omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
CCIX. CCIX may refer to:

 The Roman number notation for 209
 Cache coherent interconnect for accelerators, a consortium dealing with connectivity and communications issues in computer technology
 CCIX, a historic Association of American Railroads reporting mark for Stauffer Chemical Company, now Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Ore Co.
 UA-CCIX, the codename for the Kilgore cyborgs in the fighting video game Killer Instinct
Vector-H. Vector-H (Vector Heavy) was a planned two-stage or three-stage orbital expendable launch vehicle in development by the American aerospace company Vector Launch to cover the commercial small satellite launch segment (CubeSats). It was planned to be an expanded version of the Vector-R rocket, more than doubling the payload capacity. After Vector Launch ceased operations in December 2019, the future development of the rocket is unofficially canceled.

Design

Vector-H would have used two stages, both 1.2 m in diameter, filled with Propylene/LOX propellant. The main body of the rocket was planned to be constructed using a lightweight carbon composite material.

The launch vehicle's first stage would have been powered by six LP-1 LOX/propylene engines, delivering 81,000 newtons of force. The second stage would have been powered by one LP-3 LOX/propylene engine, delivering 4,400 newtons of force. The engines used a 3D-printed engine injector, designed with help from NASA's Science, Technology and Mission Directorate (STMD) Flight Opportunities program. This allows the injector to be produced as a single piece of hardware, instead of as individual components. The vehicle was also planned to include an optional third stage powered by a solid rocket motor. This would have allowed the upper stage to boost micro satellites into a higher orbit.

Vector-HE1 
The Vector-HE1 planned variant was to have the same body as the standard Vector-H but include an electric powered third stage.

Intended usage
Vector-H was designed to launch a  payload to a  Sun-synchronous orbit, suitable for CubeSats and other small payloads. The cost would have been less than , a price point that the company hoped will allow it to attract one hundred launches per year. Customers could have choose to encapsulate their spacecraft in payload fairings provided by the company, which could be easily attached to the rocket shortly before launch, in several different configurations, such as fitting CubeSats dispensers or multiple satellites in a single fairing.

Vector would have used on-site payload integration for the early launches. However it expected to be able to integrate payloads at their Arizona and California Payload Facilities and ship them to their launch sites.

Launch sites

Vector Space planned to use the LC-46 launch site in Florida, Spaceport Camden, and Pacific Spaceport Complex. Additionally Vector Space investigated adding more minimal infrastructure launch pads either located on land in the US, or to launch the rocket from barges on the ocean.

See also
 Small-lift launch vehicle

References

Microsatellite launch vehicles
National Science and Technology Forum. The National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) is a non-profit company representing South African organisations in the public and private sector with an interest in science, engineering, technology, and innovation. Its aim is to promote science, engineering, and technology, and to engage with related government policies. Established in 1995, the NSTF organizes annual awards for research and development excellence in South Africa.

Membership 
There are more than 100 member organisations in six categories within the NSTF. These include:
 Eskom
 Federation of Unions of South Africa
 Health Department
 National Health Laboratory Service
 Rand Water
 South African Nuclear Energy Corporation
 Telecommunication Department

Notable award winners 
Amongst the notable South Africans who have received an award from the NSTF are:
 George Ellis
 Janice Limson
 Johann Lutjeharms
 Tshilidzi Marwala
 Tim Noakes

References

External links 
 NSTF website

1995 establishments in South Africa
MAE 323. The MAE 323 is a family of Italian aircraft engines, designed and produced by Modena Avio Engines (commonly called MAE) of Rubiera for use in light aircraft.

The company seems to have been founded about 2003 and gone out of business by 2015. Since 2012 its website has consisted only of a placeholder page.

Design and development
The engine is a three-cylinder in radial-configuration, four-stroke,  displacement, liquid-cooled, gasoline engine design, with a mechanical gearbox reduction drive with a reduction ratio of 1.91:1. It employs dual electronic ignition systems and has a compression ratio of 9.0:1.

