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What a birthday gift for Bill Simpson, the launch campaign manager – encapsulating a satellite!
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Technicians at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida encapsulate NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, inside SpaceX’s Falcon 9 payload fairings to protect the spacecraft during launch. NASA’s IMAP will use 10 science instruments to study and map the heliosphere, a vast magnetic bubble surrounding the Sun protecting our solar system from radiation incoming from interstellar space. This mission and its two rideshares – NASA’s exosphere-studying Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory – will orbit the Sun near Lagrange point 1, about one million miles from Earth, where it will scan the heliosphere, analyze the composition of charged particles, and investigate how those particles move through the solar system. Launch is targeted for no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy. Photo credit: SpaceX
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In Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-2 (SAEF-2), Jet Propulsion Laboratory workers are closing up the metal "petals" of the Mars Pathfinder lander. The Surveyor small rover is visible on one of the three petals. The Mars Pathfinder is being prepared for launch aboard a Delta II expendable launch vehicle on Dec. 2 at the beginning of a 24-day launch period.
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Oh ho! Now this is a car! Something space age from the early 70's that truly took the idea of futuristic car design from 60's TV shows and made them real. This was all encapsulated in the beauty and raw innovation that is the Citroen SM!
The Citroen SM's story begins back in 1961, where the company began work on a project called 'Project S', a sports variant of the revolutionary Citroen DS. Throughout the decade the car went through a myriad of running prototypes, ironing out faults and pushing the innovative nature of the car to the highest possible level. In 1968 the company purchased Maserati, and took on their knowledge of high-performance cars and engine technology to produce a true Gran Turismo car, combining the sophisticated Citroën suspension with a Maserati V6.
This marriage of raw power and sublime innovation and style was unleashed upon the public in March 1970 at the Geneva Motor Show, going on sale in September of the same year. Dubbed the 'SM', a portmanteaux of Project 'S' and the 'M' in Maserati, the car quickly became the company's flagship, looking like nothing on earth and being able to take on the Jaguar's, Lotus', Ferrari's, Aston Martin's, Alfa Romeo's and Porsche's of the day, the first time France had developed a sports production vehicle of this calibre since the end of World War II.
Power was derived from a 170hp 2.7L V6 engine, with a 0-60 of 8.9 seconds, which made it somewhat mediocre when compared to the likes of the Jensen Interceptor and its 288hp powerplant, and a 0-60 of 6.4 seconds.
Nevertheless, the car's biggest party piece was its mixture of raunchy power and incredible style and comfort, the likes of which had never been experienced before. The car is dripping with French panache and style, with the design being the brainchild of Citroen Chief Designer Robert Opron, who intended to keep the stlye similar to that of the DS but gave it some 70's flair for the new, more angular age. It was also fitted with the same hydro-pneumatic suspension found on the earlier DS, as well as the self-leveling lights that swiveled with the steering.
Sadly though, unlike its sporty competitors the SM, like many promising, outside-the-box, French products such as the Renault Avantime, didn't sell in the way the company wanted it to, largely being due to its image and design, looking less like a sports coupé and more a luxury saloon car, sort of along the lines of the Aston Martin Lagonda. At the same time and with much better performance, Maserati was selling the Merak, which looked much more like a sports car and felt just the same. In a similar way to the later Avantime, the SM fell into a gap between two markets, one market being sports coupé's, and the other being large luxury cars, of which it appealed more to one but not the other.
The SM did though make it big in the world of sports, winning its first competitive outing, the gruelling 1971 Rallye du Maroc, and a Twin Turbo V6 SM snatched the world record as the fastest production car on the Bonneville Salt Flats, achieving a top speed of 202mph.
Sadly though, the Citroen company fell into financial decline during the early 1970's, and officially declared bankruptcy in 1974, being rescued by Peugeot. Attempting to cut the costs wherever possible, the company axed the Citroen SM in May 1975 and sold off the Maserati division of the company to DeTomaso, with only 115 SM's produced in 1975 before production ended.
This setback and sad demise however doesn't mean the SM was an unpopular egg. During its 5 years of production, 12,200 SM's were built, and also managed to garner a selection of awards, including the 1972 Motor Trend Car of the Year award, as well as coming 3rd in the 1971 European Car of the Year, a competition won by another Citroen product, the GS.
Today these cars are very hard to find and incredibly exotic. In France you'll probably find a fair few and the United States and Canada also imported a good number. In the UK however they're something of a rarity, but so rewarding when you actually capture one!
In a clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, technicians and engineers monitor progress as NOAA's GOES-S is encapsulated in its payload fairing. It soon will be moved to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for mounting atop the Atlas V rocket that will boost the satellite to orbit.
The payload fairing protects the spacecraft during the ascent through Earth's atmosphere on its way to orbit.
GOES-S is slated to launch March 1, 2018 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
We all arrive on Sunday night for the week's workshop. After a long day of travelling we enjoy some of Dagstuhl's exceptional food, meet with folks, and catch up.
And then we (or at least quite a few of us) get to work. This was taken at 9:30pm, and there were quite a few people in this lab at the time. And there's another lab, and the library, and people's rooms. I'm sure that lots of folks were also hanging out in the coffee room or playing pool, but there were a lot of people working on a Sunday night as well.
It helps if you enjoy your work, and most of these folks are extraordinarily interesting in what they're studying.
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While I'm at Dagstuhl this year I'm going to try (amidst all the "real" work) to capture something of what the workshop is like and, more generally, what it is to do (computer) science. This is hard because it's not flashy high-action bull-riding kind of work, but it's important, significant work and deserves to be documented. I'm just going to have work harder at it.
I'm also probably going to take more people pictures than I would be naturally inclined to. If anyone finds themself in a photo here and objects, let me know and I'd be happy to remove it.
