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Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University. Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University (), commonly abbreviated as MADI, is a public university located in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1930.

History
The Moscow State Automobile and Road Technical University (MADI) was established by a decree of the USSR Council of People's Commissars in 1930 on the basis of the Automobile Department of the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers and the Higher School of Roads. At the time of its organization MADI had two faculties - road construction and automobile engineering. In 1931 the first graduation of 36 engineers took place.

In November 1987 on the basis of MADI was organized by the Educational and Methodical Association on motor and road specialties, which united 104 universities in 9 specialties and 9 specializations.

Since 1992 it has the status of a technical university keeping its traditional name. Scientific and pedagogical work was carried out by more than 800 professors and teachers, including about 100 doctors and about 500 candidates of sciences.

Since 2010 the Institute bears the new name - Moscow Automobile and Road State Technical University (MADI).

The university has four branches: Bronnitsky (1996, Bronnitsy, Moscow Region), Volzhsky (2000, Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic), Makhachkala (1998, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan) and North Caucasian branch (2005, Lermontov, Stavropol Territory).

The university has a number of research institutes. Among which it can be noted the Institute of energy and ecological problems of road transport complex, Institute of problems of road transport, Institute of materials and constructions, Institute of technology, standardization and certification of road-building materials.

The university educates students in 32 specialties and 9 bachelor's degree programs. Categories of graduates - bachelors, masters, engineers, managers. MADI maintains ties with road maintenance structures in Moscow and the regions. There are about 9000 students studying at the university.

Structure
 Faculty of Road and Technological Machines
 Faculty of automobile transport
 Faculty of energy and ecology
 Road construction faculty
 Faculty of Economics
 Faculty of Management
 Faculty of logistics and general transport problems
 Faculty of engineering and mechanics
 Pre-University Faculty
 Preparatory faculty for foreign citizens
 Correspondence faculty

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Universities in Moscow
Technical universities and colleges in Russia
1930 establishments in Russia
Universities and colleges established in 1930
Public universities and colleges in Russia
Eigenji Dam. Eigenji Dam is a gravity concrete & fill dam (compound) dam located in Shiga prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation and power production. The catchment area of the dam is 131.5 km2. The dam impounds about 98  ha of land when full and can store 22741 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1952 and completed in 1972.

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Dams in Shiga Prefecture
1972 establishments in Japan
Imago-ike Dam. Imago-ike Dam is an earthfill dam, used for irrigation, located in Shiga prefecture in Japan. The catchment area of the dam is 0.9 km2. The dam impounds about 1  ha of land when full and can store 110 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on  and completed in 1964.

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Dams in Shiga Prefecture
1964 establishments in Japan
Kaigake-ike Dam. Kaigake-ike Dam is an earthfill dam located in Shiga prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 0.8 km2. The dam impounds about 3  ha of land when full and can store 260 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1954.

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Dams in Shiga Prefecture
1954 establishments in Japan
Ohhara Dam (Shiga, Japan). Ohhara Dam is an earthfill dam located in Shiga prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 6.1 km2. The dam impounds about 19  ha of land when full and can store 2120 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1962.

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Dams in Shiga Prefecture
1962 establishments in Japan
Nikkei Tameike Dam. Nikkei Tameike Dam is an earthfill dam located in Shiga prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 0.5 km2. The dam impounds about 4  ha of land when full and can store 382 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1926 and completed in 1944.

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Dams in Shiga Prefecture
1944 establishments in Japan
Kakihara Tameike Dam. Kakihara Tameike Dam is an earthfill dam located in Shimane Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 1 km2. The dam impounds about 18  ha of land when full and can store 1290 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 2009.

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Dams in Shimane Prefecture
2009 establishments in Japan
System for Differential Corrections and Monitoring. The System for Differential Corrections and Monitoring (SDCM), is the satellite-based navigation augmentation system operated by Russia's Roscosmos space agency to augment the precision of the GLONASS satellite navigation system. It uses the Luch Multifunctional Space Relay System to transmit correction data.

SDCM's service area covers the Russian Federation.  it had not yet been certified for use for public aviation.

References

External links 
 Design summary for SDCM, 2012

Navigation satellite constellations
Satellite-based augmentation systems
Richard Schwartz (engineer). Richard Schwartz is an American aerospace engineer known for his work in satellite technologies which made possible the development of modern global positioning systems (GPS). He was a recipient of the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

Education and early life
Schwartz was born and raised in New York City, and attended high school at Brooklyn Tech. He graduated from Cooper Union with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1957, and eventually earned an MBA at Pepperdine University in 1972.

