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Space Delta 8. Space Delta 8 (DEL 8) is the United States Space Force unit responsible for military satellite communications and operates a variety of satellite constellation. It is headquartered at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado.

History 
Before the founding of an independent Space Force, the Air Force Space Command's (AFSPC) 50th Operations Group (50 OG), part of the 50th Space Wing, performed the satellite communications and position, navigation, and timing missions. As part of the reorganization in the stand-up of Space Force, 50 OG was inactivated and DEL 8 was activated on 24 July 2020. On 8 February 2022, the 50th Operations Support Squadron was inactivated and the 8th Combat Training Squadron was activated.

In September 2021, the Space Force publicly identified Army and Navy SATCOM units that would transfer to DEL 8. On 6 June 2022, the Naval Satellite Operations Center transferred as the 10th Space Operations Squadron, followed on 29 June 2022 by the Army's 53rd Signal Battalion, which became the 53rd Space Operations Squadron.

On 7 July 2022, Colonel David Pheasant, a former Army officer who had once commanded the 53rd Signal Battalion, took command of DEL 8, becoming the first inter-service transfer officer to command a Space Force Delta.

In 2023, the 2nd Space Operations Squadron was transferred to the Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Integrated Mission Delta (Provisional) with the transfer of the position, navigation, and timing mission set into the new unit.

Structure 
DEL 8 is composed of four squadrons.

List of commanders

See also 
 Space Operations Command
 Structure of the United States Space Force

References

External links 
 Space Delta 8 Fact Sheet

Deltas of the United States Space Force
Military units and formations established in 2020
European Space Security and Education Centre. The European Space Security and Education Centre (ESEC) is a centre of excellence for space cybersecurity services of the European Space Agency (ESA), home to its Proba mission control centres, the Space Weather Data Centre, the Education Training Centre, and part of ESA's ground station network. It has been operational since January 1, 1968. The centre is located at Redu, Wallonia, Belgium.

References

External links

Libin, Belgium
European Space Agency
Robert L.B. Tobin Land Bridge. The Robert L.B. Tobin Land Bridge is a wildlife crossing over Wurzbach Parkway in San Antonio's Phil Hardberger Park that opened on December 11, 2020. The project cost $23 million and is designed for both wildlife and pedestrians. Construction began on November 26, 2018, and was originally expected to end in April 2020.

Design 
At  long and  wide, it is the largest wildlife bridge in the United States . With  tall, noise damping corten steel walls on both sides, the bridge is designed to appear to crossers as a small hill. The bridge has a  underground cistern to keep the bridge's plants irrigated via rainwater.

On April 5, 2021, a footbridge called the Skywalk opened which starts at the top of the land bridge and winds through the park's trees.

Animals using the bridge 
Although animals had already been spotted crossing the bridge as of early 2021, wildlife traffic is not expected to substantially increase until the foliage planted on the bridge grows thicker.

As part of a five-year study, the Parks and Recreation Department documents wildlife using the bridge. , species include the Virginia opossum, cottaintail rabbit, white-tailed deer, coyote, rock squirrel, fox squirrel, rat, raccoon, armadillo, bobcat, gray fox, and axis deer.

See also 
 Wildlife crossing § Examples

References

External links 
 
 Map of the bridge

Pedestrian bridges in Texas
Bridges completed in 2020
Ecological restoration
Stephen Mitchell Dixon. Stephen Mitchell Dixon OBE (1866 – 25 March 1940), was an Irish civil engineer.

Life
Stephen Mitchell Dixon was born in 1866, in Dublin. He attended Trinity College Dublin (TCD), studying experimental science. In the engineering school of TCD he worked as a demonstrator to Dr W.A. Trail. While at TCD, he was a friend and neighbour of William Henry Stanley Monck.

He worked for the Portrush Electric Railway Company. The railway connected Portrush with the Giant's Causeway, and was the first to be powered by hydroelectricity. During World War I, Dixon worked with the Ministry of Munitions, serving with the Royal Engineers in France.

Dixon was the chair of engineering in a number of institutions, including as the inaugural chair at University of New Brunswick in Nova Scotia, and later Dalhousie University, University of Birmingham and Imperial College London. While in Birmingham, he studied wire ropes and supports for the mining industry, and was appointed to the Safety in Mines Research Board in 1923. He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and served on the British Standards Committee. He was awarded the Telford Premium of the Institution of Civil Engineers for his work on measuring the flow of the River Severn. He retired from Imperial College in 1933. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1937 New Year Honours. He retired to the South of France in the same year.

He died in Nice on 25 March 1940. An obituary was published in The Engineer.

