How to Use heliostat in a Sentence
heliostat
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So far, the heliostat has been slowly redirected to sweep back and forth across the night sky, tracking stars as a first step in the experiment.
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Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Instead of creating a picture by mapping where light lands on each sensor (or pixel), the heliostat method skips imaging entirely.
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Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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In addition, the two mirror fields even overlap slightly, reducing the total number of mirrors required and cutting construction costs, as heliostats account for nearly 60 percent of the plant’s total expense.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025
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The incredible solar-thermal power station reportedly features two 656-feet-high (200 meters) towers, each surrounded by a vast field of 27,000 mirrors known as heliostats.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, the smaller system features a 323-square-foot (30 square meters) heliostat, as well as a compact 129-square-foot (12 square meters) concentrator which consists of about 460 mirrors.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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According to the firm, the larger prototype includes a 1,485-square-foot (138 square meters) heliostat made of 40 movable mirrors that track the sun and reflect its rays towards a 32-foot-wide (10 meters) concave dish concentrator.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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