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MR: I went to Glaxo Wellcome and after three times being rejected and having the door slammed in my face because they weren't going to out-license the drug to a satellite communications expert, they weren't going to send the drug out to anybody at all, and they thought I didn't have the expertise, finally I was able to persuade a small team of people to work with me and develop enough credibility.
Being able to see damage from angles you can't get from binoculars on the ground or from a satellite image, or anything flying at a higher angle.
There'll be a satellite called TESS that will discover planets outside of our solar system.
Special forces operators out there in the field today discover that small groups of insurgents with cell phones have access to satellite imagery that once only superpowers had.
40 times, the thickness is nearly 7,000 miles, or the average GPS satellite's orbit.
This was taken using satellite, so it's got tremendous spatial resolution.
Let's zoom way back and put you in a little satellite over the North Pole of the Earth and consider north to be up.
On October 4, 1957, the world watched in awe and fear as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first man-made satellite, into space.
Not wanting to fall too far behind, President Eisenhower ordered the Navy to speed up its own project and launch a satellite as soon as possible.
So, on December 6, 1957, excited people across the nation tuned in to watch the live broadcast as the Vanguard TV3 satellite took off and crashed to the ground two seconds later.
For this reason, a lot of researchers are interested in forcasting the motion and formation of clouds through satellite images or cameras that look up at the sky to maximize the energy from solar power plants and minimize energy waste.
The answer lies 12,000 miles over your head in an orbiting satellite that keeps time to the beat of an atomic clock powered by quantum mechanics.
First of all, why is it so important to know what time it is on a satellite when location is what we're concerned about?
The first thing your phone needs to determine is how far it is from a satellite.
Each satellite constantly broadcasts radio signals that travel from space to your phone at the speed of light.
If we were only able to calculate time to the nearest second, every location on Earth, and far beyond, would seem to be the same distance from the satellite.
So thanks to the atomic clock, we get a time reading accurate to within 1 billionth of a second, and a very precise measurement of the distance from that satellite.
We now know that you're at a fixed distance from the satellite.
In other words, you're somewhere on the surface of a sphere centered around the satellite.
Measure your distance from a second satellite and you get another overlapping sphere.
These predictions are in excellent agreement with observations by the WMAP satellite of the cosmic microwave background, which is an imprint of the very early universe.
When I first started the research, the satellite imagery was too low-resolution to be meaningful.
And once we capture these images, we feed them through statistical algorithms to further enhance and clarify them, using software which was originally designed for satellite images and used by people like geospatial scientists and the CIA.
So as part of the TED Prize platform, we are going to partnering with some incredible organizations, first of all with DigitalGlobe, the world's largest provider of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery.
Of course, they'll also be providing us with the satellite imagery.
My team, headed up by Chase Childs, is already beginning to look at some of the satellite imagery.
Or take for example an innovative satellite company.
They're laden with an array of science-grade sensors that measure all key variables, both oceanographic and atmospheric, and a live satellite link transmits this high-resolution data back to shore in real time.
People around the world rely on satellite infrastructure every day for information, entertainment and to communicate.
This is the paradigm of the satellite industry.
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