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  2. Batteries in space - Wikipedia

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    Batteries are used on spacecraft as a means of power storage. Primary batteries contain all their usable energy when assembled and can only be discharged. Secondary batteries can be recharged from some other energy source, such as solar panels or radioisotope-based power (), and can deliver power during periods when the space vehicle is out of direct sunlight.

  3. User guide - Wikipedia

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    Some usages are Installation Guide, Getting Started Guide, and various How to guides. An example is the Picasa Getting Started Guide. [5] In some business software applications, where groups of users have access to only a sub-set of the application's full functionality, a user guide may be prepared for each group.

  4. Orbit Irrigation Products - Wikipedia

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    Orbit logo. Orbit Irrigation Products, Inc, located in Salt Lake City, UT, United States, is a manufacturer and supplier of irrigation products for residential and commercial markets and has been in business since 1986. It distributes over 2,000 products to 40 countries on five continents. Orbit was acquired by Husqvarna Group in December 2021 ...

  5. Nickel–cadmium battery - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Edison patented a nickel– or cobalt–cadmium battery in 1902, [3] and adapted the battery design when he introduced the nickel–iron battery to the US two years after Jungner had built one. In 1906, Jungner established a factory close to Oskarshamn, Sweden, to produce flooded design Ni–Cd batteries.

  6. Owner's manual - Wikipedia

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    2007 Toyota Yaris hatchback owner's manual 1919 Ford Motor Company car and truck operating manual. An owner's manual (also called an instruction manual or a user guide) is an instructional book or booklet that is supplied with almost all technologically advanced consumer products such as vehicles, home appliances and computer peripherals.

  7. Global Positioning System - Wikipedia

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    The space segment (SS) is composed of 24 to 32 satellites, or Space Vehicles (SV), in medium Earth orbit, and also includes the payload adapters to the boosters required to launch them into orbit. The GPS design originally called for 24 SVs, eight each in three approximately circular orbits , [ 89 ] but this was modified to six orbital planes ...

  8. Apollo command and service module - Wikipedia

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    The CSMs launched in orbit on Saturn IB ranged from 32,558 pounds (14,768 kg) (Apollo–Soyuz), to 46,000 pounds (21,000 kg) (Skylab 4). The omnidirectional antennas sufficed for ground communications during the Earth orbital missions, so the high-gain S-band antenna on the SM was omitted from Apollo 1, Apollo 7, and the three Skylab flights.

  9. New Shepard - Wikipedia

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    New Shepard is a fully reusable sub-orbital launch vehicle developed for space tourism by Blue Origin.The vehicle is named after Alan Shepard, who became the first American to travel into space and the fifth person to walk on the Moon.