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...Space solar could do for energy what GPS did for navigation.” Space solar power was first mooted by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in his 1941 short story “Reason”....
...These weapons — designed to create a powerful pulse of energy which short-circuits electrical equipment such as computers, generators, satellites, radios, radar receivers and even traffic lights — could...
...He injects a tiny tag, makes a note of its number and records the exact time and GPS location on his watch. I hold the fish steady against the incoming tide, and then let it go....
...Data from US satellite receiver company Trimble shows that capital cities in 165 of 195 countries — or 85 per cent of those capitals — are observed more frequently by Beidou satellites than by GPS, Nikkei...
...In seconds, the instrument’s 900-tonne constellation of radio receivers and girders crashed into the massive radio dish hundreds of feet below....
...Indeed, this month, the group won a $247m contract to design and manufacture advanced GPS receivers for the US Space Force....
...And if you feel the need to check in with M, pick up the Bakelite receiver from the door pocket, complete with coiled cable....
...The group is acquiring a business specialising in GPS receivers for the US military, its main market....
...The GPS business makes military receiver systems and its products are used on hundreds of US defence platforms, including the two highest-volume weapons programmes for the US Air-Force, BAE said on Monday...
...Unlike GPS, which only sends signals and cannot identify the location of receivers, BeiDou’s communications with the ground are two-way....
...“Cell phones now have a chip which for $2 has thousands of times more capabilities than the original receivers we built which cost $250,000.”...
...Jamming its radio communications or GPS navigation receivers would stop a drone but also prevent interfere with legitimate traffic....
...And who would think of developing another receiver compatible with the UK system when the market is full? Have the British lost their common sense? Pierre Bartholomé Waterloo, Belgium...
...Among the UK businesses that could be affected are CGI, a software company involved in encryption, and Qinetiq, which makes the PRS receiver....
...GPS uses a network of satellites to send information about time and position to receivers on earth, but as Mr Lobo explains, its broadcast power is very low....
...They are different to other types of high-tech animal tracking tag which have contained miniature GPS receivers and transmitters; these give positional information but cannot record nearly as much detailed...
...receiver....
...First came a Polar heart-rate monitor belt and receiver watch. This displayed how high my heart rate could be when making slow but stubborn progress uphill....
...It gives the precise position of a ship-based receiver by comparing radio signals from powerful longwave transmitters around northern Europe....
...They were chosen by engineers at Nasa’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley for their PhoneSat project as they contain fast processors, versatile operating systems, radios, GPS receivers and cameras,...
...And although one can add GPS location details, it is not simple....
...The technological key here was the development of a cell-based system of microwave transmitters and receivers that pass the user seamlessly from one to the next....
...We all have experienced how maddening it can be to attempt interconnecting the cable box, game consoles and remote receiver to our family’s media centre and getting them all to work seamlessly....
...Former defence minister Kim Tae-young told parliament that Pyongyang imported Russian equipment, which may have been the cause of intermittent failure of GPS receivers on naval and civilian craft along the...
...receivers using an independent laboratory with no affiliation to and no direct participation from the commercial GPS industry....
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