Variants
MAE 323
Model that produces  at 4500 rpm, with an engine weight of .
MAE 323 R
Model that produces  at 5500 rpm, with an engine weight of .

Specifications (MAE 323)

See also

References

External links

Official website archives on Archive.org 

Modena Avio Engines aircraft engines
Liquid-cooled aircraft piston engines
2000s aircraft piston engines
Tube (passenger information system). Tube (stylized TUBE), formerly called the  Passenger Assist Railway Display System (PARDS), is a passenger information system currently deployed on certain lines of the Manila Light Rail Transit (LRT) and Metro Rail Transit (MRT) systems. Developed by Filipino technology companies TrackMate Business Solutions and PHAR Philippines, the system was initially unveiled on May 5, 2017.

History
PARDS was created amid complaints from train passengers that they are unaware of what's going on while riding the system, with a lack of information displays among their major complaints.

The system was unveiled on May 5, 2017, with the system being installed on one Line 2 train. By June 2017, all ten active train units were fitted with the system, with some 400 LCD monitors installed system-wide. Installed at no cost to the national government, PARDS is funded through advertising.

Although initially deployed on the Line 2, TrackMate also presented the system to the Light Rail Manila Corporation, the operator of Line 1, and to the Metro Rail Transit Corporation, operator of Line 3, eliciting a positive reaction. TrackMate also claimed that there is interest in deploying PARDS internationally, as well as that there is potential in deploying it as a suitable low-cost alternative to traditional railway signalling systems.

On March 28, 2019, an event was held announcing the system's rebranding to TUBE. In contrast to PARDS, TUBE features a redesigned interface and advertisements, and during the event, Filipino Youtube personalities presented how the companies aimed to deploy the system to all three lines. PHAR and TrackMate have announced that Line 3 trains will be equipped with the system by April 2019, with the goal of having the system deployed on all three lines by July.

Technology
TUBE uses GPS technology to determine a train's speed, location and other important information, which helps determine a train's arrival and departure time. Information from the train is uploaded to the cloud, which is then transmitted back to the train.

Each TUBE-equipped train has been fitted with at least 40 LCD monitors which not only shows the train's location, but also news, public service announcements, passenger traffic and entertainment. The system is also capable of transmitting real-time information when circumstances require, such as in an emergency. 

TUBE also has a mobile component, where real-time train information can be accessed through a mobile application to be developed as part of the project's second phase, as well as a backend which allows the Light Rail Transit Authority to monitor train performance and passenger loads in real time.

References

External links

Manila Light Rail Transit System
Public transport information systems
High-energy replicated optics. High-energy replicated optics (HERO) is a high-altitude balloon-borne x-ray telescope based at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Its mirrors are conical approximations to Wolter type 1 geometry. The proving flight, at least, used a high-pressure gas scintillation proportional counter with relatively low spatial resolution.

See also 
 High energy X-ray imaging technology
 X-ray astronomy

References

External links
 High energy replicated optics to explore the Sun: Hard x-ray balloon-borne telescope (2013)

X-ray telescopes
Balloon-borne telescopes
Marshall Space Flight Center
Marcmotor ROS200. The Marcmotor ROS200 is an Italian aircraft engine, designed and produced by Marcmotor of Macerata for use in ultralight aircraft.

Design and development
The ROS200 is a twin-cylinder two-stroke, in-line,  displacement, fan-forced air-cooled, petrol engine design, with a helical gear mechanical gearbox reduction drive with a reduction ratio of 3.5:1. It employs a single capacitor discharge ignition and produces  at 9000 rpm, with a compression ratio of 10.6.

Specifications (ROS200)

See also

References

External links

Marcmotor aircraft engines
Two-stroke aircraft piston engines
Air-cooled aircraft piston engines
2010s aircraft piston engines
Nighthawk (novel). Nighthawk is the fourteenth novel in the NUMA Files series by Clive Cussler.

