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Levidian Nanosystems. Levidian Nanosystems Limited (also known just as Levidian, formerly Cambridge Nanosystems) is a manufacturing company that specialises in the production of graphene.

Background 
The company has developed a process to produce graphene at ultra-high quality and on a larger scale than has previously been possible by using biogas waste products such as Methane.

Cambridge Nanosystems was spun out of Cambridge University in 2012, and in 2014 began partnering with Malaysia's Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad (FGV), a global agricultural and commodities business. FGV has abundant supplies of Methane as that is a by-product of their large-scale palm oil production. They aim to achieve synergy through the relationship with Cambridge Nanosystems whose technology will enable that waste material to be turned into valuable Graphene.

In December 2014, Cambridge Nanosystems was awarded £500,000 from the UK's Technology Strategy Board in order to increase capacity of their material. The funds were used to develop a manufacturing facility in Cambridge with the capability of producing up to 100 tonnes of Graphene a year for the European market. FGV and Cambridge Nanosystems are planning to build another plant in Malaysia to supply the Asian market.

The company founders are Dr Krzysztof Koziol, Jerome Joaug, Lukasz Kurzepa and Catharina Paukner. Chief scientist, Catharina Paukner has been described in the United Kingdom media as "The First Lady of Graphene" and one of the eight UK business leaders to watch in 2015. In January 2015, Dr Anna Mieczakowski joined the management team as the first non co-founder in the role of Chief Operating Officer.

On 19 March 2015, the company won the Hewitsons Award for Business Innovation 2015 at a business award gala organised by Barclays and Cambridge News.

In September 2015, Cambridge Nanosystems has achieved the internationally recognised ISO 9001 certification, establishing it as one of the leaders in its field.

In April 2021, the company went through an acquisition and changed names to Levidian Nanosystems.

In May 2022, the company announced that its LOOP technology will be developed across UAE.

LOOP Technology 
Levidian's LOOP technology cracks methane into hydrogen and carbon, before locking the carbon into high-quality green graphene. It uses plasma technology to separate methane into its constituent atoms: carbon, locked into high-quality graphene, and hydrogen, which can either be used immediately or stored for future use.

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SES-11. SES-11 / EchoStar 105 is a geostationary communications satellite operated by SES and EchoStar and designed and manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space. It has a mass of  and has a design life of at least 15 years.

The spacecraft had been ready to beam television programming and video services across the Americas for SES and EchoStar. The Falcon 9 launch vehicle has placed the satellite into a high-altitude supersynchronous transfer orbit.

See also 

 SES
 List of SES satellites

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SES-12. SES-12 is a geostationary communications satellite operated by SES.

Satellite description 
SES-12 was designed and manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space. It has a mass of  and has a design life of at least 15 years.

Launch 
SES-12 was successfully launched on a SpaceX Block 4 (booster B1040.2) Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral SLC-40 on 4 June 2018 at 04:45:00 UTC, and was successfully released into orbit approximately 33 minutes later.

Market 
The SES-12 satellite expands SES's capabilities to provide direct-to-home (DTH) broadcasting, Very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT), mobility, and High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) data connectivity services in the Asia-Pacific region, including rapidly growing markets such as India and Indonesia. The satellite replaces NSS-6 at this location and is co-located with SES-8. SES-12 is capable of supporting requirements in multiple verticals from Cyprus in the West to Japan in the East, and from Russia in the North to Australia in the South.

Together with SES-8, it reaches 18 million homes.

See also 

 SES, owner and operator of SES-12
 List of SES satellites

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SES-14. SES-14 is a geostationary communications satellite operated by SES at 47.5° West, replaces NSS-806, and designed and manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space. The satellite launched on 25 January 2018 at 22:20 UTC along with the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument from NASA. It has a mass of  and has a design life of at least 15 years.

Launch 
The launch of SES-14 on 25 January 2018 by an Ariane 5 ECA VA241 suffered an anomaly that resulted in a higher inclination than planned but later recovered. About 9 minutes and 28 seconds after launch, a telemetry loss occurred between the launch vehicle and the ground controllers. As confirmed about 1 hour and 20 minutes after launch both satellites were successfully separated from the upper stage and were in contact with their respective ground controllers, but that their orbital inclinations were incorrect as the guidance systems might have been compromised. Therefore, both satellites conducted orbital procedures, extending commissioning time.

