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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

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Most of the eVTOLs being designed or flown now are intended to be flown by a pilot on board, at least for the first several years of commercial operation. These computers will receive command-and-control data from ground-control stations and from optical, infrared, and light detection and ranging (lidar) sensors on the aircraft.

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Two days after the launch, Goddard received its first MSS image, showing the Dallas–Fort Worth area. (In Today’s commercial high-resolution satellites can have a resolution of 30 centimeters. An abridged version of this article appears in the July 2022 print issue as “Pictures of a Planet.". billion in today’s dollars).

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