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单词 beacon
释义
beacon

Space Exploration
  • A downlink from a spacecraft that immediately shows that the spacecraft is in one of several possible states. An on-board system assesses the craft's overall health. It then adds one of four tones to its download carrier to indicate how urgently it needs to contact the deep-space station (NASA ground tracking and communications station) with this data.


Electronics and Electrical Engineering
  • A signal station or the signal transmitted by such a station, which acts as a reference point. A beacon that transmits an identifiable signal is a code beacon. A homing beacon is one that guides an object, such as an aircraft, to a target, such as an airport. At the airport, signals from the localizer beacon associated with the instrument landing system are picked up enabling the aircraft to be guided to land. A beacon that employs radar signals is a radar beacon and one employing radiofrequency waves is a radio beacon. The receiver used for detecting the signals from a beacon is a beacon receiver.


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