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Meteoprog.com is a weather service originally from Ukraine, since 2003. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The service uses various weather real-time data and software tools to address weather-related challenges.
Northrop offered a "minimal" 6.1-meter (20 feet) by 3-meter (9.8 feet) design based on the Cygnus spacecraft, as well as a larger 7-meter (22.9 feet) by 4.4-meter (14.4 feet) design also based on the Cygnus, [7] [12] to the outside of which radial docking ports, body-mounted radiators (BMRs), batteries and communications antennae will be added ...
Two U.S. Air Force Republic F-105 Thunderchiefs of the 457th TFTW (TH tailcode), Carswell AFB, Texas, collided in mid-air, downing one aircraft ~1 mile (1.6 km) from Holliday, Texas; its pilot ejected, suffering a broken right leg on landing, and was recovered by helicopter. The second F-105 returned to Carswell despite damage, its pilot uninjured.
On 7 January 1994, United Express Flight 6291, operating for Atlantic Coast Airlines, crashes 1.2 miles short of the runway during final approach to Port Columbus International Airport after entering a stall. The two pilots, the flight attendant, and two of the five passengers are killed in the crash.
Data from Skyways General characteristics Crew: 1 Capacity: 1 Length: 19 ft 3 in (5.87 m) Upper wingspan: 28 ft (8.5 m) Lower wingspan: 21 ft (6.4 m) Height: 7 ft 7 in (2.31 m) Empty weight: 900 lb (408 kg) Gross weight: 1,530 lb (694 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Wright-Gypsy L-320 4-cyl air-cooled in-line piston engine, 90 hp (67 kW) Performance Maximum speed: 87 kn (100 mph, 160 km/h) Rate of climb ...
The module was 24.6 feet (7.5 m) long and 12.83 feet (3.91 m) in diameter. The initial lunar flight version weighed approximately 51,300 pounds (23,300 kg) fully fueled, while a later version designed to carry a lunar orbit scientific instrument package weighed just over 54,000 pounds (24,000 kg).
The mission never flew; a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on January 27 killed all three crew members—Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroyed the command module (CM). The name Apollo 1, chosen by the crew, was made official by ...
Lunokhod 1 (Russian: Луноход-1 "Moonwalker 1"), also known as Аппарат 8ЕЛ № 203 ("Device 8EL No. 203") was the first robotic rover on the Moon and the first to freely move across the surface of an astronomical object beyond the Earth. [1] Sent by the Soviet Union it was part of the robotic rovers Lunokhod program.