Sentences with phrase «with iridium»

Motorola was the first company to make the attempt 25 years ago with its Iridium project, he told the E-Commerce Times, but because it selected the wrong technology and didn't foresee the competition from cellphones, it failed.

The «Spirit of Enderby» is equipped with the Iridium satellite phone for phone calls and for receiving and sending emails.

Revitalise your senses and your soul, and discover the heights of relaxation and indulgence with our Iridium Spa Escape Room Package.

Revitalise your senses and your soul, and discover the heights of relaxation with our Iridium Spa Escape Room Package.

Mercedes - Benz ML 350 with Iridium Silver Metallic exterior and Black interior features a V6 Cylinder Engine with 302 HP at 6500 RPM *.

Precious - metal spark plugs with iridium and platinum provide lasting durability.

Mercedes - Benz E 350 Luxury BlueTEC with Iridium Silver Metallic exterior and Black MB - Tex interior features a V6 Cylinder Engine with 210 HP at 3400 RPM *.

The design modifications include the new diamond grille offered as standard equipment (finished in black with an iridium silver louvre and chrome trim at entry level models and in chrome at AMG Line or the Night package) and the new optional LED headlights.

The ignition system includes a high - energy ignition coil for better fuel efficiency and precious - metal spark plugs with iridium and platinum provide lasting durability.

For the interior the N420 came with the Iridium interior package, with graphite instruments, thicker rimed leather or Alcantara ® sports steering wheel, special N420 sill plaques and lightweight carbon fibre seats with N420 embroidery and «Race Track» stitching as in the V12 Vantage.

2017 GMC Acadia with Iridium Metallic exterior and Jet Black interior f...

• Full - grain leather interior • Piano Black facia trim with Iridium trim pack • Alcantara steering wheel (leather for the Volante) • GT headrest embroidery • Electrically adjustable sports seats with side airbags • Memory seats & exterior mirrors (three positions) • Alcantara fluted effect headlining • Dual - stage driver / front passenger front airbags • Powerfold exterior heated mirrors • Heated rear screen • Automatic temperature control • Organic Electroluminescent (OEL) displays • Trip computer • Cruise control • Bluetooth ® telephone preparation1 • Satellite navigation1, 2 • Satellite radio system (USA only) 1 • Front and rear parking sensors • Tyre pressure monitoring system1 • Alarm and immobiliser • Remote - control central door locking and boot release • Glass ECU • Tracking device1, 3 (UK only) • LED map - reading lights • 700 - watt Aston Martin Premium audio system with Dolby ® Pro Logic II ® • Integrated Apple iPod ®, 4 connector • DAB radio • USB Connector with Waveform Audio Format (WAF), Windows Media Audio (WMA) and MPEG (MP3) audio file compatibility • 3.5 mm auxiliary input socket • Gloss black painted splitter and diffuser • Rear lamps with black border surround • Sports exhaust • Auto - dimming interior rear - view mirror1 • Rear Parking Assist Camera

When he and his colleagues at Scripps and Brigham Young University ran a methane reaction with thallium — a main group metal — alkanes pushed the solvent molecules aside 22 orders of magnitude faster than when the reaction was run with iridium, reducing the overall energy required by about one - third, they report online today in Science.

Meanwhile, one of the world's largest air traffic management firms, Nav Canada of Ottawa, Ontario, has formed Aireon, a joint venture with Iridium.

He and his colleagues have found layers of rock from the end of the Triassic that are loaded with iridium, a marker rare on Earth but common in asteroids, as well as spores of ferns, which would have quickly sprouted after an asteroid impact wiped out the world's forests.

Several research teams have reduced corrosion by coating the silicon with iridium and other precious metals.

The researchers experimented with iridium oxide samples synthesized by Boston College (BC) graduate student Tom Hogan, working in the lab of former BC and current University of California, Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor Stephen Wilson.

Not exact matches

Iridium is one of SpaceX's largest commercial satellite customers, with four launches in the past 12 months from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California's central coast and four upcoming launches listed on SpaceX's manifest.

Founded in 2008, Coherent Navigation was a small firm that focused on creating commercial navigation services based on partnerships with companies like Boeing and Iridium, the satellite network operator, according to a description on the LinkedIn page of Paul Lego, the company's former chief executive.

