The following stations are listed in the EP report ( p. 54 ff ) as likely to have, or to have had, a role in intercepting transmissions from telecommunications satellites:

Since the 1960s this role has been largely superseded by satellites, long range aircraft and weather buoys.

Today much of the strategic role has passed over to satellites, and the tactical role to unmanned aerial vehicles.

Its main role is to produce forecast models by gathering information from weather satellites in space and observations on earth, then processing it using two IBM supercomputers with a variety of models, based on a software package known as the Unified Model.

Baxter was a member of an independent study group that produced the " Civil Applications Committee Blue Ribbon Study " recommending an increased domestic role for U. S. spy satellites in September 2005.

As the manned space role moved to NASA and unmanned reconnaissance satellites were thought to be capable of all required missions, the United States Air Force gradually withdrew from manned space flight and Dyna-Soar was cancelled.

The Chinese troop deployments were observed by US spy satellites, and the KH-9 Big Bird photographic reconnaissance satellite played an important role.

It is possible that Big Babylon was intended both to launch satellites and to serve as a weapon, but its ability to fire conventional projectiles in the latter role would have been very limited: in addition to the impossibility of aiming it, it would have had a slow rate of fire, and its firing would have produced a very pronounced ' signature ' which would have revealed its location.

This role is increasingly being filled by spy satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Pierce did significant research into satellites, including an important leadership role ( as executive director of Bell ’ s Research-Communications Principles Division

Telesat ’ s satellites have long played a critical role in bridging Canada ’ s vast distances.

However the Bodmin & Wadebridge continued to play a role in the battle between the L & SWR and its allies, and the GWR and its satellites.

Miss Pulova has a voice that Maria Callas once described as `` like chipping teeth with a screw driver '', and her round, opalescent face becomes fascinatingly reflective of the emotions demanded by the role of Rosalie.

Campbell had a starring voice role in the hit films 2009 animated adaptation of the children's book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and Cars 2.

He also provided the voice of Jack Skellington, the main character in Tim Burton's animated Disney film The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ), and has since reprised the role in many other subsequent productions, including the Disney / Square video games Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II and the Capcom sequel to the original film, Oogie's Revenge.

In that role he adopted a higher voice and a more introverted personality – clearly establishing that Kent is the secret identity and Superman is the true person.

In many countries, most actors who regularly perform this duty are generally little-known outside of popular circles such as anime fandom, for example, or when their voice has become synonymous with the role or the actor or actress whose voice they usually dub.

Raymond became a prominent voice in the open source movement and co-founded the Open Source Initiative in 1998, taking on the self-appointed role of ambassador of open source to the press, business and public.

In 2002, Lineker took on his first acting role, barring roles playing himself in films such as Bend It Like Beckham or in the adapted-for-television stage play An Evening with Gary Lineker, as the voice of Underground Ernie on the BBC's children's channel, CBeebies.

Eileen Herlie repeated her role from Olivier's film version as the Queen, and the voice of Gielgud was heard as the Ghost.

Julian provided the voice for the title role in the animated film David Copperfield.

Concurrently with his Seinfeld role, Alexander provided the voice of the lead character in the cult animated series Duckman ( 1994 – 1997 ).

Additionally his film work includes the role of Dr. Hank McCoy ( also known as the Beast ) in X-Men: The Last Stand, and he was the voice of Snowball in the live-action film adaptation of the George Orwell book Animal Farm.

Since 2003, Albert has also been providing the play-by-play voice on the NBA Live video-game series on EA Sports, a role he fulfilled until NBA Live 10.

The Nationals see their main role as giving a voice to Australians who live outside the country's metropolitan areas.

The role of the hero was usually written for the castrato voice ; castrati such as Farinelli and Senesino, as well as female sopranos such as Faustina Bordoni, became in great demand throughout Europe as opera seria ruled the stage in every country except France.

The tenor voice, from the Classical era onwards, has traditionally been assigned the role of male protagonist.

In contrast, a sentence in which the subject has the agent role is called an active sentence, and its verb is expressed in active voice.

Many languages have both an active and a passive voice ; this allows for greater flexibility in sentence construction, as either the semantic agent or patient may take the syntactic role of subject.

In addition to the voice actresses who have been responsible for Lara Croft's spoken dialogue during the games, a number of women have taken on the role of Lara for applications outside of the games themselves.

For this occasion Mozart replaced both arias of Susanna with new compositions, better suited to the voice of Adriana Ferrarese del Bene who took the role.