Mission 
SES-14 needed about 8 weeks longer than planned commissioning time, meaning that entry into service was reported early September 2018 instead of July 2018. Nevertheless, SES-14 is still expected to be able to meet the designed lifetime. This satellite was originally to be launched with more propellant reserve on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle since the Falcon 9, in this specific case, was intended to deploy this satellite into a high inclination orbit that would require more work from the satellite to reach its final geostationary orbit. The Al Yah 3 was also confirmed healthy after more than 12 hours without further statement, and like SES-14, Al Yah 3's maneuvering plan was also revised to still fulfill the original mission. The investigation showed that invalid inertial units' azimuth value had sent the vehicle 17° off course but to the intended altitude, they had been programmed for the standard geostationary transfer orbit of 90° when the payloads were intended to be 70° for this supersynchronous transfer orbit mission, 20° off norme. This mission anomaly marked the end of 82nd consecutive success streak since 2003.

See also 
 SES
 List of SES satellites

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SES-15. SES-15 is a geostationary communications satellite operated by SES and designed and manufactured by Boeing Satellite Systems. It has a mass of  and has a design life of at least 15 years.

See also 
 SES
 List of SES satellites

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Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
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Satellites of Luxembourg
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Andrew Wilson Baird. Andrew Wilson Baird  (26 April 1842 – 2 April 1908) was a Scottish colonel of the Royal Engineers. He is best remembered for his work in tidal studies of the coast of India.

Life
Born and baptised 26 April 1842 in Aberdeen, he was the son of Thomas Baird and Catherine Imray. He was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, before entering the Military College of the East India Company at Addiscombe in June 1860. Joining the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in January 1861, he was made a lieutenant in the Royal Engineers the following year, and sailed for India on 1 March 1864. In India he was appointed special assistant engineer of the Bombay harbour defence works, and was responsible for ordering the buildings of the batteries at Oyster Rock and Middle Ground. After serving as assistant field engineer in the Abyssinian expedition of 1868 under Sir Robert Napier, in December 1869 Baird was assistant superintendent of the trigonometrical survey of India, and conducted extensive tidal observations at the Gulf of Cutch. He briefly returned to England in 1870, after being affected by the heat, but returned and continued his work in tidal observations. He was promoted to captain on 4 April 1874 and a major on 18 December 1881.

Between July 1885 and August 1889, he headed the mints at Calcutta and Bombay, until he was appointed the permanent mint master at Calcutta on 12 August. He was appointed a colonel on 9 April 1896, and retired from the mint the following year, making his home at Palmers Cross, near Elgin, Moray.

In 1885, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. and appointed CSI in the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Honours.

He was the father of Gen. Sir Douglas Baird.

He died on 2nd April 1908 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery. His grave (no.37143) has no headstone or marker.

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Helix HeadRoom. HeadRoom is a DOS context switching and multitasking memory manager produced by Helix Software Company in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  HeadRoom managed multiple terminate-and-stay-resident programs (TSRs) and was the first TSR manager to allow sharing of address space and interrupts among TSRs in DOS. HeadRoom v1.0 was released in September 1988.

In April 1989, Helix Software released HeadRoom v1.1 together with the "HeadRoom Network Extensions." This version added support for network communications processes. The HeadRoom Network Extensions intercepted and buffered NETBIOS and TCP/IP communications requests, allowing HeadRoom to manage network communications software such as mainframe Terminal Emulators and e-mail programs.  The background communications of these programs would continue while the programs were swapped out.  HeadRoom would reactivate the swapped-out programs when activity occurred on the NETBIOS or TCP/IP sockets.

In October 1989, Helix Software released HeadRoom v2.0 which included support for Microsoft Windows and LIM EMS v4.0.  Starting in March 1990, this version of HeadRoom was bundled with AST Research RAMpage, RAMpage Plus and SixPack memory expansion boards.

In June 1990, Helix Software licensed technology from Headroom to Digital Communications Associates for use with their IRMA boards and IRMALan software.

In January 1991, Helix released the final version of Headroom, v2.03 and thereafter incorporated HeadRoom's features into its Netroom LAN memory manager, a decision which caused market confusion.

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Newton Spaulding Manross. Newton Spaulding Manross (June 20, 1825 – September 17, 1862) was an American scientist and engineer.

Early life and education 
He was born in Bristol, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1850. He sailed for Europe the day after graduation, and spent a year and a half in studying chemistry at the University of Göttingen. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from that university in 1852.

Career 
After spending three months in traveling on Continental Europe, mainly in visiting mines, Manross returned to the United States in the summer of 1852. The following year he spent at his home in Bristol, constructing machinery. In the fall of 1853 he sailed for the Orinoco in an exploring company in search of mining investment, and spent four or five months in examining the gold, region of the Yuruarí River, between the Orinoco and Amazon River. He returned home by way of Trinidad in the spring of 1854. In the spring of 1856 he went to the Isthmus of Panama, where he passed the summer in exploring for coal, iron, and other minerals in Chiriquí Province. Immediately after his return he set out for Mexico, where he was engaged for six months in searching for coal and iron, principally in the district between the City of Mexico and the Pacific coast. During this trip he visited many of the great silver districts, and descended into the craters of El Jorullo and Popocatépetl. He returned home in July, 1857, and for several years remained in Bristol, (Forestville,) Conn, engaged
in perfecting mechanical and chemical inventions.

