omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
USS Palm Beach. USS Palm Beach (AGER-3) was a former Army Auxiliary Aircraft Repair Ship converted to an electronic and signals intelligence ship of the United States Navy.

Service history 
She was laid down as FS-217 one of the 18 specialized Design 427 variants of the Army Freight and Supply type, officially Vessel, Supply, Aircraft Repair, Diesel, Steel, 180', at Higgins Industries in New Orleans. FS-217 was delivered to the US Army Transportation Corps operation under technical control of the United States Army Air Forces in December 1944. At some point, after delivery, the Army Air Forces named the repair vessels with FS-217 being named Colonel Armond Peterson. The ship was first based in San Francisco, but later engaged in coastal surveys off the Lesser Antilles and coast of Central America. The ship was based at Balboa, Canal Zone before being placed in reserve status on 17 February 1956.

Colonel Armond Peterson was acquired and converted by the United States Navy and redesignated as Light Cargo Ship Palm Beach (AKL-45) on 18 June 1966. She was converted to a Banner class environmental research ship at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and reclassified as AGER-3. The Palm Beach was commissioned on 13 October 1967 and served two years as an ELINT/SIGINT ship, deploying in the Mediterranean and in the North Sea. She was decommissioned and later struck on 1 December 1969.  She was sold to a private owner, then resold to a Panamanian company and renamed MV Oro Verde. The ship was eventually involved in drug smuggling and ran aground in the Cayman Islands. She was sunk by the Cayman Islands government as a SCUBA dive wreck.

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1944 ships
Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States
Ships of the United States Army
Design 427 coastal freighters
Banner-class environmental research ships
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems. The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) was founded in 1982 for governmental and quasi-governmental space agencies to discuss and develop standards for space data and information systems. Currently composed of "eleven member agencies, twenty-eight observer agencies, and over 140 industrial associates," the CCSDS works to support collaboration and interoperability between member agencies through the establishment of data and system standards. According to the organisation's website, more than 1000 space missions have utilized data and systems standards created by CCSDS. The activities of the CCSDS are organized around six topic areas and composed of many working groups within the overall Collaborative Working Group Environment (CWE).

Publications and standards
The CCSDS is divided into 6 Technical areas: 
 Space Internetworking Services
 Mission Operations And Information Management Services
 Spacecraft Onboard Interface Services
 System Engineering
 Cross Support Services
 Space Link Services

The CCSDS has developed data standards and information system frameworks covering a variety of areas including data creation, transmission, management, and preservation as well as the systems supporting that data. These include protocols and network notes for communication in space including contributions to Interplanetary Internet and Space Communications Protocol Specifications. Other standards include XML Telemetric and Command Exchange and frameworks such as the Mission Operations Services Concept and the Open Archival Information System, the latter a model also adopted by the broader Digital preservation and Data curation community.

Some of the Standards developed by the CCSDS are:
 CCSDS Mission Operations services
 CCSDS File Delivery Protocol (CFDP)
 Electronic Data Sheets (EDS)
 Space Link Extension (SLE)
 XML Telemetric and Command Exchange (XTCE)

Membership
Each nation participating in the CCSDS can have one organization serve as a member agency. The current 11 member agencies in the CCSDS are:
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) or, Italian Space Agency, Italy
Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Canada
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) or, National Centre for Space Studies, France
China National Space Administration (CNSA), China
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany
European Space Agency (ESA)
National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States
ROSCOSMOS, Russia
UK Space Agency, United Kingdom

See also
 List of government space agencies

References

External links
 

Deep space networks
Standards organizations
Space standards
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems
Organizations established in 1982
Molybdenum(V) fluoride. Molybdenum(V) fluoride is an inorganic compound with the formula MoF5. It is a hygroscopic yellow solid. Like most pentafluorides, it exists as a tetramer.

Production
Molybdenum(V) fluoride is produced by the reaction of molybdenum and molybdenum hexafluoride:
Mo + 5 MoF6  →  6 MoF5
It can also be prepared by the reduction of molybdenum hexafluoride with phosphorus trifluoride or tungsten hexacarbonyl, or by the oxidation of elemental molybdenum with fluorine at 900 °C.

About 165 °C, it disproportionates to the tetra- and hexafluoride:
2 MoF5  →  MoF4  +  MoF6

References

Fluorides
Molybdenum halides
Molybdenum(V) compounds
Sol (laptop). The SOL is a rugged, waterproof solar-powered laptop computer intended for use in African schools that do not have access to an electrical network. Sol was created by London, Ontario-based WeWi Telecommunications.

