omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
RHOK-SAT. RHOK-SAT is a 1U CubeSat project, developed through a partnership between Rhodes College and the University of Oklahoma's Photovoltaic Materials and Devices group. It is part of NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative and aims to test the durability and efficiency of novel photovoltaic devices in space.



Development 
The development of RHOK-SAT has provided an opportunity for liberal arts students at Rhodes College to gain real-world engineering experience. The project is a distinctive feature of the college’s curriculum, with students participating in all aspects of the satellite's development. The launch of RHOK-SAT is targeted for late 2023 or early 2024. The flight software of the satellite is currently under development and in the testing phase, which is crucial for the operation and data collection of the mission.

Mission 
RHOK-SAT's mission involves both educational and scientific objectives. It aims to provide hands-on experience in spacecraft development to students and to test the performance of 36 experimental perovskite solar cells in the low Earth orbit environment. The data collected will contribute to the advancement of solar power technology for space applications.The satellite's payload includes a set of 36 experimental perovskite photovoltaic cells, one control CIGS cell, measurement microcontrollers, multiplexers, temperature sensors, and a custom-developed Sun sensor. This sensor will determine the angle of incident sunlight, which is vital for assessing the cells' performance.

References 

Satellites by type
CubeSats
Intel Evo. Intel Evo, officially the Intel Evo Platform, is a brand category of certified laptop computers, consisting of a number of guidelines to ensure good quality for consumers. Laptops with Intel processors can be certified under the Intel Evo badge if they pass the guidelines which include thin hardware designs, long-lasting battery life, fast charging, speedy wake up from sleep, and more.

The program originally started as Project Athena announced in 2019. Rather than using typical benchmarking, Athena aimed to focus on "Key Experience Indicators", or the use experience in real-world use. It was renamed to the more friendly name Intel Evo and launched in September 2020 (alongside Tiger Lake) with updated guidelines.

It has been compared with Intel's Ultrabook. The Evo certification consists of both Microsoft Windows and ChromeOS based devices (the latter of which includes "Chromebooks"). Many PC manufacturers have joined Intel's program, including Lenovo, HP, Dell and Asus.

See also
 Centrino

References

External links
 Overview of Intel Evo Platform in Intel Laptops

Intel products
Laptops
Bonnie Ferri. Bonnie Heck Ferri is an American electrical engineer and academic administrator, the Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Education at Georgia Tech, where she was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, and the first woman to join the faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her publications include work on engineering education and control theory, including control reconfiguration and distributed control systems.

Education and career
Ferri majored in electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, graduating in 1981. After working in industry and taking a master's degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, she came to Georgia Tech as a doctoral student in electrical engineering, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1988, the first woman there to earn a doctorate in electrical engineering.

She continued at Georgia Tech as an assistant professor, the first woman hired to a faculty position in electrical engineering. She was promoted to associate professor in 1995 and full professor in 2002.

She took her current position as vice provost (at the time Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development) in 2017.

Recognition
Ferri was the 2007 recipient of the Hewlett-Packard/Harriet B. Rigas Award of the IEEE Education Society. She was selected as the recipient of the John R. Ragazzini Award in 2022 and elected as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to hands-on learning and leadership in higher education" in that same year.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
21st-century American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
American women electrical engineers
American control theorists
University of Notre Dame alumni
Princeton University alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
Georgia Tech faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
Bene Meat Technologies. Bene Meat Technologies a.s. (BMT) is a Czech biotechnology start-up focused on research and development of technology for the production of cultivated meat on an industrial scale. It cooperates with scientific institutions and companies in the Czech Republic and abroad. The company has its laboratories on the first floor of the Cube building in Vokovice, Prague.

History 
Bene Meat Technologies a.s. was founded in 2020 by Mgr. Roman Kříž, who is the project leader. The main biologist of the scientific team is Jiří Janoušek  and one of the external scientists involved in the ongoing research is the immunologist Prof. RNDr. Jan Černý, Ph.D. In 2022, the BMT research team consisted of 70 scientists

Research objective 
Developing a technology to produce cultured meat by propagating animal cells without using fetal bovine serum, ideally with growth factors from their own production. BMT claims that their final technology will allow its operators to produce and offer the product at prices affordable to consumers.