Career and important contributions
After graduation in 1957, Schwartz went to work at the Rocketdyne division of North American Aviation, which eventually became part of Rockwell International. During his time at Rockwell he was involved in the development of rocket propulsion systems and the space shuttle Orbiter program, as well as other projects connected with NASA. Schwartz was Rockwell’s GPS Satellite Program Manager and was part of the team that provided the Block I satellites, i.e., the first GPS satellites. 

He became President of Rocketdyne in 1983, but eventually left to become President of Hercules Aerospace Co. in 1989. He then served as President and CEO of Alliant Techsystem from 1995 to 1999.

Awards and honors
Schwartz received a NASA Public Service Award in 1972, and was named to the Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame in 1998 in recognition of his contributions to GPS technology. He shared the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering with Hugo Fruehauf, Bradford Parkinson, and James Spilker Jr. for their work in the development of GPS satellites which could endure radiation and remain in service for extremely long times.

References

External links
https://cooper.edu/engineering/news/impact-cooper-interview-richard-dick-schwartz-me57#:~:text=He%20led%20the%20development%20of,Certificate%20of%20Appreciation%20(1973).
https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/gps-originator-richard-schwartz-me-57-talks-about-his-work-qeprize

American aerospace engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Charles Storrow Williams. Charles Storrow Williams (December 25, 1827 – June 20, 1890) was an American civil engineer who managed the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad and Southern Railway in Mississippi.

Early life
Williams was born on December 25, 1827, in Woodstock, Vermont to Mary Ann Wentworth (Brown) and Norman Williams. His father served as Vermont's Auditor of Accounts and Secretary of State and his mother was a member of the Appleton and Wentworth families. He was educated in Woodstock's public schools, the Ellsworth Military Academy, and the Kimball Union Academy. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1847 with a Master of Arts degree. After graduating he studied to become a civil engineer under Hosea Doten.

Career
Williams got his start in engineering with a branch of the Northern Railroad. In 1849 he was hired to help build the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad. He then worked for various railroads in the southern United States. In 1861 he became the assistant superintendent of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. In 1862 he became superintendent of the Southern Railway in Mississippi.

Although Williams was reported to be unionist, he remained in the south during the American Civil War and operated his railroads under the command of the Confederate States Army. After the war he managed the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad.

Personal life
Williams was a long time resident of Huntsville, Alabama and spent his later years in Little Rock, Arkansas. He died on June 20, 1890, in Surrounded Hill, Arkansas. He was buried in the family plot in Woodstock.

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1890 deaths
American civil engineers
American railroad executives
Appleton family
People from Huntsville, Alabama
People from Little Rock, Arkansas
People from Woodstock, Vermont
Southern Unionists in the American Civil War
University of Vermont alumni
Wentworth family
OSAM-1. OSAM-1 (On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1) was a 2016-2024 conceptual NASA mission and spacecraft designed to test on-orbit refueling of satellites. The program was cancelled in 2024, two years ahead of its planned launch date. It was initially known as Restore-L.

Originally scheduled to launch in 2020, its launch at the time of cancellation was planned for no earlier than 2026. The primary objective of the concept mission and spacecraft was the complex refueling of Landsat 7, a satellite launched in 1999, that was not designed for on-orbit servicing. This would have involved grasping the satellite with a mechanical arm, gaining access to the satellite's fuel tank by cutting through insulation and wires and unscrewing a bolt, and then attaching a hose to pump in hydrazine fuel. At the time the mission was conceived, it was expected to be the first refueling of a satellite in space, and a demonstration of the potential to repair some of the thousands of active satellites in orbit and keep them in operation for a longer time. Because the satellites now in space were not designed to be serviced, there are significant challenges to doing so successfully.

OSAM-1's second objective, added in 2020, was to deploy a separate robot called SPIDER (Space Infrastructure Dexterous Robot) to build a new structure in space. Using robots to build and assemble new structural components from scratch would be an important step towards a type of space-based construction that had been impossible to date.

Description 
The OSAM-1 spacecraft was to include:
 two arms to grapple the target satellite;
 the attached payload for SPIDER.

History 
In 2016, NASA's Restore-L satellite was intended to refuel Landsat 7.

In 2020, SPIDER was added and the name was changed from Restore-L to OSAM-1.

In Feb 2022, OSAM-1 passed its Critical Design Review.

On 04 Sept 2023, NASA notified Congress of their intent to cancel OSAM-1.

On 20 Sept 2023 the satellite bus arrived at NASA Goddard from Maxar.

On 1 March 2024, NASA announced that OSAM-1 had been cancelled due to "continued technical, cost, and schedule challenges, and a broader community evolution away from refueling unprepared spacecraft."