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Few families had such an important impact on the history of the South Australian colony as did the Randell family. The father was a successful flour miller and his son William Richard Randell was the paddle steamer builder, river boat captain and river trader. The father settled in Gumeracha and became its leading citizen and the son established his career in Mannum but then retired back to the family estate of Kenton Park in Gumeracha just before his father’s death. They contributed to the Baptist Church in SA and the state parliament apart from their business interests. The Randell family developed a family logo which encapsulates the varied interests of the family. It has English Oaks which were planted at Kenton Park and in Gumeracha, a paddle wheel representing the river navigation company (and the river race of 1853), and a stone flour mill and chimney which represented the family milling businesses. Their heritage lives on in both Gumeracha and Mannum 186 years after William Beavis Randell arrived in Gumeracha. Below as a small family history chart as their names become confusing
William Beavis Randell 1799-1876. Married Mary Ann Elliott ( Bear) 1823. 10 children.
Married Phoebe Robbins 1876. 1 child.
Established Gumeracha, Kenton Park, flour mill. Buried Salem cemetery.
Their eldest son William Richard Randell. 1823 – 1911.
Married Elizabeth Nichols 1853. 15 children.
Established Mannum, Mary Jane paddle steamer, flour miller. Buried Salem.
Their eldest living son William Beavis Randell 1856 – 1917.
Married Hannah Finlayson 1880. 12 children.
Established dairy factory in mill, potato farmer, at Kenton Park. Buried Salem.
Their eldest living son William Beavis Randell 1886 – 1946.
Married Mary Lander 1916. 3 children.
William Richard Randell.
William Richard Randell was born in 1824 and lived until 1911. With his parents he arrived at Glenelg in 1837. He was born in Devon. On the banks of the Murray on his father’s land he dreamt of having the first paddle steamer on the River Murray. In 1852 with the gold rushes sweeping Victoria he determined to do it and set about construction a paddle steamer. After it was built the big race between “Captain” Randell of Mannum and Captain Francis Cadell of Goolwa transpired in August 1853 to see who could steam up the River Murray to the junction with the Darling River. Before then William Randell with his brothers Elliott and Thomas Randell and some carpenters (Wiese, Teakle and Bond) set about cutting timber for the hull in Gumeracha and then they carted it in bullock drays to the River Murray where Mannum now stands. A local blacksmith John Coulls of Blyth Street Adelaide made the boiler and the engine was built in Adelaide by a German engineer Claus Gehlken. The hull was 17 metres (56 feet) long and the boat was completed in February 1853 and named the Mary Ann after his mother. Captain Cadell of Goolwa named his first paddle steamer the Lady Augusta after Lady August Fox Young the wife of the South Australian Governor. The Lady Augusta was made in Sydney and sailed to Goolwa. Unlike American paddle boats Randell’s Mary Ann was a side wheeler. It cost William Randell about £1,800 - a large sum for those days. Both paddle steamers arrived in Swan Hill on 14th September with the Lady Augusta arriving first by three hours. Cadell got the prize money from the government for winning the race. But William Randell went much further up the River Murray to Echuca. In 1854 after the voyage to Echuca William Randell built a second hull and attached it to make a strange two hulled vessel which he renamed the Gemini. This was the start of William Randell’s successful river boat company carrying supplies to the gold towns and the sheep stations along NSW and Victorian rivers. All that remains of the historic Mary Ann these days is the old boiler which is located in the Randell Reserve Mannum. It was left on the shores of the River Murray for decades from the mid 1850s and just after William Richard Randell’s death it was given back to the town of Mannum for display purposes in 1912. Randell had given the boiler to the SA Chambers of Manufactures in 1909.
William married Elizabeth Nichols in 1853 in Gumeracha. He eventually moved into Bleak House at Mannum now known as Randell House. At the bottom of the garden of this grand residence is one remaining wall of the two room cottage which he built in Mannum in the mid-1850s. The grand two storey limestone residence with red brick quoins faces McLaren Street but is hidden by trees and an impressive stone wall sand extensive gardens. It is above Randell’s old wool store which the first was building erected in Mannum in 1854. Randell house, however was built in 1868. As Randell’s trade along the Murray, the Murrumbidgee and the Darling increased Randell gave up four milling for shipping and warehousing. He moved to Wentworth in NSW and became a JP there in 1861. He returned to permanently live in Mannum in 1869 once Randell House was completed and in that same year he sailed a dry dock up from Goolwa and installed it where the Mannum Museum is now located. Around the time that his mother died at Kenton Park and in 1874 William Richard Randell and his family returned to live at Kenton Park in Gumeracha. His father died there in 1876. In 1893 he became the chairman of the Gumeracha Butter factory which operated in the former flour mill. In that same year 1893 he replaced John Barton Hack as the member the seat of Gumeracha in the Legislative Assembly which Randell held until 1899. The Butter Factory manager bought the business, but probably not the building in 1906. Unfortunately a fire destroyed part of the mill in 1912 and only part of it was rebuilt. Part was still used by the butter factory and part became a slaughter house for a butcher. In the 1920s the building became an AMSCOL milk depot. William Richard Randell died in 1911 just four years before work began on Lock One at Blanchetown which was named after him. He maintained his river businesses after the move back to Kenton Park and during his life he owned and ran 16 paddle steamers along the Darling and Murray Rivers. His progeny numbered fifteen and his eldest born living son William Beavis Randell moved into Kenton Park. Sadly he died there just a few years later in 1916. He ran the Kenton Park property as a dairy, potato and grain farm. Kenton Park stayed in the Randell family for some time after this as the child born of Phoebe Robbins( John Beavis Randell) , the second wife, purchased it in the late 1920s.
William Beavis Randell.