Design and features 

The SOL is available in two editions, a standard edition and the Marine edition which uses hydrophobic coating to provide water repletion instead of waterproofing the laptop. The laptop has a reinforced polymer-based clam shell casing that houses the solar panels and makes the laptop more durable. The device uses four detachable monocrystalline photovoltaic panels which fold into the unit.

References

External links 

 

Applications of photovoltaics
Laptops
Hengstler GmbH. Hengstler is a medium-sized company, which is specialized in the production of industrial counting and control components. As a subsidiary of Fortive, it is represented nationwide on the international electro mechanic market.

History 
The watchmaker Johannes Hengstler started in 1846, in the south of Germany, with the series production of springs.  Over the coming decades, the production was enlarged with relay, rotary encoder, mechanical counter and also printer & cutter.
In 1995, the company has been taken over by Danaher Corporation, an American concern which includes more than 400 companies. Today, Hengstler has various prominent customers like Siemens, IBM, Festo or Bosch.

Products 
Hengstler supplies a complete project management with custom-made applications concerning process control and environmental technology.
It produces, for example, incremental and absolute encoders, relays, mechanical counters, and industrial printers and cutters.

International 
Hengstler has a sister company in Slovakia, and branches in France, Italy, the US and Asia. It owns the Danaher Corporation, with over 400 including companies and locations in over 30 countries and around 60,000 employees. Danaher generates an annual turnover of several billion US dollars.

References

External links 
 
Danaher website

Manufacturing companies of Germany
John Wheatley (physicist). John Charles Wheatley (17 February 1927, Tucson – 10 May 1986, Los Angeles) was an American experimental physicist who worked on quantum fluids at low and very low temperatures.

Biography
Wheatley received his B.S. in electrical engineering in 1947 from the University of Colorado in Boulder and his Ph.D. in physics under David Halliday in 1952 from the University of Pittsburgh. From 1952 to 1966 he was an instructor and then a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 1966 he became a full professor in the physics department of the University of California, San Diego. From 1981 to 1985 he did research at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a permanent staff member of the Laboratory. From 1985 he was a professor at the UCLA. He died of a heart attack while riding a bicycle.

His fame stems from his research on liquid helium-3, a Fermi liquid. He collaborated with theorists such as John Bardeen, Gordon Baym, and Christopher Pethick. In the academic years 1954/55 and 1980/81 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the University of Leiden. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1961. He was a Sloan Fellow. In 1965/66 he was a guest scientist at the Center for Advanced Study of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He was also a guest scientist for 18 months in 1962/63 at Bariloche Atomic Centre in Argentina, where he helped to establish a low temperature laboratory. At the time of his death he had been nominated for UCLA's first Presidential Chair in Physics. In 1975 Wheatley won the Fritz London Memorial Prize and in 1966 the Simon Memorial Prize. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1975 and he was also a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences. In 1991 the John Wheatley Award was established in his honor.

He had a wife and two sons.

SHE Corporation
In 1970 Wheatley founded the SHE (for Superconducting Helium Electronics) Corporation in San Diego with Olli Lounasmaa and other colleagues. SHE was the first worldwide corporation specializing in superconducting electronics. The name of the corporation was changed to Biomagnetic Technologies, Inc. (BTi) in 1985, and in December 1999, BTi merged with the Finnish company Neuromag Oy to form the new corporation 4-D Neuroimaging. The Neuromag part of the company was sold to Elekta AB of Sweden in 2003; 4-D Neuroimaging filed for bankruptcy in 2009.

References

External links
Liquid He3, liquid mixtures of liquid He3 and liquid He4, and dilution refrigeration by John C. Wheatley, 1970
Robert E. Ecke, Gregory W. Swift, and Oscar E. Vilches, "John C. Wheatley", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2013)

1927 births
1986 deaths
20th-century American physicists
American experimental physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Los Alamos National Laboratory personnel
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
American quantum physicists
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
University of California, San Diego faculty
University of Colorado alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of Pittsburgh alumni
NSW Kiama Fowler. NSW Kiama Fowler is a steam locomotive that was in service in New South Wales, Australia. It is sometimes also called Wollondilly.

History
Kiama Fowler was built by the John Fowler plant at Leeds in England in 1923, it was used at the Kiama Quarries for blue metal haulage at the town of Kiama until 1941 when the quarry was shut down. ("Blue metal" is another name for basalt.)

Demise and preservation
After the Quarry had closed the locomotive was used by a variety of preservation groups until donated to the Illawarra Light Railway Museum on 28 August 1998. As of 2015, it is under restoration.

References

Further reading
 

2 ft gauge locomotives
0-4-0T locomotives
Kiama Fowler
Fowler locomotives
Intelsat II. Intelsat II was a series of four communications satellites operated by Intelsat which were launched in 1966 and 1967. Built by the Hughes Aircraft Company, the Intelsat II series was a follow-up to the Intelsat I series, of which only one satellite was launched.

