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Argonaut (lunar lander). Argonaut or European Large Logistics Lander (EL3) is a class of lunar landers designed by the European Space Agency in partnership with Airbus to deliver payloads to the surface of the Moon. The lander is being designed with a versatile set of uses in mind, including use as a power station, support for a rover, cargo delivery, and infrastructure delivery. It is envisioned to launch on an Ariane 64 launch vehicle. As of July 2024, Argonaut Mission 1 is expected to be launched in 2031.

Funding 
In 2022, ESA formally sought funding for the lander in their ministerial meeting. In 2024, Redwire Space was awarded a contract by ESA to develop a robotic arm for use on the lander.

Overview 

The Argonaut lander will consist of the descent element, cargo platform and payload. Capable of delivering up to , the craft will reportedly be able to land with an accuracy of 50–100 meters. Engine testing began in 2024. Also in 2024, the ESA committed to an Argonaut mission in 2031.

See also

 
Lunar lander programs by country
 China: Chinese Lunar Exploration Program
 India: Chandrayaan Programme
 Russia: Luna-Glob
 United States: Commercial Lunar Payload Services (Artemis program)
 Japan: Japanese Lunar Exploration Program

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IRS-class ACTCM barge. The IRS-class ACTCM barge is a series of 19 ammunition barge being built by M/s Suryadipta Projects Pvt Ltd, and SECON Engineering Projects Pvt. Ltd.; MSMEs under a contract for the Indian Navy signed on 5 March 2021 and 19 February 2021 respectively. While Suryadipta Projects is from Thane, Maharashtra; and SECON Engineering Projects is from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. As per the contract, Suryadipta Projects will build 11 Ammunition cum Torpedo cum Missile (ACTCM) barge and SECON Engineering Projects will build 8 Missile cum Ammunition (MCA) barge, respectively. The barges are either based at INS Tunir, Naval Missile Depot at Mumbai, or Naval Ammunition Depot (NAD), Karanja at Naval Dockyard (Mumbai) {ND(Mbi)}.

The model testing of the barge during design stage was undertaken at NSTL, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh under relevant Naval Rules and Regulation of Indian Register of Shipping. The barges are being built under Atmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India initiative of the government of India.

Description
IRS-class Ammunition-Cum-Torpedo-Cum-Missile (ACTCM) barge are to be inducted in the Indian Navy to undertake the mission needs for transport, embarking or disembarking of ammunition, torpedo, missile, articles, etc. on the IN ships, thereby providing impetus to operational commitments of the navy both alongside jetties and outer harbors boosting operational readiness and effectiveness. The ACTCM barges are also referred to MCA (Missile Cum Ammunition) barges, but all are designated as Large Scale Additive Manufacturing (LSAM).  All major and auxiliary equipment/systems on the barge, which is set to have a service life of 30 years have been sourced from indigenous manufacturers.

Delivery of the first barge LSAM 15 (Yard 125) by Suryadipta Projects to Indian Navy was done on 9 June 2023. LSAM 7 to 14 is being built by SECON Engineering and LSAM 15 to 25 is being built by Suryadipta Projects. The barge has a cargo hold of 100 tonnes. The barge has ample facilities for fire fighting, power generation, and crew accommodation.

As of January 2025, 7 of the 8 MCA barges have been delivered with 6 inducted while 8 of the 11 ACTCM barges have been delivered with 7 inducted in the Navy service.

An additional order for 4 Sullage Barge had also been placed with Suryadipta Projects.

List of units

Notes

See also

References

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List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2025. This article lists orbital and suborbital launches during the first half of the year 2025.

For all other spaceflight activities, see 2025 in spaceflight. For launches in the second half of 2025, see List of spaceflight launches in July–December 2025. 



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Fusion Engineering and Design. Fusion Engineering and Design is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published monthly by Elsevier. Established under the name Nuclear Engineering and Design/Fusion in 1984 and retitled to its current name in 1987, it covers research on fusion power and plasma science. Its editors-in-chief are Seungyon Cho (Korea Institute of Fusion Energy) and Rudolf Neu (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 1.9.

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English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1984
Monthly journals
Plasma science journals
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Fusion power
Cognition AI. Cognition AI, Inc. (also known as Cognition Labs), doing business as Cognition, is an artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco in the US State of California. The company developed Devin AI, an AI software developer.