David McLaren took out three Special Surveys of the Torrens Valley area for the SA Company in 1839/40. One centred on the River Torrens which flows through what became Gumeracha. The SA Company had a manager’s residence built at Gumeracha named Ludlow House for the sheep and cattle herd manager of their lands there. William Beavis Randell, arrived in South Australia in October 1837 as a SA Company manager and he was sent to work at Ludlow House. William Beavis Randell was born in Devon in England in 1799 and married Mary Ann Bear in 1823 in the village of Kenton near Exeter Devon. He came from a family of flour millers and that was his father’s occupation in Devon. William Beavis Randell’s first born child William Richard Randell arrived in 1824. At the age of 38 William Beavis Randell brought his wife and family of seven children to South Australia including William Richard Randell who was then 13 years old. When William Beavis’ contract with the SA Company expired in 1845 he bought land for himself in Kenton Valley adjacent to Gumeracha. Here he built a grand house, which he called Kenton Park, and a flour mill which opened for business in 1847.
Flour milling was such an important industry in early South Australia and William Beavis Randell Senior built his first flour mill at Gumeracha in 1847 which he called Kenton Mills. He had leased and run a flour mill in Kenton Devon before he moved to South Australia. On his land he first built a two storey stone barn in 1841 followed by Kenton Park House in 1844. When he built his first flourmill in 1847 he also built a row of workers cottages for his employees. These 1847 cottages are locally heritage listed and they received an Adelaide Hills Council grant of $20,000 in 2023 for their restoration. Like Kenton Park house they back onto the River Torrens. Directly opposite the flour mill he built Mill Cottage as a residence for his William Richard Randell and another son John Beavis Randell. Today Mill cottage is a well maintained private stone residence.
The Randall family with seven children moved into the Gothic style Kenton Park house in 1844. Randall had 966 acres of prime land along the River Torrens with some bought from the SA Company Special Survey and some from the government. From 1848 he bought wheat from the early settlers at Blumberg (Birdwood) for processing in his flourmill. One of his sons, Samuel Randell managed that flour mill. William Beavis Randell and the Randell family also bought the flour mill at Mt Pleasant built in 1863 and another at Eden Valley which was managed by William Richard Randell a son of William Randell senior. Then William Beavis Randell also acquired the land for a flour mill in Blumberg from George Fife Angas. He built the Blumberg (Birdwood) mill in 1854 and in 1857 it was destroyed by a fire. It was rebuilt and partially fire damaged again in 1867 when it was rebuilt again. It was owned by William Beavis Randell’s until his death in late December 1876. Thereafter it was sold to the Pflaum brothers in 1877. They built the grand three storey structure in 1888 and that building is now the National Motor Museum in Birdwood. Much of the flour produced in the Gumeracha flour mill from 1853 onwards was carted by bullocks to Mannum to be loaded onto a Randell ship for transport up the Murray and Darling rivers and to the gold mining centre of Bendigo and the Murray-Darling River sheep stations! The Randell flour mill was converted to a butter factory in 1883 by William Richard Randell and later it became a butcher’s shop, and an AMSCOL milk depot. More recently a bed and breakfast establishment before reverted to a private residence.
William Beavis Randell was a good Baptist and friend of David McLaren the former SA Company manager who was also a Baptist. McLaren had lived in Ludlow House himself for some time. Early Baptist services for the Gumeracha area were held in William Beavis Randell’s barn (built 1841) until the Salem Baptist Church, the oldest Baptist congregation in SA, was built. This congregation was keen to build a church and one opened in 1846 with the first service taken by Reverend Thomas Playford of Mitcham. Randell donated some of his land for this Baptist church which he attended. William Beavis Randell and his wife and numerous family members are buried in the attached cemetery. Until 1899 baptisms were conducted in a spring in the circle of oaks opposite the church but an earthquake at the time dried up the permanent spring which was located there and used for the baptisms.
Randell died at Kenton Park in 1876 and the milling business was then taken over by his son William Richard Randell. William Beavis Randell was an interesting character. But there is a surprise in William Beavis Randell’s story because in the last year of his 77 years of life on 17th August 1876 he married his housekeeper who was only 38 years old. He died on 28th December 1876. His first wife Mary Ann had died in December 1874 and was buried in the Salem cemetery with a simple marble headstone. After William Beavis Randell died a grand marble memorial was built for his nearby grave with Mary Ann Elliot Randell’s name also listed on that headstone. His second wife was Phoebe Robbins and by the time Randell died, just four months after the marriage, Phoebe was pregnant with a child who was named John Beavis Randell. William Beavis Randell was buried with his first wife Mary Ann in the Salem Baptist cemetery in January 1877. After his death Phoebe inherited 100 acres of land but she did not inherit Kenton Park. Phoebe Randell died in 1922. Her son John Beavis Randell bought Kenton Park in 1928 and moved back into the house and he represented Gumeracha in state parliament in the 1920s. He died in 1953. William Beavis Randell had nine children with Mary Ann and John Randell with Phoebe. Kenton Park remained in the Randell family until the year 2000 when it was sold to others.
Gumeracha.
In 1853 William Beavis Randell had the private town of Gumeracha laid out on part of his property. He named streets after his friend David McLaren and the reigning English monarch and her prince consort – Victoria and Albert. The town progressed well and a Methodist Church opened in Gumeracha in 1860 followed by the Institute in 1864 which was demolished for the new Town Hall which was built in 1909. The District Hotel was erected in 1861 and up the hill from it a Court House was built which was the first Court House in the Torrens districts. A second Court House and police station was built in 1865 and it is now the oldest police station still in use in SA. The Police Station was built in Georgian style. Although post services began in 1848 the current Post Office was built around 1890 to 1900. It is a fine stone building.
The SA Company residence Ludlow House in Gumeracha was retained by the SA Company until 1908 when it was sold to Mr W Hannaford. But for many years before 1908 it was leased out to others as the SA Company had moved its headquarters for stock management from the Gumeracha district. In the early years the SA Company had over 9,000 acres of land in the Gumeracha district. The Company moved stock production out of the Gumeracha-Birdwood districts in the 1850s when they decided to make money by leasing land to farmers. Rents and land sales became the Company’s major source of income after this early development stage of South Australia. Much of its land in the Gumeracha area was sold in the 1910s and 1920s to long term lessees. The Company ceased operations in 1949.