Cost & legacy 

OSAM-1 was funded by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate through its Technology Demonstration Missions program.

At cancellation in 2024, about $2 billion had been invested in the project.

Progression 
A subsequent mission, OSAM-2, would have also had two robotic arms. OSAM-2 would have used ModuLink software which is based on xLink. In 2023, NASA decided to conclude the OSAM-2 project without proceeding to a flight demonstration.

See also 
 
 In-orbit refueling

References

External links 
 On-orbit Servicing Assembly and Manufacturing 1 Mission (OSAM-1)
 OSAM-2
 Robotic Refueling Mission 3 (RRM3)  

Proposed NASA satellites
Robotic satellite repair vehicles
Cancelled spacecraft
Miyama Tameike Dam. Miyama Tameike Dam is a gravity dam located in Shimane Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for irrigation. The catchment area of the dam is 2.5 km2. The dam impounds about 1  ha of land when full and can store 80 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was completed in 1987.

References

Dams in Shimane Prefecture
1987 establishments in Japan
Obara Dam. Obara Dam is a gravity dam located in Shimane Prefecture in Japan. The dam is used for flood control and water supply. The catchment area of the dam is 289 km2. The dam impounds about 230  ha of land when full and can store 60800 thousand cubic meters of water. The construction of the dam was started on 1987 and completed in 2010.

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Dams in Shimane Prefecture
2010 establishments in Japan
Apollon Systsov. Apollon Systsov (; 25 September 1929 – 8 May 2005) was a Soviet engineer and statesman who held several posts. He was the last minister of aviation industry.

Early life and education
Systsov was born in Melekess (now Dimitrovgrad) on 25 September 1929. His father worked as a Russian-language teacher. He graduated from the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute obtaining a degree in mechanical engineering with a focus on aircraft construction.

Career
Following his graduation Systsov worked at the Tashkent Aviation Plant. After working in different posts he was made the general director of the Ulyanovsk Aviation Industrial Complex and a member of the collegium of the Ministry of Aviation Industry. He joined the Communist Party and was among its central committee members. He was appointed first deputy minister of the aviation industry in 1981 and remained in the post until 1985. Systsov was named as the minister of the aviation industry in 1985, replacing Ivan Silayev in the post. Systsov's term as minister ended in August 1991 when the ministry was also disestablished.

Death
Systsov died in Moscow on 8 May 2005 and was buried at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery, Moscow.

Awards
Systsov was the recipient of the following: Order of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution and Order of the Red Banner of Labour (twice) and USSR State Prize.

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20th-century Russian engineers
21st-century Russian engineers
1929 births
2005 deaths
Members of the Central Committee of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Recipients of the Lenin Prize
People's commissars and ministers of the Soviet Union
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Soviet mechanical engineers
Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Vikram Deshpande. Vikram Sudhir Deshpande (born 29 February 1972), is an Indian-born British engineer and materials scientist, currently Professor of Materials Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Early life and education
Deshpande grew up in Dadar, Mumbai, studied at Bombay Scottish School in Mahim, and gained a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1994. That year, he moved to Cambridge, UK to take an M.Phil. in engineering, initially working on transportation with David Cebon, and earning his Ph.D. in 1998.

Career
Later, he became interested in materials and mechanics, including small-scale materials, and began a long collaboration with Norman Fleck on micro-architectured materials. After further research in the United States, he returned to Cambridge, became a fellow of Pembroke College in 1999, a lecturer in engineering in 2001, and a professor in 2010. He has been a visiting professor at Brown University and Università Campus Bio-Medico in Rome, on the faculty of University of California at Santa Barbara in the US, University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands.

Achievements and awards

His achievements include the development of "metallic wood", which comprises nickel sheet with wood-like, nanoscale pores that make it as strong as titanium but four to five times lighter.

Deshpande has received multiple awards for his work, including the Warner T. Koiter Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2022,  William Prager Medal, 2022, the 2021 Gili Agostinelli Prize, the 2020 Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics, the 2018 Sir William Hopkins Prize in Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and the 2003 Philip Leverhulme Prize. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2020 in recognition of "significant contributions in fields ranging from the design of micro-architectured materials to modelling soft and active materials", "innovations [that] have helped define the modern frontiers of solid mechanics", and research that "has had a major impact in materials engineering". He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2023 for "seminal contributions to the mechanics of engineering materials". He was elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2023 "for contributions to mechanics of microarchitected solids with applications to structures under extreme dynamic loading".

