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Ralph Bernstein. Ralph Bernstein (born Rölf Bernstein, February 20, 1933) is a German–born American engineer known for his contributions to digital imaging, image processing, and geosciences. He is a member of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS).

Early life and education 
Ralph Bernstein was born in Zweibrücken, Germany, and immigrated to the United States during World War II. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Connecticut (UConn) in 1956, and completed his master's degree in electrical engineering at Syracuse University in 1960.

Career 
Bernstein held senior positions at IBM from 1957 to 1992, including roles at the IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center and the IBM Federal Systems Division. He served as Principal Investigator for NASA's Landsat Earth observation programs, contributing to the digital processing and correction of Landsat data. He also developed an oceanographic data collection and gravity control system for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

From 1992 to 2001, Bernstein worked at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) , specializing in lightning detection and underground utility mapping. His research in digital imaging and remote sensing led to advancements in medical imaging, art restoration, and environmental monitoring.

He helped establish the Geosciences Node of the Planetary Data System (PDS), facilitating in the storage and distribution of planetary data from space missions.

Bernstein was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society. He also served on committees for NASA and the National Research Council (NRC).

Personal life 
Ralph Bernstein and his wife, Leah, live in Los Altos, California.

Awards and recognition 
Bernstein has received accolades such as the University of Connecticut Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, the IBM Outstanding Contribution Award (1974), and the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement (1974).

Selected publications

References

External links 
Ralph Bernstein Academy Profile at UCONN
UCONN | College of Engineering Alumni

1933 births
Living people
German engineers
American engineers
University of Connecticut alumni
Syracuse University alumni
IBM employees
NASA people
American scientists
American inventors
American technology writers
American editors
Idalia Ramos (physicist). Idalia Ramos Colón is a Puerto Rican physicist and nanoscientist, and a professor of physics and electronics at the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, where she directs the National Science Foundation Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) for Advancing Device Innovation through Inclusive Research and Education. Her research involves using electrospinning to synthesize and study the physical and electronic properties of microfibers and nanofibers, and the applications of these fibers as gas sensors.

Education and career
Ramos was born near Barranquitas, Puerto Rico in a family of educators, and attended high school in Barranquitas. She studied physics as an undergraduate at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, working there with Jorge J. Santiago-Aviles. Santiago moved to the University of Pennsylvania in the 1980s, and brought Ramos with him as a graduate student. She earned a master's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. She went on for further graduate study in physics at Purdue University, leaving with a master's degree in 1992.

Since 1993 she has been on the faculty at University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, where her student experience as the only woman in her classes inspired her to provide more opportunities for other women in physics. She has been collaborating with the University of Pennsylvania on a project in physics education, first as a Collaborative to Integrate Research and Education (CIRE) project from 1999 to 2004, and subsequently through the National Science Foundation Partnership for Research and Education in Materials (PREM).

Recognition
Ramos was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2019, after a nomination from the APS Forum on Education, "for tireless work on behalf of physics students, especially Hispanic women, and for enthusiasm for research that has inspired generations of many Puerto Rican students to enter physics graduate programs".

References

External links
Home page
UPRH–Penn PREM

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century Puerto Rican scientists
Puerto Rican women scientists
American physicists
American women physicists
American nanotechnologists
University of Puerto Rico alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Purdue University alumni
University of Puerto Rico faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Sonia Aggarwal. Sonia Aggarwal is an engineer and policy advisor, who served as the Special Assistant to President Biden for Climate Policy, Innovation, and Deployment. Starting as a senior advisor when the President was inaugurated and serving through the end of 2022, her appointment was understood by the media to be a signal of the Biden administration's seriousness in pursuing ambitious clean energy policy. She is credited with helping to set the U.S. greenhouse gas emissions target of 50-52% reductions by 2030, as well as contributing heavily to the design of Build Back Better, which passed Congress as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. She also co-chaired the Climate Innovation Working Group, alongside the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Early life and education 
Aggarwal was born in South Carolina and grew up in Ohio, attending Laurel School and graduating from Hawken School in 2002. Aggarwal completed a Bachelor of Science degree in astronomy and physics from Haverford College and a masters from Stanford University's engineering school.

Aggarwal is the daughter of Raj Aggarwal, the former dean of the University of Akron College of Business Administration.

Career 
Aggarwal worked briefly in the accident prevention design engineering group at Perry Nuclear Power Plant, conducted research on how renewable energy could serve remote areas in India without comprehensive access to electricity, advised cleantech startup companies on communications, managed research for ClimateWorks Foundation, and co-founded the non-partisan think tank Energy Innovation, where she returned as CEO after serving in the White House.

