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61Aquarius Launch Vehicle — Space Systems/Loral s Aquarius Launch Vehicle is a low cost launch vehicle designed to carry small, inexpensive payoads into LEO. The vehicle will be primarily intended to launch into orbit bulk products, like water, fuel, and other consumables,… …
62US Battlefield UAVs — The usefulness of robot aircraft for reconnaissance was demonstrated in Vietnam. At the same time, early steps were being taken to use them in active combat at sea and on land, but battlefield unmanned aerial vehicles would not come into their… …
63Clock distribution network — In a synchronous digital system, the clock signal is used to define a time reference for the movement of data within that system. The clock distribution network (or clock tree, when this network forms a tree) distributes the clock signal(s) from… …
64Crossatron — In electronics, a crossatron is a high power pulsed modulator device, a cold cathode gas filled tube that combines the best features of thyratrons, vacuum tubes, and power semiconductor switches. This switch is capable of operating with voltages… …
65Fiat Panda — Manufacturer Fiat Production 1980–present Predecessor Fiat 133 Fiat Seicento …
66Fiber-optic communication — An optical fiber junction box. The yellow cables are single mode fibers; the orange and blue cables are multi mode fibers: 50/125 µm OM2 and 50/125 µm OM3 fibers respectively. Fiber optic communication is a method of transmitting information from …
67Self-Reconfiguring Modular Robotics — Modular self reconfiguring robotic systems or self reconfigurable modular robots are autonomous kinematic machines with variable morphology. Beyond conventional actuation, sensing and control typically found in fixed morphology robots, self… …
68Renewable energy commercialization — The wind, Sun, and biomass are three renewable energy sources …
69Winston Smith Project — (in Italian Progetto Winston Smith , or PWS) is the name of an informational and operational project for the defence of human rights on the internet and in the digital era. It was started in 1999 as an anonymous association and it is… …
70Infrastructure Asset Management — is the discipline of managing infrastructure assets that underpin an economy, such as roading, water supply, wastewater, stormwater, power supply, flood management, recreational and other assets. In the past these assets have typically been owned …
