Sentence examples for broken satellites from inspiring English sources

Also still in orbit are broken satellites or almost incidental litter.

It has been calculated that just removing a few key broken satellites would substantially reduce the potential for collision and a near-exponential growth in space debris over coming decades.

Broken satellites, experiments gone wrong or any other form of waste.

The visually stunning video depicts a grim future ruled by robots, an Earth surrounded by broken down satellites and space shuttles with a massive digital sign in orbit reading, "Buy Swag - Feel Fear - Feel Guilt".

The MUOS is a constellation of ground-breaking satellites for next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system, which makes prior products obsolete (e.g., UHF Follow-On satellites).

It also includes plans for breaking up satellites into smaller components that communicate wirelessly, or deploying "space tugs" that would repair and refuel existing satellites.Few of these options are cost-free.

But nobody knows if a fleck of paint, a particle of frozen astronaut's urine or a fragment broken off a satellite count as an object: there is no case law.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, several of Russia's former satellites have broken away to join both the EU and the American-led NATO defence alliance.

The list of satellites is broken down into categories: Special-Interest, Weather & Earth Resources, Communications, Navigation, Scientific, etc.

Regional cable companies will have their monopoly broken by direct-broadcast satellites, and a second commercial television station is slated to begin operations.

Other targets might include missions to geostationary orbit to fix broken, high-value telecommunications satellites that sit 36,000km (22,370 miles) above the Earth.