References 

American women in politics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
Assistants to the president of the United States
Haverford College alumni
Stanford University alumni
American politicians of Indian descent
Quantum Space (company). Quantum Space is a company founded in 2022 that plans to develop spacecraft that will operate in geosynchronous and cislunar space. Corporate leadership includes Dr. Kam Ghaffarian, Kerry Wisnosky and Ben Reed. Ghaffarian is also chairman of Axiom Space. It is based in Rockville, Maryland.

QS-1 
On 26 October 2022 Quantum Space announced its first spacecraft mission. The spacecraft will collect space domain awareness data. The QS-1 spacecraft launch is scheduled for October 2024.

The Ranger spacecraft used for QS-1 will include processor and navigation electronics provided by Beyond Gravity, a subsidiary of RUAG.

References

External links 
 

Transport companies established in 2022
Spacecraft manufacturers
2022 establishments in Maryland
Robert Schuster (rubber scientist). Robert Hans Schuster (born 8 September 1942) is the former director of the German Institute for Rubber Technology (DIK) and a popular lecturer on rubber technology.

Education 

Schuster earned a Dipl.-Chem. in 1967 from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Romania. He earned a Doctor of Science in February 1984 at the Staudinger Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry at the University of Freiburg with a dissertation on the topic of "thermodynamic investigations on polystyrene-solvent systems" under advisor H.J. Cantow.

Career 

From 1984 to 1992, Schuster led the Department of Chemistry and Physics of Elastomers at DIK.  In 1992, he was appointed director of the DIK.  He was also a lecturer at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry in the University of Hanover since 1987, and he held the rank of professor there since April 1996. His most cited work treats the subject of fractal filler networks in rubber.

Awards

 2012 - Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award from Rubber Division of the ACS

References 

Polymer scientists and engineers
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni
German scientists

1942 births
Living people
USAV SSG Elroy F. Wells. USAV SSG Elroy F. Wells, named for United States Army SSGT Elory Frederick Wells (1932–1970)., is the lead ship of the, Maneuver Support Vessel (Light) landing craft. She was laid down by Vigor Shipyards company at Vancouver, Washington, on 16 September 2019 and launched October 2022

History 
USAV SSG Elroy F. Wells keel was laid down on 16 September 2019 at Vigor Shipyards in Vancouver, Washington. In attendance was Jaime Herrera Beutler from Washington's 3rd congressional district, the Mayor of Vancouver (Washington) Anne McEnerny-Ogle. The United States Army was represented by Timothy Goddette, U.S. Army Program Executive Office and Colonel Jered P. Helwig, Chief of Transportation of the United States Army.

References 

2022 ships
Landing craft
Ships of the United States Army
Mahdi Asgari. Mehdi Asgari   (; born 1977) is an independent Iranian politician from Karaj. He served as a member of the Parliament of Iran from 2020 to 2024.

Early life and education
Mehdi Asgari was born in 1977 in Karaj. He received a bachelor's degree in industrial metallurgy engineering, a master's degree in Islamic philosophy and wisdom, and is a doctoral student in Islamic philosophy and wisdom.

Islamic Consultative Assembly
In the 11th election of the Islamic Consultative Assembly held on March 2, 2018, Asgari won 87,808 votes out of 389,347 total votes from Karaj, Eshtehard and Fardis. He was elected as the first vice president of Industries and Mines Commission.
He had various responsibilities in the 11th Iranian Parliament, including the head of the economic diplomacy faction, a member of the consolidation commission of the 7th country development plan, a member of the 1401 budget consolidation commission, a member of the deregulation and licensing facilitation board (Ministry of Economy and Finance) and the chairman of the land restoration committee.

Activities in the 11th Parliament
Among his activities during the representative period, it is possible to mention to the follow-up of land and housing issue and providing solutions and operational suggestions and changing the model of housing construction (from vertical development to horizontal development) and building one-story houses with courtyards.  These solutions were taken into consideration in the 13th government for new projects of the National Housing Movement in the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development and were implemented in some cities.
The proposal to form a special committee for revitalization and equitable exploitation of land in the consolidation commission of the seventh progress plan in order to break land hoarding and popularize housing production and finally approve the increase of 330 thousand hectares to the country's residential capacity in the seventh five-year plan were some of his actions in the consolidation commission.

job career 
His job responsibilities include:
Adviser to Alborz Governor in 2012 and 2013.
The founder and director of University of Applied Sciences and Arts Culture Alborz
Head of Karaj Culture and Islamic Guidance Department from 2008 to 2010.
Cultural deputy of the General Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Alborz province from 2010 to 2011
Secretary of Karaj Public Culture Council for two years

References 

Members of the 11th Islamic Consultative Assembly
Deputies of Karaj, Fardis, Eshtehard and Asara
Living people
1977 births
Space Futures Command. Space Futures Command is a planned United States Space Force field command that forecasts the threat environment, develops and validates concepts, conducts experimentation and wargames, and performs mission area design.

