description: orbit around Earth with an altitude between 160 kilometers and 2,000 kilometers
165 results
by Chris Bernhardt · 19 Mar 2019 · 211pp · 57,618 words
over substantial distances. As I write this, it has been announced that a Chinese team has teleported a qubit from Earth to a satellite in low Earth orbit. These experiments are often mentioned on news broadcasts, mainly because of the word “teleportation,” which conjures up images of Star Trek. Unfortunately, quantum teleportation is
by Vincenzo Latronico · 18 Mar 2025 · 88pp · 29,578 words
. The most striking dishes would be photographed, tagged, and shared. Those images would then travel to the other end of the planet, bouncing along in low Earth orbit or speeding across ocean ridges, reaching the screens of their peers in Lyon, Helsinki, and Valencia, who would look at them for a moment, entranced
by Michael Harris · 6 Aug 2014 · 259pp · 73,193 words
navigation satellite systems will be inoperable; cellular and emergency communication networks may fail; the earth’s atmosphere will expand, creating a drag on satellites in low earth orbit; satellite communication and high-frequency communication (used by long-distance aircraft) will probably not work for days. I daydream about a latter-day Carrington Event
by Neil A. Gershenfeld · 15 Feb 1999 · 238pp · 46 words
official Internet access, packets were already being sent through a satellite link that had been set up for high-energy physics experiments. Now constellations of low-earth-orbit satellites are being launched that will bring the convenience of a cell-phone network everywhere on the globe. Motorola's Iridium system comprises 100 + WHEN
by Robert H. Latiff · 25 Sep 2017 · 158pp · 46,353 words
128 miles. NASA is presently developing a rocket that will be more than thirty stories high and will be able to lift 130 tons into low earth orbit. The British invention of radar, and the U.S. development of it, constituted a great leap in technology that fundamentally changed warfare as well as
by Diane Coyle · 11 Oct 2021 · 305pp · 75,697 words
about half the trades on financial markets now computerised HFT, this latest development conjures up the image of an algorithmic web of signals bouncing off low-earth orbit satellites, all for the financial markets to make more money faster off their clients. There is evidence that the so-called flash crash of 6
by Anna Crowley Redding · 1 Jul 2019 · 190pp · 46,977 words
. The first step is providing satellite-based Internet for all of Earth. The satellites, some four thousand of them, would beam down broadband Internet from low Earth orbit. The price tag for a space-based Internet? $10 billion. And the number of people on the planet who would have improved access or their
by Steven Johnson · 28 Sep 2014 · 243pp · 65,374 words
you glance down at your smartphone to check your location, you are unwittingly consulting a network of twenty-four atomic clocks housed in satellites in low-earth orbit above you. Those satellites are sending out the most elemental of signals, again and again, in perpetuity: the time is 11:48:25.084738 . . . the
by Stephen Petranek · 6 Jul 2015 · 70pp · 22,172 words
a serious plan for going to Mars, his vision must have been experienced as absurd—even by scientists and engineers. Hundreds of rockets sent into low Earth orbit to build ten giant interplanetary spacecraft filled with tens of millions of pounds of fuel and oxygen and food? Really? But it certainly captivated the
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2014, Mars One had raised about $600,000 from donations. That is less than 1 percent of the cost of launching a Dragon spacecraft into low Earth orbit on a regular Falcon 9. Mars One charges applicants for astronaut positions a fee, which will bring them a few million dollars. It is also
by Garry Kasparov · 1 May 2017 · 331pp · 104,366 words
was out. It was rapid chess, yes, but a serious event and the machine had played quite well in parts. Still no moon landing, but low Earth orbit had been achieved. Both games with Genius reflected the unique nature of computer chess, especially the second game. Chess players have the most trouble visualizing
by Ronald J. Deibert · 13 May 2013 · 317pp · 98,745 words
by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum · 1 May 2016 · 519pp · 142,646 words
by Stewart Brand · 1 Jan 1999 · 194pp · 49,310 words
by Astronaut Ron Garan and Muhammad Yunus · 2 Feb 2015
by Nick Cook · 11 Jul 2018 · 112pp · 28,314 words
by Michael Leinbach and Jonathan H. Ward · 23 Jan 2018 · 424pp · 114,094 words
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 3 Feb 2015 · 368pp · 96,825 words
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by Andy Kessler · 12 Oct 2009 · 361pp · 86,921 words
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by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1988
by Jerry Lynn Ross and John Norberg · 31 Jan 2013 · 259pp · 94,135 words
by Dan Dimicco · 3 Mar 2015 · 219pp · 61,720 words
by Carl Zimmer · 9 Mar 2021 · 392pp · 109,945 words
by Scott Carney and Jason Miklian · 28 Mar 2022 · 553pp · 153,028 words
by Mike Massimino · 3 Oct 2016 · 286pp · 101,129 words
by Marshall Brain · 6 Apr 2015 · 215pp · 56,215 words
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by Tom Clancy and Peter Telep · 13 Jun 2011 · 640pp · 177,786 words
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by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith · 16 Oct 2017 · 398pp · 105,032 words
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by Chris Dubbs, Emeline Paat-dahlstrom and Charles D. Walker · 1 Jun 2011 · 376pp · 110,796 words
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by Jay Barbree, Howard Benedict, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton and Neil Armstrong · 1 Jan 1994 · 469pp · 124,784 words
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by Neil Degrasse Tyson and Avis Lang · 27 Feb 2012 · 476pp · 118,381 words
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by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox · 1 Jan 1989 · 619pp · 197,256 words
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by Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan Chen · 13 Sep 2021
by Sean M. Carroll · 15 Jan 2010 · 634pp · 185,116 words
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