In particular, Maxar will work with Langley to build a breadboard for a deployable, semi-rigid
radio antenna and will test lightweight solar cells for flexible solar panels using facilities at Glenn and Marshall that mimic the environment of space.
For almost 100 years, the primary means of receiving broadcasted information into vehicles has been through the
radio antenna, or aerial.
It will deploy a seismometer, heat sensor, and
radio antenna to analyze the planet's interior to extrapolate information about Mars' past and how it became the desert seen today.
A spokesperson said: "Following the construction of the temporary mast earlier this year, the team has been busy installing the TV and
radio antenna along with over 2km of up to 6-inch diameter cable onto the mast in preparation for it to take over transmitting these services to the area's homes.
The North Carolina facility began in 1962 as a NASA satellite tracking station and then was handed over to the Department of Defense, which installed a 12-meter-wide
radio antenna to collect classified data during the Cold War.
TRAVELLER also includes a complete range of advanced tactical audio and wideband
radio antenna solutions; well suited to US Space's markets.
New Horizons has a
radio antenna, cameras, and other tools.
The vibrations can be picked up with an AM
radio antenna a short distance away.
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radio antenna (4) 23 Government rules are partly codswallop, in retrospect (4)
When I was young, we made .22 rimfire guns out of automobile
radio antenna sections wrapped in brass wire from the hardware store.
A wireless, paperless, "hands-free" technology that IDs each vehicle, its location, and the fluids dispensed to it, Multi-Pump has a GPS antenna and a
radio antenna. GPS coordinates are stamped into the record as hour data is collected.
radio antenna - omnidirectional antenna comprising the part of a radio receiver by means of which radio signals are received