Plot
This novel centers around NUMA (National Underwater Marine Agency) crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala. Nighthawk is an advanced unmanned aircraft that has been in space three years collecting data. On its return to Earth it defies its controllers who are guiding it to a safe landing and it presumably crashes into the ocean. NUMA is requested by the National Security Agency  (NSA) to help find and recover Nighthawk. The NSA sends one of its agents to assist and she, Austin and Zavala attempt to find Nighthawk.

The Russians and the Chinese also seek to find and recover the craft, as well. This adventure takes Austin, Zavala and others from NUMA off the coast of Ecuador and in the mountains of Peru. As Austin and Zavala search for Nighthawk, more of the story of the importance of what is inside this craft comes to light and why the stakes are so high that it be found quickly. They are to find the future of the world depends on their success. Austin meets a man named Urco, who is trying to study the Chachapoya people. He later, once NUMA uncovers the Nighthawk, was a spy nicknamed "The Falconer" who wanted to "turn the world back to the stone age". He is foiled, but it explodes partially over the Pacific ocean which causes plenty of things to break. After this, both a couple Russians who were helping to steal the Nighthawk and the NUMA crew are found on a Caribbean island, now friends.

Reviews
Kirkus seemed to like this book, although its review alluded to some of the unlikely scenarios in its pages, saying, "Cussler and company deliver another fun page-turner with a plot ranging from the highly improbable to the totally implausible." The Real Book Spy website liked this book, saying, "A huge jump up from last year’s The Pharoah’s Secret, Nighthawk is an exciting thriller that seems slightly more realistic and timely after multiple news headlines about disappearing aircraft."

References

2017 American novels
Novels by Clive Cussler
American adventure novels
G. P. Putnam's Sons books
The NUMA Files
Collaborative novels
Michael Joseph books
Boland V-8. The Boland V-8 was an aircraft engine that was developed by the Boland Brothers for use in their tailless aircraft. Between 1908 and 1914, four versions of this motor were produced ranging in power from  to . The Boland motors all used an unusual concentric overhead valve. This arrangement positioned the intake valve in the middle of the exhaust valve. These were actuated by a single push rod and rocker arm.

Variants
60 HP
The prototype of this motor first appeared in a Boland aircraft 1908. According to a Boland advertisement from 1911, they claimed that this single original motor powered all of the various iterations of the early Boland aircraft for three years without the need for repair or rebuild
70 HP
Bore: , Stroke: , Displacement: , Weight: 
100 HP
Bore: , Stroke: , Displacement: , Weight: 
125 HP
This motor was mentioned in a 1914 Boland advertisement.

Applications
 Boland 1911 Tailless Biplane (60 HP)
 Shieder 1911 aeroplane (60 HP) 
 Boland 1911 Conventional Biplane (60 HP)
 Boland 1912 Tailless Biplane (60 HP)
 Spainour 1913 monoplane (60 HP)
 Boland 1914 Monoplane Flying Boat (70 HP)

Specifications (60 HP)

See also

References 

1910s aircraft piston engines
Ofer Zeitouni. Ofer Zeitouni (Hebrew: עפר זיתוני; born 23 October 1960, Haifa) is an Israeli mathematician, specializing in probability theory.

Biography
Zeitouni received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1980 from the Technion.

He obtained in 1986 his doctorate in electrical engineering under the supervision of
Moshe Zakai with the thesis Bounds on the Conditional Density and Maximum a posteriori Estimators for the Nonlinear Filtering Problem. As a postdoc he was a visiting assistant professor at Brown University and at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT.  He joined the Technion in 1989 as senior lecturer, and was promoted in 1991 to associate professor, and in 1997 to full professor in the department of electrical engineering. He is now a professor of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute and at the Courant Institute, and was from 2002 to 2013 a part-time professor at the University of Minnesota.

His research deals with stochastic processes and filtering theory with applications to control theory (electrical engineering), the spectral theory of random matrices,  the theory of large deviations in probability theory, motion in random media,
and extremes of logarithmically correlated fields.

He was Invited Speaker with the talk Random Walks in Random Environments at the ICM in Beijing in 2002. Zeitouni is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, member 
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 
National Academy of Sciences, and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

He is married and has two children.

