Sentence examples for before satellite from inspiring English sources

Before satellite guidance, pilots had to be able to see the runway three miles out in order to land.

"The 'public curiosity' clause is an artifact before modern television, certainly before the Internet, certainly before satellite transmissions," he said.

In the days before satellite television and 500 channels, the country would practically shut down on Thursday nights, when Maccabi was on TV.

In the days before satellite television, Wide World opened America's eyes to sports beyond its normal concerns of baseball, basketball and gridiron.

In the late 1950's, before satellite photography became available, at least 75percentt of the raw information came from people gathering intelligence around the world.

Long before satellite, social media and YouTube, the BBC news item from Ethiopia went viral – transmitted by 425 television stations worldwide.

However, it's likely that some hurricanes at sea went unnoticed in the days before satellites and hurricane-hunter aircraft, and that complicates the assessment.

Charting experts now believe that hazard was the mountain, and that its location was imprecisely reported in the days before satellites made navigational fixes more precise.

"There was no way to get observations of that nature across the ocean before satellites," said Bernard H. Chovitz, a retired expert in geodesy, the study of Earth's shape and exact distances on its surface.

The enduring assumption, in a world before satellites and cables and nets and CNN, was not exactly that instant news didn't matter, but that graceful, insightful, considered news features mattered just as much.

Years before humans successfully traveled in spacecrafts, before satellites orbited the earth, and before photographs of the solar system filled the pages of publications, artist Chesley Bonestell painted realistic visions of space that captured the imaginations of millions.