Selected publications

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Living people
1972 births
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
British engineers
Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Fellows of the Royal Society
Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Scientists from Mumbai
Scholars from Mumbai
IIT Bombay alumni
Engineering professors at the University of Cambridge
Helium Network. The Helium Network is a decentralized wireless Internet of things (IoT) network using the LoRaWAN system, tied to the cryptocurrency Helium Network Token (symbol HNT). Nodes on the network are generally owned and placed by individuals in their homes or offices, and they are rewarded for their participation in the network in payments of HNT. The network aims to provide connectivity to IoT sensor devices in areas, where wireless or mobile coverage is minimal, or requires too much power.

Helium Network is owned by Nova Labs, Inc. As of 2025, Amir Haleem is the founder and CEO of Nova Labs.

History
The Helium Network was begun by Helium, Inc. in 2013, as a network of LoRa gateway hotspots which could be deployed throughout an area by agreements with building owners, typically paid in conventional currency. 

In 2017, the company's funds were running low, so it switched to a new strategy: offering individuals payment in cryptocurrency to operate individually owned nodes in their homes or offices. These individually owned nodes are purchased at costs of up to $500 each, and the payments to owners vary based on data usage but can be as low as $.10 a month.  Hotspot operators would also have a vote in the operation of the network.

In 2021, Helium partnered with Dish Network to deploy thousands of Helium hotspots across Dish's nationwide cellular network, further expanding Helium's reach. 

In March 2022, Helium Inc. rebranded to Nova Labs Inc. and raised $200million in a funding round led by Tiger Global Management and Andreessen Horowitz.

In August 2022, Helium integrated with the 5G network. Helium 5G utilizes a decentralized approach, building a cellular network powered by Helium Hotspots equipped with 5G radios. These hotspots, deployed by individuals or businesses, provide local coverage and relay data within the network.

Reports in July 2022 revealed that Helium falsely had claimed Lime and Salesforce as two of their major customers for years, despite neither company having a formal relationship with Helium or using the network.

Litigation 
On Jan 17 2025, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), filed a complaint against Nova Labs Inc., the company that operates the Helium Network, alleging that the company raised “millions of dollars from investors through its unregistered sales of securities in the form of “Hotspots”—electronic devices that “mine” one of three Nova Labs crypto assets.”The lawsuit also alleges that Nova Labs misled investors regarding multiple high-profile partnerships.

See also 
 LoRa
 FreedomFi

References

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2018 establishments
Internet of things companies
Cryptocurrency projects
Currencies introduced in 2018
BRT ABC. BRT ABC is a future bus rapid transit (BRT) system for the southwest Greater São Paulo as a successor of the São Paulo Metro Line 18-Bronze monorail project, cancelled in 2019 by governor João Doria.

Characteristics
The system will have 82 battery electric buses distributed in 3 different lines of same route, but with different services. The local line will stop by all of the 20 stations and 3 terminals, with medium speed of  and headway of 4 minutes during peak hours. The semi-express line will attend the 3 terminals and 5 interest stations with medium speed of  and headway of 3 minutes during peak hours. The express line will only attend the 3 terminals with headway of 8 minutes and medium speed of .

History
In May 2021, the construction was announced to begin in September 2021. The first stretch would start operating after the second half of 2022.

On 10 June 2021, desembargador Marrey Uint, from the Court of Justice of São Paulo, suspended, through a temporary lawsuit, the prorogation of Metra's concession alleging, among other reasons, that the period would be beyond the allowed limit (total of 35 years) and the extra permission to operate the 85 lines of intermunicipal buses of the Greater ABC and the construction of the system wouldn't exempt company contract through a bidding process.

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Bus rapid transit in São Paulo (state)
Santo André, São Paulo
São Bernardo do Campo
São Caetano do Sul
Mao Yongze. Mao Yongze (1 September 1930 – 6 March 2022) was a Chinese nuclear technology engineer, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography 
Mao was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, on 1 September 1930. He secondary studied at Ningbo Xiaoshi High School. In 1949, he was accepted by Shanghai Jiaotong University. After the outbreak of the Korean War, he signed up for the PLA Chemical Defense Corps Cadre School and was sent to study at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Peking University. In 1952, due to the adjustment of departments of colleges and universities, he was transferred to the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University. After graduating in 1953, he was assigned to the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Beginning in January 1955, he served in several posts in PLA Chemical Defense Research Institute, including professional team leader, deputy director, and director.

Mao died from an illness in Beijing, on 6 March 2022, at the age of 91.

Honours and awards 
 May 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

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1930 births
2022 deaths
Engineers from Zhejiang
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
People from Ningbo
Tsinghua University alumni