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Small but Mighty NASA Weather Instruments Prepare for Launch

Technology Org 04 Nov 2021

Working together, two instruments could open the door for a more efficient, cost-effective way to gather key information for weather forecasting ... About the size of a cereal box, it was a flight spare – a duplicate created in case of damage or other problems with a spaceborne instrument – for the TEMPEST-D 2018 NASA technology demonstration mission.

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These 2 New Instruments to ISS to be Game Changers in Weather Forecast, Here's How

International Business Times 04 Nov 2021

Designed and built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the two instruments are technology demonstrations ... About the size of a cereal box, it was a flight spare – a duplicate created in case of damage or other problems with a spaceborne instrument – for the TEMPEST-D 2018 NASA technology demonstration mission.

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NASA still has no idea what is wrong with the Hubble Space Telescope almost 10 ...

The Daily Mail 02 Nov 2021

space agency 'is continuing to investigate why the instruments in the Hubble Space Telescope recently went into safe mode configuration, suspending science operations. 'The instruments are healthy and will remain in safe mode while the mission team continues its investigation,' NASA added in a statement.

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Life Flight Network Invests in Safety, Expands Access to Air Medical Transport with Addition of ...

Polk County Itemiser-Observer 02 Nov 2021

2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Flight Network, the nation's largest not-for-profit air ambulance provider, will add 12 Bell 407GXi helicopters to its air medical fleet ... Additionally, all 12 aicraft will come certified for Instrument Flight Rules (IFR), which allow for a greater margin of safety and additional operational capabilities.

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Boost for Wexford hurling as Pádraig Foley returns to Senior inter-county squad

Irish Independent 02 Nov 2021

This is Wexford Newsletter ... Enter email address This field is required Sign Up ... Foley continued to shine with his club throughout the championship and was instrumental in their Senior status being secured in their first season back in top flight club hurling since 2000, something that was not lost on the Wexford manager ... .

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Alburnett schools getting new classrooms, auditorium and gym

The Gazette Cedar Rapids 02 Nov 2021

Clockwise from left ... “We have to move all the chairs and instruments — some which don’t fit on the elevators — down a flight of stairs,” said Matt Ehler, 5-12th grade band teacher ... “Even if they never pick up their instrument again after high school, their relationship to music across the rest of their lives is forever changed for the better.” ... .

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US aviation regulator mulls warnings to pilots over ‘deep concerns’ 5G towers could interfere with ...

Russia Today 30 Oct 2021

Also on rt.com NATO countries complain as planned Russian 5G testing near St ... However, the FAA and some industry experts fear that the new 5G signals, transmitted from ground-based wireless towers, could throw off the instrument’s readings enough to “cause certain flight-control systems to malfunction,” the Journal reported ... .

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What happened to Emiliano Sala and what was the trial about?

Yahoo Daily News 28 Oct 2021

According to a report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), Ibbotson heard a “bang” or “boom” during the outward flight and “sensed” mist in the aircraft. The report said he may have felt under pressure to make the return flight because he was being paid.What happened on the flight back to Cardiff?.

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IAN HERBERT: The grubby money-grabber who led Emiliano Sala to his death – David Henderson ...

The Daily Mail 28 Oct 2021

The grubby haggling for cash in the hours leading up to the catastrophic flight which claimed Emiliano Sala's life said everything about the sordid background to the tragedy ... Pilot, 67, who organised flight that crashed and killed... Can you blag IFR (instrument flight rules)?' he texted him ... Pilot, 67, who organised flight that crashed and killed...

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has stopped working for the SECOND time this year and is ...

The Daily Mail 27 Oct 2021

NASA made the announcement late Monday, saying the ageing space telescope's science instruments went into 'safe mode' after it experienced 'synchronization issues with internal spacecraft communications.' ... 'The instruments remain in good health.' ... It science instruments went into ...

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Mary C. Sand, 79, was registered nurse and flight instructor

The Buffalo News 27 Oct 2021

Miss Sand, a longtime nurse at Sisters of Charity Hospital and for a urology practice, was also a private pilot who became an instrument rated flight instructor ... pilot license, then her instrument rating, then becoming an instructor for other pilots seeking instrument ratings.

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IMD to deploy advanced weather instruments at 18 major airports

Indian Express 26 Oct 2021

Eighteen major airports in India will get additional meteorological instrumentation support, output from which will enhance the overall safety of flight operations and contribute towards the smooth functioning of airports round the year ... The airport meteorological instrument ...

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Manson Guitar Works announces extremely limited DL-OR and DL-OR Relic guitars

Guitar.com 26 Oct 2021

Manson Guitar Works has released two very limited-edition guitars. the DL-OR and DL-OR Relic. They are both inspired by Matt Bellamy’s own aluminium-clad instrument, his first Manson guitar. READ MORE ... Both instruments come complete with Protechnic flight cases, as well as a laser-etched steel certificate with Bellamy’s signature carefully reproduced ... .

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UC Berkeley scientists to lead NASA’s newest space telescope

Technology Org 26 Oct 2021

He and the COSI team, including Steven Boggs, formerly at UC Berkeley and now at UC San Diego and deputy principal investigator of the COSI mission, spent decades developing their technology through flights on scientific balloons ... A 46-day circumnavigation of the Southern Hemisphere in 2016 proved that the instruments work as planned.

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Falletta and the BPO continue their high-energy performances as their rockin’ principal violinist, Nikki Chooi, ...

Buffalo Rising 24 Oct 2021

I’ve said it before, but when the professional musicians of the orchestra put down their priceless instruments so that they can applaud with both hands, you know what just happened was something special ... So I found it highly entertaining to watch the seven guys playing these lightning fast runs on instruments that are bigger than my refrigerator.