Background 
Cognition was founded in November 2023 by Scott Wu, Walden Yan, and Steven Hao. All three were competitive programmers who won gold medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI).

Originally the company was focused on cryptocurrency before moving to AI as it became a trend in Silicon Valley following the release of ChatGPT. 

In March 2024, Cognition released a demo of its AI coding tool, Devin AI which was said to be able to perform the tasks of a software engineer.

Cognition boasted that its 10-person team as of March 2024 has won a total of 10 IOI gold medals. Apart from its founders, other members of the team who are gold medalists include Wu's brother Neal and Andrew He. Wu stated this background gives Cognition an edge in AI competition as teaching an AI to be a programmer is a very deep algorithmic problem that requires the system to make complex decisions.

With regards to fundraising, the company was backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund which provided $21 million of funding to it in early 2024 valuing the company at $350 million. In April 2024, Founders Fund led a $175 million investment into Cognition valuing the company at $2 billion making it a Unicorn.

In May 2024, it was announced that Cognition partnered with Microsoft to integrate Devin AI and would be powered by Microsoft Azure. It received a mixed reaction from users online as while Devin AI was considered promising, there were concerns about job displacement as well as the actual capability of Devin AI.

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International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications. International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published monthly by Wiley. It covers research on circuit theory and its applications on engineering problems, with a focus on electrical engineering. Its editor-in-chief is Ahmed El Wakil (University of Sharjah).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 1.8.

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Monthly journals
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IEEE Electron Device Letters. IEEE Electron Device Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly by the IEEE. It was founded in 1980 by IEEE Electron Devices Society. The journal covers the advances in electron and ion integrated circuit devices. Its editor-in-chief is Sayeef Salahuddin (University of California, Berkeley).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 4.1.

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Electron Device Letters, IEEE
Electrical and electronic engineering journals
Academic journals established in 1980
Semiconductor journals
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Rodolphe Sepulchre. Rodolphe Sepulchre is a professor of engineering in the Control Group at the University of Cambridge, and in KU Leuven, with research interests in nonlinear control and neural behaviours.

Education and early career 
Sepulchre achieved a bachelor's degree from Université catholique de Louvain between 1989 and 1990, before remaining at this institution to study a PhD in mathematical engineering between 1990 and 1994. Between 1990 and 1997 he was employed as a researcher, and held a postdoctoral position at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1994 to 1996. In 1997 he achieved a post as a professor at Université de Liège in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Published works 
He has written two books: Optimisation Algorithms on Matrix Manifolds, published in 2007, and Constructive Nonlinear Control, published in 1996.

His main research interests include nonlinear control; optimisation on manifolds; coordination, synchronization, and consensus on nonlinear spaces; and neural behaviors, and has published over 90 papers in these areas.

In May 2022 he published a paper in Proceedings of the IEEE entitled 'Spiking Control Systems', in which he incorrectly cited the Wikipedia article on the homeostat, claiming  According to Wikipedia [47], the homeostat did not work very reliably.

Other works 
Sepulchre was a guest on the podcast inControl, and has been the editor of IEEE control systems magazine since February 2020.

Awards 
Sepulchre was awarded the IEEE Control Systems Society Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize in 2008. In 2020 he received the  George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society for his paper on differential dissipativity, co-written with Professor Fulvio Forni.

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Université catholique de Louvain alumni
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Roy G. Saltman. Roy G. Saltman (July 15, 1932 – April 21, 2023) was an American electrical engineer. He was known for being the United States Federal Government leading expert on computerized voting.

Life and career 
Saltman was born in Manhattan. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University and the American University.

Saltman was a computer security specialist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In 1988 he published a report on computerized voting systems, warning that the use of punched-card ballots was subject to errors due to the fact that the paper punched out (known as a "chad") might remain partly attached to the card. This warning was largely ignored at the time, but the problem later became a key issue in the 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida.

Saltman died on April 21, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland, at the age of 90.

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IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology. IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by IEEE. Sponsored by IEEE Nanotechnology Council, the journal covers physical basis and engineering applications in nanotechnology. Its editor-in-chief is Sorin Coțofană (Delft University of Technology).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 2.1.

References

External links
 

Nanotechnology, IEEE Transactions on
Academic journals established in 2002
English-language journals
Nanotechnology journals
MS H.U. Sverdrup II. MS H.U. Sverdrup II is a Norwegian research vessel owned by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment. The ship is named after the Norwegian oceanographer and meteorologist Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888–1957).