Intelsat II spacecraft were based on the HS-303A satellite bus, which was cylindrical in shape and spin-stabilised. The satellites had a diameter of , and were  long. They were equipped with an SVM-1 apogee motor to circularise their orbits following launch atop Delta E1 carrier rockets. All four satellites were launched from Launch Complex 17B at the Cape Kennedy Air Station. Each satellite had a mass at launch of , which decreased to around  once the satellite had fired its apogee motor and manoeuvred into its orbital position.

Intelsat II spacecraft were designed to be operated in geostationary orbit; however the first satellite's apogee motor malfunctioned leaving it in a lower than planned orbit. It was able to perform a limited communications mission, however the other three spacecraft successfully achieved geostationary orbit. Each satellite carried two transponders, powered by solar cells mounted on the body of the spacecraft, which generated 85 watts of power.

Operations
Intelsat II F-1 provided a transpacific communications link for 240 telephone channels or two television channels. Provision was made for 180 hours of telecasting per year (an average of 30 minutes per day) via the satellite.

A 50-minute programme was relayed between Tokyo and Washington, D.C. via Intelsat II F-1 on 27 January 1967. It was the first newscast and the first colour programme to be telecast across the Pacific. Japan's Fuji Television used the satellite to present direct telecasts of the world featherweight boxing title match between Vicente Saldivar and Mitsunori Seki from Mexico City on 29 January. It was the first live transmission of a sport event across the Pacific. Stars and Stripes reported that the pictures were clear.

Satellites

References

Intelsat satellites
Intelsat 02
Airborne Maintenance & Engineering Services. Airborne Maintenance & Engineering Services (Airborne) is an MRO based in Wilmington, Ohio, Ohio, USA at the Airborne Airpark (ILN) and Tampa International Airport (TPA). They provide aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul services including Heavy Maintenance, Line Maintenance, Component Repair/Overhaul, Engineering, Manufacturing Services, and Material Sales. Airborne holds a Part 145 FAA Repair Station certificate for its Wilmington location that includes 315,000 sq. ft. of hangar space, 100,000 sq. ft. component facility, and 40,000 sq. ft. material sales warehouse. They also operate line maintenance stations at Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport and Miami International Airport.  Airborne also offers Boeing 737 Cargo Conversion services through its subsidiary Pemco Conversions.  It is part of the Air Transport Services Group ().

History 
Airborne started operations in 2009, splitting off from ABX Air.

April 26, 2018 Airborne Maintenance & Engineering Services has announced a company brand re-alignment that includes their subsidiary Pemco World Air Services in Tampa, FL.   The new brand identity reflects Airborne’s commitment to provide industry best MRO services and a continued focus on their market leading passenger to freighter conversions for the B737 aircraft. The MRO operations in Wilmington and Tampa will be branded as Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services (AIRBORNE) while the cargo conversion product line will be rebranded under the PEMCO Conversions name.

January 2017, Airborne announced that it acquired Pemco World Air Services located at the Tampa International Airport. 

Delta Air Lines agreed to a five-year heavy maintenance contract in October 2015, including three years for work on Boeing 717 aircraft. Airborne leased a new hangar in June 2014. On Feb 17, 2013, Airborne announced a three-year heavy maintenance agreement for 767 checks with DHL.

References

External links 
 www.airbornemx.com

Companies based in Ohio
Aerospace companies
Canaan Creative. Canaan Inc., doing business as Canaan Creative and known simply as Canaan, is a China-based computer hardware manufacturer. Established in 2013 by N.G. Zhang, Canaan specializes in Blockchain servers and ASIC microprocessors for use in bitcoin mining.

History
In 2013, while still studying for a doctor's degree, N.G. Zhang established Canaan Creative, where he served as chairman and CEO.

In 2016, Canaan attempted a reverse takeover for $466 Millions USD by Shandong Luyitong, a public company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

In January 2019, reports surfaced that Canaan is considering an IPO in the United States. Canaan raised $90 million in their November 2019 IPO.

In 2019, Canaan started to trade on Nasdaq.

References

External links
 

Open hardware organizations and companies
Internet properties established in 2013
Computer companies of China
Computer hardware companies
Computer companies established in 2013
Chinese companies established in 2013
Manufacturing companies based in Beijing
Networking hardware companies
Bitcoin
Blockchain entities
2019 initial public offerings
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
Julian Togelius. Julian Togelius is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering.

Career
Togelius holds a BA from Lund University, an MSc from the University of Sussex, and a PhD from the University of Essex.

He was an associate professor at the Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen before moving to NYU.

