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You are hitting these balls in front of an array of six high speed cameras connected to computers that map your every move, in addition to all aspects of ball flight.
Over a five-year period, the satellite's e2v array, allied to two telescopes and some sophisticated instrumentation that includes an atomic clock, will make an unprecedented 3D map of our Milky Way Galaxy.