Sentence examples for pinpoint its position from inspiring English sources

The system was so designed that any such craft could pinpoint its position by using a computer specially programmed to translate coded radio signals beamed from the satellites into latitude and longitude.

The trapezoidal-shaped spacecraft are equipped with Global Positioning System receivers that use information from the navigational tool to pinpoint its position relative to the other and to the ground.

The system, 6000 light-years away, flared brightly enough for astronomers to pinpoint its position in May and July 2000 with the Very Long Baseline Array, a network of 10 radio dishes across the U.S. and its territories.

The error is likely to have been human, either in not realizing that the convoy contained allies or in mistakenly pinpointing its position as the bull's-eye.

In this system, a vessel pinpoints its position relative to a set of satellites whose orbits are known by measuring the Doppler shift of a received signal i.e., the change in the frequency of the received signal from that of the transmitted signal.

We confirmed that the gene is located on linkage group 2 and pinpointed its position with markers Cntg4252 and Cntg10192.

Long after the last battery for his Iridium telephone died, satellites could still pinpoint his position every 20 minutes, and he was able to continue sending coded messages indicating his condition.

It can pinpoint your position on any given fairway and calculate the distance from where you stand to doglegs, sand traps and the hole itself.

To better understand the regulatory role of nucleosomes, it is important to pinpoint their position in a high (5 10 bp) resolution.

Take some time between shots to make it harder for them to pinpoint your position.

Optical mice replace the rubber roller ball with light sensors that bounce off any surface and pinpoint the position of the mouse.