Mannum.
William Beavis Randell took out leasehold runs both side of the River Murray at Noa No just north of the later site of Mannum. He ran cattle on the riverfront leaseholds from 1851. It was on this land that William Richard Randell assembled his paddle steamer the Mary Ann which was carted down by bullock drays from Gumeracha. He built a launch slip and tested his steam powered paddle steamer. After his first short trip the steamer was moored further south at the site which later became Mannum. In 1864 the government surveyed the town of Mannum near Randell’s slip and wool store. William Richard Randell purchased sites in the town in addition to some of the family leaseholds. On the leasehold land he had built his wool store in 1854 and Randell House (originally called Bleak House) in the 1868 as well as maintaining his floating dock yard. Before Randell House was built William Richard Randell built a two room stone cottage in 1856. Only a couple of the walls of that cottage remain at the bottom of the garden of Randell House. One of his brothers Thomas George Randell built a new general store and house in Mannum in 1863 at the top of McLaren Street basically across the road from Bleak House. The rear part of that store, the original house was built around 1856. Look for it behind the current façade. It was later known as the B & F Randell store referring to Thomas’s wife Bella and their son Frederick Randell.
The Main Street of Mannum was renamed Randell Street in 1932. There are a number of structures in Randell Street which relate to William Richard Randell’s time in Mannum and they indicate his importance to the town. To acknowledge the importance of the Randell family to Mannum a walking trail of sites relating to him has been developed by the town. The sites relating to the Randell family include the boiler from the PS Mary Ann under a rotunda in the Randall Reserve and a stone memorial cairn nearby with a small metal replica of the Mary Ann paddle steamer is also in Randell Reserve on the river. The dry dock is by the town Museum and the Paddle Steamer Marion is often moored beside Randell’s dry dock. Randall House and garden was built in 1868. Thomas George Randell’s store and house (1856 and 1863) is at the top of McLaren Street- he was another son of William Beavis Randell and brother of William Richard Randell. Thomas George Randell was born in 1826 and died in 1880. Francis Henry Randell’s fine two storey house in McLaren Street is behind the Wool store. Francis Randell lived from 1835 to 1899 and is buried in the Salem Baptist cemetery in Gumeracha. He was another son of William Beavis Randell and brother of William Richard Randell. He bought the land for his house in McLaren Street from his brother in 1872. The house was erected shortly after that. The old launching site of the Mary Ann PS was at Noa No landing north of the town.
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In a clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, technicians and engineers monitor progress as NOAA's GOES-S satellite is encapsulated in its payload fairing. It soon will be moved to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for mounting atop the Atlas V rocket that will boost the satellite to orbit.
The payload fairing protects the spacecraft during the ascent through Earth's atmosphere on its way to orbit.
GOES-S is slated to launch March 1, 2018 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Nearly 1,000 Students to Participate in WSSU Commencement on May 15
WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- Christina Wareâs story is one of the many inspiring testimonials of the nearly 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students from near and afar who are expected to participate in Winston-Salem State Universityâs commencement ceremony on Friday, May 15, at 9:45 a.m., at Bowman Gray Stadium, 1250 South Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.
Academy Award-winning recording artist, activist and actor Common will be the keynote speaker. There are no guest limits or ticket requirements for the ceremony.
It is conceivable that Wareâs story of work ethic, undeniable spirit and enthusiasm encapsulates the sentiment of her graduating 2015 classmates.
Ware, 43, of Winston-Salem, is quite active on and off campus as a mentor to other students, a member of the non-traditional student organization, the first president of Epsilon Chapter 130 of Tau Sigma National Honor Society at WSSU, a wife and proud mother of two. She is also legally blind. She wants to blaze trails, set examples and raise the bar for others with disabilities.
âIn 2007, I lost my eyesight. After a six-month pity party, I decided to continue my education and make a difference for others. Since 2008, I have spent every day of my life proving to society that having a disability does not mean we are weak. I am now an advocate for persons with disabilities,â Ware, a business major, said, "We are not handicapped, we are handy capable!"
Ware, who can be described as always pleasant and having an unlimited enthusiasm for life, says every day alive is like Christmas. She demands to be treated like everyone else and has been noted to say, âI may physically fall, but mentally I can get back up and pull a 4.0 semester.â After graduation she wants to start a Kosher/Halal foods business and become active on community boards.
The China Connection
From the City of Harbin, the capital and largest city of the Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China, WSSU Master of Arts in the Teaching of English as a Second Language and Applied Linguistics students Yaowen Xing and Chunling Zhang have found a second home at WSSU and in Winston-Salem. They perhaps have come the farthest distance attend the university.
With a population of more than five million people, Harbin is situated in the northeast region of China so close to Russia that only the Songhua River separates the two countries. Nicknamed the Ice City, the average winter temperature is -3.5 °F with annual lows hitting -31.0 °F. Itâs no wonder the students say the warmer weather here in the Piedmont Triad has not been lost in translation with them and itâs one of the things they enjoy.
âWe really love the weather in North Carolina, especially the long summer time, since our hometown is so cold with snow for almost 6 months of the year,â Xing, 30, noted. âWe also love the people at WSSU and the faculty who all are nice and it has been a really good experience.â
Xing and Zhang, 35, are in America as part of a Chinese education immersion program to help exchange the cultures between China and America. They enjoy working as cultural ambassadors to students in both the cultures. The two came to the U.S. in 2013 and have been teaching at Konnoak Elementary school during the early hours and studying and researching later in the day. âComing to America was a dream for me after learning about it through books, movies and music, and my time here it has been amazing,â Xing said.
