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Orbit run an immaculate fleet near Leicester, their Volvo Olympian R247NBV has recently seen the paint brush from green, and how smart it now looks.
Up close and the Orbit is a dizzying array of metal. One day I shall stump up the cash to go up here but it is quite expensive...
Did a colab with Haley Frost So much fun, you should definitely check out her stream!!!!
This was a mixture of powder paint and flour.
Billed as the "tallest art structure in Britain" the Orbit is a 115m tall "sculpture" by Anish Kapoor next to the Olympic Stadium.
The 'Orbital Interceptor' was introduced as a response to the introduction of armed drones to space combat. Many different versions were designed; this variant mounts two high-velocity autocannons, which proved highly effective against the usually unarmored drones.
These are water drops from the irrigation system trapped in spider webs that are in the succulent plants near our front door. They sparkle like jewels in the light, so I decided to exploit them. I placed a 36mm extension tube on my Nikon 70-200 f/4 lens so that I could close focus on the drops.
I lit this with one YN560 in an 8.6 inch soft box, hand held at camera left. The flash was in manual mode, and was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
I have an album of drops and bubbles images called, creatively enough, Drops/Bubbles that has different kind of drops and bubble pictures in it, if you like that sort of thing. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157625432239555/
Built for Space Jam 2021
I’ve been itching to try out some realistic space stuff ever since I came across Finn Roberts' incredible builds. The carrier category sparked the idea of a tug boat in space - A tiny capsule with manipulator arms and docking capability. Primarily used for towing and positioning space station modules but also less routine missions like retrieving wayward satellites.
The Orbit is a sculpture and observation tower in the Olympic Park, Stratford, London. Britain's largest (and tallest) piece of Public Art, 2012. Anish Kapoor / Cecil Balmond. Steel by ArcelorMittal.
Olympic Legacy - but is it Grand Design or Garbage Vanity? You decide.
I think this looks at its very best at night.
The ArcelorMittal Orbit (often referred to as the Orbit Tower or simply just the Orbit) is a 114.5-metre-tall (376 ft) sculpture and observation tower in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. It is Britain's largest piece of public art, and is intended to be a permanent lasting legacy of London's hosting of the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, assisting in the post-Olympics regeneration of the Stratford area. Sited between the Olympic Stadium and the Aquatics Centre, it allows visitors to view the whole Olympic Park from two observation platforms.
A star orbital that shimmers and rotates around your avatar's head.
It can be resized, recolored, it can have its rotation speed and shimmering speed changed with just a few buttons. You can make it shine as bright as you want.
Everything is controllable by the included HUD.
Come check it out in-world!
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Envar/49/142/1011
Or on the marketplace:
Envisioned as a last response measure, the Artemis-class is a rapid but inefficient orbiter designed to fight in planetary orbit.
A two-stage design, the entire stack consists of 4 solid rocket boosters flanking a liquid-fuelled rocket, which detaches from the second stage when expended. The second stage is powered by 4 conventional liquid-fuelled rockets, each with a drop tank of extra fuel which can be discarded when empty. There are also 4 RCS thrusters on the main stage, and 4 smaller nozzles on the crew module.
Concealed during takeoff by large protective panels, the craft loses these after breaking through the atmosphere. Along with the first stage rockets, they are in designed to be reusable, allowing them to be mated to another starfighter.
Once in planetary orbit, the Artemis can use its many thrusters to force itself into different orbits and engage hostile forces. For this purpose, 8 missiles are loaded, along with two autocannons that fire caseless ammunition. A large magazine, designed only to dispense bullets when the guns have fully deployed, sits in between them. Directly between the missiles is the fire suppression system, which can freeze with liquid nitrogen any malfunctioning ordnance.
The craft is powered by two large batteries, but auxiliary power can be generated by the solar panels on the opposite side of the craft. While not particularly efficient, it is an adequate backup.
