Columbia was scheduled for this mission due to Discovery being out of service for its Orbital Maintenance Down Period, and because the ISS assembly schedule could not be adhered to with only Endeavour and Atlantis.

Released in 1987 ; Roger, with his newfound status of Hero, is transferred to the Xenon Orbital Station 4 and promoted to head ( and only ) janitor.

Systems using non-obvious approaches might be able to blind the radars in a sneak attack ; the Soviets developed the R-36 with a system called Fractional Orbital Bombardment System to allow attacks on US missile fields from low altitudes and / or from the south, while the US relied on manned bombers for the same role.

Skylab included an Apollo Telescope Mount ( a multi-spectral solar observatory ), Multiple Docking Adapter with two docking ports, Airlock Module with EVA hatches, and the Orbital Workshop, the main habitable volume of the station.

The 117, 000 pound Castor 120 first stage has a propellant mass fraction of 92. 23 % while the 31, 000 pound Castor 30 upper stage recently developed for Orbital Science's Taurus II COTS ( International Space Station resupply ) launch vehicle has a 91. 3 % propellant fraction with 2. 9 % graphite epoxy motor casing, 2. 4 % nozzle, igniter and thrust vector actuator, and 3. 4 % non-motor hardware including such things as payload mount, interstage adapter, cable raceway, instrumentation, etc.

The Commercial Orbital Transportation Services ( COTS ) program began in 2006 with the purpose of creating commercially operated unmanned cargo vehicles to service the ISS.

Other major satellite manufacturers include Space Systems / Loral, Orbital Sciences Corporation with the STAR Bus series, Indian Space Research Organization, Lockheed Martin ( owns the former RCA Astro Electronics / GE Astro Space business ), Northrop Grumman, Alcatel Space, now Thales Alenia Space, with the Spacebus series, and Astrium.

The Norfolk Orbital Railway, an independent organisation, has plans to join and link the NNR with the Mid-Norfolk Railway.

Orbital space tourism opportunities have been limited and expensive, with only the Russian Space Agency providing transport to date.

Jernau Morat Gurgeh, a famously skilful player of board games and other similar contests, lives on Chiark Orbital, and is bored with his successful life.

These also serve to contain the atmosphere in those areas where the Orbital may not yet be complete, with those gaps in the plate ring being bridged only by forcefields.

Responsibility for day-to-day administration of one of the Culture's Orbitals and the management of its complex systems mainly rests with a Mind, which is situated in a structure in space at the centre of the Orbital, known as the Hub.

Artists that appeared in the first discussions on the list included Autechre, Atom Heart, LFO, and Rephlex Records artists such as Aphex Twin, µ-ziq, and Luke Vibert ; plus artists such as The Orb, Richard H. Kirk, and Future Sound of London, and even artists like System 7, William Orbit, Sabres of Paradise, Tycho, Orbital, Plastikman and Björk. Autechre, notable electronic music act associated with IDM.

The intersection is called the Orbital node | line of nodes, as it connects the center of mass with the ascending and descending nodes.

The Orbital Space Plane ( OSP ) development got underway in 2001, with a early version expected to enter service by 2010.

* Orbital Air, an African corporation with a monopoly on space transportation.

It has a dance and indie feel rolled into one with tracks such as Pulp's " Common People " and Blur's " Girls and Boys " along side tracks by The Chemical Brothers, Prodigy and Orbital.

Orbital would go on to aid the Mortal Kombat film soundtrack in reaching Platinum selling status during 1995, with an extended mix of " Halycon ", which can be heard during the final scene of the film.

" The Orbital reformation gathers momentum with headline shows now confirmed for Manchester and London this September.

At the Glastonbury Festival on 27 June 2010 to close their set, Matt Smith, who plays the Eleventh Doctor, came on stage and performed with Orbital using the sample of the Doctor Who theme tune.

Orbital periods close to one year can become degenerate with the parallax, resulting in unreliable solutions for both.