Zhang, said she didnât know much about WSSU or Historically Black Colleges or Universities (HBCUâs), but after a short time here she knew WSSU would be was special part of life. âI have met many African- Americans who have been friendly and helpful. I now can say I truly have many black friends,â Zhang said. She and Xing have taken advantage of the HBCU experience. They have been often seen attending evening lectures and presentations, sports events, musical and visual arts events. With their WSSU master degrees they will return to China one day in the future to make an impact on teaching and the quality of education there.
The All-In Approach
Olivia N. Sedwick, 21, a political science major from Indianapolis, has taken âthe all-in approach" to her WSSU experience. The current WSSU student government president (SGA), honorâs student and champion athlete, chose WSSU over other schools she could have attended.
Featured in a USA Today article highlighting the HBCU experience released last June, Sedwick is quoted as saying about WSSU, âI fell in love with the school.â She says, âWe talked about things that I had never had the chance to before coming from a predominantly white high school.â
Liking the intellectual and social environment, she was comfortable becoming involved around campus. In her first year, a walk-on athlete for the womenâs track and field team, she was a 2013 CIAA Indoor Womenâs Track and Field All-Conference competitor and the WSSU womenâs shot put record holder until earlier this year, although she never competed in the throws until coming to college. In her second year she served as the sophomore class vice president while also being appointed to serve on many committees throughout the university. In that same year, she was a delegate to the UNC Association of Student Governments (UNCASG), representing WSSU students on a state-wide level. At the end of that year, she became the first African-American female elected senior vice president of UNCASG and served in that capacity for the entirety of her third year while being active as the chief of staff for the WSSU student government association that year also. Toward the end of her term in UNCASG, she decided to run for student body president and has served as the voice of the students for the duration of her last year. With all of her activities, she has maintained a 3.95 GPA throughout her time in college.
Sedwick has been selected as a UNC General Administration Presidential Intern, which begins in July. Upon completion of the prestigious one-year appointment, Sedwick plans to attend Howard University School of Law.
A Drum Major who will March for a Noble Cause
Willie Davis, 22, a social work major from Fayetteville, N.C., who has led WSSUâs Red Sea of Sound Marching Band as a drum major for his senior year, will now march to lead the charge for helping veterans and their families cope with typical and unique challenges of serving in military. Davis will be one of four Cadets with the distinct honor of being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant U.S. in the U.S. Army during this yearâs commencement ceremony. Despite that professionally Davis will help vets, military and families with things like dealing with emotions, he said, âI donât think I will be ready for the commissioning part (of commencement) emotionally.â
Readiness for Davis is an understatement. The youngest of three siblings, who was age 10 when his father died, Davis has been an A average student throughout life. He was in the top ten of his high school class and the first generation in his family to attend college. At WSSU, besides maintaining high academic achievement and serving in the U.S. Army ROTC, Davis has been active with the WSSU Band, the University Choir, a Campus Ambassador, a mentor to freshmen students, vice president of the WSSU chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity, a Veterans Helping Veterans Heal intern and a member of Galilee Missionary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem.
After graduation, Davis is going to graduate school at the University of South Carolina. He plans to complete that program in one year and begin his military duties. As a clinical social worker, his responsibilities may range from clinical counseling, crisis intervention, disaster relief, critical event debriefing, teaching and training, supervision, research, administration, consultation and policy development in various military settings. He wants to specialize in helping military veterans who suffer from different traumas such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), paranoid schizophrenia and other conditions.
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The U.S. Navy’s second Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-2) satellite The Navy’s is encapsulated inside a 5-meter-diameter payload fairing in preparation for launch on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
The Air Force’s second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-2) satellite is encapsulated inside a 5-meter-diameter payload fairing in preparation for launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
In a clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, NOAA's GOES-S is being prepared for encapsulation in its payload fairing. After encapsulation, the satellite will be moved to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. GOES-S is slated to launch March 1, 2018, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Nearly 1,000 Students to Participate in WSSU Commencement on May 15
WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- Christina Wareâs story is one of the many inspiring testimonials of the nearly 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students from near and afar who are expected to participate in Winston-Salem State Universityâs commencement ceremony on Friday, May 15, at 9:45 a.m., at Bowman Gray Stadium, 1250 South Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.
Academy Award-winning recording artist, activist and actor Common will be the keynote speaker. There are no guest limits or ticket requirements for the ceremony.
It is conceivable that Wareâs story of work ethic, undeniable spirit and enthusiasm encapsulates the sentiment of her graduating 2015 classmates.
Ware, 43, of Winston-Salem, is quite active on and off campus as a mentor to other students, a member of the non-traditional student organization, the first president of Epsilon Chapter 130 of Tau Sigma National Honor Society at WSSU, a wife and proud mother of two. She is also legally blind. She wants to blaze trails, set examples and raise the bar for others with disabilities.
âIn 2007, I lost my eyesight. After a six-month pity party, I decided to continue my education and make a difference for others. Since 2008, I have spent every day of my life proving to society that having a disability does not mean we are weak. I am now an advocate for persons with disabilities,â Ware, a business major, said, "We are not handicapped, we are handy capable!"
Ware, who can be described as always pleasant and having an unlimited enthusiasm for life, says every day alive is like Christmas. She demands to be treated like everyone else and has been noted to say, âI may physically fall, but mentally I can get back up and pull a 4.0 semester.â After graduation she wants to start a Kosher/Halal foods business and become active on community boards.
The China Connection
From the City of Harbin, the capital and largest city of the Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China, WSSU Master of Arts in the Teaching of English as a Second Language and Applied Linguistics students Yaowen Xing and Chunling Zhang have found a second home at WSSU and in Winston-Salem. They perhaps have come the farthest distance attend the university.
With a population of more than five million people, Harbin is situated in the northeast region of China so close to Russia that only the Songhua River separates the two countries. Nicknamed the Ice City, the average winter temperature is -3.5 °F with annual lows hitting -31.0 °F. Itâs no wonder the students say the warmer weather here in the Piedmont Triad has not been lost in translation with them and itâs one of the things they enjoy.
