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Although American astronauts will have a hard time catching up with their Soviet counterparts, U.S. civilian imaging satellites may soon compete with rival Soviet spacecraft. Last week the White House announced the lifting of a ban on commercial imaging satellites capable of taking high-resolution photographs of the earth's...
Low-power U.S. satellite images have been used for years by meteorologists, geologists and agronomists to view vast, sometimes inaccessible, areas from space. The U.S. ban grew out of Defense Department fears that civilians might uncover sensitive military secrets. But it backfired when Landsat, the sole U.S. commercial imaging satellite...
In addition to changes in the ways that consumers buy medical services, advances in medical research and technology have contributed to rising costs. Doctors who might have ordered X rays ten years ago, for example, now may call for the much more detailed -- and more expensive -- images produced by nuclear...
Preventive veterinary medicine is burgeoning. Animal doctors now routinely use X rays and other imaging techniques to detect nearly invisible hairline cracks in horses' legs before fractures occur. For tendon and ligament injuries, says University of Pennsylvania Veterinarian Virginia Reef, "diagnostic ultrasound has been a big boon in racing and...
When Yozo Matsuoka was a manager at Honda's European operations in Brussels during the early 1980s, one of his neighbors was a Belgian pensioner. "This man lived a life beyond our imaging," recalls Matsuoka. "He owned his house, drove a nice car and rented a cottage in Spain for...