References

1866 births
1940 deaths
Irish civil engineers
Engineers from County Dublin
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Academic staff of the University of New Brunswick
Academic staff of Dalhousie University
Academics of Imperial College London
19th-century Irish engineers
20th-century Irish engineers
Maria Pia Fanti. Maria Pia Fanti (born 21 February 1957) is an Italian control theorist known for her research on topics that include discrete event dynamic systems, Petri nets, consensus, fault detection and isolation, agile manufacturing, and road traffic control. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bari, where she heads the Laboratory for Control and Automation.

Education and career
Fanti studied electronic engineering at the University of Pisa, and earned a laurea there in 1983. She has been a full professor at the Polytechnic University of Bari since 2012.

Recognition
Fanti was named an IEEE Fellow in 2017 "for contributions to modeling and control of discrete event systems".

References

External links
Home page

1957 births
Living people
Italian electrical engineers
Italian women engineers
Control theorists
Fellows of the IEEE
101 Tower (Kyiv). 101 Tower is a 27-story high skyscraper in Kyiv, Ukraine, completed in 2012. The building was among the most prestigious office centers in Kyiv and included among its tenets the headquarters of Samsung in Ukraine and the visa department of the German Embassy.

In October 2022 the building was seriously damaged during Russian airstrikes against Kyiv during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and is currently closed waiting for reconstruction.

History
The business center's construction April 2009. The original project was 34 floors tall but in 2010 KAN Development asked Ministry of Regional Development and Construction to approve an updated 27 floor project. The construction was finished in May 2012

In January 2016 the GreenFuel W32A charge station was opened in the 101 Tower parking, therefore making it the first office building in Ukraine with its own EV charger.

The land under the property was being rented by the Eurozhitlogrup Company which is owned by Сур Rose Holding Limited based in Cyprus. In March 2020, it was announced that Сур Rose Holding Limited was being bought by Dragon Capital Investments Limited, also bought in Cyprus. It was reported that one of the beneficiaries of Eurozhytlogrup is Stepan Chernovetskyi, a son of the former mayor of Kyiv, Leonid Chernovetskyi.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 the building was badly damaged in an October missile attack. Owner of the KAN Development Igor Nikonov said that no one was hurt because the strike took place early in the morning and if it was to happen a couple hours later the result would've been different The renovation will cost at least ten million dollars, but owners are still calculating the final cost so the repair work hasn't been started yet.

Accidents
On 25 June 2012, the balcony at the seventh floor of the building had caught fire due to short circuit in the fitness center. Firefighters arrived in 8 minutes and extinguished the fire in 15 minutes. No one was hurt, but fire destroyed the insulation.

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine the building suffered severe damage in Russian air strikes in October. On 10 October, a Russian rocket fell behind the business center and the impact of its explosion seriously damaged building's facade, but no one was hurt inside the building.

See also
List of tallest buildings in Ukraine

References

Buildings and structures in Kyiv
Skyscrapers in Ukraine
Commercial buildings completed in 2012
Buildings and structures destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
List of GSLV launches. This is a list of launches conducted by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) using Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rockets. This list does not include LVM 3 (formerly known as GSLV Mk III) launches, which can be found here.

Notable missions

GSLV MK. I flight D1 

This was the first developmental flight of the GSLV  Mk.I featuring Russian cryogenic engine KVD-1. It was used to place an experimental satellite GSAT-1 into the orbit. However, due to sub-optimal performance and lack of fuel the vehicle did not achieve the intended orbit and the satellite had to maneuver itself using onboard fuel to correct the shortfall. ISRO claims the launch to be successful. In a 2014 interview, ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan attributed the failure to incorrect mixture ratio used in the cryogenic upper stage.

GSLV MK. II flight D5 

This was the second test flight with indigenous cryogenic stage CE-7.5 and the first successful launch with the CE-7.5. The flight lifted and successfully placed the  GSAT-14 into the orbit. This flight became the harbinger of successful launch with the indigenous cryogenic stage.

GSLV MK. II flight F09 

This was the fourth consecutive successful flight of GSLV Mk. II with indigenous cryogenic engine. The flight placed the regional satellite South Asia Satellite was previously named as South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Satellite. The satellite was a gift from India to its neighbors to bolster Prime Minister Narendra Modi's neighborhood first policy. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka are the users of the multi-dimensional facilities provided by the satellite.

Statistics

Rocket configurations

Launch sites

Mission outcome

Flight history 
, rockets from the GSLV family have made 17 launches, resulting in 11 successes, four failures, and two partial failures. All launches have occurred from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, known before 2002 as the Sriharikota Range (SHAR).

Future flights

Gallery

See also 
List of PSLV launches
List of LVM3 launches
List of SSLV launches

References 

 
ISRO space launch vehicles
Satish Dhawan Space Centre
GSLV
Vehicles introduced in 2001
Expendable space launch systems
Space programme of India
Marta Sales-Pardo. Marta Sales-Pardo (born 1976) is a Spanish statistical physicist, complex systems scientist, and network scientist. She is an associate professor at Rovira i Virgili University, in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She is notable for her contributions to complex networks, where she has studied both social and biochemical systems, especially the contribution of each node or individual to the overall network. Her research has earned several mentions in the Fulbright Program and the ICREA Program, among others.