Much internal space is taken up by the RCS fuel tank and the attached compressor. Opposite this piece of vital equipment is the communications array, which allows the crew of two to liaise with Earth-based command and control personnel, as well as detect enemies.
Up front in the detachable pilot's module, the two-man crew split their responsibilities between piloting and target acquisition. The module is equipped with a separate life-support and fire suppression system.
When the mission is complete (or the ordnance is expended), the piloting module can detach itself and return to Earth. Similar to the Space Shuttles of old, the underside of the module is covered in black heat-resistant tiles.
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Very happy with this. Threading those pneumatic tubes around the model was one of the most fun parts. Making realistic use of as much of the framework space was an interesting challenge.
We have permanent daylight these days, so we can't see Earth surface when night on Earth. Missing orbital sunrises!
Credit: ESA/NASA
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Details of the Magic Kingdom's Astro Orbiter in Tomorrowland. I took the shot from the Tomorrowland Transportation Authority PeopleMover.
Clouds are in the forecast for exoplanet WASP-96 b!
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted the unambiguous signature of water, indications of haze & evidence for clouds (once thought not to exist there). This is the most detailed exoplanet spectrum to date! More: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/
A spectrum is created when light is split into a rainbow of colors. When Webb observes the light of a star, filtered through the atmosphere of its planet, its spectrographs split up the light into an infrared rainbow. By analyzing that light, scientists can look for the characteristic signatures of specific elements or molecules in the spectrum.
Located in the southern-sky constellation Phoenix, WASP-96 b is 1,150 light-years away. It’s a large, hot planet with a “puffy” atmosphere, orbiting very close to its Sun-like star. In fact, its temperature is greater than 1000 degrees F (537 degrees C) — significantly hotter than any planet in our own solar system!
Please note that the illustration in the background of the image is based on what we know of WASP-96b. Webb hasn't directly imaged the planet or its atmosphere. (Fun fact: space is big and planets are small — though Webb CAN image exoplanets directly, the images would just show a dot of light. Consider that though Pluto is in our own solar system, it is still so far that we didn’t know what it really looked like until New Horizons visited it.)
Image Description:
Graphic titled “Hot Gas Giant Exoplanet WASP-96 b Atmosphere Composition, NIRISS Single-Object Slitless Spectroscopy.” The graphic shows the transmission spectrum of the hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-96 b captured using Webb's NIRISS Single-Object Slitless Spectroscopy with an illustration of the planet and its star in the background. The data points are plotted on a graph of amount of light blocked in parts per million versus wavelength of light in microns. A curvy blue line represents a best-fit model. Four prominent peaks visible in the data and model are labeled “water, H2O.”
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
The Astro Orbiter in action as viewed from the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover in the Magic Kingdom.
No form of the attraction existed in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World until 1974, three years after the park's opening, when Tomorrowland underwent a massive expansion including the creation of Space Mountain, a new location for the Disneyland-attraction, Carousel of Progress, and the WEDWay PeopleMover. Star Jets was considered the focal point of Tomorrowland due to its soaring, spinning rockets and central location.
This version of the attraction was based on the Disneyland version, in both location (on top of the PeopleMover platform) and in style (both feature a large Saturn V rocket). However the attraction vehicles were different than any other previous form as they were much larger and featured a flatter back-end and larger tail fins. Each of the 12 open-air vehicles was attached to the central axis by a 20 foot arm. The vehicles held up to two passengers who circled round and round, 80 feet above the ground, while controlling their ascent and descent with a metal control stick.
In 1994, the attraction was re-designed and re-opened as the Astro Orbiter, part of the complete renovation of the park's Tomorrowland section. The attraction featured a highly stylized iron-work tower in lieu of the center rocket along with various planets on the outside of the attraction as to appear as if the rockets were weaving between the planets. The ride at the Magic Kingdom does 11 rotations per minute and averages 1.2 million miles a year.[2] In the narration for the Tomorrowland Transit Authority, the ride is referenced as the "League of Planets Astro Orbiter."
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