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03-19-2014, 03:31 AM
The Tiny Satellites That Could Have Found the Missing Plane Within Hours
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VANCOUVER, Canada — Had Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared just a few weeks later, we may have been able to find it in a matter of hours.
A company called Planet Labs (http://mashable.com/2013/12/18/planet-labs-funding/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) is in the process of activating a squadron of tiny satellites that they released from the International Space Station last month. These compact satellites will orbit Earth, snapping images of nearly every inch of our planet. As Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield pointed out, they may have filled the blind spots of the satellites that failed to keep up with the plane after it lost contact
See also: Where Is the Plane? 19 Possible Scenarios (http://mashable.com/2014/03/13/what-happened-to-malaysia-airlines-flight-370/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/18/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-planet-labs-satellites/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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VANCOUVER, Canada — Had Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared just a few weeks later, we may have been able to find it in a matter of hours.
A company called Planet Labs (http://mashable.com/2013/12/18/planet-labs-funding/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) is in the process of activating a squadron of tiny satellites that they released from the International Space Station last month. These compact satellites will orbit Earth, snapping images of nearly every inch of our planet. As Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield pointed out, they may have filled the blind spots of the satellites that failed to keep up with the plane after it lost contact
See also: Where Is the Plane? 19 Possible Scenarios (http://mashable.com/2014/03/13/what-happened-to-malaysia-airlines-flight-370/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/18/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-planet-labs-satellites/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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