Selected publications

Articles
with Ildar Abdulovich Ibragimov: 
with Amir Dembo, Yuval Peres, and Jay Rosen: 
with Amir Dembo, Bjorn Poonen, and Qi-Man Shao: 
with Amir Dembo, Yuval Peres, and Jay Rosen:

Books
with Greg W. Anderson and Alice Guionnet: Introduction to Random Matrices, Cambridge University Press 2010
with Amir Dembo: Large Deviations Techniques and Applications, Springer 1998,

Sources
Zhan Shi: Problèmes de recouvrement et points exceptionnels pour la marche aléatoire et le mouvement brownien, d’après Dembo, Peres, Rosen, Zeitouni, Seminaire Bourbaki, No. 951, 2005

References

External links
Ofer Zeitouni's home page, Weizmann Institute
Ofer Zeitouni, What happens when a person strolling along an intersecting path chooses directions with a roll of the dice?, Weizmann Institute

1960 births
Living people
Israeli mathematicians
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Annals of Probability editors
Probability theorists
Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
University of Minnesota faculty
People from Haifa
Lucien A. Schmit Jr.. Lucien André Schmit Jr. (May 5, 1928 – March 16, 2018) was an American engineer.

He worked at Grumman between 1951 and 1953, then joined the Aeroelastic and Structures Research Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Schmit left MIT for the Case Institute of Technology in 1958, and was named Wilbert J. Austin Distinguished Professor of Engineering in 1969. The next year, Schmit began teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was granted membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 1985, and retired from UCLA in 1993. Schmitt died at the age of 89 on March 16, 2018, at home in Lynnwood, Washington.

References

1928 births
2018 deaths
American engineers
Case Western Reserve University faculty
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
People from Lynnwood, Washington
NASA Sounding Rocket Program. The NASA Sounding Rocket Program (NSRP) is a NASA run program of sounding rockets which has been operating since 1959. The missions carried out by this program are primarily used for scientific research, particularly low gravity and material based research. NASA's sounding rocket program is commonly used by colleges and universities for upper atmosphere research.

Program
In 1965, NASA's cost of a sounding rocket system was $5,000 to $150,000, using combinations of stage motors from the Aerobee, Hercules M5E1 (developed for the Nike Ajax), and Thiokol Apache.

The program was consolidated at the Wallops Flight Facility in the 1980s and uses extra military solid rocket motors. Rockets are frequently launched from fixed facilities at Wallops, the Navy's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, Pacific Missile Range Facility in Barking Sands, Hawaii, and Andøya Rocket Range, Norway. The rockets are categorized as "Significant Military Equipment" for ITAR.

Propulsion
Rockets in use include single-stage or combinations of:
 Black Brant family, 17.26" diameter
 Improved Orion surplus motor, 14" diameter
 Terrier/Hercules MK12 or MK70 surplus motors, 18" diameter
 Oriole motor
 Magellan Aerospace Nihka exo-atomospheric motor, 17.26" diameter, 192,878 pound-seconds impulse
 Thiokol Improved Malemute TU-758 surplus motor, 16" diameter
 Hercules Talos surplus motor, 30.1" diameter

Some combinations of stages allow payloads of up to 1550 pounds.

Launches

PolarNOx 
The PolarNOx mission was a set of experimental launches used to measure the nitric oxide present in the upper atmosphere that is produced by auroras.

DEUCE 
The DEUCE (Dual-channel Extreme Ultraviolet Continuum Experiment) mission was planned to obtain scientific data about the IGM. This failed however due to problems with the attitude control system.

On 11 July 2022  a Black Brant IX rocket from Arnhem Space Centre launched the fourth DEUCE ultraviolet astronomy mission following flights in 2017, 2018, and 2020 for NASA (CU Boulder). The suborbital flight had apogee of  and was successful.

ASPIRE 
The ASPIRE mission (Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment) was an experiment which tested a Mars mission parachute design. The mission consisted of three tests using the Black Brant IX sounding rocket, with the third and final test taking place on Sept. 7, 2018.