Education and career 

Sales-Pardo earned a Bachelors of Science in physics from the University of Barcelona in 1998. She then earned a PhD in physics from the University of Barcelona in 2002, advised by Felix Ritort. In 2003, she became a post-doctoral fellow at the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at Northwestern University. She obtained the Fulbright scholarship in 2004 for two years, and in 2008 became a research assistant professor at Northwestern University. Since 2010, she has been an associate professor at Rovira i Virgili University.

Research

Sales-Pardo is most well known for her studies on complex networks, including a paper studying the statistical significance of modularity in randomly-generated complex networks. Her most cited works discuss how to mine data from large complex networks accurately, successfully capturing the properties of the mined distribution.

Recognition
In 2021, Sales-Pardo was named a Fellow of the Network Science Society, "for her contributions to the understanding of the organisation of large-scale networks and the development of generative models and inference methodologies for complex networks". She was the first Spanish woman to win this honor.

References

External links
Home page (SEES lab)

Living people
Spanish physicists
Spanish women physicists
University of Barcelona alumni
Academic staff of the University of Rovira i Virgili
1976 births
Chinese destroyer Guangzhou (168). Guangzhou (168) is the lead ship of Type 052B destroyer of the People's Liberation Army Navy. She was commissioned on 15 July 2004.

Development and design 

Type 052B multirole missile destroyer was the first Chinese-built warship capable of area air defence. The displacement of the Type 052B is about 5850 tons standard and 6500 tons full load. The ship features a "low point" design and combines this with radar absorbing paint to reduce radar signature. The ship's funnel incorporates cooling devices to reduce infrared signatures. The stern flight deck can host a Kamov Ka-28 ASW helicopter.

Construction and career 
Guangzhou was launched on 20 May 2002 at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. She was commissioned on 15 July 2004.

On March 5, 2009, Guangzhou arrived in Karachi, Pakistan with Chinese naval special forces, and joined the navies from 12 countries including the United States, Britain, France, Australia, Japan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Kuwait, Nigeria and Turkey. They participated in the Peace 2009 multi-country maritime joint military exercise. The exercise includes two parts: a port and shore special forces exercise and a maritime military exercise. The exercise lasts for 8 days. After the exercise, Guangzhou set sail back home on March 14, and arrived at a military port in Sanya, Hainan Province on March 26. On August 16, 2009, Guangzhou arrived at Bitong Port in Manado, Indonesia, and began a four-day goodwill visit. During the period, Guangzhou and 28 naval ships from 14 countries participated in the international fleet inspection to celebrate the 64th anniversary of Indonesian independence. On August 10, Guangzhou arrived at the port of Muara, Brunei, and began a four-day friendly visit. After ending the visit to the two countries, Guangzhou returned to its station on August 24.

On March 4, 2010, Guangzhou and Weishanhu formed the fifth escort fleet of the People's Liberation Army Navy. They set sail from a military port terminal in Sanya City, Hainan Province, and went to the Gulf of Aden and the waters of Somalia to replace the fourth escort fleet. Perform escort missions. The escort mission lasted 192 days and nights, with a voyage of 92,495 nautical miles. Guangzhou successively verified 85 batches of 370 ships driven away from suspicious ships, and accompanied 41 batches of 588 Chinese and foreign merchant ships. After the escort was over, Guangzhou and Chaohu, which arrived in advance and performed the escort mission, also visited Egypt, Italy, Greece, Myanmar and other four countries, and docked in Singapore. On September 11, 2010, Guangzhou's fleet returned to the station.

Gallery

References 

2002 ships
Ships built in China
Type 052B destroyers
Chinese destroyer Wuhan (169). Wuhan (169) is the second ship of Type 052B destroyer of the People's Liberation Army Navy. She was commissioned in December 2004.

Development and design 

Type 052B multirole missile destroyer was the first Chinese-built warship capable of area air defence. The displacement of the Type 052B is about 5850 tons standard and 6500 tons full load. The ship features a "low point" design and combines this with radar absorbing paint to reduce radar signature. The ship's funnel incorporates cooling devices to reduce infrared signatures. The stern flight deck can host a Kamov Ka-28 ASW helicopter.

Construction and career 
Wuhan was launched in February 2002 at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. She was commissioned in December 2004.

