Archive for July, 2010

United States Navy Aircraft Carrier flight deck technology? ?

What is the equipment that is used on the flight deck to help Navy air craft land on the deck. It is on a grid of some sort. What is it called. I think it may be a type of Radar or navigation system?

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Delta II Rocket Launch Air Force GPS IIR-21(M) ULA 07/17/09

The 48th successful and final Air Force Delta II Global Positioning System satellite launch occurred today, ending one of the most successful space launch programs in American history. A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launched GPS IIR-21(M) into orbit from Space Launch Complex-17A at 6:35 am, EDT today. The first Air Force Delta II [...]

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Suppose one of the Global Positioning System satellites has a speed of 4.48 km/s at perigee and a speed of 3.6

Suppose one of the Global Positioning System satellites has a speed of 4.48 km/s at perigee and a speed of 3.64 km/s at apogee. If the distance from the center of the Earth to the satellite at perigee is 2.00×104 what is the corresponding distance at apogee? km

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The U.S. Global Positioning System satellite signals are provided free to everyone. Why Galileo or GLONASS?

True, it is a dual use system controlled by the U.S. Air Force, but the U.S. has never turned it off in any area, nor has it charged for it. So why is the EU developing Galileo (which it is considering to charge users for the signal, and perhaps legislating the EU countries use it, [...]

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Haiku OS : “A more manageable multi-window interface”

These are prototypes produced using Haiku, but are not currently part of Haiku! By Ahmed Al Hassani and Mohannad Hammadeh. Ahmed and Mohannad extended the Haiku app server with functionality for tiling and stacking of windows. That is, windows can be arranged in a non-overlapping manner by snapping them to other windows, or stacked similar [...]

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