Tag: Satellite
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LightSail: Fiction Becomes Reality With A Satellite With Solar Sails
Reality catches up with science fiction! A satellite with solar sails has just been created. Called “LightSail”, the satellite is able to move in space using energy from sunlight. We explain its design. After 6 years of intensive testing, the satellite “LightSail” is ready to fly for real. According to Bill Nye, The CEO of Planetary Society who started this project,…
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StratoBus-Will French-Italian Airship be able to Replace Satellites?
Satellites are very useful in terms of their coverage and the provision of different services like broadcasting, remote sensing and telecommunication links. But it is quite expensive and complex procedure to build and launch them into their respective orbits. Once, the satellites go into orbit we have limited control over them and they can only…
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NASA Launches 3 Nexus One Smartphones As Satellites In Orbit.
NASA has sent three Google Nexus One, Android Smartphones in orbit around the Earth so that they can become “low-cost” satellites. NASA has used the launcher Antares of Orbital Sciences Corp. to launch these low cost satellites. The goal of NASA is to determine whether an everyday object can be used as a low cost…