For one year, Manross was a professor of chemistry at Amherst College. He subsequently raised a company of volunteers and became captain of the 16th Connecticut Infantry Regiment's K Company.

He was the author of several papers in the American Journal of Science and Arts, and was already eminent for his scientific attainments when he gave up his life for his country.

Personal life 
Manross married Charlotte H. Royce on November 3, 1857. He died during the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862.

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Navin Engineer. Navinchandra Jamnadas Engineer (born May 1951) is a British billionaire, the owner of Chemidex, a pharmaceutical company that he founded in 1981.

Early life
Navinchandra Jamnadas Engineer was born in May 1951. His father worked for the Kenyan civil service. In 1963, he was sent from Kenya to London to live with his aunt, and later studied at the London School of Pharmacy.

Career
Engineer's first job on graduation was a pharmacist for the Boots the Chemist chain, which he found "a little bit like the civil service"; one day he was shocked by a visiting area manager asking for a cup of tea when he was busy dispensing prescriptions, and resigned the same day.

Chemidex was founded by Engineer and his wife in 1981, and is based in Egham, Surrey.

In 1981, Chemidex opened its first pharmacy in Chertsey, Surrey. In 1999, he had 14 pharmacies which he sold to the German company Celesio for a reported £12 million. Chemidex then became a pharmaceutical company, and it acquired its first brand in 2000.

According to The Sunday Times, the business is valued at £1 billion and Engineer at £1.1 billion.

Engineer also set up the company Essential Generics, a drug manufacturer based in Egham, Surrey. He resigned as a director of the company in 2013.

Personal life
He is married to Varsha Engineer. They have two children, and both studied medicine.

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Anthony Langley. Anthony John Langley (born December 1954) is a British billionaire industrialist, the owner of the international engineering and industrial group, Langley Holdings plc, which he founded in 1975.

Career

Langley is the owner of Langley Holdings, an engineering group based in Retford, Nottinghamshire, England. The group currently has over 90 trading subsidiaries and employs around 5,000+ people world wide, the majority at its factories in Norway, Germany, France and Italy.

Langley started the business in 1975, out of the ruins of his dissolved family business, aged just 21. In 2000, Langley bought Clarke Chapman, and sales reached $75 million. This gave means to the growth of Langley's company, and the portfolio grew to an estimated $1 billion revenue by 2015, largely by acquiring and turning around under-performing engineering businesses.

In August 2021 Langley Holdings announced that it had entered into an Agreement with Rolls-Royce PLC to acquire Bergen Engines AS in Norway. The company employs 960 people world wide, of which approximately 650 are in Norway. The Bergen Engines deal was completed on 31 December, and is expected to boost Langley group revenues by over $300 million in 2022 to around $1.5 billion annually.

Net Worth 
In 2020, Langley received a dividend payout of €90 million, his first since 2016, as the sole shareholder of Langley Holdings. As of March 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth was US$2.5 billion. He entered the Forbes Billionaires list in March 2016 with an estimated fortune of $1.1 billion. In the same month the magazine published an interview with Langley. “The Long Road to a Billion: Tony Langley's 40-Year Journey To The Billionaires' List”

Personal life

Langley lives in Nottinghamshire and Norfolk, England, with his wife. The couple have one daughter and two sons; all three work within Langley's organization in senior management positions. Langley owns several other homes in the UK and abroad, including a ski chalet in Courchevel, France.

Langley is the owner of two superyachts: the 39 meter motor yacht Corinthian  and the 48.5 meter sailing yacht Thalia.

An accomplished yachtsman, Langley is the principal of the Langley group owned Gladiator Sailing Team, which competes in international yacht racing, including the TP52 Super Series. He is a longtime member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club and the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda.
 
A qualified pilot since 1988, Langley flies both rotary and fixed wing aircraft. The Langley group owns and operates several aircraft, including a Gulfstream G550, which it acquired in 2014.

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Specter Aircraft Specter II. The Specter Aircraft Specter II was an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed and produced by Specter Aircraft of Bancroft, Idaho, introduced in 1997. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The Specter II featured a canard configuration, a cantilever high-wing, a two-seats-in-tandem enclosed cockpit, with the pilot under a bubble canopy and the passenger supplied only with side windows. The aircraft had fixed tricycle landing gear with a retractable nosewheel and a single engine in pusher configuration. The design was stall-resistant.

