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Orbital Express: ASTRO and NEXTSat. The project hoped to demonstrate several satellite servicing operations and technologies including rendezvous, proximity operations and station keeping, capture, docking, fluid transfer (specifically, hydrazine on this mission), and ORU (Orbit Replaceable Unit) transfer.
NEXTSat was a 224-kilogram (494 lb) spacecraft, [2] which was built by Ball Aerospace around the RS-300 satellite bus. [4] It was operated in low Earth orbit ; on 9 March 2007, it had a perigee of 490 kilometres (300 mi), an apogee of 498 kilometres (309 mi), 46.0 degrees of inclination , and an orbital period of 94.49 minutes. [ 5 ]
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An over-the-air update (or OTA update), also known as over-the-air programming (or OTA programming), [1] is an update to an embedded system that is delivered through a wireless network, such as Wi-Fi or a cellular network. [2] [3] [4] These embedded systems include mobile phones, tablets, set-top boxes, cars and telecommunications equipment.
This is an especially big concern for embedded devices, in which upgrades are typically all-or-nothing (the upgrade is a firmware or filesystem image, which isn't usable if it's only partially written), and which have limited ability to recover from a failed upgrade. [5]
Installing Distro Astro. The first version of Distro Astro was released on 1 January 2013. The OS had two minor updates in April and August, primarily addressing software upgrades and tweaks. [3] In November 2013, the OS had its first major upgrade as Distro Astro 2.0, nicknamed Pallas. [4]
True Food Kitchen, with 47 U.S. locations, has become one of the first national restaurant brands to go 100% seed oil-free, starting this week. ... Give your favorite Southern snack a smoky upgrade.
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