The ship was built in 1990 by Simek AS. It is certified for European trips and is used almost year-round. The ship has space for 15 researchers that can use  of lab space and  of aft deck space. To reduce noise from the main engine, it is mounted elastically and a passive stabilization system dampens the vessel's rolling movements in bad weather conditions.

Construction 

The ship was built under construction number 73 at the Simek shipyard, Sigbjørn Iversen, in Flekkefjord. The hull was supplied by the Kaldnes Industri shipyard in Tønsberg. The keel was laid on October 25, 1989 and the launch took place on December 20, 1989. The ship was completed and delivered on June 1, 1990. It is managed by Remøy Shipping in Fosnavåg.

Technical data and equipment 
The ship is powered by a four-stroke, eight-cylinder diesel engine from Bergen Engines (type: 8KR). The motor is mounted elastically to minimize noise. It acts on a variable-pitch propeller via a reduction gear. A shaft generator driven by the drive motor and a generator driven by a Cummins diesel engine (type: QSK38-DM) are available to generate electricity. An emergency generator was also installed. The ship is equipped with an electrically powered bow thruster.

The deck superstructure is located in the front area of the ship. At the rear of the ship there is a  working deck. Five 20-foot and two 10-foot containers can be carried on deck. The ship also has a cargo hold that is accessible via a  hatch on the aft deck. The cargo hold can be serviced by a hydraulically operated crane installed on the starboard side. This can lift 3 tons. The crane can also be used to move loads on the aft deck. The ship is also equipped with a stern gallows that can lift 10 tons. On the starboard side there is a folding boom as an additional lifting tool. This can lift 5 t and has direct access to the wet laboratory via a hatch.

The ship is equipped with a stabilizer. The ship's hull is ice reinforced (Ice Class C).

The ship is operated by a crew of seven. There is also space for 15 scientists. There are eight single and seven double cabins available on board.

Operations 
The main purpose of the vessel is military oceanography, but it has spare capacity to take on many civilian expeditions.

References 

1989 ships
Research vessels of Norway
Ships built in Norway
G5618 Lincang–Qingshuihe Expressway. The G5618 Lincang–Qingshuihe Expressway (), also referred to as the S50 Linqing Expressway (), is an expressway in Lincang, Yunnan, China that connects Linxiang District to the China–Myanmar border in Gengma Dai and Va Autonomous County.

References

Chinese national-level expressways
Expressways in Yunnan
Beijiao West railway station. Beijiao West railway station () is a railway station in Shunde District, Guangdong, China, located near Tanzhou Convention and Exhibition Center. The station opened on May 26, 2024, and is operated by Guangdong Intercity Railway Operation Co., Ltd.

Features
The station is an elevated three-storey side platformed station, with the first floor being the surface parking lot, the second floor being the concourse, and the third floor being the platform floor, and there are overpasses on the north and south sides of the station. The façade of the station building adopts yellow stripes and sky blue waves, showing creativity and vitality; The interior design combines diamond and hexagonal elements to highlight the sense of modern technology.

Interchanges
The station connects to , a nearby metro station served by Line 3 of Foshan Metro, via an out-of-station interchange (OSI).

Exits
The station has 4 exits on its north and south side. Currently, only Exits B1 and B2 on the south side are open.

Incident
At about 8:50 a.m. on May 29, 2019, the steel roof of the station hall floor of the station collapsed, resulting in injuries to 7 workers who were carrying out waterproof layer construction on the roof, and a direct economic loss of about 2 million yuan. According to the post-investigation report, the design value of the permanent load of the roof of the station hall is 1.45kN/m smaller than the actual permanent load, resulting in the bearing capacity and deformation of the roof steel girder, steel girder assembly node, and steel purlin cannot meet the requirements of the current standard for structural safety, and it is only in an unstable state that may collapse at any time under the action of its own weight, and the collapse eventually occurs due to the construction of the roof waterproof layer.

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Shunde District
Railway stations in China opened in 2024
Swallow Model C Coupé. The Swallow Model C Coupé is an American-built general-purpose high-wing monoplane of the mid 1930s.  
E. B. Christopher, Swallow Aircraft Company president and designer of the Model C, was killed in the crash of an early example that he was flying.