In March 2023, the company said that the first cultured meat product launched on the market may not be for human consumption, but as pet food. However, BMT states that the creation of meat meant for human consumption is one of their goals.

Progress 
BMT is the first company registered in European Feed Materials Register  for the production and sale of laboratory-grown meat for pet food; specifically cat and dog food. BMT claims to be the only entity in the world that can produce and sell this product for the pet food market. By 2024, BMT plans to make several metric tons per day of laboratory-grown meat meant for pet food.

References 

Cellular agriculture
Tissue engineering
Meat substitutes
Biotechnology companies
Pet foods
Food and drink companies established in 2020
Cerium phosphide. Cerium phosphide is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula CeP. It is one of the phosphides of cerium. It can be obtained by reacting cerium dioxide and phosphine at 1300 °C in the presence of hydrogen, or by reacting sodium phosphide and cerium chloride at 700~800 °C. It will be oxidized to monoclinic CePO4 in air above 900 °C. It reacts with iodine in a quartz ampoule to obtain CeSiP3.

References

External reading

 

Cerium(III) compounds
Phosphides
Tetrachloroethylene oxide. Tetrachloroethylene oxide, perchloroethylene oxide (PCEO) or tetrachlorooxirane, is the perchlorinated analogue of ethylene oxide and a proposed metabolite of tetrachloroethylene. It is a halogenated epoxide with the formula . Tetrachloroethylene oxide is fairly stable but rearranges to trichloroacetyl chloride at higher temperatures.

It is metabolised to trichloroacetyl chloride which is hydrolysed to trichloroacetic acid.

Production
Tetrachloroethylene oxide was first synthesised by the English chemist Frederick William Kirkbride in 1940, by exposing a mixture of oxygen and chlorine in tetrachloroethylene to UV light.
 
Tetrachloroethylene oxide can be obtained by the direct oxidation of tetrachloroethylene under UV light.

Reactions
Unlike most epoxides, PCEO does not polymerise.

PCEO reacts with methanol, with mercury(II) chloride as the catalyst, giving methyl trichloroacetate and hydrogen chloride:

PCEO reacts with methanolic potassium hydroxide to give potassium oxalate. It is slowly decomposed by dilute acid or base solutions, giving off carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and hydrogen chloride which was possibly from the further decomposition of the intermediate oxalyl chloride.

See also
 Chloroethylene oxide

References

epoxides
Organochlorides
Mojaloop. Mojaloop is an open-source software project of the Mojaloop Foundation. The project is a reference model for creating interoperable payments platforms for digital financial providers intended to reduce the technical barrier of financial inclusion efforts. It was created and released by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Level One Project in 2017. Moja is a Swahili word meaning "one".

Mojaloop is a collection of Node.js microservices. There are multiple components for routing, clearing, and settling payments between digital financial service providers. It uses the Interledger Protocol for facilitating payments.

History 
The earliest mention of Mojaloop by commercial entities was the announcement in 2018 by Orange Telecom Group and MTN to establish a new joint venture called Mowali which would implement the Mojaloop technology. The joint venture was closed down in November 2022 due to lack of required approvals by the Central Bank.

In 2019, Forbes covered the efforts to build a solution in Tanzania.

The Mojaloop project was cited part of the Tanzania Instant Payment System (TIPS) which went began testing in June 2021 and was continuing with a close group test in early 2023. The Central Bank of Tanzania mentions TIPS in 2020. 

In June 2022, Mojaloop announced the creation of the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Center of Excellence in Singapore.

Mojaloop implements payments in a flow including verification and lookup of destination account, quote, payments push and done via RESTful APis. Design documents provide documentation to implementing entities.

The Mojaloop Foundation is a US based charity, headquartered in Massachusetts, with expenses of $2.2 million in 2020. 

Grants from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Mojaloop include $4.7M in 2020 and $8.5M in 2023.