âWe really love the weather in North Carolina, especially the long summer time, since our hometown is so cold with snow for almost 6 months of the year,â Xing, 30, noted. âWe also love the people at WSSU and the faculty who all are nice and it has been a really good experience.â
Xing and Zhang, 35, are in America as part of a Chinese education immersion program to help exchange the cultures between China and America. They enjoy working as cultural ambassadors to students in both the cultures. The two came to the U.S. in 2013 and have been teaching at Konnoak Elementary school during the early hours and studying and researching later in the day. âComing to America was a dream for me after learning about it through books, movies and music, and my time here it has been amazing,â Xing said.
Zhang, said she didnât know much about WSSU or Historically Black Colleges or Universities (HBCUâs), but after a short time here she knew WSSU would be was special part of life. âI have met many African- Americans who have been friendly and helpful. I now can say I truly have many black friends,â Zhang said. She and Xing have taken advantage of the HBCU experience. They have been often seen attending evening lectures and presentations, sports events, musical and visual arts events. With their WSSU master degrees they will return to China one day in the future to make an impact on teaching and the quality of education there.
The All-In Approach
Olivia N. Sedwick, 21, a political science major from Indianapolis, has taken âthe all-in approach" to her WSSU experience. The current WSSU student government president (SGA), honorâs student and champion athlete, chose WSSU over other schools she could have attended.
Featured in a USA Today article highlighting the HBCU experience released last June, Sedwick is quoted as saying about WSSU, âI fell in love with the school.â She says, âWe talked about things that I had never had the chance to before coming from a predominantly white high school.â
Liking the intellectual and social environment, she was comfortable becoming involved around campus. In her first year, a walk-on athlete for the womenâs track and field team, she was a 2013 CIAA Indoor Womenâs Track and Field All-Conference competitor and the WSSU womenâs shot put record holder until earlier this year, although she never competed in the throws until coming to college. In her second year she served as the sophomore class vice president while also being appointed to serve on many committees throughout the university. In that same year, she was a delegate to the UNC Association of Student Governments (UNCASG), representing WSSU students on a state-wide level. At the end of that year, she became the first African-American female elected senior vice president of UNCASG and served in that capacity for the entirety of her third year while being active as the chief of staff for the WSSU student government association that year also. Toward the end of her term in UNCASG, she decided to run for student body president and has served as the voice of the students for the duration of her last year. With all of her activities, she has maintained a 3.95 GPA throughout her time in college.
Sedwick has been selected as a UNC General Administration Presidential Intern, which begins in July. Upon completion of the prestigious one-year appointment, Sedwick plans to attend Howard University School of Law.
A Drum Major who will March for a Noble Cause
Willie Davis, 22, a social work major from Fayetteville, N.C., who has led WSSUâs Red Sea of Sound Marching Band as a drum major for his senior year, will now march to lead the charge for helping veterans and their families cope with typical and unique challenges of serving in military. Davis will be one of four Cadets with the distinct honor of being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant U.S. in the U.S. Army during this yearâs commencement ceremony. Despite that professionally Davis will help vets, military and families with things like dealing with emotions, he said, âI donât think I will be ready for the commissioning part (of commencement) emotionally.â
Readiness for Davis is an understatement. The youngest of three siblings, who was age 10 when his father died, Davis has been an A average student throughout life. He was in the top ten of his high school class and the first generation in his family to attend college. At WSSU, besides maintaining high academic achievement and serving in the U.S. Army ROTC, Davis has been active with the WSSU Band, the University Choir, a Campus Ambassador, a mentor to freshmen students, vice president of the WSSU chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity, a Veterans Helping Veterans Heal intern and a member of Galilee Missionary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem.
After graduation, Davis is going to graduate school at the University of South Carolina. He plans to complete that program in one year and begin his military duties. As a clinical social worker, his responsibilities may range from clinical counseling, crisis intervention, disaster relief, critical event debriefing, teaching and training, supervision, research, administration, consultation and policy development in various military settings. He wants to specialize in helping military veterans who suffer from different traumas such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), paranoid schizophrenia and other conditions.
This is a view of how the bulky Gardner 6LXB was encapsulated and cantilevered out over the front axle to allow OPO. The passenger access around the engine doesn't look to bad, but would preclude the use of wheelchairs or baby buggies, pretty well essential on today's buses. I bet the drivers found the cabs hot and noisy also. This bus has the Duple Metsec version of the bodied bus.
(Photograph courtesy of Anthony Lui)
Asbestos rope caulking around pipework found in wall penetrations from service void into laboratories etc
Encapsulated and labelled
In a clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, technicians and engineers monitor progress as NOAA's GOES-S satellite is encapsulated in its payload fairing. It soon will be moved to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for mounting atop the Atlas V rocket that will boost the satellite to orbit.
The payload fairing protects the spacecraft during the ascent through Earth's atmosphere on its way to orbit.
GOES-S is slated to launch March 1, 2018 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
The Stanley B-58 Encapsulated Seat was an advanced crew protection system designed for very high windblast ejections. The concept was to completely protect the crewman against all environmental issues including depressurization and windblast as well as provide an excellent source of survival gear and even shelter. This was accomplished by means of a clamshell-like cover mounted over a relatively simple seat. Between the seat and the aft bulkhead of the capsule were mounted several packages of survival gear and radio equipment.
The capsule was designed to be decellerated and controlled on initial ejection by a drogue parachute and set of finned arms that were folded down along the sides of the back of the capsule. The picture above shows the fins at the base of the rear of the closed capsule. This particular example is the pilot's version as shown by the larger window and the square plate in the bottom of the capsule (visible in some of the open pictures.) This square plate covers the opening where the control stick of the aircraft would be mounted. This stick had a control for retarding the throttle to aid in descending to an altitude where the capsule could be re-opened in the case of an encapsulation due to depressurization.