On April 2, 2008, the commander of the U.S. Marine Corps, General James Conway, accompanied by Major General Zhang Leiyu, Deputy Chief of Naval Staff of the People's Liberation Army, began a two-day visit to the South China Sea Fleet. During the visit, Wuhan and Luo Xiaoshan were open to visit. On December 26, 2008, Wuhan, Haikou and Weishanhu formed the first escort fleet of the Chinese Navy. They set sail from a military port terminal in Sanya City, Hainan Province, and escorted to the Gulf of Aden and Somali waters. The escort mission lasted 124 days and nights with a voyage of more than 33,000 nautical miles. It provided escort for 41 batches of 166 ships, provided regional escorts for 46 ships and successfully rescued 3 foreign ships from being attacked. On April 28, 2009, they returned to the station.

On July 26, 2010, Wuhan participated in a live-fire exercise of the Navy's multi-arms contract organized by the South China Sea Fleet. The exercise was held in a certain area of the South China Sea, highlighting the actual use of weapons in contracted seas, air defense and missile defense, and air control in a complex electromagnetic environment.

Gallery

References 

2002 ships
Ships built in China
Type 052B destroyers
Shadow (service). Shadow.tech is a cloud computing service developed by the French company Blade that was acquired by OVHcloud founder Octave Klaba in 2021. Its technology is based on Windows 10 servers executing video games or other Windows software applications remotely. Unlike many other cloud services such as Nvidia GeForce Now, or Amazon Luna, Shadow is not limited to running video games, as Shadow.tech provides remote access to a complete PC infrastructure.

History 
In 2015, Emmanuel Freund, Stéphane Héliot and Asher Kagan-Criou created a start-up called Blade to propose a cloud-gaming service called Shadow. 

At the start of 2016, they raised 3 million euros of capital, then 10 million, followed in 2017 by 51 million, with several investors.

In 2019, Blade further raised 30 million euros, following the arrival of Google in the Cloud gaming sector with Stadia. 

In October 2019, Shadow had more than 70000 users. In November 2020, They announced having more than 100000 active users.

In September 2020, Blade CEO and CTO change for Mike Fischer and Jean-Baptiste Kempf (one of the major contributors of the VLC media player project).

In March 2021, it was announced that Blade had filed for Chapter 11 Protection in the United States, as well as filing for bankruptcy in Europe.

In May 2021, it was announced that Blade had been bought after its insolvency by Octave Klaba, CEO of OVHcloud. Before he bought the service however, Octave Klaba announced that he was not interested in Cloud Gaming but intended to develop a European alternative to Office 365.

On May 24, 2021, Shadow's new management announced major restructuring to the previous pricing structure, removing the Ultra and Infinite tier plans, and leaving the $30 USD Boost plan as the company's sole offering (until the upcoming hardware upgrades and new plans announced in May 2022 are rolled out.)

In March 2021, the Shadow team announced a Dual Screen feature. In August 2021, Octave Klaba, OVHcloud CEO, informed that service subscription approval was renewed after a pause which lasted starting from the bankruptcy announcements. In October of that year, Shadow also announced a new logo and brand that would begin usage in 2022.

In May 2022, upcoming hardware upgrades and expansions to Shadow's services were announced by the company.

Incidents 
On the 11th of October 2023, Shadow notified all of its customers via email about a social engineering attack that the company had become a victim of. The company claimed that the attack was highly sophisticated and that the attacker was able to extract private information about the customers. However, the company also made it clear that no passwords or banking details were compromised. The attackers were able to access customers' first name, last name, date of birth, address, and credit card expiry date. The company has not yet issued a formal statement regarding the matter.

References

External links
 

Cloud gaming
French companies established in 2015
Albin 7.8. The Albin 7.8, also known as the Albin Cirrus and the Cirrus 7.8, is a Swedish sailboat that was designed by Peter Norlin and first built in 1979.

Production
The design was built by Albin Marine in Sweden between 1979 and 1984, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Albin 7.8 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel.

The boat is fitted with a Swedish Volvo Penta MD5 diesel engine for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .

The design has a hull speed of .

Operational history
The boat was at one time supported by an active class club based in Sweden that organized racing events, the Albin 78 Klubben (English: Albin 78 Club).

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links
Photo of a Cirrus 7.8 showing the bow
Photo of a Cirrus 7.8 showing the transom
Cirrus 7.8 sailing video

Keelboats
1970s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Peter Norlin
Sailboat types built by Albin Marine
Alpha 29. The Alpha 29, also called the Albin Alpha, is a Swedish sailboat that was designed by Peter Norlin and first built in 1984.

Production
The design was built by Albin Marine in Sweden between 1984 and 1991, with 200 boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Alpha 29 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder and a fixed fin keel. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel.

The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar diesel engine of  for docking and manoeuvring. The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .

The design has a hull speed of .

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links
Photo of an Alpha 29
Sailing the Albin 29 video
Sailing the Albin 29 under gennaker video

Keelboats
1980s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Peter Norlin
Sailboat types built by Albin Marine
1984 introductions