Sentences with phrase «with orbiting satellites»

With orbiting satellites that measure ocean color all beyond their shelf life, glum ocean scientists were left to hope that VIIRS could be fixed by 2013, in time for the launch of the next craft in the multi-satellite NPOESS series.

Not exact matches

With Vector and Virgin Orbit also pushing to reach orbital launch this year, these rocket builders are hoping to seize a part of the premium market to launch small satellites.

By now, it has 48 satellites in orbit, with another 20 preparing to launch soon, Platzer said.

SpaceX is looking to launch several small satellites into a lower orbit than Viasat in order to cut down on latency errors, with the idea being the closer a satellite is to Earth, the less likely there will be hiccups.

SpaceX will begin launching an initial constellation of 4,425 Ka / Ku band [a term that indicates range on the electromagnetic spectrum] low Earth orbit satellites in 2019, with the system becoming operational once at least 800 satellites are deployed, the FCC documents show.

Allen's move coincides with a surge of new businesses planning to sell internet access, Earth imagery, climate data and other services from networks of hundreds of satellites in low - altitude orbits ar...

The company has already reached orbit, but with a smaller rocket that is only capable of delivering satellites to space.

Once those smaller satellites are positioned in orbit, they can transmit images with good - enough resolution to indicate that maybe an existing, high - resolution satellite should be pointed in a certain direction.

Musk added that with the ability to carry satellites or interplanetary spacecraft weighing over 53 metric tons or 117,000 pounds to orbit, Falcon Heavy will have more than twice the performance of the Delta IV Heavy, the next most powerful vehicle, which is operated by United Launch Alliance, a Boeing - Lockheed Martin joint venture.

Eighty - eight of those small satellites were the property of Planet; with these eyes on the sky, along with the 50 they already had in orbit, the company promises its customers high - resolution images of the Earth for everything from crop yield monitoring to aiding first responders with real - time images of natural disasters.

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.

It has successfully tracked and communicated with several amateur radio satellites in orbit including the International Space Station, receiving slow - scan TV images on 18 and 20 December 2014.

They should be detectable during a special phase when the seed merges with the parent galaxy — and this process should be common, given that DCBHs probably form in satellites orbiting larger galaxies.

The company already has a 1 - metre cube satellite called SkySat - 1 in orbit and has plans for 23 more, each with high - resolution imaging and video capability.

The system works with such stunning accuracy because it compensates for the fact that clocks on fast - orbiting satellites run at different rates from those on the ground.

After more than 1500 orbits by the satellite, the MICROSCOPE team — with researchers from France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom — found no such signal, they report in an accepted paper at Physical Review Letters.

Not only is Peck's group attempting to make a first - ever moon orbit with a satellite no bigger than a cereal box, made entirely with off - the - shelf materials, it's doing so with propellant that you can obtain simply by turning on a faucet.

The bulk of the solar system's regular satellites — those moons that stick close to their planets in roughly equatorial orbits — formed this way, rather than taking shape simultaneously with the planets as a direct result of planet formation, French astrophysicists have concluded.

NASA collects surface temperature measurements with an instrument known as MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on two satellites (Aqua and Terra), which orbit the Earth from north to south every day.

With the blue - and - white Earth as its backdrop, the satellite opened up its twin solar arrays and entered orbit.

Each of the GNSS systems employs a constellation of satellites orbiting Earth at an altitude of 20,000 km satellites, working in conjunction with a network of ground stations.

The F ring is very narrow with a width of only a few hundred kilometers, and has two shepherd satellites called Prometheus and Pandora, which orbit inside and outside the ring, respectively.

With a truck - size cargo bay, robotic arm, and — by Apollo standards — palatial crew quarters, the shuttle would be able to carry large satellites for release into orbit, haul up and piece together space - station components, and provide a temporary orbital home for scientists and engineers.

«The U.S. came to grips decades ago with the fact that its lower orbit satellites could easily be shot down,» Weeden says.

For example, X-ray astronomy is nearly impossible when done from the Earth, and has reached its current important stand within astronomy only due to orbiting satellites with X-ray telescopes such as the Chandra observatory or XMM - Newton observatory.

The question is whether the bodies were asteroids captured intact by Mars gravity or whether the tiny satellites formed from an equatorial disk of debris, as is most consistent with their nearly circular and co-planar orbits.

