In the Scottish borders country, a system of beacon fires were at one time established to warn of incursions by the English.

What NASA's website describes as " improper operation of the Atlas airborne beacon equipment " caused the booster to lose contact with one of the guidance systems on the ground, setting the stage for an apparent software-related guidance system failure.

Adding a ground-based transponder immediately turned the same display into a system able to guide the aircraft towards a transponder, or " beacon " in this role, with high accuracy.

* Marker beacon ( three-light marker beacon system )

In the 1950s, aviation NDBs were augmented by the VOR system, in which the direction to the beacon can be extracted from the signal itself, hence the distinction with non-directional beacons.

Green suggests that following the victory at Plataea, the Allied commander Pausanias took control of the Persian beacon system that Xerxes had used to communicate with Asia, and used it to send tidings of Plataea to the Allied fleet.

He distributed his commanders and forces and set up a system of beacon fires at various high places to communicate instantly any enemy movements.

In this system, a beacon emits a specially modulated signal which consists of two sine waves which are out of phase.

They became the major radio navigation system in the 1960s, when they took over from the older radio beacon and four-course ( low / medium frequency range ) system.

Control of a kite includes how other aircraft sees the kite system ; the team placed a radio beacon ( using two-meter frequency detectable for 50 miles ) on the kite ; for sight visibility, strobe lights were hung from the kite's nose.

The pilots were unaware of a significant discrepancy in the aircraft flight management system position caused by the sole navigational beacon transmitting erroneous data.

High-intensity white strobe lights are part of the anti-collision light system, as well as the aviation red or white rotating beacon.

The anti collision light system ( either strobe lights or rotating beacon ) is required for all airplanes built after March 11, 1996 for all flight activities in poor visibility, and recommended in good visibility, where only strobes and beacon are required.

There are two main types of laser guide star system, known as sodium and Rayleigh beacon guide stars.

Instrumentation included a beacon telemetry system that provided a tracking signal, monitored spacecraft skin temperature between-120 deg C and + 16 deg C, and measured the internal pressure of the spacecraft between 0. 00005 mm of mercury and 0. 5 mm of mercury, especially during the initial inflation stages.

The system consisted of two beacon assemblies powered by solar cell panels and had a minimum power output of 45 mW at 136. 02 MHz and 136. 17 MHz.

A balise () is an electronic beacon or transponder placed between the rails of a railway as part of an Automatic Train Protection ( ATP ) system.

Also, the steady beeping of the radio beacon aboard Sputnik 1 as it passed overhead every 96 minutes was widely viewed on both sides as effective propaganda to Third World countries demonstrating the technological superiority of the Soviet political system compared to the American one.

The android version of Lan appears to possess all the same abilities, in addition to a unique self-repair system and a homing beacon he could use to find galactus ' ship.

In 1994, the Chilean Navy installed an automated beacon and a tsunami warning system.

When a lead emerged in the form of a beacon from the Sol system was detected, Jetfire and Omega split off from the team ( who went on to investigate Decepticon attacks on other planets ) and headed off after the signal.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

The distinctive round window high in the south transept was originally lit up at night as a beacon for mariners.

The beacon was partially destroyed during early World War II by the Japanese attacks, but was rebuilt in the early 1960s by men from the U. S. Coast Guard ship Blackhaw.

By 2000, the beacon was reported to be crumbling and it had not been painted in decades.

One stormy night a high wind extinguished the beacon, and Leander was drowned.

Phosphate and copra entrepreneur John T. Arundel visited the island in 1909 and near the beach landing on the western shore a tumbled, pyramidal day beacon made from slats of wood was repaired, painted white and stood at least until 1942.

Starting out as a cluster of large, open tents pitched next to the still-standing white wooden day beacon, the Millersville settlement on the island's western shore was named after a bureaucrat with the United States Department of Air Commerce.

After the Muslims took over all of Egypt, the top of the Pharos supposedly became a mosque, as the beacon was no longer in working order.

When the Romulan / Cardassian fleet arrived at the Founders ' homeworld, they bombarded it, only to realize that the planet was deserted except for a token beacon.

The narrator hypothesises that this " sentinel " was left on the moon as a " warning beacon " for possible intelligent and spacefaring species that might develop on Earth.

The scheme was seen as an early example of what some saw as Tony Blair's often excessive optimism, who stated at the Dome's opening: " In the Dome we have a creation that, I believe, will truly be a beacon to the world ".

It was intended that the spacecraft would provide a radio beacon for precision landings of manned spacecraft.

The Vanguard satellite was thrown clear and landed on the ground a short distance away with its transmitters still sending out a beacon signal.

Torriano Avenue, dating back to 1848, is a popular Kentish Town street being home to Pete Stanley, one of the country's best-known bluegrass banjo players, British actor Bill Nighy, The Torriano Poets, a beacon of culture where local poets have met for over 20 years and still hold weekly public poetry readings on Sunday evenings ; its founder was John Rety.

Higher up the village, the Church of St Nicholas has two towers: the main tower is over 100 ft ( 30 m ) high and a well-known landmark for miles around, and the smaller tower was built as a beacon to guide boats into Blakeney harbour.

With its ample supply of water and prosperous trading center, it truly was a shining beacon and sanctuary in the desert for those thousands of travelers who depended upon its resources for their survival.

The lighthouse's beacon was turned off in the 1940s, and the structure is no longer an important navigation aid for lake freighters, although small boaters still refer to the location.

Old Baldy was downgraded from a lighthouse to a navigational radio beacon in 1935.

This lighthouse was of utmost importance because it controlled the nighttime pass ; whoever governed the light beacon regulated the night time passageway.

The old naval navigation tower ( German: Peilturm ) was built in 1927 of brick and acted as an marine navigation beacon.

* The Nantucket Lightship LV-117 was rammed and sunk in 1934 by RMS Olympic homing in on its radio beacon, with a loss of seven out of a crew of eleven.

The original method was to place a spinning mirror which moves around a light bulb, called a " rotating beacon ".