The aircraft was made from composite materials. Its  span wing, mounted wing-tip rudders and had a wing area of . The cabin width was . The design power range was  and the standard engine used was the  Subaru EA82 automotive-conversion powerplant.

The aircraft had a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for the pilot, passenger and baggage was .

The fast-build kit was to include all the major structural parts bonded in place. The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit to be 850 hours.

Operational history
By 1998 the company reported that one example had been completed and was flying.

In April 2015 one example was registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, although its registration had expired in 2013. It is unlikely any examples exist today.

Specifications (Specter II)

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Keiler (mine flail). Keiler mine flail (, 'tusker') is a mine-clearing vehicle developed by Rheinmetall in Germany to meet the requirements of the German Army. It is a conversion of the M48 Patton medium tank chassis in combination with a German MTU MB 871 Ka 501 liquid-cooled turbocharged Diesel engine.
The main role of the Keiler vehicle is to clear a lane through minefields to ensure the safe passage of soldiers and vehicles. A deployable mine flail system has been fixed to the front of the vehicle, which is used to clear both anti-tank and anti-personnel mines.
Between 1997 and 1998, 24 vehicles of this kind were produced for the German Army.

Design

ABV Keiler 
Keiler is built on the M48 Patton medium tank hull. Developers removed the turret of the Patton and fitted the vehicle with a heavy-duty rotor-powered mine flail, a rapidly rotating cylinder mounted between two arms in front of the vehicle consisting of two shafts with 24 chains terminating in large metal "feet". In traveling mode, the mine flail folds over the vehicle.

In common with other mine flails, the spinning cylinder swings the chains around, bringing the feet into contact with the ground, thus simulating the force exerted by a person or vehicle passing over the ground. If a flail strikes the ground above a buried mine, the impact will cause the mine to safely detonate. The vehicle can clear a lane  wide and  long in 10 minutes. An automatic system fixed on the rear of the hull marks the cleared lane.

The Keiler has no defensive weapons except its smoke grenade dischargers. The vehicle is operated by a crew of two (commander and driver).

ABV Keiler NG 

At the show Eurosatory 2024, Rheinmetall revealed a new generation of the Keiler, following feedbacks from the operations in Ukraine. The vehicle is based on the chassis of the Kodiak combat engineering vehicle, modified from the Leopard 2.

Changes and equipment

 Additional armour (front and sides)
 Rheinmetall Denel Munitions Plofadder Mine Line Charges, that can clear a minefield of 9×160 meters. 
 ROSY smoke grenade launchers 
 Magnetic Signature Duplicator

Propulsion
The original engine of the M48 Patton has been replaced with a more powerful, German MTU MB 871 Ka 501 liquid-cooled turbocharged diesel engine. This develops  in traveling mode, and  when driving the mine flail. A Renk HSWL 284 M transmission was fitted. The Keiler uses the same Torsion bar suspension as the M48 Patton tank, and has 6 wheels on each side.

Operators
  - As of 2021, 24 Keiler were in service.

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2015 Turkey blackout. The 2015 Turkey blackout was a widespread power outage that occurred in almost all parts of Turkey in the morning of Tuesday, 31 March 2015. 

The Turkish electric authority regularly performs maintenance in the spring in preparation for high electricity demand during the summer.  The spring rains also left hydropower plants in Eastern Turkey with a surplus of power, which is then exported to the population centers in Western Turkey.  At the time of the blackout, sufficiently many transmission lines and capacitor banks had been removed from service that the system was no longer in an -secure state.  When the Osmanca – Kurşunlu line tripped, the remaining East-West connections failed.  The electric system in Turkey split in half at CET 09:36:11 and separated from the Central European (CE) synchronous zone, i.e. connecting lines to Greece and Bulgaria also tripped. This was the reason that the disturbances only had effects in Turkey and did not cascade to neighbouring countries.

The two parts inside Turkey behaved differently. The Western part suffered from a lack generation (21%) and frequency went down. Load shedding schemes did stabilize the frequency, but as some power plants in Turkey did not cope with running at reduced frequency, additional power was lost and resulted in a blackout of the Western part. The Eastern part suffered from hydropower oversupply (41%) that wasn't able to flow westward. The Eastern part was accelerated by ca. 1.6 Hz/s and culminated at 52.3 Hz. Power plants tripped due to overfrequency and the initially oversupplied Eastern part collapsed at underfrequency values less than 47.0 Hz.

At 16:12 (CET) - ca. 6.5 hours after the blackout - the Western and Eastern part were resynchronised, while the Turkish grid was already about 80% energized. At 18:30 almost 95% of the loads were served again.

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