Sentences with phrase «widely spaced satellite»
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.»
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The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that millisecond pulsars could be used to accurately determine the location of an object moving at thousands of miles per hour in space — similar to how the Global Positioning System, widely known as GPS, provides positioning, navigation, and timing services to users on Earth with its constellation of 24 operating satellites.
The European Space Agency (ESA) announced the long - awaited results on January 30, a day after a summary of it had been unintentionally posted online by French members of the Planck satellite team and then widely circulated before it was taken down.
Named for popular science and science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke, author of 2001: a Space Odyssey and widely regarded as the father of the communications satellite.