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time window. they are working against time. as people point out that the clock is ticking, we re 15 days into it. we have 15 days left to pick up the ping from the black boxes. and you have weather, which they are also going into a seasonal change. and also over time, floating objects could sink. there s a large possibility it could be ocean junk, for lack of a better word. unfortunately we won t know that until we have eyes at sea that are going to pick this up and identify it and let us know this is what we re seeing. i want to bring chris in. you have two steps to this. start with something seen miles above the planet and they send planes to get a closer look to see if they are parts of the plane. take some time to find those things. you ve talked a few days ago at a conference about a fleet of microsatellites that could be released from space that might help in a search like this. tell our viewers more about

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