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Wildlife professionals gather critical data on migration routes and habitat choices of the lesser florican by tracking two of them

/PRNewswire/ -- Following the signing of a cooperation agreement with the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO) in November, Hong Kong Aerospace...

Part of what they're doing now is going back and looking between areas, as they make the swaths. going back to make sure they didn't miss anything because it would be tragic to increase that search without knowing that you completely exhausted that search area the initial one. so they're doing that. they're very committed to. these are challenging things challenging side challenging depth of the ocean. talking an area the size of illinois here. now we're doubling that. now we have two illinoises next to each other. a huge task. i really admire them for continuing on. >> thomas are you convince...

Tide and the water temperature because bearing in mind, wolf, those -- the satellite telemetry, the satellite images that we saw are three days old. they need to know roughly where would the current have carried them three days ago. they're not going back to where they were three days ago. they're now extrapolating where they will be now. and the only way they can do that, wolf, is to know exactly not just model it. you can model it to your heart's content. you have to put assets down into the water to see what the real current is, the real temperature, the real movement and then they can mode...

Minutes of each other. are there others? >> well, the vhf radios that you talk to air traffic control, and the satellite telemetry, and the aca acars system. and in some cases, high-frequency radio. and you've got a cabin full of passengers with cell phones and probably at least a half a dozen satellite phones. you could call far with them. and from there, it's -- you've got to look at the electrical system. every engine, it has two generators that could power the whole airplane. and a generator in the tail. and a battery. and if everything else fails, a