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UK based satellite programme to launch
It's anticipated funding for the UK to set up its own satellite navigation system is going to be announced soon ... Peter Cowley, who explained whether we need our own GPS system in the first place, when the EU and America ... stuck there so that’s why the Russians set up their own system. That’s why the Chinese have set up their own ...
Finding Your Own Path - The Seeker Project
... sights of interest and then have the rovers find their own way there and do their own science? The European Space Agency's StarTiger Seeker ...
Winks, Wobbles and Blips - Finding Exoplanets
... Obviously we're very familiar with the planets in our own solar system. We've known about those for a long ... star directly just as we can't see the planets in our own solar system when it's daytime, when the sun is up. Meera ... of sight on the Earth. We see this phenomenon in our own solar system. If Mercury passes between us and the sun ...
MRI Scanning the Stars
... of information. They were starting to try to build their own software and then we realised that a lot of other people ... Alyssa - One of the things that we're interested in, in my own work which has to do with star formation, is what the ... - Can researchers begin to speculate that, in fact, our own solar system (in other words, the sun and our clutch of ...
David Willetts' speech to the AAAS
... as a fellow by the most esteemed scientists in one’s own country is often the honour they cherish most – and ... effort exceeds that of any other country, including my own. Nevertheless I believe that we have some distinctive British strengths which complement your own. And I am confident that alongside the US, Britain is the ...
Meet our panel
... Prize, didn't it? These are planets that are not in our own solar system. They're planets orbiting stars elsewhere ... this is that planets don't usually emit very much of their own light. They're usually blinded by the light of the star ... has at least one or two planets around it. And in our own galaxy alone, there are 200 billion stars, something like ...
The Event Horizon Telescope project
... of the shadow cast by the black hole at the centre of our own galaxy, as he explains to Georgia Mills... Shep - There's ... something like that? Shep - Well, in a paradox of their own immense gravity, black holes, which by definition are ... one of these black hole shadows is in the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy and radio waves are the perfect medium ...
The Cosmic Positioning System - GPS for Satellites
... we are, but how do the satellites themselves know their own location? Well, all satellites use a kind of cosmic ... Chopo - Well, the satellites can define their own reference frame if you have accurate tracking. But the ...
Down to Earth: Cloud computing
... do this they developed the software needed to create their own cloud. While, they may sound fluffy and nebulous, clouds ... services firms use the OpenStack platform to power their own clouds. So that’s how, what started off as trying to ...
Going for Gaia
... Way is made up of maybe a hundred billion stars like our own Sun and they make up most of the mass in the disc of the ... bottom line ambition for the Gaia mission was to set our own galaxy up as a rosetta stone. Let's do something that we ...
Perseverance rover blasts off to Mars
... for taking samples of the rocky Martian surface, and its own helicopter drone called “Ingenuity”. If it’s ... the first powered flight on the Martian surface - Mars’ own Wright brothers moment! It will then be used to help ...
Photographing the gas giants
... a bit more for me? Roger - Well, when you see it with your own eyes for the first time, it kind of blows you away. ... it to anyone. You don't need to go mad and have your own observatory in the back yard to do it either. You can ...
Quick fire science questions
... a Raspberry Pi to build a cucumber sorter. His parents own a cucumber farm and they're getting on in years. Japanese ... your friends, to your co-workers, and make it part of your own internal conversation. If you keep a dream diary, it's ...
Developing Radio Telescope Receivers
... of devices. If each of those devices have their own piece of readout line, their own piece of readout equipment then the wiring, simply, the ...
Big data just got bigger
... like because it's computing on demand, we don't have to own big computer centres and own big supercomputers for a long period of time. And then ...
Future of Space Exploration
... the International Space Station, so it's really just our own imagination and technology that limits us. I think it ...
South Africa and the Square Kilometre Array
... South African SKA bid, visited London and met up with our own Chris Smith. Bernie - It will be made up of two ...
Mailbox: a new theory of dark matter
... from Kay. She's in Australia and she's written in with her own theory about dark matter. She says she thinks it's just ...
Down to Earth: the mini vacuum pump
... materials are present, the Curiosity rover is carrying its own miniature mass spectrometer. A mass spectrometer is a ...
Exploring Our Solar System
... in the solar system and each environment brings its own challenges. In 2004, the Huygens probe landed on ...
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Finding our way through space
... presto; but what about navigating in space? Even in our own solar system the distances are measured in millions or ...
Radiation shields in space
... with you. Chris - So, you have a spacecraft which has its own magnetic field. It's generating a bit like the Earth's ... the moon doesn't have an overall magnetic field of its own. It would appear that for the eons that it is being ...
Hunting for DNA in space
... need antimicrobials or if an infection will go away on its own. Chris - And actually the process of DNA sequencing, "it ...