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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...
Original: www.robotrontechnik.de/index.htm?/html/computer/ser2.htm Simulator is based on a LC80 singleboard computer (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC80), accompanied by a original SE5 (typewriter) and LBA2 (paper tape reader). Exhibition is courtesy of Museum für historische Bürotechnik Naunhof (www.museum-fuer-historische-buerotechnik.de).
Sandia researchers have built a scaled test assembly that mimics a dry cask storage container for spent nuclear fuel to study how fuel temperatures change during storage and how the fuel’s peak temperatures affect the integrity of the metal cladding surrounding the spent fuel.
Regulators could use the data to help verify computer simulations that show whether nuclear power utilities are complying with regulations that specify how much heat a dry cask can safely handle.
Learn more at share-ng.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/dry_casks/
Photo by Randy Montoya.
The only first generation rear engined bus available in OMSI is a Hong Kong derived Leyland Fleetline which doesn't really look like any UK bus. This means to create different representations of Fleetlines and Atlanteans some creativity and imagination is needed. I've had a pretty basic NCT repaint for this bus for quite a long time, tweaking it now and again when I think I can make improvements. The many windows and single width entrance door do at least do something to make it look a little like an NCT bus.
This time around I had a bit of a go at making the front panel look a little more like those on NCT Atlanteans along with other livery and detail alterations. There are now two variations, one on the semi-automatic bus and the other on the fully automatic one.
I have changed the interior from CMB blue to a yellowy beige on all the repaints because blue looked terrible - the seat backs still need doing. When I get round to it I'm going to remove all the Chinese writing I can find, much like I did on the E200. Another thing I did was make up some fleet numbers and registrations to replace the CMB ones.
This time I almost got the front and side stripes to line up too!
The automatic bus is meant to look a little like RNU 433X with black painted around the lower deck windows and the black rectangles in which the headlights sit. Unfortunately, while I can't make the bus have a Firestone HELP bumper, I can plaint the metal one black. The semi-automatic bus is meant to look like a slightly older bus, before the HELP bumpers came in with cream-painted steel bumper and no black around the windows or headlights. The difference between the two is helped by the models having different front number plate locations. The CMB Fleetline has a very flat front with slight indentations around the headlamps and a triangular one in the centre that aren't very easy to see - so I have added on the texture the illusion of depth where the square panels containing the headlights are set slightly back from the centre panel and area below the windscreen (which extends over the headlights to reduce glare from the lights at night/in fog).
Hopefully in future I'll get round to creating more variants - perhaps in one of the older livery versions, with fake lower fog lights or no front bumper.
This is the Space Environment Simulator (SES) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
This thermal vacuum chamber exposes spacecraft components and other payloads to the environmental conditions they will experience once in space. The chamber has massive mechanical vacuum pumps, which are essentially large versions of the vacuum cleaners people use at home. To augment those, the chamber uses cryopumps to ensure that the hard vacuum of space is simulated in the test chamber. The cryopumps use liquid nitrogen to condense remaining gases out of the chamber once the mechanical pumps have done their work.
The two types of pumps work together to eliminate all but the tiniest trace of air in the chamber, down to about a billionth of Earth’s normal atmospheric pressure.
To simulate the hot and cold extremes possible in space, the thermal vacuum chamber can reach temperatures in a 600-degree range from 302 F all the way down to minus 310 F (hence the "thermal" vacuum chamber). The cylindrical chamber is 40 feet tall and 27 feet wide.
It is being used to test James Webb Space Telescope hardware using a helium shroud that allows even colder temperatures (40K and below).
Read more about NASA Goddard facilities: www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/unique_resources_prt.htm
Image credit: Maggie Masetti
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Two technicians from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., are pictured here working with a "Mass Simulator" for the James Webb Space Telescope.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Gunn
NRC Chairman Stephen Burns (center) examines the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety APR1400 Simulator during his visit in Daejeon, Republic of Korea.