The establishment of Space Futures Command was announced on 12 February 2024. It will be composed of the Space Warfighting Analysis Center, Concepts and Technology Center, and Wargaming Center. According to General B. Chance Saltzman, the field command would ensure competitiveness over time and couple mission needs with capability development.

History
In September 2022, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall III initiated an assessment of how the Department of the Air Force is organized with an eye towards preparing the Air Force and Space Force for a potential conflict with China. On February 12, 2024, these changes were announced, including the creation of Space Futures Command. According to General B. Chance Saltzman, initial mission analysis will be done by a small team to plan its establishment. He hopes that by the end of 2024, the two new centers will be established and, by 2025, there would be a decision for the command's leadership and headquarters.

Lieutenant General Shawn Bratton, who led the standup of Space Training and Readiness Command, was tasked to lead a task force of 10-15 people to work the Department of Defense requirements to establish SFC.

Notes and references

Field commands of the United States Space Force
2024 establishments in the United States
Kinetic E-Luna. The Kinetic E-Luna is an  Electric bike build by Kinetic Green and based on the Kinetic Luna Moped. It was launched on February 7, 2024.

Kinetic announced that it would start bookings for the E-Luna on26 January with a reservation fee of ₹500.

Development

Kinetic had started a pilot project around September 2023 in some locations of Maharashtra with an aim to sell the vehicle to a couple of thousand people and gather customer feedback using prototype models, which were met with success.

The company intends to target the Rs 25,000-30,000 monthly income group which uses public transportation, such as shared automobiles or local buses. The company is aiming for 5,000 electric Lunas per month. The company hopes to gross close to Rs 30 crore annually

Design

The e-Luna was introduced with three battery packs. The first batch will have a 2 kWh battery pack which will give a range of 80 km. The company also hopes to introduce a 1.5 kWh battery pack for Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets for a 40–45 km range, and a 3 kWh battery pack, which will give a range of 100-125km, . the Kinetic E-Luna comes with Telescopic Fork front suspensions and dual shock rear suspension. It would have a top speed of around 60 kph, a weight of , a seat height of , and a ground clearance of 170 mm. The batteries will be made inhouse with three  different variants – chargeable, removable and swappable.

The model will come with four drive modes - ECO, City, Speed and Sport. It will be more rugged, with an improved halogen headlight and white color-turned indicators on the side. It will have a fully digital console and an app for connectivity control..

In December 2024, Kinetic unveiled plans to extend the range of the moped using a 4.3kWh battry pack with a range of 250 kilometres. It was planned to be available by January 2025.

References 

Electric motorcycles
Kinetic motorcycles
Vehicles introduced in 2024
Technamm Masstech T4. The Technamm Masstech T4 is an unarmoured off-road vehicle used by the French Armed Forces. It is based on the Toyota Land Cruiser HZJ 76 and manufactured by the Technamm company.

History 
The Masstech T4 was designed in 2016 based on a call for tenders from the French Army, under the VLTP NP (Véhicule Léger Tactiques Polyvalents Non Protégés or Lightweight Multipurpose Tactical Vehicles Not Protected)

Faced with replacing the Peugeot P4 and while waiting for the ACMAT VT4, the French army ordered 500 units, with the first one delivered in April 2017 and the last in November 2018. 

In mid-November 2022, France gave a first batch of Masstech T4 to Tunisia with 100 vehicles donated through the Directorate of Security and Defence Cooperation. In December 2022, a new contract for 128 units for the G5 Sahel Joint Force was announced.

Specifications
The base of the Masstech T4 is built by Toyota in Japan, from the HZJ 76 model. Technamm then carries out the militarization in Aix-en-Provence. In particular, the vehicle is equipped with a PR4G radio, a SITEL terminal and a DAGR GPS. It can carry four or five passengers. Deployed only in France with Opération Sentinelle, its engine, rustic and compatible with African and military fuels, allows its shipment to OPEX.

Its unit cost is 70,000 euros, 60% of which goes to Masstech.

Notes

Military vehicles of France
Military light utility vehicles
Off-road vehicles
Military vehicles introduced in the 2010s
Connie Roth. Connie Barbara Roth (born 1974) is a Canadian-American soft matter physicist and polymer scientist whose research concerns the glass transition and aging in polymer films. She is a professor of physics at Emory University.

