AviationNow.com: AviationNow.Com Reports Virgin Lightships Equipped to Uncover Land Mines London, UK, 03/16/00.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000 AviationNow.com reports that Richard Branson's The Lightship lightship, moored vessel bearing lights and other signal devices to guide ships and warn of hazards to navigation. Lightships are generally stationed at points where a lighthouse cannot be erected; they are given distinctive features (e.g. Group and Great Britain's Defense Evaluation & Research Agency have successfully tested airship-mounted radar for locating landmines. DERA's ultra-wideband (UWB (Ultra-WideBand) A wireless technology that uses less power and provides higher speed than 802.11 Wi-Fi networks or first-generation Bluetooth products. UWB is expected to provide wireless video transmission for home theater systems, cable TV, auto safety and ) synthetic aperture radar Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Radar, airborne or satellite-borne, that uses special signal processing to produce high-resolution images of the surface of the Earth (or another object) while traversing a considerable flight path. has spotted buried plastic and metal targets as small as 10 cm (3.9 in) in diameter. Mounted on TLG's A60+ airship airship, an aircraft that consists of a cigar-shaped gas bag, or envelope, filled with a lighter-than-air gas to provide lift, a propulsion system, a steering mechanism, and a gondola accommodating passengers, crew, and cargo. , the system should be able to map possible minefields at 100 square meters per second, without endangering operators. To learn more, use Top Stories at www.aviationnow.com |
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