Dr. Gould provided a 1400 page thesis to deal with the problems inherent to evolution as a means to species and the iridium 24 layer between eras.

Its creation coincides with the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and it contains high levels of iridium, an element found in asteroids.On top of the food chain, they had few....

Iridium is harder and stronger than platinum with a higher melting point — so it's definitely a durable material for your spark plugs!

A few years after noticing the iridium, Alvarez came up with his proverbial 100th idea: If a miles - wide asteroid or comet smashed into Earth, it would also throw up a dust cloud that blocked out the sun and snuffed out life.

Comets and asteroids both contain iridium, but comets would leave less iridium on the Earth and hardly any on the moon, compared with asteroids, says Jørgensen.

To see if these deaths were linked with the KT extinction, the researchers tested for iridium, the rare metal found throughout the world near the KT boundary, thought by most to be evidence of a cosmic impact.

That's because the higher speed of comets and the high volatility of their constituents would create giant plumes on impact, so more of the iridium would escape into space, compared with impacts by rocky asteroids.

When condensed matter physicist Christos Panagopoulos of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and colleagues fiddled with the composition of layers of iridium, iron, cobalt and platinum, a variety of skyrmions swirled into existence.

«We built a conventional water splitter with two benchmark catalysts, one platinum and one iridium,» Wang said.

But the cost of producing it by using electricity to split water is high, because the most efficient catalysts developed so far are often made with precious metals, like platinum, ruthenium and iridium.

But until researchers find a simple, reproducible means, we're stuck with a hunk of platinum and iridium that is ever - so - slowly getting lighter.

In 2009, an operational Iridium mobile communications satellite collided with a redundant Russian communications satellite at a relative speed of more than 42,000 km per hour.

Their two favorites from the K - T days — iridium spikes and shocked quartz — hadn't turned up in any incriminating abundance in the rocks associated with other mass extinctions.

AMPERE already shares information with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center, and Iridium's next - generation satellite network — called, appropriately, Iridium NEXT — is expected to work more closely with NOAA, NASA and other government entities.

At the core of AMPERE is a communications network with 66 Iridium satellites, each of which has a magnetometer capable of monitoring Earth's magnetic field.

Last week a new company, called Iridium Satellite LLC, revived the network for at least two years with a $ 72 million contract from the Department of Defense.

«We're very pleased with this clever and innovative use of the Iridium satellite system.»

«We moved from iridium, which is so rare and expensive it is labeled «the element of the Gods», to an absolutely cheap metal, titanium; an element we are all familiar with as it is broadly used as white pigment for ceramics, paper, and teeth whitener,» explains BAIK Mu - Hyun, the leading author from IBS.

Previously, dehydrogenation was possible only with catalysts based on expensive metals, like iridium.

In combination with other measures — such as use of lighter carbon fibre planes and more efficient engines — Iridium's move should help aviation fight its environmental corner.

«Up until now, rechargeable zinc - air batteries have been made with expensive precious metal catalysts, such as platinum and iridium oxide.

Up until now, research on superconductivity with broken spatial inversion symmetry has mostly focused on compounds that contain a relatively heavy element M, such as rhodium (Rh), iridium (Ir), and platinum (Pt).

Stanford University scientists have developed an advanced zinc - air battery with higher catalytic activity and durability than similar batteries made with costly platinum and iridium catalysts.

The catalyst in this case was a thin film crystal, grown to be as flat as possible, with one layer made from iridium oxide and another layer made from strontium iridium oxide.

In 2011, researchers led by Richard Masel, a chemist and CEO of Dioxide Materials in Boca Raton, Florida, tested a setup with silver and iridium oxide catalysts and a liquid electrolyte to promote the CO2 to CO reaction.

We communicate with the ground staff at Punta Arenas via an Iridium XChat link.

Twin Tip Technology overcomes this with a unique design, there are literally two «tips»: a 0.4 - millimeter Iridium center electrode, and a 0.7 - millimeter Platinum ground electrode.

Changed it with NGK iridium spark plugs.

Iridium Silver with Designo red interior, AMG sport package, premium 2 etc, etc..

Up front, both models sport an AMG grille with twin louvers in matte Iridium Silver and a sculpted front bumper.

Comes equipped with: Iridium Silver Metallic, Premium Package.