Togelius is the editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on Games journal. He is also, with Georgios N. Yannakakis, the co-author of the Artificial Intelligence and Games textbook and the co-organiser of the Artificial Intelligence and Games Summer School series.

Togelius co-edited the book Procedural Content Generation Book for games.

Research
Togelius was described by Kenneth O. Stanley as one of "the world's most accomplished experts at the intersection of games and AI". His research has appeared in media such as New Scientist, and Le Monde, The Verge, The Economist, and the MIT Technology Review.

References

Living people
Video game researchers
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Academic staff of the IT University of Copenhagen
New York University faculty
Swedish computer scientists
Swedish emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Moving map display. A moving map display (MMD) / projected map display (PMD) is a type of navigation system output that, instead of numerically displaying the current geographical coordinates determined by the navigation unit or an heading and distance indication of a certain waypoint, displays the unit's current location at the center of a map. As the unit moves around and new coordinates are therefore determined, the map moves to keep its position at the center of the display.

Mechanical moving map displays using paper charts were first introduced in the 1950s, and became common in some roles during the 1960s. Mechanically moved paper maps were replaced by projected map displays and digital maps during the 1970s and 80s, with resolution and detail improving along with computer imagery and the computer memory systems that held the data.

A symbol representing the location of the GPS device carried by a person or inside a vehicle, remains stationary on the display screen while a map or chart image moves beneath the symbol. The display thus portrays the physical movement of the device on the displayed map or chart. The portrayal typically shows a simulated overhead view of the device location on the moving map, but some devices also simulate a three-dimensional view from the perspective of the device. Many devices also provide an option for the map or chart image to remain stationary on the display while the location symbol moves to represent physical device movement. Some moving map display systems also provide a method of displaying the elevation of the device above sea level or the earth's surface.

A common example of a moving map display today is the map display on a smart phone or tablet screen, with an app using GPS to determine the device's current position and display it on map data from the device's internal storage or from the Internet in real time. This use of phones and tablets has expanded very rapidly for navigation in car travel, hiking, and aviation. Moving map applications are now included in the base software for most phones and tablets, and include many helpful options like directions to destination, business hours, and more.

Aviation moving map apps include extensive in-flight information such as other nearby aircraft. Weather and other data is also available and may be depicted on the moving map. Some sophisticated apps, even including 3D display options for this purpose are available free, without subscription fees. This trend has enabled even inexpensive aircraft with no electrical system to have very advanced Avionics in flight. Many pilots of the most expensive jets and helicopters also use such apps to supplement expensive certified avionics.

See also
 GPS navigation device
 In-flight entertainment, Moving-map systems
 Fresnel lens
 Microform

References

Transport software
Aeronatica Lombarda AL-3. The Aeronautica Lombarda AL-3 was an Italian sailplane, designed and built in 1939 to take part in the Olympic sailplane competition. It did so but was not successful.

Design and development

The AL-3 was one of two Italian designs competing to become the preferred Olympic glider at the 1940 Olympic Games. The other was the CVV-4 Pellicano.  Had they happened, these Games would have been the first to host a gliding event. It was planned that all competitors should fly the same  span type and designs from Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom were evaluated for the role at Sezze, near Rome in Italy during February 1939. The DFS Meise was the competition winner.

The competition stipulated the  span gliders had to be wooden, though fabric covering could be used.  Its cantilever wing was built around a single spar with plywood skinning around the wing forward of it.  The wing was attached to a pylon about  above the fuselage and at the centreline the wing ply extended back to about 70% chord, returning to the spar about  along it.  The wing planform was strongly double straight tapered, mostly on the trailing edge where ailerons occupied almost half the span.  These were split into two nearly equal sections and acted differentially.  Parallel ruler type airbrakes were placed a little inboard of the ailerons, at mid-chord.  Near the roots the airfoil section was NACA 4514; further out this was tapered into the symmetric NACA 0012 of the tips, which had 4° of washout to prevent tip stalling.

Apart from a metal nose-cap, the fuselage was plywood skinned throughout. The pilot sat under the wing leading edge, enclosed in continuous glazing which extended on top into a V-shaped cut-out in the wing to enhance upward vision.  Behind the cockpit the pylon, which extended just beyond the trailing edge, was also ply covered.  From nose to tail the fuselage cross section was ovoid, becoming markedly slimmer aft.  The AL-3's tailplane was of similar construction to the wing and likewise strongly tapered.  It was positioned largely ahead of a tall, narrow fin, allowing the broad chord, rounded, balanced rudder to extend to the keel without cut-outs in the elevators.  The glider landed on a single skid from just aft of the nose to under mid-chord, which was mounted close to the fuselage on rubber shock absorbers.

Specifications

References

1930s Italian sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1938