Orbital platforms collect and transmit data from different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, which in conjunction with larger scale aerial or ground-based sensing and analysis, provides researchers with enough information to monitor trends such as El Niño and other natural long and short term phenomena.

There also was no impact to the mission when one of the three thrusters on Atlantis aft right-hand Orbital Maneuvering System ( OMS ) pod failed during ascent.

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While there is no grading scale that is in use universally, the OMENS scale ( standing for Orbital, Mandible, Ear, Nerves and Soft tissue ) was developed to help describe the heterogeneous phenotype that makes up this malformation.

It seems normal practice to address the ship's Mind as " Ship " ( and an Orbital hub as " Hub ").

However, a Mind can transfer its ' mind state ' into and out of its ship ' body ', and even switch roles entirely, becoming ( for example ) an Orbital Hub from a warship.

Mirage was on the Autobot Orbital Command Hub in Spotlight: Blaster.

Searchlight was on the Autobot Orbital Command Hub in Spotlight: Blaster.

Inferno in IDW Publishing's adaptation, was on the Autobot Orbital Command Hub in Spotlight: Blaster, where he was present when Blaster was recovered and returned to the Autobots.

Perceptor was on the Autobot Orbital Command Hub in Spotlight: Blaster.

Cosmos was on the Autobot Orbital Command Hub in Spotlight: Blaster.

Hino talked very little about himself except for the infrequent times when he used a personal illustration in connection with another subject.

The illustration ( fig. 11 ) shows this shelter with the roof at ground level and mounded over.

Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.

To give a schematic scenario by way of illustration: two men have clashed in the assembly about a proposal put by one of them ; it passed, and now the two of them go to court with the loser in the assembly prosecuting both the law and its proposer.

In this illustration he takes an oath before the consuls with his right hand on the town ordinances, while sitting on a pedestal.

Thus something as simple as a newspaper might be specified to six levels, as in Douglas Hofstadter's illustration of that ambiguity, with a progression from abstract to concrete in Gödel, Escher, Bach ( 1979 ):

Years later in 1890 Edward Granville Browne described how ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was " one more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muhammadans ... scarcely be found even amongst the eloquent.

A French manuscript from 1344 contains an illustration of clerics playing a game, possibly la soule, with similarities to baseball.

However, in a 1791 Japanese wood-block illustration, a specifically dream-destroying baku is depicted with an elephant ’ s head, tusks, and trunk, with horns and tiger ’ s claws.

An illustration of Bernoulli's inequality, with the graphs of and shown in red and blue respectively.

As an illustration of this problem, when official data for all the world's countries are added up, exports exceed imports by almost 1 %; it appears the world is running a positive balance of trade with itself.

He ends with an illustration about a man who dies and goes to heaven exclaiming “ Home, home at last !” as if he had arrived at the end of his eschatological journey.

* Letter of Andrea Corsali 1516-1989: with additional material (" the first description and illustration of the Southern Cross, with speculations about Australia ...") digitised by the National Library of Australia.

An illustration from an 1919 Austrian postcard showing a caricature d Judaism | Jew stabbing the German Army in the back with a dagger.

Wheeler-Nicholson's third and final title, Detective Comics, advertised with a cover illustration dated December 1936, eventually premiered three months late with a March 1937 cover date.

During World War II and for decades after, the phrase " Kilroy was here " with accompanying illustration was widespread throughout the world, due to its use by American troops and its filtering into American popular culture.

The 1744 version of the song was popularised in Scotland and England the following year, with the landing of Charles Edward Stuart and was published in The Gentleman's Magazine ( see illustration above ).

* Moseley's original article, with illustration

This story also is a direct illustration of one of the tenets of postmodern theory — that the sign is not the thing it signifies, nor can one claim to fully or properly describe a thing or an idea with a word or other symbol.

Simple illustration of an unspliced mRNA precursor, with two introns and three exons ( top ).

The end of his life was marked by a use of pure abstraction, during the final 4 months, as in his illustration Flooding of Sock River through Ash Grove Mo on July 4, 1914 in that drove many persons from Homes I were with the Groupe leiving their homes for safety.