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General and cited references 

 
 
 
 

Charities based in Massachusetts
Free and open-source software
Payment interchange standards
EOS–07. EOS–07 (formerly known as Microsat-2B) is an Earth observation satellite developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and launched during the SSLV-D2 mission, the first successful mission of the SSLV rocket. It's a minisatellite designed to accommodate new technology payloads in a quick turn-around time.

Structure and Payloads

It has a cubical structure consisting of six Honeycomb structures. Top and Bottom decks are connected with 4 staggered cross ribs and 4 closing vertical decks. The structure includes a Starsensor (mSS), 4π Sunsensor (4πSS), micro-Inertial Reference Unit (mIRU), and a Magnetometer. It has a passive thermal control system with Optical Solar Reflector, Multi-Layer Insulation, Thermal interface material, etc. It has 1N Thrusters (1Nms), 0.02Nm Reaction Wheels, and 20 A.m2 Magnetic Torquers powered by 5 kg of hydrazine fuel. The altitude and orbital control system (AOCS) has a pointing accuracy of – 0.1° (3σ) and a drift rate of – 7.5e-4°/s. For power generation, it has solar panels which will be deployed using Frangi bolt actuators. The panels have a power generation of 357 watts. It also has a Li-ion battery of 27.2 Ah capacity. The onboard computer has a MIL STD 1553B protocol for interfacing with other sub-systems. It has a data storage capacity of 32 Gb. The RF system uses S-Band Telemetry Transmitters, S-Band Telecommand Receiver, 12 channel SPS. It has a  15m location accuracy, 0.15 m/s velocity accuracy and an X-Band Data Transmitter.

Payloads

It has two payloads; mmWave Humidity Sounder (MHS) and a Spectrum Monitoring Payload. MHS has 6 water vapor sounding channels with 50rpm scan rate. It weighs 26 kg and requires 55 watt power. The Spectrum Monitoring Payload weighs 13 kg, requires a power~ of 35W, and has a data rate of 2 Mbit/s.

Orbital Decay 
During a massive Solar Storm in May 2024, EOS-07  had a higher than normal decay observed at 600meters, as compared to 300 for regular operations. The spacecraft used its on board engines to make up the shortfall.

References

Earth observation satellites of India
Temsah Light. The Temsah Light vehicle is considered a 4x4 light armored vehicle, designed for patrol, surveillance, and border guard missions. It is built on the chassis of Japanese Toyota Land Cruiser vehicles.

Design and protection level 
The vehicle has a heavy-duty air conditioner, and the level of ballistic protection of the hull, glass, and combat tower reaches BR6, which is resistant to bullets caliber 7.62 x 51 mm, and there are 3 side and rear bolts for firing from inside the vehicle. No indication is given on mine protection, the 235 mm ground clearance indicating that this vehicle should not be designed to operate in mine-risky areas. The vehicle is powered by a gasoline engine providing 228 hp, which gives it a considerable power-to-weight ration allowing a maximum speed of 165 km/h and maximum operational range of 650 km/h.

Operators

See also 
Temsah 1
Temsah 2
Temsah Bus
Temsah 3
Temsah 4
Temsah 5
Temsah Sherpa
Temsah 6
Temsah armoured personnel carrier (Egypt)

References 

Armoured fighting vehicles of Egypt
Wheeled armoured personnel carriers
Raipur-Ranchi-Dhanbad Expressway. Raipur–Ranchi-Dhanbad Expressway (NH), part of Raipur–Dhanbad Economic Corridor (EC-07), is an under-construction, Four-lane, 707 km (439 mi) long access-controlled greenfield expressway, which will pass through the states of Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand from central to eastern India. It will pass through the coal reserves belt and Industrial towns of Raipur, Bilaspur, Korba, Jashpur, Ranchi, Bokaro, and Dhanbad between Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand in order to promote Industrialization in this region. This project will be mix of greenfield and brownfield. The existing part between Raipur-Bilaspur Expressway will be brownfield which will convert into Six lane expressway while the rest of the part between Bilaspur to Dhanbad will be fully greenfield.

