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Robotic repair and maintenance could extend the lives of hundreds of
satellites
orbiting around the Earth.
There is without doubt congestion in the low Earth and geostationary orbits, and we cannot keep launching new
satellites
to replace the ones that have broken down without doing something about them first, just like we would never leave a broken down car in the middle of the highway.
But also think about the very impact that the
satellites
have on the environment surrounding Earth, and help spread the message that together we must reduce our impact.
But these
satellites
were designed for weather, not climate.
We have to stitch together the output of multiple
satellites
with different viewing angles and orbits and carrying different camera equipment.
I want them to be prepared for what they'll face, and that is why it is so important to keep our earth-observing
satellites
up there and to hire diverse and smart and talented people who do not hate clouds to improve the climate models.
They operate a constellation of five satellites, each roughly the size of an ambulance, that is constantly taking pictures of the Earth as they orbit at 28,000 kilometers per hour.
Each of these
satellites
is equipped with a camera that has a focal length of 16 meters, so that's roughly 290 times greater than a DSLR camera equipped with a standard 55 millimeter lens.
So if were able to attach one of their
satellites
to the roof of this theater in Oxford, we could take a picture of a football, clearly, on the pitch at the stadium in Amsterdam.
Each of these systems that I showed you brings us closer to having the mathematical and the conceptual tools to create our own versions of collective power, and this can enable many different kinds of future applications, whether you think about robots that build flood barriers or you think about robotic bee colonies that could pollinate crops or underwater schools of robots that monitor coral reefs, or if we reach for the stars and we thinking about programming constellations of
satellites.
The sunlight in Jupiter, on the
satellites
of Jupiter, is 25 times fainter than it is here, since Jupiter is five times as far from the Sun.
They have 22
satellites
zipping around at plus or minus 100 miles, and the site's in red.
Our capability to fly airplanes and
satellites
over the ice sheets is revolutionizing glaciology.
The
satellites
are reporting a wealth of observations that are revealing new hidden facts about the ice sheets continuously.
Now, to the
satellites
things.
And that's one of the
satellites
which was actually formed on that one.
And we have a wide variety of kind of
satellites
which will form, each one looking very different and very odd, and that keeps scientists busy for tens of years trying to explain this, and telling NASA we need more money so we can explain what these things look like, or why they formed that way.
Well, there were two
satellites
which were particularly interesting.
So the way these measurements were done, there's been a set of satellites, and this is where you get to see.
We've doing it very carefully now for 20 years, from satellites, and it isn't going up.
And every once in a while, two of these things will collide with each other or one of these things will explode, or even worse, somebody might just happen to destroy one of their
satellites
on orbit, and this generates many, many more pieces, most of which also never come back.
And then, there are
satellites.
Satellites
are a problem at both visible and invisible wavelengths.
A host of private companies have plans to deploy tens of thousands of
satellites
into Earth orbit, where they will not only outnumber, literally outnumber the visible stars in the sky, while also beaming invisible light back to Earth.
With cell phones or
satellites
or car radar.
I was thinking about mass produced spherical television sets that could be linked to orbiting camera
satellites.
Now, one of the wonderful things that NASA does is it puts up a variety of
satellites
that detect all sort of interesting things about our environment.
And for many decades now there have been a series of TOMS
satellites
that have collected data about the radiation of the Earth's surface.
So the studies have been done with
satellites
and other things, and what you're seeing here is a graph of, over the last 33 years or so, there's 14 percent more leaf action going on.
What we see here are
satellites
around the Earth and the Earth in proper registration against the universe, as we see.
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