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Installed the PMA-3 docking port, and prepared the Z1 truss for the installation of the solar arrays. [26] 17 October 14:30 6 hours 48 minutes 21:18 STS-92 ISS Discovery: Leroy Chiao William S. McArthur Installed two DC-to-DC converter units atop the Z1 truss. [26] 18 October 15:00 6 hours 56 minutes 21:56 STS-92 ISS Discovery: Michael Lopez ...
Operation Pluto (Pipeline Under the Ocean or Pipeline Underwater Transportation of Oil, also written Operation PLUTO) was an operation by British engineers, oil companies and the British Armed Forces to build oil pipelines under the English Channel to support Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy during the Second World War.
The year 2007 contained several significant events in spaceflight, including a Chinese ASAT test, the launches of the US Phoenix and Dawn missions to study Mars and Asteroid belt respectively, Japan's Kaguya Lunar orbiter, and the first Chinese Lunar probe, Chang'e 1.
On 8 January 1989, British Midland Airways Flight 092 crashes onto the embankment of the M1 motorway near Kegworth, Leicestershire, UK. The aircraft was attempting to conduct an emergency landing at East Midlands Airport after one of its engines had failed. 47 of the 126 people on board died.
The M1, which followed the original M3 and later M2, was the lowest-cost and simplest Leica M body, a simplified M2 without a rangefinder. It was intended to be used for technical work together with the ground-glass focussing Visoflex , a mirror reflex housing that turns a Leica M into a single-lens reflex camera.
An illustration of Apple's M1 processor. Rumors of Apple shifting Macs from Intel to in-house ARM processors used by iOS devices began circulating as early as 2011, [135] and ebbed and flowed throughout the 2010s. [136] Rumors intensified in 2020, when numerous reports announced that the company would announce its shift to its custom processors ...
2002 was the first season that allowed 990 cc 4-strokes to be raced alongside 500 cc 2-strokes.In a change from their V-4 YZR500, Yamaha designed the YZR-M1 (for "Mission One") with an inline-4 engine because it was the format considered to have the best mutual balance with the frame. [2]
It is common for the track to be closed several times a day for cleanup, repair, and medical intervention. While track management does not publish any official figures, several regular visitors to the track have used police reports to estimate the number of fatalities as between 3 and 12 in a full year. [ 13 ]