六级Nations are also pressing ahead with space research and satellite projects to expand their global navigation abilities.

各国也在推进空间研究和卫星项目，以扩大其全球导航能力。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级However, they're more cautious about sharing information with nonmembers, as the organization guards against others developing the ability to hiJack and take control of their satellites.

然而，他们在与非成员共享信息时更为谨慎，因为该组织防范其他人发展劫持和控制其卫星的能力。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Through satellite tracking of both the herd and the lions in the area, they will be able to determine if their psychological trickery will work to help keep farmers from shooting lions.

通过卫星跟踪该地区的牧群和狮子，他们将能够确定他们的心理骗术是否有助于阻止农民射杀狮子。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级within their compact bodies these minute satellites are able to house sensors and communications receivers/ transmitters that enable operators to study Earth from space, as well as space around Earth.

这些微型卫星在其紧凑的机身内能够容纳传感器和通信接收器/发射器，使运营商能够从太空以及地球周围的太空研究地球。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Just like drones before them, miniature satellites are beginning to fundamentally transform our conceptions of who gets to do what up above our heads.

就像前面的无人驾驶飞机一样，微型卫星正开始从根本上改变我们的观念，即谁能在我们头顶上做什么。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级As a recent report from the National Academy of Sciences highlights, these satellites hold tremendous potential for making satellite-based science more accessible than ever before.

美国国家科学院（National Academy of Sciences）最近的一份报告强调，这些卫星在使基于卫星的科学比以往任何时候都更容易获取方面具有巨大潜力。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Scholars warn that Antarctica's political drift could blur the distinction between military and civilian activities long before the continent's treaties come up for renegotiation, especially in parts of Antarctica that are ideal for intercepting ( ' , 拦截) signals from satellites or retasking satellite systems, potentially enhancing global electronic intelligence operations.

学者警告说，南极洲的政治漂移可能会在该大陆条约重新谈判之前很久就模糊军事和民事活动之间的区别，特别是在南极洲最适合拦截的地区（“，拦截) 来自卫星的信号或重新屏蔽卫星系统，有可能加强全球电子情报行动。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级It continued the efforts, begun in 1961, by Project OSCAR—a US-based group that built and launched the very first nongovernmental satellite just four years after Sputnik.

它继续了始于1961年的奥斯卡计划的努力。该计划是一个总部位于美国的组织，在人造卫星发射四年后建造并发射了第一颗非政府卫星。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Journalist Sarah Scoles reports that NASA currently tracks about 24,000 objects in space, and in 2016 the air Force had to issue 3,995,874 warnings to satellite owners alerting them to a potential nearby threat from another satellite or bit of debris.

记者莎拉·斯科尔斯（Sarah Scoles）报道说，美国宇航局目前在太空中跟踪约24000个物体，2016年，美国空军不得不向卫星所有者发出3995874次警告，提醒他们附近可能存在来自另一颗卫星或碎片的威胁。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级One impetus for the policy is that companies are already starting to build massive constellations, comprising hundreds or thousands of satellites with many moving parts among them.

该政策的一个推动因素是，各公司已经开始建造大型星座，由数百或数千颗卫星组成，其中有许多运动部件。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级As an organization of volunteers, AMSAT was putting "amateur" satellites in orbit decades before the current Cube Sat craze.

作为一个由志愿者组成的组织，AMSAT在当前立方体卫星热出现前几十年就将“业余”卫星送入轨道。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Yet as LEO opens up to more amateur satellites, they may pose an increasing threat.

然而，随着LEO向更多业余卫星开放，它们可能构成越来越大的威胁。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Space, especially the space directly around our planet, is getting more crowded as more governments and companies launch satellites.

随着越来越多的政府和公司发射卫星，太空，尤其是地球周围的太空，变得越来越拥挤。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级Because they're so small and light, it costs much less to get a Cube Sat into Earth's orbit than a traditional communications or GPS satellite.

因为它们又小又轻，所以将立方体卫星送入地球轨道的成本比传统的通信或GPS卫星要低得多。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级But over the past few decades a unique class of satellites has been created that fits the bill: CubeSats.

但是在过去的几十年里，一类独特的卫星被创造出来，这类卫星就是立方体卫星。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级In 2009 an old Russian craft slammed into a communications satellite, creating a cloud of hundreds of pieces of debris and putting other hardware at risk.

2009年，一艘俄罗斯旧飞船撞上了一颗通信卫星，形成了由数百块碎片组成的云，并将其他硬件置于危险之中。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级Two or more satellites slamming into each other could create many more out-of-control bits that would pose even more hazards to the growing collection of satellites in space.

两颗或更多的卫星相互撞击可能会产生更多失控的碎片，这将对空间中越来越多的卫星构成更大的危险。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级However, as the cost of getting your own satellite in orbit drops sharply, the risks of irresponsible use grow.

然而，随着将自己的卫星送入轨道的成本急剧下降，不负责任的使用风险也在增加。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Some "expert amateurs" in the satellite game could provide some inspiration for how to proceed responsibly.

卫星游戏中的一些“业余专家”可以为如何负责任地进行提供一些灵感。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级The "Cube" here simply refers to the satellite's shape.

这里的“立方体”只是指卫星的形状。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级The department will make sure that newly launched satellites don't use radio frequencies that would interfere with existing satellites, and schedule when such new satellites can be launched.

国防部将确保新发射的卫星不会使用会干扰现有卫星的无线电频率，并安排新卫星的发射时间。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级Satellites used to be the exclusive playthings of rich governments and wealthy corporations.