It will reduce the current travel time and distance, from 16 hours to only 9 hours, and from  to . It is a part of the Bharatmala Pariyojana, and it will connect the Eastern Economic Corridor (India)
which runs from paradip port to Bihar-Nepal border in Bihar.

Sections

Raipur-Bilaspur (Brownfield) (6 lanes)
Bilaspur-Urga (Greenfield) (4 lanes)
Urga - Pathalgaon (Greenfield) (4 lanes)
Pathalgaon- Gumla (Greenfield) (4 lanes)
Gumla- Ranchi    (Greenfield) (4 lanes)
Ranchi-Bokaro    (Greenfield) (4 lanes)
Bokaro-Dhanbad   (Greenfield) (4 lanes)

Status updates

 2019, The expressway's plan was launched by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) to the Government of India
 1 April 2021, GR infrastructures won bidding of section 2 (Bilaspur-Urga) 70 km
 2022, Construction started in section 2 by GR infrastructure
 21 February 2023, Dilip buildcon won bidding of section 3 (Urga-Pathalgaon) 86 km
 October 2023, Earth work started by Dilip buildcon for section 3
 Pathalgaon- Putrichouka tender has been floated.

See also 

 Expressways in Chhattisgarh
 Expressways of India
 Industrial corridor
 Eastern Economic Corridor (India)

References

Expressways in Chhattisgarh
Badr Mohammed Al Meer. Badr Mohammed Al Meer is a Qatari business officeholder who serves as the CEO of Qatar Airways since November 5, 2023. He was announced as the new CEO of the airline following the resignation of longtime CEO Akbar Al Baker after 27 years. He previously served as chief operating officer of Hamad International Airport. He is an engineer by training.

Career 
Before being selected as the new CEO of Qatar Airways, Al Meer was chief operating officer of Hamad International Airport which he joined in June 2014. While at the airport, Al Meer was involved in efforts to implement a "smart airport" vision including usage of biometrics, robotics, and blockchain. He was recognized as a top travel leader in the region during his tenure and the airport won awards from Skytrax.

Prior to Hamad International Airport, Al Meer worked for nine years at the United Development Company, a major construction company in Qatar, including a stint as its acting CEO. He also had a previous stint at Qatar Airways serving as senior vice president of the facilities management and capital projects divisions for the group.

Education 
Al Meer holds degrees in engineering from the American University of Beirut and the University of Colorado.

References 

Chief executives in the airline industry
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Date of birth missing (living people)
Mikhail Tsapenko. Mikhail Petrovich Tsapenko () was a Soviet and Russian scientist, doctor of technical sciences, professor (1988), Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR, measuring equipment specialist.

Biography
Tsapenko was born on January 12, 1919. In 1941 he graduated as an electrical engineer from the Tomsk Industrial Institute. In 1941–1946, he served in the Red Army.

In 1946–1950, the scientist took a number of engineering positions at the Siberian Scientific Research Institute Of Aviation (SibNIA), and then was the head of laboratory (1950–1959) in this organization. From 1959 to 1968, he was deputy director of the Institute of Automation and Electrometry.

In 1968–1988, he headed the department at the Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute.

He died in 2008. In the last period of his life, Tsapenko worked as a scientific consultant at the Tecnological Design Institute of Scientific Instrument Engineering.

Scientific activity
At the SibNIA, Tsapenko organized the research area for the study of circuits and the creation of measuring instruments for strength testing of aviation equipment.

Awards
He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, the Order of the Badge of Honour and medals.

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1919 births
2008 deaths
Tomsk Polytechnic University alumni
Scientists from Novosibirsk
Academic staff of Novosibirsk State Technical University
Soviet scientists
20th-century Russian scientists
21st-century Russian scientists
Indrajaal Autonomous Drone Defence Dome. Indrajaal is an Indian autonomous Wide Area Anti-Drone/Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) developed by Grene Robotics. It utilizes AI technology to protect against drone threats in a wide area, providing a 360-degree coverage spanning up to 4,000 square kilometers.

