spinning and stabilization system
21hydrocarbon — hydrocarbonaceous, adj. /huy dreuh kahr beuhn, huy dreuh kahr /, n. any of a class of compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon, as an alkane, methane, CH4, an alkene, ethylene, C2H4, an alkyne, acetylene, C2H2, or an aromatic compound,… …
22military aircraft — Introduction any type of aircraft that has been adapted for military use. Aircraft have been a fundamental part of military power since the mid 20th century. Generally speaking, all military aircraft fall into one of the following… …
23Ranger program — The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to collide with the lunar surface …
24Wright brothers — Orville Wright Photo: 1903 Born August 19 …
25John Carver Meadows Frost — known as Jack (born 1915 in Walton on Thames, England, died 9 October 1979 in Auckland, New Zealand) was a British aircraft designer. His primary contributions centred on pioneering supersonic British experimental aircraft and as the chief… …
26Quasicrystal — Atomic model of an aluminum palladium manganese (Al Pd Mn) quasicrystal surface. Similar to Fig. 6 in Ref.[1] A quasiperiodic crystal, or, in short, quasicrystal, is a structure that is ordered but not periodic. A quasicrystalline pattern can… …
27Ionic liquid — An ionic liquid is a liquid that contains essentially only ions. Some ionic liquids, such as ethylammonium nitrate are in a dynamic equilibrium where at any time more than 99.99% of the liquid is made up of ionic rather than molecular species. In …
28Appalachian Ohio — is a bioregion and political unit in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio characterized by the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Like any other region, its exact definition varies, although the Governor s Office of Appalachia,… …
29Space tether — Artist s conception of satellite with a tether Space tethers are cables, usually long and very strong, which can be used for propulsion, stabilization, or maintaining the formation of space systems by determining the trajectory of spacecraft and… …
30Momentum exchange tether — Momentum Exchange Tethers is one of many applications for space tethers. This sub set represents an entire area of research using a spinning conductive and/or non conductive tether to throw spacecraft up or down in orbit (like a sling), thereby… …