卫星曾经是富裕政府和富裕公司的独家玩物。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.

过去几年的卫星观测和潜艇调查显示，极地地区的冰较少，但最近的测量表明，冰的减少比以前认为的更为明显。

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级Having your personal satellite launched into orbit might sound like an idea straight out of science fiction.

让你的个人卫星进入轨道听起来像是科幻小说中的一个想法。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级The NASA Educational Launch of Nano Satellite program, which offers free launches for educational groups and science missions, is now open to nonprofit corporations as well.

美国国家航空航天局的纳米卫星教育发射计划为教育团体和科学任务提供免费发射，现在也向非营利公司开放。

2019.6六级真题第三套

六级source development has been a central principle, Within the organization, AMSAT has a philosophy of open sourcing everything—making technical data on all aspects of their satellites fully available to everyone in the organization, and when possible, the public.

源代码开发一直是一项核心原则。在组织内部，AMSAT的理念是开源——让组织中的每个人，以及在可能的情况下，公众都能充分获得有关其卫星各个方面的技术数据。

2019.6六级真题第三套

六级That’s why this new policy also includes directions to update the current Government Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices, which already require any entity that launches a satellite or spacecraft to vigorously analyze the likelihood that any of their actions, from an unexpected failure or normal operations, will create more space debris.

这就是为什么这项新政策还包括更新现行政府轨道碎片缓减标准实践的指示，该标准实践已经要求发射卫星或航天器的任何实体积极分析其任何行动，无论是意外故障还是正常运行，都会产生更多空间碎片的可能性。

2019.6六级真题第二套

六级It might seem surprising to think about an item staying in space for that long, but the oldest satellite still in orbit—Vanguard 1—turned 60 in 20 Agencies and companies throughout the world are working on developing technology that would dispose of or capture space debris before it causes serious damage.

想到一个物体在太空中停留这么长时间，可能会让人感到惊讶，但仍在轨道上的最古老的卫星——先锋1号——在20年中年满60岁

2019.6六级真题第二套

六级For hundreds of millions of years, turtles (海龟) have struggled out of the sea to lay their eggs on sandy beaches, long before there were nature documentaries to celebrate them, or GPS satellites and marine biologists to track them, or volunteers to hand-carry the hatchlings (幼龟) down to the water’s edge lest they become disoriented by headlights and crawl towards a motel parking lot instead.

数亿年来，海龟(海龟) 早在有自然纪录片来庆祝它们，或者有GPS卫星和海洋生物学家来追踪它们，或者志愿者亲手携带孵化的幼崽之前，它们就已经挣扎着离开大海在沙滩上产卵了(幼龟) 一直到水边，以免他们被前灯弄得晕头转向，而是爬向汽车旅馆的停车场。

2009年6月英语六级真题

四级A decade ago, adapting the infrared (红外线) scanning technology developed for military purposes and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress.

十年前，适应红外(红外线) 物理学家Stephen Paley利用为军事目的和其他卫星开发的扫描技术，想出了一种快速测量作物温度的方法，以确定哪些作物处于压力之下。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级It’s now a “global village” where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link.

它现在是一个“地球村”，通过传真、电话或卫星连接，各国只需几秒钟的路程。

2003年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级A control box fitted to the car contains a mini-cellphone, a micro-processor and memory, and a GPS (全球定位系统) satellite positioning receiver.

安装在汽车上的控制盒包含一部迷你手机、一个微处理器和存储器以及一个GPS(全球定位系统) 卫星定位接收器。

2006年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Fourth, control over programming is being passed from the networks to local cable operators and satellite programmers.

第四，对节目编排的控制权正从网络转移到当地有线电视运营商和卫星节目编排者手中。

2008年6月大学英语四级考试真题

四级Very soon, cars will be linked to GPS satellites, so they’ll do all the driving for you.

很快，汽车将与GPS卫星相连，因此它们将为您完成所有驾驶任务。

2013年6月大学英语四级考试真题(第1套)

四级Moving on to communications, very soon, cars will be linked to GPS satellites, so they’ll do all the driving for you.

转向通信，很快，汽车将与GPS卫星相连，因此它们将为您完成所有驾驶任务。

2013年 6月大学英语四级考试真题

考研Satellite pictures show that large areas of Antarctic ice are already disappearing.

卫星图片显示，南极大片的冰已经在消失。

1992年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Satellites have extended the power of communications to report events at the instant of occurrence.

卫星已经扩展了通信的能力，可以在事件发生的瞬间报告事件。

1995年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研But it is the arrival of new satellite channels — funded partly by advertising and partly by viewers’subscriptions — which will bring about the biggest changes in the long term.

但从长远来看，新的卫星频道的到来将带来最大的变化——部分资金来自广告，部分资金来自观众订阅。

1996年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研What the researchers found was at once both amazing and expected: the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Cosmic Background Explorer satellite -- Cobe -- had discovered landmark evidence that the universe did in fact begin with the primeval explosion that has become known as the Big Bang (the theory that the universe originated in an explosion from a single mass of energy).

研究人员的发现既令人惊讶又令人期待：美国国家航空航天局的宇宙背景探测卫星Cobe发现了具有里程碑意义的证据，证明宇宙实际上始于被称为大爆炸的原始爆炸（宇宙起源于单一质量能量的爆炸的理论）。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Today’s vessels can find their prey using satellites and sonar, which were not available 50 years ago.

如今的船只可以使用卫星和声纳找到猎物，这在50年前是不可用的。

2006年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题