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That is in addition to other advanced tools such as synthetic-aperture radar, which can use radio waves to track military movements even at night and beneath cloud cover.
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Eric Lipton, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
Light waves, radio waves, X rays—none of these ways of reading the universe let scientists see as far down toward the horizon of a black hole.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
Data is also sent to airlines using the Aircraft Communications, Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), which transmits automated and manually entered messages between airlines and airplanes using radio waves and satellite links.
—Gregory Wallace, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
The wavelength of this radio wave would be 3 meters.
—WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
These radio waves precisely measured the position of Dimorphos relative to Didymos after impact.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2024
The citizen scientists will reveal how a short, sudden darkness affects the way radio waves propagate in the ionosphere—and how this may alter its overall ionization.
—Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
Also on board: an innovative sensor that will use radio waves to accurately determine how much cryogenic propellant is left in a tank in the weightless environment of space, technology that is expected to prove useful for downstream moon missions and other deep space voyages.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2024
Usually, ham-radio operators can chat across distances of several thousand kilometers by bouncing radio waves off the ionosphere between receivers, but a total solar eclipse’s disruption of the ionosphere can change communication conditions.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
Eric Lipton, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
Light waves, radio waves, X rays—none of these ways of reading the universe let scientists see as far down toward the horizon of a black hole.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
Data is also sent to airlines using the Aircraft Communications, Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS), which transmits automated and manually entered messages between airlines and airplanes using radio waves and satellite links.
—Gregory Wallace, CNN, 17 Mar. 2024
The wavelength of this radio wave would be 3 meters.
—WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
These radio waves precisely measured the position of Dimorphos relative to Didymos after impact.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2024
The citizen scientists will reveal how a short, sudden darkness affects the way radio waves propagate in the ionosphere—and how this may alter its overall ionization.
—Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
Also on board: an innovative sensor that will use radio waves to accurately determine how much cryogenic propellant is left in a tank in the weightless environment of space, technology that is expected to prove useful for downstream moon missions and other deep space voyages.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2024
Usually, ham-radio operators can chat across distances of several thousand kilometers by bouncing radio waves off the ionosphere between receivers, but a total solar eclipse’s disruption of the ionosphere can change communication conditions.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
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radio wave
noun
ra·dio wave
ˈrād-ē-ō-ˌwāv 
: an electromagnetic wave with radio frequency
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