Sentence examples for thousand satellites from inspiring English sources

"If you're focused on bridging the digital divide, say you have to build a thousand satellites and a hundred million user terminals," he said, "which should you optimize for cost?" Of course, dropping the price of satellites has plenty of benefits on its own, but he does have a point.

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"We've put two satellites around two planets.

Astrium won an initial Galileo contract for four satellites.

To study the far side thus requires two satellites.

"You only need one or two satellites to protect three or four slots.

Since G.P.S. receivers need signals from four satellites to calculate position precisely, accuracy will suffer if signals from one or two satellites are lost.

The old units can only track five satellites at once, and signals from four satellites are required to establish a three-dimensional position.

And those three or four satellites may be owned by three or four different multinational companies.

Only three satellites, spaced 120° apart, would be required for a complete worldwide network with at least one satellite always visible from any point on Earth.

The Russians have been safeguarding 11 slots with six or seven satellites".