This particular example has the leg retractor/lifter system in a retracted position. The arms are secured in this mode. Encapsulation was initiated by raising one of the armrest trigger systems. This would cause a gas system to raise the leg lifters and simultaneously the mechanism would retract the two arms with the red covers on them. These arms would strike the shin/ankle area and push them into the capsule. The clamshell would then descend to the full closed position and the seal would inflate. the capsule would then be pressurized.
Squeezing the triggers would continue the ejection procedure, first jettisoning the overhead hatch, and then firing the seat mounted rocket catapult. These capsules were independant of each other in all aspects. Any crewman could encapsulate and eject themselves. There was not sequence system so the pilot would normally call for the crew to eject in order from back to front with the pilot ejecting last.
As previously mentioned, the drogue would be deployed after ejection. This would extend the linked arms to the extended position and the capsule would be slowed to a safe speed for main parachute deployment. The 70 foot diameter recovery parachute was packed in a container under the module. Also under the container was a large 'airbag' for further impact attenuation. The entire module weighed on the order of 500lbs.
The crewman also had the ability to manually deploy the parachute if he felt the automatic systems had failed. This was done by actuating a small handle to the left of the headrest. Next to that handle was another handle for cutting the parachute risers after landing to prevent being dragged.
In case of water landing, the capsule was designed to float on its back. The small yellow circles seen on the sides of the capsule contain telescoping rods with inflatable bags to assist in floatation and stability. The crewman was to cut the seal on the central panel of the shell and slide it open to be able to float in relative comfort.
A view through the Pine Tree Arch in Arches National Park, Utah.
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Upper left quadrant:
1. cookie monsters, 2. gingerbread ghosties, 3. monster, 4. creature, 5. add fare, 6. rufus, 7. chandelier 1, 8. wedding 1, 9. vegan, 10. deck prism, 11. topo chico 2, 12. valve 1, 13. sket-bot 5, 14. marathon 5, 15. marathon 16, 16. big bend - mountains 12, 17. big bend - mountains 13, 18. big bend - mountains 17, 19. big bend - mountains 29, 20. alpine 10, 21. maker faire 11, 22. maker faire 28, 23. tina's birthday 1, 24. tina's birthday 4, 25. noses, 26. fun fun fun 3, 27. fun fun fun 7, 28. fun fun fun 31, 29. fun fun fun 30, 30. pez eyeballs, 31. rose and bug, 32. skyline, 33. friendly friends, 34. flight, 35. moth 1, 36. peppers
Upper right quadrant:
1. leaves, 2. genesee, 3. reunion 1, 4. reunion 33, 5. reunion 36, 6. mushroom, 7. owly, 8. monster 3, 9. eric, 10. eric and eric, 11. elephant ear 3, 12. feep, 13. chain, 14. alamo, 15. flags, 16. yellow flower, 17. turtles, 18. heart, 19. spiny orb weaver, 20. cicada, 21. yummy, 22. tree 1, 23. froggie 2, 24. soccer ball, 25. tina and john, 26. john and eric, 27. carrot, 28. flower, 29. ed wood, 30. skeleton, 31. mom, 32. front yard, 33. feep 7, 34. women in black, 35. thunderbird 1, 36. needles 1
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1. leaves 1, 2. mushrooms 4, 3. clock 1, 4. fire, 5. hole in the wall, 6. art, 7. silly, 8. morgans, 9. backhoe rodeo 1, 10. joolie backhoes 2, 11. flagpole, 12. bird, 13. blooms, 14. feep 1, 15. bug, 16. eye, 17. press 1, 18. ink 1, 19. picnic table 5, 20. electronics, 21. umbrella 1, 22. bat boy, 23. Eggs, 24. pods, 25. stop, 26. branch 3, 27. razor wire 1, 28. smokestack 6, 29. smokestack 4, 30. skull, 31. pals, 32. smoke blots out the sun, 33. lights, 34. bob mould 3, 35. this will destroy you 3, 36. red bulb
Lower right quadrant:
1. iliketrains, 2. monster, 3. 14, 4. yellow bike, 5. noodles, 6. switch, 7. postcard, 8. intel implode 1, 9. intel implode 18, 10. fish, 11. dragons 1, 12. shaky bacon, 13. records 1, 14. plant 1, 15. turtle pond, 16. murse dyes his hair 1, 17. toys 5, 18. toys 6, 19. murse dyes his hair 8, 20. ladybug 2, 21. rose, 22. luna, 23. parlor, 24. frozen thing 2, 25. leaves 1, 26. leaves 4, 27. icicles, 28. pods 2, 29. icicles 1, 30. leaves 1, 31. leaves 2, 32. nye 45, 33. nye 42, 34. nye 24, 35. nye 23, 36. nye 13
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The U.S. Navy’s second Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-2) satellite The Navy’s is encapsulated inside a 5-meter-diameter payload fairing in preparation for launch on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
encapsulated: adj
1. to surround or enclose in a protective membrane
capsule: noun
1. a dry fruit of a flower that liberates its seeds by splitting
From Latin meaning "little box"
“There must be criticism,
for humor, to my mind,
is encapsulated in criticism.
There must be a disciplined eye
and a wild mind.”
Dorothy Parker
After the fairing is lowered onto the Breeze, encapsulation is completed.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2013
The U.S. Air Force’s sixth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-6) spacecraft is encapsulated inside a 5-meter-diameter payload fairing in preparation for launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
The U.S. Navy’s second Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-2) satellite The Navy’s is encapsulated inside a 5-meter-diameter payload fairing in preparation for launch on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
Say what you want
Say what you will
'Cos I find you think what makes it easier
And lies spread on lies
We don't care
Belief is our relief
We don't care
Ideas as Opiates, Tears for Fears
Wat Chalong, Phuket, Thailand
This photo wonderfully encapsulates a moment in time when Ireland was moving from being a relatively slowing moving rural society of small family farms to becoming a fast-paced more stressful car-based urban environment where small rural villages were being transformed into large suburbs of cities characterised by urban sprawl.