Low - and high - Earth orbits have become hotbeds of scientific and commercial activity, filled with hundreds upon hundreds of satellites from about 60 different nations.

The environmental data sets from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the MODIS sensors will continue into the next decade with data provided by their follow - on missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission to launch in early 2014, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite currently in orbit.

All of the moons discovered so far appear linked to the motion of the much more massive Charon: their orbits all follow certain resonances with the orbit of the larger satellite.

GeoEye's IKONOS, currently its premier satellite, provides resolution at better than one meter, but the company plans this August to launch GeoEye - 1, a polar orbiting satellite equipped with a camera that can capture up to 700,000 square kilometers of black - and - white and 350,000 square kilometers of color imagery a day.

In the early 1990s the TOPEX (Topography Experiment for Ocean Circulation) / Poseidon satellite, a joint American - French mission, shot into orbit armed with radar altimeters to measure the height of the sea surface.

With the help of enthusiastic European ham radio operators, Aalborg University engineering students now have two - way communication with their home - built ESA - sponsored satellite AAUSAT5 that was sent into orbit around Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on OctobeWith the help of enthusiastic European ham radio operators, Aalborg University engineering students now have two - way communication with their home - built ESA - sponsored satellite AAUSAT5 that was sent into orbit around Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Octobewith their home - built ESA - sponsored satellite AAUSAT5 that was sent into orbit around Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on October 5.

In partnership with the German space agency, NASA sent the dual GRACE satellites into orbit in March 2002.

The US already operates a network of 90 radio receivers, which are used in conjunction with the 24 GPS satellites to determine the orbits of satellites, monitor geological fault lines, and observe movement in the plates on the Earth's surface.

That is key to his plan, announced in January, to enrobe the planet with 4,000 communications satellites — more than triple the number of satellites now in orbit — starting around 2020.

Although commercial - scale power satellites would be huge and hard to build in orbit — with assembly done mainly by robots — they would have hardly any moving parts and could last for generations.

The plot centers on efforts of a visionary structural engineer in the 22nd century, Dr Vannevar Morgan, to construct a space elevator connecting the surface of the earth with a satellite in geostationary orbit, almost a kind -LSB-...]

Cannon's work with GPS goes back to 1984 when she was still a graduate student and only about six global positioning satellites were in orbit, compared to two dozen today.

With hundreds of satellites operating in orbit around Earth and elsewhere in the solar system, it's easy to imagine that communication channels might become overwhelmed with data from the satelliWith hundreds of satellites operating in orbit around Earth and elsewhere in the solar system, it's easy to imagine that communication channels might become overwhelmed with data from the satelliwith data from the satellites.

Due to their small size and irregular shape, they strongly resembled asteroids, but no one understood how Mars could have» captured» them and made them into satellites with almost circular and equatorial orbits.

Satellite manufacturer ORBCOMM, based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, has confirmed that a prototype telecommunications satellite that hitched a ride with the mission was released into a lower orbit than intended due to the glitch.

In 1993, NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer satellite, presumed to have been disabled by an explosion in a fuel line as the craft tried to slip into orbit around the Red Planet.

To test the concept, scientists have built two small satellites called cubesats that will practice lining up in orbit to construct a single telescope with a focal length as large as the distance between them.

With the use of high - resolution images and topographic data from cameras on orbiting satellites, B.T. Cardenas and colleagues from the Jackson School of Geosciences identify fluvial deposit stacking patterns and changes in sedimentation styles controlled by a migratory coastline.

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.

Each of the 72 NEXT satellites placed in orbit beginning in 2015 will be built with the capacity to carry sensors from NOAA and other groups into orbit so as to provide real - time, two - way communication.

In 1962, a US nuclear test carried out in space flooded low - Earth orbit with radiation that lasted a decade and probably ruined several satellites.

Along with the Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way is one of the Group's most massive members, around which many smaller satellite galaxies orbit.

But the belt hugs Earth more tightly above high latitude regions, overlapping with satellites in low - Earth orbit.

Several ribbons in full - scale operation will open the heavens for solar satellites that can beam power back to Earth, large - scale zero - gravity manufacturing, space tourism, better global environmental monitoring, orbiting observatories, removal of man - made debris from Earth orbit, asteroid mining, and Mars - colonizing ships filled with hundreds of people.