Essays on Satellites

My town of choice was Lisbon, Portugal. The longitude is -9.139337 and the latitude is 38.722252. It is the capital and the largest city in Portugal, with a population of 552,700. It is the 11th most populous urban area in the European Union. It is continental Europe's westernmost capital city and the only one along the Atlantic coast. It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is recognized as a global city because of its importance in finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts, international trade, education and tourism. I chose Lisbon because I traveled there one ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan’s national agency dealing with space exploration through research and technological advancements. On 1st October 2003, it was formed through the merging of three organizations that included: the Institution of Space and Astronautical Science, the National Space Development Agency of Japan and National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan. It was created to act as an independent core performance agency that was fashioned to further the Japanese government’s aerospace development. Some of its core operations include the development of technology, launching satellites into orbit and research. It is also participating in advanced ...

Technology has the ability to change all lives, but only if all people are provided equal access to it. Application of technology is important because advancements provide critical tools for empowerment. These new technologies are useful in the definition of social as well as economic advancements. Technological advancements around the world have developed a unique platform for supporting change and helping people live better lives. However, the extent to which different people have access to technological advancements is significant to the definition of how challenging it is for people to access the same technological advancements, hence the creation of ...

Management: What Must be Improved?

At the present time, the use of Global Positioning System or GPS, is becoming significant in various applications. Through the use of satellite systems, this technology is able to pinpoint the location of a certain object or person (Wickens, Mavor, Parasuraman, & McGee 90). The accuracy was proven to be high, making it suitable for communication and surveillance. Moreover, it can also be used for navigation. When using a set of satellites, GPS can determine a certain way to reach the other locations, as long as the satellites are within the range of the distance of the designated places (Wickens, ...

IT133 – Week 3 Assignment

IT133 – Week 3 Assignment 4B/5B is a block encoding system that breaks up long strings of zeroes and ones but does not increase the frequency bandwidth by breaking them up in four-bit sequence. Table 1 shows each block of four bits replaced by a block of five bits. Due to this, there cannot be more than one leading zero and two trailing zeros. This means that the resulting bit stream has no more than three consecutive zeros (Figure 1). This bit stream is transmitted using non-return to zero inverted (NRZI) method and is used in 100BaseTX (Fast Ethernet) networks ...

Janaury 10, 2017

JAXA The Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's national aero-space agency. Its current areas of exploration include lunar and interplanetary missions, astronomy, communication, positioning and technology tests and earth observation. The organization has been participating in many space mission, as support or as a partner in the development of satellites, space rovers, and rockets, among others. It currently does not have a human space exploration program, but the organization has astronauts who work together with other space agencies across the world. The TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission), a joint satellite project with NASA, is one of JAXA's first ...

IMPACT OF THE INVENTION OF GPS

Introduction Technologies mean a lot for a modern person. Since the technological revolution, they have been integrating into our daily activities by means of smartphones, personal computers, music players and other gadgets which people use every day. The Global Positioning System is one of the handy technologies which help people not to get lost in a big city or a forest. With a help of GPS, one may freely find the way out of a situation when someone is lost and so forth. However, just like any technology that is integrated into our life, GPS has its advantages and ...

Obtain the hourly data set of weather observables.

Temperature data: Data taken from Government of Canada (2016) The temperature on May 4th was highest at 15:00 and lowest at 06:00. The timings of these values are very similar to the plot given in the textbook example, which suggests that the minimum daily temperature occurs at 06:00 and the maximum is at 18:00. The highest temperature in the current data occurs slightly earlier, which may be due to the fact that Alberta was observing DST (Botkin & Keller, 2011).

UV Index data

The minimum UV index values are expected to occur during the hours of darkness, approximately between 20:00 and 04:00 on ...

The two-line element set coordinate system for the satellite DMSP-19 looks in the following way:

DMSP-19 1. 25063U 97074 A 476849 0.00001428 0000-0 56564-3 984 15 2. 25063 34.9848 213.37 213.37 234.2325 124.0029 15.74091 18836 DMSP satellites are used to gather more data for weather models of NOAA – the organization that creates life-saving forecasts to save people’s lives during severe weather. The DMSP-19 satellite is a LEO satellite. LEO orbit (180-2000 km) is commonly occupied with the things that are used for scientific needs. The height of the orbit influences on the shape of the orbit of a satellite. So, the satellites that are working on a low orbit usually move in a ...

Solar Energy

Solar Energy Background What can be more useful for humanity if not an unlimited power source, which we can use without any harm to the environment? Probably nothing, but solar power. Humanity has always tried to conquer the unlimited power of the sun – the history of solar technology dates back to the 7th Century B.C. and continues to this day. In the beginning, we tried to concentrate the sun’s heat by using glass, mirrors or other devices to light fires. From those times, we greatly progressed, but still we did not conquer this magnificent source of power. Why ...

(Professor/Instructor) (College/University/Institute)

Thesis Statement: Water and its scarcity will continue to fuel conflicts among nations. Water will become a potential flashpoint for future regional and possibly global conflicts. In the position of Australian Council Future Fellow and University of Adelaide associate Professor Sarah Wheeler, the future global water crisis is the most significant threat that will challenge international peace and order in the next ten years. This holding is supported by the findings of the “Global Risk Perception Survey,” outpacing the spread of contagious illnesses, “weapons of mass destruction,” regional and inter-country conflicts, and failing to address the problems ...

Major Developments In Mass Media Over The Last Century

Throughout the twentieth century, there has been considerable development in the mass media. It is important to note from the outset that during the start of the century print media was the major source of information and entertainment. As such, the media, mainly consisted of the newspapers and periodicals. Most people relied heavily on these sources of information to report on various events the world over. Consequently, radio became a dominant form of media during the 1940s, especially during the World War II and thereafter. As more people sought to know about the current events about war situations and ...