" Waits finished the decade with appearances in three movies: as the voice of a radio DJ in Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train ; as Kenny the Hitman in Robert Dornhelm's Cold Feet ; and the lead role of Punch & Judy man Silva in Bearskin: An Urban Fairytale.

" Sixteen-year-old Maaya Sakamoto, fresh from a small role in the anime adaptation of Mizuiro Jidai, was selected not only as the voice of Hitomi, but also to sing the Escaflowne theme song.

Television versions include the 1974 BBC TV movie, Alice Through the Looking Glass, with Sarah Sutton playing Alice, a 1982 38-minute Soviet cutout-animated film made by Kievnauchfilm studio and directed by Yefrem Pruzhanskiy, an animated TV movie in 1987, with Janet Waldo as the voice of Alice ( Mr. T was the voice of the Jabberwock ) and the 1998 Channel 4 TV movie, with Kate Beckinsale playing the role of Alice.

A relatively recent role for amateur astronomers is searching for overlooked phenomena ( e. g., Kreutz Sungrazers ) in the vast libraries of digital images and other data captured by Earth and space based observatories, much of which is available over the Internet.

The scientific community considers that Duesberg's arguments are the result of cherry-picking predominantly outdated scientific data and selectively ignoring evidence in favour of HIV's role in AIDS.

The authors concluded that " the risk-AIDS hypothesis ... is clearly rejected by our data ", and that "... The evidence supports the hypothesis that HIV-1 has an integral role in the CD4 depletion and progressive immune dysfunction that characterise AIDS.

Over the past three decades ECMWF's activities and wide-ranging programme of research and development have played a pioneering role in the remarkable advancement of weather forecasting and data assimilation systems.

Scientists at the Earth Institute of Columbia University have analyzed data from 1950 to 2004 and suggest that ENSO may have had a role in 21 % of all civil conflicts since 1950, with the risk of annual civil conflict doubling from 3 % to 6 % in countries affected by ENSO during El Niño years relative to La Niña years.

However, there is no experimental data that supports a role for this process in IIH.

DNA is thought to have taken over the role of data storage due to its increased stability, while proteins, through a greater variety of monomers ( amino acids ), replaced RNA's role in specialized biocatalysis.

Our data over HF communication platform continue to play a central role in facilitating communication force wide.

Until the 1990s systems design had a crucial and respected role in the data processing industry.

Likelihood functions play a key role in statistical inference, especially methods of estimating a parameter using a statistics ( a function of the data ).

Scientists from poorer, emerging or developing democracies may mainly be given the role of collecting raw data.

In their astronomical role they differ from optical telescopes in that they operate in the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum where they can detect and collect data on radio sources.

It was the Egyptian-born philosopher Plotinus CE who brought Greek Idealism to the Roman Empire as Neo-Platonism, and with it the concept that not only do all existents emanate from a " primary essence " but that the mind plays an active role in shaping or ordering the objects of perception, rather than passively receiving experiential data.

Systematic reviews of intervention studies question the validity of the proposed benefits of phytoestrogen supplementation, with little data in postmenopausal women to support a role for phytoestrogens as an alternative for conventional HT.

The information gathered will provide the data that will determine the role of agriculture and forestry in a new climate change regulatory system .< ref >" Study Targets Climate Change Impact on Agriculture, Forestry.

Previous research on the role of endorphins in producing runner's high questioned the mechanisms at work, their data possibly demonstrated that the " high " comes from completing a challenge rather than as a result of exertion.

RBAC has also been criticized for leading to role explosion, a problem in large enterprise systems which require access control of finer granularity than what RBAC can provide as roles are inherently assigned to operations and data types.

CFOs are increasingly playing a more critical role in shaping their company ’ s strategies today, especially in light of the highly uncertain macroeconomic environments, where managing financial volatilities is becoming a centerpiece for many company ’ s strategies, based on a survey held by Clariden Global .. CFOs are increasingly being relied upon as the owners of business information, reporting and financial data within organizations and assisting in decision support operations to enable the company to operate more effectively and efficiently.

That data was compiled by Dr. Stewart Wolf as part of a massive study that helped establish the idea that stress can play a role in the incidence of heart disease.

In 1999, after the acquisition of GM Group, Inc., the largest data processing center in the Caribbean, Popular consolidated its leadership role in the technological arena, thus creating EVERTEC, a new leader in information technology.

The idea of organic selection came from the interpretation of the observable data in Baldwin's experimental study of infant reaching and its role in mental development.

A variety of data shows the amygdala has a substantial role in mental states, and is related to many psychological disorders.