Education and career
Roth became interested in physics as a teenager in Toronto through the MacGyver television show, and began her interest in polymer films through studying paper and toner in a summer internship at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada. She studied physics as an undergraduate at McMaster University in Ontario, graduating in 1997. She went to the University of Guelph, also in Ontario, for graduate study in physics, earning a master's degree in 1999 and completing her Ph.D. in 2004.

After postdoctoral research at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and Northwestern University in Chicago, Roth joined the Emory University faculty in 2007. She was promoted to associate professor in 2013 and full professor in 2021.

Recognition
Roth was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2019, after a nomination from the APS Division of Polymer Physics, "for exceptional contributions to the understanding of glass transition and aging phenomena in polymer films and blends". She was the 2019 recipient of the Fellows Award of the North American Thermal Analysis Society.

References

External links
Home page

1974 births
Living people
Canadian physicists
Canadian women physicists
American physicists
American women physicists
Polymer scientists and engineers
McMaster University alumni
University of Guelph alumni
Emory University faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fugro SpAARC. The Fugro SpAARC Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Control (SpAARC) facility is a mission control center created by a collaboration between the Australian Space Agency, the government of Western Australia (WA) and the Dutch company Fugro. SpAARC provides telerobotic control for both spaceflight and terrestrial vehicles. SpAARC, opened in November 2020, is Fugro's largest remote operations center. SpAARC is located in Perth, Australia.

Uses
Fugro SpAARC was selected as the contingency control center for the Intuitive Machines Nova-C IM-1 lunar landing mission.

See also

Australian Space Agency

References

External links
Fugro SpAARC

Spaceflight
Rooms
Spaceflight technology
Command and control
Technology companies of Australia
Robotics companies of Australia
Companies based in Perth, Western Australia
Sodium hexafluorotitanate. Sodium hexafluorotitanate is an inorganic compound of sodium, fluorine, and titanium with the chemical formula .

Physical properties
The compound forms white powder. It is air and moisture stable. It is soluble in water, forming a corrosive solution.

Hazards identification
The compound is severely irritating to skin, eyes, and respiratory tract. If it is inhaled or swallowed, the compound may cause fluoride poisoning.

References

Titanium compounds
Sodium compounds
Fluorine compounds
Titanium(IV) compounds
Fluorometallates
ElectraMeccanica Solo. The ElectraMeccanica Solo is a single-passenger, three-wheeled, battery electric vehicle, produced by ElectraMeccanica from 2018 to 2023.

History

Initially, at the time ElectraMeccanica was founded in 2015, the concept of a three-wheeled small electric car was intended to take the form of implementing an existing project. Co-founder Jerry Kroll was then considering restoring the former American Myers Motors NmG model, to which he had purchased the rights, to production. Ultimately, this three-wheeled vehicle remained only a reference point for building a new, larger and more technologically advanced vehicle. Sketches of the finished design were officially presented in June 2016, and the production model was finally presented 3 months later.

The Solo took the form of a three-wheeler with one pair of doors and a slim body that tapered towards the rear unicycle. Similarly to the original by Mike Corbin from 1996, the Solo was designed to transport only one person, the driver. The spaciousness of the passenger cabin was to ensure, among others, relatively large, over 2-meter wheelbase. Behind the driver there is space for a 285-litre trunk. In 2022, a Cargo variant with an enlarged storage compartment was also offered.

On March 26, 2024, Electrameccanica was acquired by California-based commercial electric truck startup Xos, Inc.

Sale
Production of the Solo initially began at ElectraMeccanica's Canadian factory in New Westminster, initially for the domestic market, with the first delivery to a customer in Vancouver. In 2021, production was moved to China as part of a partnership with the local company Zongshen from Chongqing to meet demand in the United States, where exports began 3 years after the first units were built. In 2022, production was to be moved again, this time to newly established plants in Mesa, Arizona, but the production line in Mesa was never completed. After 5 years of small-scale production, the new management team of the Canadian startup, which in the meantime had been entirely transferred to the United States, changed its policy and ended the production of Solo. The company offered to buy vehicles from buyers, responding to previously reported defects that could become difficult to service over time.

Solo Automotive Inc. 
On February 28, 2024, Solo Automotive Inc., of Vancouver, Canada, wholly owned by Jerry Kroll, acquired all of the Solo assets, including Industrial Design, Trademarks, and Patents.

The company plans to enter the European and UK markets with a more advanced model called the SoloGT, which will be manufactured at a plant in Spain. The first vehicles will go on sale in early 2025, and reservations with a $200 refundable deposit will be available soon on the new SoloEV website.

See also 
 Electric motorcycles and scooters
 Electric vehicle

References 

Production electric cars
Electric car models
Electric city cars
Electric three-wheel vehicles
Microcars
Cars introduced in 2018
Cars discontinued in 2023
Electric vehicles introduced in the 21st century