Design and development
The Model C is a high-wing, strut-braced monoplane of conventional configuration with an enclosed cabin and fixed tailwheel undercarriage.  Seating is provided for the pilot and one passenger, side-by-side, and the cabin is equipped with dual controls. Power is supplied by a Menasco C-4 air-cooled inverted inline engine, driving a two-bladed propeller.

The fuselage and tail is built from welded steel tube, covered in fabric. The wing is of mixed wood and metal construction, also covered in fabric. Long V-struts braced the wings to the lower longeron of the fuselage.

Operational history
The Model C first flew in January 1936. In April 1937, Swallow company president E. B. Christopher, who had designed the aircraft, exhibited an example at an air show in Los Angeles. On April 9, he departed with it, heading to San Francisco with a single passenger aboard, investment broker E. A. Grumm. Grumm was reportedly interested in arranging finance for Swallow to manufacture the Model C. According to witnesses, the aircraft was struggling against a headwind as it attempted to navigate Tejon Pass at less than 100 ft (30 m) altitude. A sudden downdraft blew the aircraft into a ridge, wrecking it and killing both men instantly.

Following the tragedy, Swallow's new president, Sam Bloomfied, still intended marketing the Model C as late as September 1937.

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ACR Electronics. ACR Electronics, Inc. (also known as the ACR Group) is an American manufacturer that produces search and rescue and communications equipment for use in aviation, military, outdoor recreation, and watercraft.

History 
ACR Electronics, Inc. was founded in 1956.

In 2012, the company was acquired by J.F. Lehman & Company (JFLCO) from Cobham Commercial Systems. It was sold to The Jordan Company and merged into Drew Marine in November 2013.

The company acquired Ocean Signal in May 2015.

Operations 
ACR Electronics, Inc. is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States.

Products 
ACR Electronics, Inc. produces search and rescue equipment such as emergency locator beacons, electronic distress flares, communications satellite transceivers, strobe lights, emergency position-indicating radiobeacons, and marine VHF radios. Their equipment is designed for use in aviation, military, outdoor recreation, and watercraft.

Brands

ARTEX 
ARTEX produces emergency locator beacons for use in aviation.

Ocean Signal 
Ocean Signal produces safety and communications equipment for use in watercraft.

United Moulders Ltd (UML) 
United Moulders Ltd (UML) produces ISO 12402-7 approved inflation systems for personal flotation devices.

See also 

 Emergency locator beacon
 Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon

References

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1956 establishments in Florida
Manufacturing companies based in Florida
Aircraft emergency systems
Emergency communication
Rescue equipment
Companies based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Maritime safety
Lhasa Feed Processing Plant. Lhasa Feed Processing Plant is a feed processing plant located in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region.

History 
Lhasa Feed Processing Plant is one of the 43 Aid Projects to Tibet invested by Zhejiang Province. on June 18, 1985, Lhasa Feed Processing Plant, with an annual output of nearly 10 million pounds of compound feed, was put into operation. The plant was designed by the Sichuan Provincial Design Department and constructed by the Tibet Autonomous Region Engineering Department as one of the forty-three key projects for the construction of Tibet.

Reference 

43 Aid Projects to Tibet
The Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty. The Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty is a network of international, independent scientific and technical experts on plastic pollution. They aim to provide scientific information to countries involved in the negotiations towards a global agreement to end plastic pollution.  The Global plastic pollution treaty is part of the work of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The coalition have insisted that scientists and scientific knowledge should be involved in the negotiations. One goal of the Scientists' Coalition is to give advice and summaries to low and middle-income country representatives who may not have scientific advisors.

Activities 
The Scientists' Coalition have produced numerous summaries and reports related to plastic pollution. and participated in the UNEP conferences focused on the Global plastic pollution treaty. 60 members of the coalition participated in the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution meeting in Canada in 2024 being available to answer questions to representatives who wanted more scientific knowledge on the topic. They further drafted an open letter to United States President Biden in March 2024 advocating the use of independent scientific consensus in negotiations of the plastics treaty.

Members 
Members of the coalition must have a record of research in plastics pollution and be independent of any conflicting interests. In 2024, they have 300 members from 50 countries. Coordinators of the group are Trisia Farrelly, Bethanie Carney Almroth and Richard Thompson.

References

External links 
 Scientists Coalition on Linkedin
 Scientist Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty website

Plastics and the environment
Proposed treaties
Pollution
United Nations resolutions
Scientific organisations based in Norway