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Sealegs craft are aluminium fabricated boats fitted with either a hydraulic amphibious system or an electric amphibious system. [1] Both amphibious systems consist of three wheels – one fitted to the bow and two fitted to the transom of the craft. In craft with the hydraulic system, these wheels are lifted, lowered and driven by the hydraulic ...
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The Saildrone Explorer is a 23-foot-long (7.0 m) USV that can sail at an average speed of 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) (depending on the wind) and stay at sea for up to 365 days. The Explorer is designed for fisheries missions, metocean data collection, ecosystem monitoring, and satellite calibration and validation missions.
John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto [dʒoˈvanni kaˈbɔːto]; c. 1450 – c. 1499) [2] was an Italian [2] [3] navigator and explorer.His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII, King of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.
Website. jasonexplorer.com. Jason Lewis FRGS (born 13 September 1967) is an English author, [1] explorer and sustainability campaigner credited with being the first person to circumnavigate the globe by human power. [2][3] He is also the first person to cross North America on inline skates (1996), and the first to cross the Pacific Ocean by ...
The high-wing twin-engine Global Explorer was designed and constructed in Idaho by Dean W. Wilson to the order of the explorer Hubert de Chevigny and the aircraft first flew in April 1991. [1] A second aircraft was constructed later. The Global Explorer has an unusually deep and wide fuselage design with many glazed areas, and accommodation at ...
Explorer 7. Explorer 7 was a NASA satellite launched on 13 October 1959, at 15:30:04 GMT, [1] by a Juno II launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) to an orbit of 573 × 1,073 km (356 × 667 mi) and inclination of 50.27°. [2] It was designed to measure solar X-ray and Lyman-alpha flux, trapped energetic particles, and heavy ...
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear former pharmaceutical company CEO Martin Shkreli's challenge to a $64.6 million financial penalty imposed by a judge after he raised a lifesaving ...