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Preserved Dennis Trident Plaxton President Y847 GCD seen in for MOT prep this week for preparations for the 2019 rally season.
A brand new Cat D11R begins it's first job, clearing a drilling location. 1/50th scale Norscot D11R, and a Ertl F350 used to depict this scene.
A monarch butterfly perched on a Mexican sunflower. This butterfly will soon begin its migratory journey from Canada to Mexico. Taken in Guelph, Ontario.
Coronavirus prep. Strange and scary times! I am prepped and ready to hunker down in the house. I have cleaning supplies, food and Fireball! I am learning new terms like "social distancing" and "flatten the curve." Be well everyone!
100x project
We set up at the end of the driveway with a firepit and a couple of tables. One for the kids and one for the adults. While it ended at 8 pm for the kids, the adults stayed around and a couple of neighbors rode up on four wheelers to hang out until 11 pm. Couple nights in a row of later social nights for us.
The scene recorded at Cardiff Pengam Freightliner Terminal in June 1992, where BR Railfreight Distribution 37015 & 37131 were preparing the 4S81 18:20 Freighliner service to Coatbridge.
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Prepping for a spacewalk typically means diving underwater to rehearse and fine-tune operations.
In 2016, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst performed such an underwater rehearsal for the Colka high speed radio, the brown box imaged above, that will be installed this month on the International Space Station.
NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover will integrate the small fridge-sized device outside the European Columbus module during a spacewalk scheduled this year. ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will be at NASA’s mission control directing the spacewalkers as Capcom. The Columbus Ka-band terminal, nicknamed ‘Colka’, will enable faster communication with Europe.
Orbiting the planet every 90 minutes means the Space Station is constantly making and breaking short links with ground stations on Earth as it passes over them at a height of 400 km.
With Colka, a European telecommunications satellite in geostationary orbit can pick up data sent from the Columbus module. This satellite is part of the European Data Relay System and will be able to directly relay the signals from Columbus to European soil via a ground station in Harwell, in the UK.
The current data relay system routes via USA, which results in longer data transfer times. The Colka upgrade will ensure faster communications between Columbus and Europe, speeds of up to 50 Mbit/s for downlink and up to 2 Mbit/s for uplink. This will allow astronauts and researchers to benefit from a direct link with Europe at home broadband speeds – delivering a whole family’s worth of video streaming and data for science and communications.
Colka will be installed just weeks after the announcement that Europe will start building a communications module in support of the Gateway, the next spaceship to be assembled and operated in the vicinity of the Moon by International Space Station partners. The ESPRIT High-speed Lunar Communication System will be launched on NASA’s Gateway living quarters, in 2024.
As humankind ventures farther from Earth and goes forward to the Moon, a robust communications infrastructure is necessary for the lunar economy and to return knowledge and benefits to Earth. ESA is working on this with the Moonlight project, a system for lunar telecommunications and navigation to reduce design complexity, liberating missions to concentrate on their core activities.
ColKa was designed and built by British and Italian companies, using products from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany and Norway, some of which have been qualified under the ESA’s programme of Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES).
Credits: NASA EVA NBL
Getting my photo done early with my breakfast prep. Today we had spinach, tomato and feta cheese omelettes with some of our farm fresh eggs! They were delicious!
GE Dash 7 six axle locomotives are at Conrail's Juniata Shops in Altoona being prepared for export. October 17, 1998. Nikon N90S, Fujichrome Astia 100.
We went to hike Sycamore Grove Park earlier this afternoon and saw many of these woodpeckers hard at work preparing for their food storage. I managed to catch this particular one with an acorn in its beaks. I wonder if they share the food reserve or each of them has its own territory.
Sitting outside the new (only a year old) three track enginehouse of the Seaview Transportation Company is this caboose which belongs to the little railroad. The car is being prepped for paint and eventually will have windows installed and long term plans call for an interior restoration.
It is former New Haven Railroad C-616, a Class NE-5 car buit in 1944 at Pullman-Standard's Worcester plant. 124 of the all steel welded body cars were purchased by the NH, and this car would outlast the railroad itself, passing to Penn Central and ultimately Conrail where it was retired as CR 23811. While it was reconditioned by CR in the 1970s and received roller bearing trucks, it didn't receive the same fate as others in its class that had NYC style bay windows cut into the sides and the cupola plated over.
To learn more about this railroad check out the long caption with this older shot: flic.kr/p/2nNXfxP
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Thursday July 31, 2025
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