Sentence examples for active satellites from inspiring English sources

"Most active satellites now have a regular process of maneuvering to avoid debris".

Launched to provide satellite-phone communications, there are 66 active satellites, plus spares, in the Iridium constellation.

Of the 18,000 tracked objects travelling around the Earth that are larger than 10cm (4 inches), only about 900 are active satellites.

She'd warmed up the room by asking us to consider our "robot avatars" in space: the fourteen hundred or so active satellites on which our interlinked, technology-addicted way of life depends.

The military always keeps extra GPS satellites in space, hibernating in orbit close to active satellites, but ready to be called from standby status should an operating satellite fail or fall out of position.

The company will use the investment to put two active satellites and one backup into geosynchronous orbit.

The red colour probably results from contamination by particles of sulfur and sulfur compounds that are continually shed by the nearby volcanically active satellite Io.

Spectra obtained by Galileo's instruments showed evidence for hydrated minerals resembling clays; solid carbon dioxide; traces of hydrogen peroxide probably produced from the ice by photochemical reactions; sulfur compounds, some of which may have come from Jupiter's volcanically active satellite Io; and organic material that may have been deposited by impacting comets.

Used data from Active satellite (1989 1991, altitude 500 2500, inclination 82°, protons with energy Ep=50 – 500 keV).

While this is acceptable for an attitude stabilized active satellite, for non-functional space debris, the cannonball model does not seem to approximate the true dynamics accurately.

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