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“SPACE SHUTTLE RECOVERS PAYLOAD---With its manipulator arm extended, the Space Shuttle orbiter prepares to retrieve a satellite. A key feature of the Space Shuttle system will be its capability of recovering payloads in orbit for repair or maintenance in space, or for return to Earth. The Space Shuttle orbiter, being developed by Rockwell International Corporation’s Space Division, will be able to return up to 14,545 kilograms (32,000 lbs.) of payload to Earth. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to have Space Shuttle operational by 1980.”
Note the emblem of the United Nations on the satellite. Obviously then, the retrieval of it was because it didn’t work. At the most, if/when it was briefly/sporadically operational, it must have been in a passive capacity, only able to receive or merely reflect/divert ‘signals’, with no ‘transmit’ capability.
One of many superb shuttle/orbiter renderings by Rockwell International’s eminently talented artist, Manuel E. Alvarez.
The photo was taken of a solar panel on a bench. I saw this unusual pattern today during my lunch walk.
A "sea" of hundreds of solar panels reflecting sunlight. Looking towards western Athens.
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Powerhouse Brattørkaia is the biggest new energy-positive building in Norway, and will generate more energy in its operational phase than it consumed through the production of building materials, construction, operation and disposal of the building. The building has been designed based on environmental requirements. Its Located in Trondheim.
Architects Snøhetta Snohetta
The black squares are parts in a photovoltaic system (solar cells) that produce electricity and yet you have enough light for the café inside the building. Solar cells can convert more energy when the sun is shining and less in cloudy conditions. Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) will increasingly influence our built environment, roofs, walls, windows and so on.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building-integrated_photovoltaics
The black squares on the ground that you can walk on are also solar cells.
One of the buildings at the ETC Solar Park in Katrineholm.
etcsolpark.se (website in Swedish)
“This artist’s symbolic representation of the United States Viking mission to Mars shows the spacecraft against a backdrop of the Red Planet. Vikings 1 and 2 were launched toward Mars in August and September 1975 to conduct a detailed examination of the planet, including a search for life. Viking will reach Mars on June 19, and its lander will descend to the surface about July 4. The second Viking will arrive at the planet on Aug. 7, with Lander 2 descending during the first week in September.”
The photo is oriented with Martian north toward the top.
Note the "attitude control gas jets" at the ends of the solar arrays.
A rarely seen (by me at least) depiction of a Viking orbiter/lander configuration inflight. Featured as the cover for NASA news release no. 76-116, “VIKING PRESS HANDBOOK”, which I don’t recall. Good stuff in it:
ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19760019036...
In color:
www.fourth-millennium.net/space-exploration/viking-missio...
Credit: Fourth Millennium website/Corby Waste
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Both above credit: Internet Archive website
No signature visible. Although too simplistic/myopic of an association, it being Viking, possibly by Charles O. Bennett? Paul Fjeld maybe? I'm pretty sure it's not by Don Davis, the other prominent Viking spacecraft artist/illustrator of the time. Nor Jim Butcher...and I have no idea who else there was.
Saw this from the plane on the way home. The solar caught my eye, but then looking later those dark mountains are really interesting.
The Electrical Maintenance Facility (EMF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has solar panels capable of producing 125 kilowatts. Installation of the panels began in August 2019 and by February 2020, the panels were up and running, generating enough power to supply the facility. The addition of the solar panels has turned the EMF into a "net positive" facility, meaning it now produces more energy than it consumes. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
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The solar array on top of the ESPN's North Campus building in Bristol. ** for a Steve story **
Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvQORkbMI90&feature=share&...
Down by the coast they've set up a solar power station (or at least a whole load of solar panels) and this is the show-piece
From left, Kevin Flynn and Ryan Wig, from J.A. Wig Construction and Electric, out of New Egypt, fasten solar panels on the roof of the 99th Regional Support Command headquarters building on Fort Dix. The solar panels are one of the ways the installation is trying to conserve energy and become more eco-friendly (Photo courtesy of Fort Dix_
The side of one of the buildings at work is covered in solar panels. They gleam in the sun, albeit infrequently, in Scotland.
If you've got solar panels then they need a nice clean scrub every once in a while, just like you or I.
The Googleplex is entirely covered with solar panels, as are many of the car ports (like the one you see above).
If you strain your eyes you might even see some wires dangling from the roof, they are for charging your electric cars.
Love this commitment to eco friendliness by Google.
The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) recently allocated 500 MW worth of solar PV power plants to five separate developers. All the projects were allocated at less than Rs 6.00/kWh (9.2¢/kWh), the lowest tariffs for any project allocated under the Punjab solar power policy so far.
The side of one of the buildings at work is covered in solar panels. They gleam in the sun, albeit infrequently, in Scotland.