Brief Summary

In recent years, technology has moved so fast that since the advent of Google Earth, less than five years later, there are now companies that have sent their satellites into space to capture real-time images of the earth as reported by NOAA Satellites and Information (2016). This trend even received the attention of high profile celebrities and has been endorsed by George Clooney, who has collaborated with the Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) to help document crimes against humanity in the conflict-ridden Sub-Saharan region. (Tovrov, 2012). Cheaper, higher resolution, and complex satellites are being sent into the earth's stratosphere, some ...

Under these conditions, countries need an effective anti-terrorist policy and methods as a means of ensuring their own survival, public support, and international stability. Accordingly, new methods to combat terrorism began to be emerged and be developed, namely the use of new technologies such as satellites, information technology, surveillance, weaponry, Bio-metrics, finance, drones etc.

Satellites

It is worth noting a significant contribution of satellite systems to the resolution of the intelligence, communication, navigation and meteorological problems. Cosmic intelligence systems were used in order to provide US troops with timely and reliable data on the grouping of the Islamic movement of ...

For those people, who are not found of astronomy, Mars and the Moon are only two planets different in color and are on a different distance from the Earth. However, nowadays there are a lot of science fiction films about space such as Star Track, Star Wars, The Martian. But unfortunately, they are based not on real facts and data. That is why the viewers receive false information concerning space and its objects. The paper will reveal some important facts concerning Mars and The moon. First of all, few people really know that Mars is a planet and the ...

Geographical or Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) is a great way to represent data in a mapped format and analyze that data in a database environment. By providing a spatial analysis of suitably coded data, it is possible to provide striking, visual representations of data. These representations can often reveal patterns and trends that might otherwise have gone unnoticed without the use of GIS techniques (Nofal, 2012). GIS is defined as technological systems and databases that allow the recording of where, what, and when in a visual geographic or mapping format. GI systems were originally conceived as something separate from ...

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The article focussed on the breeding behaviours of emperor penguins that are recently discovered with the help of satellites. Mostly it is believed that penguins lay their eggs on sea ice that is fast and stable and that remains intact under the chick fledge. Fretwell and co-workers conducted this study on forty-six colonies emperor penguins. The recent observation revealed that few colonies of emperor penguins breed on ice-shelves instead of sea ice. Due to rapid climate changes and the incidence of ice melting the penguin population has declined and very close to extinction. It is a big concern that ...

In the recent past, NASA has been doing excellent and outstanding things in the outer space. The media has hyped the show and depicted NASA as a genius (Frederick). Most people says the operations of NASA are exhilarating, but on my side, I am left flabbergasted! Could the skills used to put a man on the moon duplicated to improve the state of the life of humans? Can’t they decide to invent robots that will play an essential role to curb the rising insecurities? NASA commitments and objectives just boil my blood. Personally, I am not moved by ...

Space exploration is the process of investigating into physical conditions in space, planets, stars and celestial bodies by use or man-made satellites. In many cases spacecraft’s are used to orbit around the earth and space with a human crew to collect sufficient information of the entire solar system. Space exploration is geared to answering scientific questions on the physical conditions which directly affect people in their day-to-day activities. Purposively, space exploration explains the nature of space and other environmental factors that result from natural forces. A few scientists and public argue that space exploration is not a brilliant ...

Computer Networks

When two or more processing are connected together either to share any resource like printer, data exchange or electronic communication, it is called a network. There are many different ways in which the computers and devices can be connected to each other in the network including cables, radio waves, infrared, satellites, etc (Tanenbaum 1). There are two possible types of networks; peer to peer and server based which is mostly called client-server network. In peer to peer network, computers are connected in a group for the purpose of sharing data/ information, and resources. There is no controller or a ...

Solar Energy

What can be more useful for humanity if not unlimited power source, which we can use without any harm to the environment? Probably, nothing, but the solar power. Humanity has always tried to conquer the unlimited power of Sun – history of solar technology comes from the 7th Century B.C. to nowadays. In the beginning, we tried to concentrate the sun’s heat by using glass, mirrors or some other devices to light fires. From those times, we went far away, but still we did not conquer this magnificent source of power. Why do we should develop solar power technologies? ...

The mass media plays an important role in the current society. The information transmitted via media has a huge influence on people's perceptions and decisions and for that matter, it can be seen as the eyes of our society (Champagne 2). Although there are strict guidelines and a code of ethics that governs media reporting, today's media is full of self-aggrandizement and greed (Champagne 2). There is stiff competition in the media industry. There are so many options an audience can choose from, and with increasing competition, every media house has to roll up its sleeves and use every ...

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Grandfather said this phrase with a confident voice. It is always the case when we are up late night; sitting on the roof, my grandfather pretends to be Neil Armstrong. He starts to tell us all about that day in July 1969, at 10:56 p.m. EDT, more than half a billion people were watching television waiting for Armstronghim to put his foot on the moon. He is so excited in playing Neil Armstrong’s part, and he keeps saying that this step helped us to evolve ...

The Cold War: Space Race

Introduction The final frontier in the exploration of man during the 20th century was space. For decades, the man had been intrigued by the vastness and the boundlessness of his surroundings. The untapped cradle that formed the home to the planet remained a mystery to man. It was this fascination that created the basis for space exploration even as the man struggled to understand not only his surroundings but also his existence. The desire to understand space created the much needed scientific and technological advancement of humanity. In an effort to understand and conquer space, the man helped advance ...