Development and history

In 2019, Grene Robotics introduced GreneOS, a platform designed for hyper-automation and autonomous decision-making. With 15 years of research and development, Grene Robotics is the first Indian company to develop C5ISRT capability in the defence space. They introduced the greneOS Defence platform, now known as DefOS, an autonomous and unified defence system in 2021. It is an AI-powered Unified Autonomous Defense Operating System that delivers Autonomous Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Collaboration, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting (C5ISRT), taking India from C4I to C5ISRT.  

Later in 2021, Grene Robotics introduced two notable products within the DefOS ecosystem which are the Autonomous Manpad Data Link (AMDL) and the Indrajaal autonomous drone defence dome. In 2023, Indrajaal was officially launched in Hyderabad as the only autonomous wide area anti-drone/Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS).

Technology and features

Indrajaal is a wide-area system designed to operate beyond its initial deployment location, making it a network-centric system. It comprises twelve proprietary modular technologies that can be used separately or in combination:

greneOS - Patented Autonomous Resource Planning Engine
DefOS - Unified Command and Control Engine
HiveMind - AI Computer for mission planning and execution
Zombee Drone - Level 5 autonomous drones for threat neutralization
SkyCop Drone - Level 5 autonomous drone for threat surveillance
Brig Device - Edge AI smart data and control device
SpiderMesh - High-speed wireless mesh network covering up to 4,000 sq. km
Repulsor - Uses a tractor beam to jam and control drones
greneEYE - Utilizes machine vision to identify threats
HyperSensing - A combination of sensing technologies.
WeaponFusion - Integrates existing weapons for autonomous operation
GlobalGrid - Unified real-time command and control interface

Deployment

Indrajaal is operational at Grene Robotics' 70-acre test site in Hyderabad, India.

Effectiveness and impact
The Indrajaal system is a  counter-drone technology. Its multi-dimensional perspective allows it to detect drones in various scenarios, from silent drones through radar to controlled drones via electromagnetic spectrum (ESM) and even thermal detection for nocturnal operations.

One remarkable aspect is its ability to detect drones in challenging environments like hilly terrains. This innovation represents a significant leap forward for India's defense capabilities, ensuring that drones of any type or origin cannot escape detection.

Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a crucial role, enabling real-time decision-making and precise identification of friendly drones.

See also
Drone Dome
DRDO Netra

References

Counter unmanned air systems
Weapons countermeasures
Electronic warfare equipment
Józef R. Lewandowski. Józef Romuald Lewandowski is a Polish chemist and Professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Warwick. He is known for his research on the development of solid-state NMR methodology and NMR spectroscopy.

Life and career
In 2002, he obtained his BA degree in chemistry from Amherst College. In 2008, he graduated in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2011, he became assistant professor of Physical Chemistry of the University of Warwick, UK. From 2008 to 2011, he conducted postdoctoral research as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre de RMN à Très Haut Champs, Lyon, France. In 2019, he was promoted to the full professor status.

His main scientific interests include nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. In 2015, he won the Anatole Abragam Prize conferred by the International Society of Magnetic Resonance while in 2016, he received the Marlow Award of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Selected publications
Nuclear spin diffusion under fast magic-angle spinning in solid-state NMR (with Ben P. Tatman, William Trent Franks and Steven P. Brown, 2023)
Molecular Basis for Acyl Carrier Protein-Ketoreductase Interaction in trans-Acyltransferase Polyketide Synthases (with Munro Passmore, Angelo Gallo and Matthew Jenner, 2021)
Accelerating 15N and 13C R1 and R1ρ relaxation measurements by multiple pathway solid-state NMR experiments (with Jacqueline Tognetti, William Trent Franks and Angelo Gallo, 2021)
Quantifying Microsecond Exchange in Large Protein Complexes with Accelerated Relaxation Dispersion Experiments in the Solid State (with Carl Öster and Simone Kosol, 2019)
Protein–protein interactions in trans -AT polyketide synthases (with Simone Kosol, Matthew Jenner and Gregory L. Challis, 2018)

See also
List of Polish chemists
Spectroscopy
Physical chemistry

References

Living people
21st-century Polish chemists
Amherst College alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Academics of the University of Warwick
Year of birth missing (living people)