The project, called PhoneSat, will see a Nexus One handset put at the heart of a small satellite.
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Unlike his neighbours, he refuses to relocate to Barwa, a small satellite town for immigrant workers, nearly 10km (six miles) away.
The latest outing for Europe's new small satellite launcher, Vega, has been postponed until an unspecified date because of bad weather conditions.
Using small satellite phones to dial in for a lower resolution signal seemed like an option but even that was not assured.
Bart Bailey is CEO of 3001 Incorporated, a small satellite mapping company.
But many small satellite operators say Pegasus is priced out of their reach, and Virgin Galactic believes its air-launched alternative could be made significantly cheaper.
After competitor DirecTV launched a new, small satellite, Ergen followed suit.
Noah Samara, WorldSpace chairman, said the new system will use small satellite radio receivers about the size of current-day transistor radios and deliver digital quality sound.
Mr Bennett, whose love of rocketry was inspired by the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, has predicted that he could put a small satellite in low Earth orbit by the year 2001.
This device, developed at the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate in Quantico, Virginia, is a microwave transmitter the size and shape of a small satellite dish that pivots on top of an armoured car.
Robert Twiggs, formerly from Stanford but now at Morehead State University in Kentucky is one of the fathers of the small cheap satellite.
But although the Dragon was unaffected, the engine problem left a small communications satellite that was along for the ride as a secondary payload unable to reach its proper orbit.
Dr Baker says the challenge is to get the cost of a small-satellite launcher down to a few million, and he is so excited by the possibilities that he is leaving his employer to join Virgin Galactic.
Each one of these UNESCO sponsored CLCs is located in a different province, typically in disadvantaged areas, and is normally complimented by a large number of small-scale satellite CLCs, established by communities, local authorities or NGOs.
To change your view layer in Apple Maps you have to tap the lower right corner (helpfully curled over as if it were physical paper) to reveal quite small traffic, satellite and hybrid views among four other options.
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She took only a small knapsack containing her satellite computer, some granola bars and a jar of instant coffee she said she couldn't live without.
It will also make several other small tweaks, like combining satellite offices with their corporate parent.
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But sources on the ground said peasants are now cultivating very small fields to avoid the attention of the spraying aircraft, and many of these are too small to appear on the satellite imagery the UN based its report on.
Inmarsat is also entering a new field, the fixed satellite business ("fixed" refers to the customer, not the satellite) and will access very-small-aperture terminals (VSATs) of the type maintained by fixed satellite service purveyors like Intelsat.
The SafeCell App is unique in that file sizes are so small, even a narrow band satellite link can accommodate the basic texting needs of every passenger.
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"The Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station received an 'all clear' to move out of their Soyuz vehicles after a small piece of a Russian Cosmos satellite debris passed by the complex without incident early Saturday, " the statement said.
Over a decade ago he helped pioneer the idea of the cube-sat satellite that is a small self contained box that could ride with other such boxes in the payload of a rocket where it could conduct low gravity experiments, biological experiments of do other interesting activities when released into space.
Satellite operators would pay relatively small fees to their governments, who would contribute the money to the fund.
He said the university's "satellite operation" would start small but would grow in years to come.
Broadband is delivered to a small audience in Wales via cable, satellite and wireless technologies.
In Minnesota, where the gun debate is on hold at the Capitol, the small town of Jordan recently decided to place satellite police offices in its public schools.
According to NASA there are about 20, 000 pieces of space junk bigger than 10cm (3.9 inches) and its chief scientist for orbital debris Nicholas L. Johnson says most robotic satellite missions are vulnerable to particles as small as 5mm (0.2 inches) -- there are thought to be millions of those in orbit.
The NASA scientist said the odds of an operational satellite being disabled by space debris remain quite small, though he points out that two have been lost after being hit by man-made debris -- a French satellite in 1996 and an American craft in 2009.
When much of America was shaken by the Russian success with the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, Gore was part of a small delegation from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that toured the Soviet Union.
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Although video satellite phones will spread power within the existing system by enabling small news organisations to do what, until recently, only the big boys could afford, they will not, by themselves, make everybody into an outside broadcaster.
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