There is nothing romantic about poverty or a subsistence economy. But I think that in the process of change, we lost a sense of almost spiritual connection with the land as well as a sense of place and of community solidarity.
Photo shows Colman (Colie) Faherty of Freeport/Saorphort walking his cow through the village of Barna/Bearna, probably sometime between late 1970s and the mid 1980s. Colie died in 2004.
Thanks to Evan Ryan for the image and the information on Colie, and to Martin Whyte for taking the photograph.
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On 3 October Sentinel-5P was encapsulated in the Rockot fairing.
Credits: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2017
Gross photo showing the tumor in encapsulated and abutting the nipple-areola complex . Jian-Hua Qiao, MD, FCAP, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
encapsulated
in a beggars wail
covered in her
hijab..her sweaty
veil..her hands
stretched out
in the rain sinewy
pale ..a muslim
lady with a child
on her lap ..
unfortunate female
still imprisoned to
her mothers womb
an eternal jail..
is this a woman
god forgot failed
dreams doomed
dreams derailed
a picture i shot
in my minds camera
that leaves behind
a sorrowful trail.
searching in the wastelands
of despair remorse the holy grail
dedicated to mr randhir behl
In a clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, NOAA's GOES-S is being prepared for encapsulation in its payload fairing. After encapsulation, the satellite will be moved to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. GOES-S is slated to launch March 1, 2018, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
The U.S. Air Force’s sixth Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-6) spacecraft is encapsulated inside a 5-meter-diameter payload fairing in preparation for launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
Crown molding encapsulates a large family of moldings which are designed to gracefully flare out to a finished top edge; generally used for capping walls, pilasters, cabinets; used extensively in the creation of interior and exterior cornice assemblies and door and window hoods.
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"The car’s name encapsulates the true significance of all that has been achieved in terms of performance. The reference to the 90th anniversary of the foundation of Scuderia Ferrari underscores the strong link that has always existed between Ferrari’s track and road cars. A brilliant encapsulation of the most advanced technologies developed in Maranello, the SF90 Stradale is also the perfect demonstration of how Ferrari immediately transitions the knowledge and skills it acquires in competition to its production cars..."
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The museum contains an interactive environment rich in history, while encapsulating the architecture and social history through its town centre location. The building is prominently located within the historic walled town of Ludlow, forming a key focal point at the head of Broad Street. The Buttercross occupies the main approach to the town centre from the south, forming a pivotal point on the dramatic spatial progression that leads from Ludford Bridge via Broadgate to the Ludlow Castle gates.
Ludlow is a market town in Shropshire. It sits near the confluence of the rivers Corve and Teme. The oldest part is the medieval walled town, founded in the late 11th century after the Norman conquest of England. It is centred on a small hill which lies on the eastern bank of a bend of the River Teme. Situated on this hill are Ludlow Castle and the parish church, St Laurence's, the largest in the county. From there the streets slope downward to the River Teme, and northward toward the River Corve. The town is in a sheltered spot beneath Mortimer Forest and the Clee Hills, which are clearly visible from the town.
Ludlow has nearly 500 listed buildings, including examples of medieval and Tudor-style half-timbered buildings. The town was described by Sir John Betjeman as "probably the loveliest town in England".
Shropshire (/ˈʃrɒpʃər, -ʃɪər/; alternatively Salop; abbreviated, in print only, Shrops; demonym Salopian /səˈloʊpiən/ sə-LOH-pee-ən, Welsh: Swydd Amwythig) is a county in England, bordering Wales to the west, Cheshire to the north, Staffordshire to the east, and Worcestershire and Herefordshire to the south. Shropshire Council was created in 2009, a unitary authority taking over from the previous county council and five district councils. The borough of Telford and Wrekin has been a separate unitary authority since 1998 but continues to be included in the ceremonial county.
The county's population and economy is centred on five towns: the county town of Shrewsbury, which is culturally and historically important and close to the centre of the county; Telford, a new town in the east which was constructed around a number of older towns, most notably Wellington, Dawley and Madeley, which is today the most populous; and Oswestry in the northwest, Bridgnorth just to the south of Telford, and Ludlow in the south. The county has many market towns, including Whitchurch in the north, Newport northeast of Telford and Market Drayton in the northeast of the county. Wikipedia
Freezing rain and snow encapsulates the branches of the dogwood tree. Wikipedia tells me - "The buds of many woody plants, especially in temperate or cold climates, are protected by a covering of modified leaves called scales which tightly enclose the more delicate parts of the bud. Many bud scales are covered by a gummy substance which serves as added protection. When the bud develops, the scales may enlarge somewhat but usually just drop off, leaving a series of horizontally-elongated scarson the surface of the growing stem. ..."
During encapsulation, the Suomi NPP satellite will be folded into launch position and then enclosed inside the two halves of the rocket fairing atop the Delta II launch vehicle.
Read more about JPSS-1's transport to launch at www.nesdis.noaa.gov/JPSS-1
MAANZ Exhibition Winner SA 2012 I loved this piece, photos don't do it justice, it is so amazing to see it up close. Incredible!!!! Mikiah Nguyen won both categories. He is definitely in a league of his own.
MSG-3 is planned for launch in July 2012 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. MSG-3 is the third in a planned series of four satellites operated by Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites. The satellites return highly detailed imagery of Europe, the North Atlantic and Africa every 15 minutes for use by meteorologists and national weather forecasters. MSG-3 has two secondary objectives in the areas of radiation and rescue. Shortly after liftoff from Kourou, French Guiana, MSG-3 will be injected into geostationary orbit at an altitude of 36000 km km over the equator.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG