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After Astro Studios helped design the Xbox 360, Lovelady and Reiss founded a separate company, ASTRO Gaming, in 2006. In August 2006, Astro Gaming raised its first round of funding of $2 million with the help of Seraphim investment. ASTRO Gaming started with a team of five designers and started designing their own gaming product lines. [4]
In 1999, Astro Studios received two Design of the Decade Awards by BusinessWeek [1] / Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), one for the Kensington Computer Products Group Smart Sockets and the other for Nike Inc's first electronic products, and the original Triax SportsWatch series. [2] Other designs include the Boxee Box, [3] Zune HD ...
Data from Worldwide Equipment Guide – Volume 2: Airspace and Air Defense Systems, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, p. 3-44 General characteristics Crew: 5 (2 pilots, 3 other flight crew) + 10 mission operators Length: 46.6 m (152 ft 11 in) Wingspan: 50.6 m (166 ft 0 in) Height: 14.8 m (48 ft 7 in) Wing area: 300 m 2 (3,200 sq ft) Airfoil: root: TsAGI P-151 (13%); tip: TsAGI ...
On 25 August 2009, U.S. patent 7,580,533 was issued for a device that uses a laser beam and smoke or vapor to detect sound vibrations in free air ("Particulate Flow Detection Microphone based on a laser-photocell pair with a moving stream of smoke or vapor in the laser beam's path"). Sound pressure waves cause disturbances in the smoke that in ...
White Flight Control Room prior to STS-114 in 2005 Exterior of the Mission Control building Emblem for NASA's Flight Operations Directorate (FOD). NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center (MCC-H, initially called Integrated Mission Control Center, or IMCC), also known by its radio callsign, Houston, is the facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, that ...
Flash Player 10 (initially called Astro): Added basic 3D manipulation, such as rotating on the X, Y, and Z axis, a 3D drawing API, and texture mapping. Ability to create custom filters using Adobe Pixel Bender .
There are several ground-based methods of detecting cosmic rays currently in use, which can be divided in two main categories: the detection of secondary particles forming extensive air showers (EAS) by various types of particle detectors, and the detection of electromagnetic radiation emitted by EAS in the atmosphere.
[13] [14] In April 2018, the B612 Foundation reported "It's a 100 per cent certainty we'll be hit [by a devastating asteroid], but we're not 100 per cent sure when." [ 15 ] In June 2018, the US National Science and Technology Council warned that America is unprepared for an asteroid impact event , and has developed and released the " National ...