AZURE 
The Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment in April 2019 caught many Norwegians by surprise by triggering an unusual form of the Aurora Borealis.

References 

NASA programs
Montreal Student Space Associations. The Montreal Student Space Associations (MSSA; French: Associations Etudiantes Spatiales de Montreal) are a group of student aerospace associations across Quebec universities.

History
In July 2017, a committee of students from Concordia and McGill Universities united under the common goal of promoting space related discussions and awareness to the public through a conference taking place during World Space Week: the Montreal Space Symposium (MSS). Following this collaborative effort, other schools and teams across Montreal joined the committee, and formed together the Montreal Student Space Associations.

The first conference being a success, the group formalized its existence by becoming the Montreal chapter of the Canadian Space Society, and pursuing its outreach effort throughout the rest of the year. The mandate of the MSSA is threefold:
 To advocate for the role of students and student-led initiatives within the Canadian space sector;
 To showcase the opportunities existing in the space sector, and empower the youth to engage in space related activities leading to careers in the field;
 To enhance the space community in Montreal, in order to foster the city to become a widely recognized space hub.

Composition 
Concordia University:
Space Concordia
 Concordia Institute for Aerospace Design and Innovation (CIADI)
McGill University:
 McGill Rocket Team
 McGill Space Institute
 McGill Space Group
 McGill Institute for Air and Space Law
 McGill Institute for Aerospace Engineering (MIAE)
École Polytechnique de Montréal:
 PolyOrbite
 AstroPoly
 Institut d'Innovation et de Conception en Aerospatiale de Polytechique (IICAP)
École de Technologie Supérieure:
 AÉROÉTS
 RockÉTS
Université de Sherbrooke:
 QMSat

References

Space organizations
Organizations based in Montreal
Scientific organizations based in Canada
Rebecca Garcia (computer programmer). Rebecca Garcia is an American computer programmer from New York City, who co-founded CoderDojo NYC, a network of programming clubs for young people in Long Island, New York.

Garcia worked as a developer at Do Something, a US-based non-profit youth organization for social change. She was later the chief technical officer of Greatist, a health fitness and wellness media startup, where she was an advocate for Girls Who Code and Iridescent. Garcia currently works as the program manager for Microsoft's Tech Jobs Academy, where she works to help underrepresented New Yorkers get into the information technology field.

In 2013 Garcia received a White House Champion of Change award for Tech Inclusion. in 2016 she was named as Hispanicize's STEM Star.

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer programmers
American women computer scientists
American chief technology officers
Computer scientists from New York City
Electro-biochemical reactor. Electro-biochemical reactor (EBR) is a type of a bioreactor used in water treatment. EBR is a high-efficiency denitrification, metals, and inorganics removal technology that provides electrons directly to the EBR bioreactor as a substitute for using excess electron donors and nutrients. It was patented by INOTEC, a bioremediation company based in Salt Lake City, UT.

The EBR technology is based on the principle that microbes mediate the removal of metal and inorganic contaminants through electron transfer (redox processes). In conventional bioreactors, these electrons are provided by excess organic electron donors (e.g., organic carbon sources such as methanol, glucose, etc.). They require excess nutrients/chemicals to compensate for inefficient and variable electron availability needed to adjust reactor ORP chemistry, compensate for system sensitivity (fluctuation), and to achieve more consistent constituent removal. The Electro-Biochemical Reactor directly supplies needed electrons to the reactor and microbes, using a low applied potential across the reactor cell (1-3 V) at low milli-Amp levels. As a comparison,  one molecule of glucose, often used as a cost-effective electron donor, can provide up to 24 electrons under complete glucose metabolism, while a current of 1 mA provides 6.2x10^15 electrons every second. The small amount of power required can even come from a small solar/battery source.

The EBR systems have been successfully demonstrated in the mining and power generation sectors to remove nitrate, nitrite, selenium, cadmium, molybdenum, nickel, tin, uranium, zinc, antimony, copper, lead, silver, vanadium, and mercury.

References

Bioreactors