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These are small compared to the HUGE simulators they have at the college, but they are very well designed, and amazing tech, for in a classroom environment...
An external view of Europe’s largest vacuum chamber, the Large Space Simulator, which subjects entire satellites to space-like conditions ahead of launch. This 15 m-high and 10 m-diameter chamber is cavernous enough to accommodate an upended double decker bus.
Satellites are lowered down through a top hatch. Once the top and side hatches are sealed, high-performance pumps create a vacuum a billion times lower than standard sea level atmosphere, held for weeks at a time during test runs.
A 121-segment mirror array reflects simulated sunlight into the chamber, at the same time as the internal walls are pumped full of –190°C liquid nitrogen, together recreating the extreme thermal conditions prevailing in orbit.
Embedded sensors and measurement devices check whether a mission’s thermal engineers have done their job well, and if the test satellite maintains an acceptable internal temperature range without buckling or other unwanted temperature-driven effects.
The simulator is an essential part of ESA’s Test Centre in the Netherlands, the largest facility of its kind in Europe, providing a complete suite of equipment for all aspects of satellite testing under a single roof.
Credit: ESA–G. Schoonewille, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
This screenshot is a part of the tutorial. The machine--a Cessna 152--is "flying" somewhere over Arizona, I think.
I had been a Flight Simulator (FS) user since the early mid-Eighties. However, about 15 years ago, I stopped using FS. The latest version has reignited interest, particularly with high details, both in the aeroplane as well as the landscape and airports.
A rear view of ESA’s single most powerful solar simulator.
An array of 19 xenon lamp modules, each consuming 20 kW, cast a concentrated beam of artificial sunlight into Europe’s largest vacuum chamber, the Large Space Simulator.
Part of ESA’s ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, the 15 m-high 10 m-diameter chamber subjects satellites to simulated space conditions for weeks at a time: deep vacuum, unfiltered sunlight and the chill of space recreated by liquid nitrogen being pumped around the walls.
Just 12 out of 19 lamps are sufficient to recreate the sunlight encountered at Earth orbit. To simulate environments closer to the Sun, the 20 kW lamps can be swapped for 32 kW versions, or the mirror array used to reflect sunlight within the chamber can be adjusted for a more focused light beam.
This image was taken by photographer Alastair Philip Wiper, during a visit to ESA’s technical heart, part of a long term project charting the beauty of scientific facilities: alastairphilipwiper.com/blog/estec/
Credit: Alastair Philip Wiper
Ein Panzersimulator der russischen Armee zur Übung von Ausstiegen unter Wasser.
A tank simulator of the Russian army exercise of got out underwater
Description Famed astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 space mission in July 1969, served for seven years as a research pilot at the NACA-NASA High-Speed Flight Station, now the Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards, California, before he entered the space program. Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (later NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, and today the Glenn Research Center) in 1955. Later that year, he transferred to the High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards as an aeronautical research scientist and then as a pilot, a position he held until becoming an astronaut in 1962. He was one of nine NASA astronauts in the second class to be chosen. As a research pilot Armstrong served as project pilot on the F-100A and F-100C aircraft, F-101, and the F-104A. He also flew the X-1B, X-5, F-105, F-106, B-47, KC-135, and Paresev. He left Dryden with a total of over 2450 flying hours. He was a member of the USAF-NASA Dyna-Soar Pilot Consultant Group before the Dyna-Soar project was cancelled, and studied X-20 Dyna-Soar approaches and abort maneuvers through use of the F-102A and F5D jet aircraft. Armstrong was actively engaged in both piloting and engineering aspects of the X-15 program from its inception. He completed the first flight in the aircraft equipped with a new flow-direction sensor (ball nose) and the initial flight in an X-15 equipped with a self-adaptive flight control system. He worked closely with designers and engineers in development of the adaptive system, and made seven flights in the rocket plane from December 1960 until July 1962. During those fights he reached a peak altitude of 207,500 feet in the X-15-3, and a speed of 3,989 mph (Mach 5.74) in the X-15-1. Armstrong has a total of 8 days and 14 hours in space, including 2 hours and 48 minutes walking on the Moon. In March 1966 he was commander of the Gemini 8 orbital space flight with David Scott as pilot - the first successful docking of two vehicles in orbit. On July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 lunar mission, he became the first human to set foot on the Moon.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: E56-2607
Date: January 1956
BNSF 4723 leads CP 8646 south through Neenah. No shortage of colorful power as A449 had an ICE unit and quick-patched CN 2012.
Just a short video of me trying out the Origami Simulator on my Nanachi crease pattern. Works surprisingly well! I think this tool could be useful when testing out new complex CPs, to see how the collapsing will roughly look like.
This build is based around a simulator used by train companies for training and assessment of drivers. The build has two sides, with this side showing the dummy cab and the projector screen used by drivers undergoing training and assessment.
While Mr. Savelsberg has been building vehicles from TV series, I have been secretly building aircraft from computer games. While perhaps less obvious, by now I have built all six planes that can be flown in my favorite flight simulator game. Can you guess which game it is?
Meanwhile it is solved:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzQ5-o0s0Ao
The six planes that can be flown in the game are: P-51, FW-190, MiG-15, F-86, MiG-21, F-4.