes and space satellites.»

Sputnik was the first space satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, and Clyde Tombaugh was the American astronomer who discovered Pluto in 1930.

Like a rolling blackout observed from a space satellite, the mitochondria — the cells» energy generators — began flickering out.

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

Fischell trained as a physicist, and for 15 years at Johns Hopkins he worked with NASA on developing and improving the reliability of space satellites.

There are chases, escapes, captures, shootings, a space satellite dropping down on a gasoline station and Lucas running out of ideas to defend them.

What do Russia, the Cold War, and space satellites have to do with federal student loans?

In the past few years, space satellites have helped measure the global trend, but scientists such as Rajendra K. Pachauri, a native of north India, have long seen what was happening on the ground.

During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union routinely spied on each other using high - altitude reconnaissance aircraft and space satellites.