Sentences with phrase «there orbit of the satellite»

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Day said that there has been at least one report of an effort at Groom Lake to create a fake heat signature for orbiting satellites to see.

There is a thump reminiscent of a nightstick on arioter's noggin, and, startlingly, the ball is aloft — the first touch of beautyin the whole ugly day — spinning back on itself with the busy geometrical actionof a satellite in orbit as it arches toward the goalpost.

In terms of strategic military use of L - points, «there are some interesting ideas (though from our side) about the utility of L - points as parking spots for reserve in - orbit spares and possibly for anti-satellites coming in from outer orbits, taking out GEOsats (geostationary satellites) and the like from unexpected angles,» Cheng said.

If there were small orbiting satellites carrying sensitive radio receivers that could capture signals from the navigation satellites, those slightly distorted signals would contain a kind of code.

On the other hand, there are now a number of private entities, such as satellite television providers and GPS vendors, that rely on access to orbit for their financial well - being.

Their models showed that if you visited any star with a planet orbiting from the same distance as Earth down to one tenth that, there is about a 38 percent chance (and likely less) that you would run into a planet and moon system similar to Jupiter's four Galilean satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto), with similar ratios of moon to planetary diameters and orbital to planetary radii.

For objects bigger than 1 centimetre, the estimates are frightening: there are anything from hundreds of thousands to millions of them, mostly in unknown orbits and each capable of smashing a satellite to smithereens.

Even at this high altitude there are rarefied molecules of the Earth's atmosphere, and drag from those molecules eventually slows satellites in low Earth orbit enough to bring them to destruction in a blazing re-entry through the thicker layers of the atmosphere below.

Sheets of paper or fabric made from carbon nanotubes could prove useful for allowing satellites to safely manage static electricity while in space, particularly because there is no way to provide electrical grounding once they're in orbit, says Karla Strong, a materials engineer for the Thermal Sciences & Materials branch within the ARFL / RX.

(Note: the very limited time that a launch site lines up underneath the orbit plane of a satellite or a space station is the reason why there is such a short daily launch window for a rendezvous mission.

While there remain disparities among different tropospheric temperature trends estimated from satellite Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU and advanced MSU) measurements since 1979, and all likely still contain residual errors, estimates have been substantially improved (and data set differences reduced) through adjustments for issues of changing satellites, orbit decay and drift in local crossing time (i.e., diurnal cycle effects).

Ya know, since there's clearly a need for working raw materials in near Earth orbit, and we're not going to catch an asteroid any time soon — perhaps it would be worth putting some loads of say water ice, or sheet metal, or nitrogen tanks, or something cheaper than a satellite, and making some test shots of this vehicle until they know for sure the fairing will pop off.

While there remain disparities among different tropospheric temperature trends estimated from satellite Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU and advanced MSU) measurements since 1979, and all likely still contain residual errors, estimates have been substantially improved (and data set differences reduced) through adjustments for issues of changing satellites, orbit decay and drift in local crossing time (i.e., diurnal cycle effects).

They all stem from the fact that there is not a single satellite which has been operating continuously, in a stable orbit, measuring a constant layer of the atmosphere, at the same local time every day, with no instrumental calibration drifts.

There has not been a single satellite taking measurements since 1979; rather, new satellites are launched every few years as old satellites» orbits decay and they fall out of the sky.

Even there if it impacts satellite orbits for, (wild guess) 100 km, that's pretty small compared to the 6400 km radius of the Earth.

So essentially, we have an orbit worth mining for parts that can help cut the cost on launches of new satellites, and repair those already up there.