New Devices Will Catch Lost Energy in Space
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In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
POWERSAT is a team.
- A2
POWERSAT is a team.
- B1
The POWERSAT project is creating small devices for satellites.
- B2
The POWERSAT project is creating miniature devices designed to capture stray radio waves and infrared sunlight to generate extra electricity for satellites.
- C1
Spacecraft face strict weight and size limits.
- C2
Spacecraft operate under unforgiving weight and size limits, leaving little margin for heavy power generation equipment.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- capture
- to catch and collect something so it can be used
- target
- the exact place or person that something is directed at
- invisible
- impossible to see with the eyes
- efficient
- working well without wasting time, money, or energy
- recover
- to get something back that was lost or almost wasted
- exchange
- to give something to someone and receive something from them
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Horizon, the EU Research and Innovation Magazine. Read the original for the full report.